ALICE (accelerator)

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Coordinates: 53°20′35″N, 02°38′26″W Accelerators and Lasers In Combined Experiments (ALICE) is a project to build a 35MeV energy recovery linac at Daresbury Laboratory. The facility was previously called the Energy Recovery Linac Prototype (ERLP); the name was changed in December 2007 to reflect the wider use of parasitic experiments on the machine. The project was originally conceived as a test bed for 4GLS, and consists of:

• A 350keV photoinjector laser.
• An 8.35MeV superconducting RF booster linac.
• A 35MeV superconducting RF main linac in which energy is recovered from used electron bunches and given to new bunches.
• An infrared free electron laser (FEL), using a permanent magnet undulator on permanent loan from Jefferson Laboratory.
• An ERL transport system that transports electron bunches through the FEL and back to the linac with the correct RF phase to decelerate them and thereby to recover energy from them.

[edit] See also

• EMMA

[edit] External links

• ERLP

v • d • e Major Scientific Research Facilities based in the United Kingdom Fusion Joint European Torus (JET)  · Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak (MAST) Synchrotron Light Sources Diamond Light Source  · Synchrotron Radiation Source  · ALICE Lasers Central Laser Facility Neutron and muon sources ISIS Atmospheric, Astronomy and Space Science UK Astronomy Technology Centre  · Chilbolton Observatory  · UK Astrophysical Fluid Facility  · Jodrell Bank Observatory  · ECMWF Miscellaneous MEIS - The Medium Energy Ion Scattering Facility,