• Y.M. Saveliev, R. Bate, R.K. Buckley, S.R. Buckley, J.A. Clarke, P.A. Corlett, D.J. Dunning, A.R. Goulden, S.F. Hill, F. Jackson, S.P. Jamison, J.K. Jones, L.B. Jones, S. Leonard, P.A. McIntosh, J.W. McKenzie, K.J. Middleman, B.L. Militsyn, A.J. Moss, B.D. Muratori, J.F. Orrett, S.M. Pattalwar, P.J. Phillips, D.J. Scott, E.A. Seddon, B.J.A. Shepherd, S.L. Smith, N. Thompson, A.E. Wheelhouse, P.H. Williams
  STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
• P. Harrison, D.J. Holder, G.M. Holder, A.L. Schofield, P. Weightman, R.L. Williams
  The University of Liverpool, Liverpool
• D. Laundy
  STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
• T. Powers
  JLAB, Newport News, Virginia
• G. Priebe, M. Surman
  STFC/DL/SRD, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire

Progress made in ALICE (Accelerators and Lasers In Combined Experiments) commissioning and a summary of the latest experimental results are presented in this paper. After an extensive work on beam loading effects in SC RF linac (booster) and linac cavities conditioning, ALICE can now operate in full energy recovery mode at the bunch charge of 40pC, the beam energy of 30MeV and train lengths of up to 100us. This improved operation of the machine resulted in generation of coherently enhanced broadband THz radiation with the energy of several tens of uJ per pulse and in successful demonstration of the Compton Backscattering x-ray source experiment. The next steps in the ALICE scientific programme are commissioning of the IR FEL and start of the research on the first non-scaling FFAG accelerator EMMA. Results from both projects will be also reported.

• B.D. Muratori, J.K. Jones, A. Kalinin, A.J. Moss, Y.M. Saveliev, R.J. Smith, S.L. Smith, S.I. Tzenov, A.E. Wheelhouse
  STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
• G. Cox
  STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
• D.J. Holder
  Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire
• D.J. Kelliher, S. Machida
  STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon

The first results from commissioning EMMA - the Electron Model of Many Applications- are summarised in this paper. EMMA is a 10 to 20 MeV electron ring designed to test our understanding of beam dynamics in a relativistic linear non-scaling fixed field alternating gradient accelerator (FFAG). EMMA will be the world's first non-scaling FFAG and the paper will outline the characteristics of the beam injected in to the accelerator as well as summarising the results of the extensive EMMA systems commissioning. The paper will report on the results of simulations of this commissioning and on the progress made with beam commissioning.

• T.R. Edgecock
  STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
• C.D. Beard, J.A. Clarke, S.A. Griffiths, C. Hill, S.P. Jamison, J.K. Jones, A. Kalinin, K.B. Marinov, N. Marks, P.A. McIntosh, B.D. Muratori, J.F. Orrett, Y.M. Saveliev, B.J.A. Shepherd, R.J. Smith, S.L. Smith, S.I. Tzenov, A.E. Wheelhouse
  STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
• J.S. Berg
  BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
• N. Bliss, B.G. Martlew, C.J. White
  STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
• M.K. Craddock
  UBC & TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia
• J.L. Crisp, C. Johnstone
  Fermilab, Batavia
• Y. Giboudot
  Brunel University, Middlesex
• E. Keil
  CERN, Geneva
• D.J. Kelliher, S. Machida
  STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
• S.R. Koscielniak
  TRIUMF, Vancouver
• F. Méot
  CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette
• J. Pasternak
  Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London
• S.L. Sheehy, T. Yokoi
  JAI, Oxford

The Electron Model for Many Applications (EMMA) will be the World's first non-scaling FFAG and is under construction at the STFC Daresbury Laboratory in the UK. Construction is due for completion in March 2010 and will be followed by commissioning with beam and a detailed experimental programme to study the functioning of this type of accelerator. This paper will give an overview of the motivation for the project and describe the EMMA design and hardware. The first results from commissioning will be presented in a separate paper.