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Title: FACET: The New User Facility at SLAC

Abstract

FACET (Facility for Advanced Accelerator and Experimental Tests) is a new User Facility at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Its high power electron and positron beams make it a unique facility, ideal for beam-driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration studies. The first 2 km of the SLAC linac produce 23 GeV, 3.2 nC electron and positron beams with short bunch lengths of 20 {mu}m. A final focusing system can produce beam spots 10 {mu}m wide. User-aided Commissioning took place in summer 2011 and FACET will formally come online in early 2012. We present the User Facility, the current features, planned upgrades and the opportunities for further experiments. Accelerators are our primary tool for discovering the fundamental laws to the universe. Each new frontier we probe requires a new, more powerful method. Accelerators are therefore increasing in size and cost. The future of this field requires new accelerating techniques that can reach the high energies required over shorter distances. New concepts for high gradient acceleration include utilizing the wakes in plasma and dielectric and metallic structures. FACET was built to provide a test bed for novel accelerating concepts with its high charge and highly compressed beams. As a test facility unlike any other, itmore » has also attracted groups interested in beam diagnostic techniques and terahertz studies. The first phase of the construction was completed in May 2011. Beam commissioning began in June and was interleaved with the installation of five experiments. Users were invited to aid with the commissioning for the month of August during which time experimental hardware and software were checked out and some first measurements were taken. FACET is currently in the process of becoming a Department of Energy User Facility for High Energy Physics.« less

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Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1032767
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-14563
TRN: US1200559
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Presented at 2nd International Particle Accelerator Conference: IPAC 2011, San Sebastian, Spain, 4-9 Sep 2011
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; ACCELERATION; ACCELERATORS; COMMISSIONING; CONSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRON BEAMS; FERMILAB ACCELERATOR; FOCUSING; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PLASMA; POSITRON BEAMS; STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER; WAKEFIELD ACCELERATORS; Accelerators,ACCPHY

Citation Formats

Clarke, C I, Decker, F J, Erikson, R, Hast, C, Hogan, M J, Iverson, R, Li, S Z, Nosochkov, Y, Phinney, N, Sheppard, J, Wienands, U, Woodley, M, Yocky, G, /SLAC, Seryi, A, /Oxford U., JAI, Wittmer, W, and /Michigan State U. FACET: The New User Facility at SLAC. United States: N. p., 2011. Web.
Clarke, C I, Decker, F J, Erikson, R, Hast, C, Hogan, M J, Iverson, R, Li, S Z, Nosochkov, Y, Phinney, N, Sheppard, J, Wienands, U, Woodley, M, Yocky, G, /SLAC, Seryi, A, /Oxford U., JAI, Wittmer, W, & /Michigan State U. FACET: The New User Facility at SLAC. United States.
Clarke, C I, Decker, F J, Erikson, R, Hast, C, Hogan, M J, Iverson, R, Li, S Z, Nosochkov, Y, Phinney, N, Sheppard, J, Wienands, U, Woodley, M, Yocky, G, /SLAC, Seryi, A, /Oxford U., JAI, Wittmer, W, and /Michigan State U. 2011. "FACET: The New User Facility at SLAC". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1032767.
@article{osti_1032767,
title = {FACET: The New User Facility at SLAC},
author = {Clarke, C I and Decker, F J and Erikson, R and Hast, C and Hogan, M J and Iverson, R and Li, S Z and Nosochkov, Y and Phinney, N and Sheppard, J and Wienands, U and Woodley, M and Yocky, G and /SLAC and Seryi, A and /Oxford U., JAI and Wittmer, W and /Michigan State U.},
abstractNote = {FACET (Facility for Advanced Accelerator and Experimental Tests) is a new User Facility at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Its high power electron and positron beams make it a unique facility, ideal for beam-driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration studies. The first 2 km of the SLAC linac produce 23 GeV, 3.2 nC electron and positron beams with short bunch lengths of 20 {mu}m. A final focusing system can produce beam spots 10 {mu}m wide. User-aided Commissioning took place in summer 2011 and FACET will formally come online in early 2012. We present the User Facility, the current features, planned upgrades and the opportunities for further experiments. Accelerators are our primary tool for discovering the fundamental laws to the universe. Each new frontier we probe requires a new, more powerful method. Accelerators are therefore increasing in size and cost. The future of this field requires new accelerating techniques that can reach the high energies required over shorter distances. New concepts for high gradient acceleration include utilizing the wakes in plasma and dielectric and metallic structures. FACET was built to provide a test bed for novel accelerating concepts with its high charge and highly compressed beams. As a test facility unlike any other, it has also attracted groups interested in beam diagnostic techniques and terahertz studies. The first phase of the construction was completed in May 2011. Beam commissioning began in June and was interleaved with the installation of five experiments. Users were invited to aid with the commissioning for the month of August during which time experimental hardware and software were checked out and some first measurements were taken. FACET is currently in the process of becoming a Department of Energy User Facility for High Energy Physics.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1032767}, journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Dec 13 00:00:00 EST 2011},
month = {Tue Dec 13 00:00:00 EST 2011}
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