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1 ARW 2013 Opening Melbourne, Australia, 15 April 2013 Dr Mark Boland Principal Scientist Accelerator Physics Australian Synchrotron ACAS Deputy Director

2 PASSION Accelerator Physics at the Heart of the Australian Synchrotron 14 April 20132ARW 2013 - ACAS Mark Boland

3 14 April 2013ARW 2013 - ACAS Mark Boland3 The Synchrotron Light Source World Map – as seen from Australia

4 ACAS – Building on the past 14 April 2013ARW 2013 - ACAS Mark Boland4 Sir Mark Oliphant

5 14 April 2013ARW 2013 - ACAS Mark Boland5 ACAS Institutes Formation of:

6 ACAS Launch 13 July 2010 Launched by the Australian Minister for Science Kim Carr Announced intention to join international FEL and Collider projects FEL project planned; e-gun, IR-FEL, beam diagnostics and detectors 14 April 2013ARW 2013 - ACAS Mark Boland6

7 ACAS – Building the future Nurture students into accelerator physics Willing to contribute to ambitious science projects Strong desire to collaborate 14 April 2013ARW 2013 - ACAS Mark Boland7

8 ACAS Facility Overview: ANU 14 April 2013ARW 2013 - ACAS Mark Boland8

9 ACAS Facility Overview: Uni. of Melb. 14 April 2013ARW 2013 - ACAS Mark Boland9 Pelletron - 5 MV ion accelerator X-ray detector development High Energy Particle Physics at the LHC Primary provider of top students! ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Tera-Scale Funding: $25.2 M AUD over 7 years Centre Director: Prof Geoffrey Taylor Administering Organisation: The University of Melbourne

10 ACAS Facility Overview: ANSTO 14 April 2013ARW 2013 - ACAS Mark Boland10 STAR - 2 MV Tandetron ion acceleratorANTARES - 10 MV Tandem ion accelerator

11 ACAS Facility Overview: Australian Synchrotron light source $300 M AUD proposal for machine development and 10 new beamlines $38 M AUD building upgrade; science centre, user accommodation, engineering workshop and laboratory space (construction started Dec 2010) 14 April 2013ARW 2013 - ACAS Mark Boland11

12 Australian Synchrotron Timeline 2001 Victorian Government funding announced 2003 Technical team assembled 2005-02 – Building complete, moved on-site 2005-09 – Linac commissioning begins 2006-03 – Booster commissioning, 1 st April 3 GeV beam 2006-06 – Storage ring Commissioning July 14 2006 – First Light 2006-12 Beamline Commissioning April 1 2007 – User operations begin October 1 2008 – 1000 th User visit November 2010 – 98% beam up-time 14 April 2013ARW 2013 - ACAS Mark Boland12 Facility History

13 Machine Overview 14 April 2013ARW 2013 - ACAS Mark Boland13 3 GeV Booster Synchrotron 100 MeV Linac 3 GeV Storage Ring BTS LTB Machine Overview

14 User Beam Availability 14 April 2013ARW 2013 - ACAS Mark Boland14

15 Student Numbers 2010 3 × PhD 3 × Masters/Honours 6 × Bachelor 2 × Summer 10 × Undergraduate Lab 24 in total Accelerator Schools, one week introductory lectures: – 2008 ACCEL08, Prof Ted Wilson, Oxford University – 2010 ASAP, Prof Ken Peach, Oxford University – 2012 ASAP, Prof Emmanuel Tsesmelis, Oxford University 14 April 2013ARW 2013 - ACAS Mark Boland15 ACAS

16 ICHEP 2012 in Melbourne 14 April 2013ARW 2013 - ACAS Mark Boland16

17 We welcome you to Melbourne, Australia for IBIC 2015 14-17 September, 2015

18 14 April 2013ARW 2013 - ACAS Mark Boland18 CLIC Collider X-ray Free Electron Laser Top 2 ACAS Projects “Big Science”

19 Body of evidence for low emittance 14 April 2013ARW 2013 - ACAS Mark Boland19 ε y = 1.24 ± 0.4 pm World Record Achieved

20 Vertical Undulator Measurement Technique Kent Wootton (PhD student Melbourne) 14 April 2013ARW 2013 - ACAS Mark Boland20 Vertical Beam Size Measurement New technique invented to observe picometer emittances

21 Summary ACAS formed to grow the field of accelerator physics ACAS Facilities have a good user program and government support Strong student interest Developing international collaborations Promising future! 14 April 2013ARW 2013 - ACAS Mark Boland21

22 14 April 2013ARW 2013 - ACAS Mark Boland22 ACAS http://accelerators.org.au


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