• P.H. Williams, D.J. Dunning, N. Thompson
  STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
• D. Angal-Kalinin, J.K. Jones, P.H. Williams
  Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire
• R. Bartolini, I.P.S. Martin
  JAI, Oxford
• J. Rowland
  Diamond, Oxfordshire

We present progress in the design of the recirculating linac option for the UK New Light Source. Improvements in all accelerator sections have been made such that the output meets the required specifications to drive the seeded NLS FELs. Full start-to-end simulations and tolerance studies are presented together with a comparison to the baseline, single pass linac design.

• J. Rowland, R.T. Fielder
  Diamond, Oxfordshire
• R. Bartolini
  JAI, Oxford
• R. Nagaoka
  SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette

Within the common programme on the analysis of collective instabilities at Diamond and SOLEIL, the numerical codes mbtrack and sbtrack have been extended to include a full description of the nonlinearities in the storage rings by means of the nonlinear one-turn map. We present the details of the map implementation and the recent results on the analysis of the effects of the nonlinear terms of the map on the characteristics of the collective instabilities at the two machines.

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

We present the progress with the design of the 2.25 GeV superconducting linac for the NLS project. We discuss the performance achieved, the optimisation strategies, the relevance of microbunching instability and the analysis of the effect of various jitter sources

• I.P.S. Martin, G. Rehm, J. Rowland, C.A. Thomas
  Diamond, Oxfordshire
• R. Bartolini, I.P.S. Martin
  JAI, Oxford

The Diamond storage ring has been operated in low alpha mode providing short-pulse radiation for pump-probe experiments and coherent radiation for THz/IR measurements. Two lattices have been implemented, with both capable of providing a variable alpha in the range ±2x10^-5, down to minimum values well below 1x10^-6. The second lattice additionally provides a low emittance of 4nm.rad, compared to 35nm.rad for the first lattice. An overview of operation in low alpha mode is given, along with first measurements of coherent emission at long wavelengths under a variety of conditions.

• R. Bartolini, G. Rehm, J. Rowland
  Diamond, Oxfordshire
• P. Kuske
  Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin
• I.P.S. Martin
  JAI, Oxford
• F. Schmidt
  CERN, Geneva

The correct implementation of the nonlinear ring model is crucial to achieve the top performance of a synchrotron light source. Several dynamics quantities can be used to compare the real machine with the model and eventually to correct the accelerator. Most of these methods are based on the analysis of turn-by-turn data of excited betatron oscillations. We present the experimental results of the campaign of measurements carried out at the Diamond. A combination of Frequency Map Analysis and resonant driving terms measurements has allowed a precise calibration of the nonlinear model capable of reproducing and then correcting the nonlinear beam dynamics in the storage ring.

• B. Singh, R.T. Fielder, J. Rowland
  Diamond, Oxfordshire
• R. Bartolini, I.P.S. Martin
  JAI, Oxford

Diamond operates with 10 in-vacuum insertion devices at 5 mm gap, two Apple-II, two superconducting and two normal conducting wigglers. We report here the correction of the linear optics of wigglers and measurements of nonlinear effects such as dynamic aperture and frequency maps and their impacts on injection efficiency, lifetime and loss distribution in operation of the storage ring.