• S.L. Smith, C.D. Beard, R.K. Buckley, S.R. Buckley, P.A. Corlett, D.J. Dunning, P. Goudket, S.F. Hill, F. Jackson, S.P. Jamison, J.K. Jones, L.B. Jones, P.A. McIntosh, J.W. McKenzie, K.J. Middleman, B.L. Militsyn, A.J. Moss, B.D. Muratori, J.F. Orrett, P.J. Phillips, Y.M. Saveliev, D.J. Scott, B.J.A. Shepherd, N. Thompson, A.E. Wheelhouse, P.H. Williams
  STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
• K. Harada
  KEK, Ibaraki
• D.J. Holder, P. Weightman
  The University of Liverpool, Liverpool
• M. Surman
  STFC/DL/SRD, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire

ALICE (Accelerators and Lasers In Combined Experiments), a 35 MeV energy recovery linac based light source, is being commissioned and developed as an experimental R&D facility for a wide range of projects that could employ synchronized ultra-short (<1ps) electron bunches and light pulses. A suit of light sources includes an IR FEL, Compton backscattering (CBS) X-ray source, high power THz source and a multi-TW femtosecond laser. The full energy recovery and coherently enhanced, due to shortness of the electron bunches, THz radiation have been already demonstrated on ALICE. Completion of the first phase of the CBS x-ray source experiment and first lasing of the IR FEL by the end of 2009. Status of ALICE experimental facility and latest results on FEL, THz, and CBS development are reported in this paper.

• R. Bartolini, C. Christou, J.H. Han, I.P.S. Martin, J. Rowland
  Diamond, Oxfordshire
• D. Angal-Kalinin, F. Jackson, B.D. Muratori, P.H. Williams
  STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
• M. Venturini
  LBNL, Berkeley, California

The New Light Source (NLS) project was launched in April 2008 by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to consider the scientific case and develop a conceptual design for a possible next generation light source based on a combination of advanced conventional laser and free-electron laser sources. In this paper we present the results of the optimisation of a single pass superconducting LINAC as a driver for the the NLS FELs. The optimisation process requires the analysis of complicated electron beam dynamics in the presence of CSR, wakefields and space charge and has specifically taken into account the requirements for FEL operation in a seeded harmonic cascade scheme.

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• F. Jackson, D. Angal-Kalinin, J.-L. Fernandez-Hernando, B.D. Muratori
  STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire

The next generation light source for the UK requires transport, collimation and dumping of high power, high quality beams. The accelerated beam must be transported to several different FELs. A design for the post-linac beam collimation, spreader (including diagnostics), and dump is presented.