Author(s)
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Latina, Andrea (CERN) ; Aicheler, Markus (Helsinki Inst. of Phys.) ; Aksoy, Avni (Ankara U.) ; Bernhard, Axel (KIT, Karlsruhe) ; Clarke, James (Daresbury) ; Cross, Adrian (Glasgow U.) ; D'Auria, Gerardo (Sincrotrone Trieste) ; Dowd, Rohan (Australia, CSIRO, Clayton) ; Esperante Pereira, Daniel (Valencia U., IFIC) ; Fang, Wencheng (SINAP, Shanghai) ; Faus-Golfe, Angeles (Orsay, LAL) ; Ferrario, Massimo (Frascati) ; Gazis, Evangelos (Natl. Tech. U., Athens) ; Geometrante, Raffaella (Sincrotrone Trieste ; Unlisted, IT) ; Jacewicz, Marek (Uppsala U.) ; Mostacci, Andrea (Rome U.) ; Nguyen, Federico (ENEA, Frascati) ; Pérez, Francis (CELLS - ALBA, LLS) ; Priem, Johannes (Unlisted, NL) ; Schmidt, Thomas (PSI, Villigen) ; Schulte, Daniel (CERN) ; Stapnes, Steinar (CERN) ; Wuensch, Walter (CERN) |
Abstract
| H2020 CompactLight Project aims at designing the next generation of compact hard X-Rays Free-Electron Lasers, relying on very high accelerating gradients and on novel undulator concepts. CompactLight intends to design a compact Hard X-ray FEL facility based on very high-gradient acceleration in the X band of frequencies, on a very bright photo injector, and on short-period/superconductive undulators to enable smaller electron beam energy. If compared to existing facilities, the proposed facility will benefit from a lower electron beam energy, due to the enhanced undulators performance, be significantly more compact, as a consequence both of the lower energy and of the high-gradient X-band structures, have lower electrical power demand and a smaller footprint. CompactLight is a consortium of 24 institutes (21 European + 3 extra Europeans), gathering the world-leading experts both in the domains of X-band acceleration and undulator design. |