• A. Aksoy, O. Yavas
  Ankara University, Faculty of Engineering, Tandogan, Ankara
• H. Aksakal
  N.U, Nigde
• P. Arikan
  Gazi University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Teknikokullar, Ankara
• H. Duran Yildiz
  Dumlupinar University, Faculty of Science and Arts, Kutahya
• Z. Nergiz, K. Zengin
  Ankara University, Faculty of Sciences, Tandogan/Ankara
• S. Ozkorucuklu
  SDU, Isparta
• I. Tapan
  UU, Bursa

Turkish Accelerator Center Infrared Free Electron Laser and Bremsstrahlung (TAC IR FEL&Brems.) project aims to produce cw mode FEL in 2.5-250 microns range and to produce bremsstrahlung photons using 15-40 MeV electron beam. The project is supported by State Planning Organization (SPO) of Turkey and is proceeded with inter university collaboration under the coordination of Ankara University. This facility is now called Turkish Accelerator and Radiation Laboratory at Ankara (TARLA) since its building located at Golbasi town 30 km south of Ankara, Turkey It is proposed that the facility will consist of 300 keV thermionic DC gun, two superconducting RF module and two optical resonator systems with 25 and 90 mm period lengths. In this study, the status and road map of the project is presented including some technical details on accelerator and FEL. In addition the research potential of facility is summarized.

• S. Ozkorucuklu
  SDU, Isparta
• A. Aksoy, B. Ketenoğlu, O. Yavas
  Ankara University, Faculty of Engineering, Tandogan, Ankara
• P. Arikan
  Gazi University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Teknikokullar, Ankara
• O. Cakir, A.K. Çiftçi, R. Çiftçi, K. Zengin
  Ankara University, Faculty of Sciences, Tandogan/Ankara
• H. Duran Yildiz
  Dumlupinar University, Faculty of Science and Arts, Kutahya

The status and road map of Turkish Accelerator Center (TAC) project is explained. TAC project is in third phase after feasibility and conceptual design phases with support of State Planning Organisation (SPO) of Turkey that the main aim of this phase is to complete of technical design report of TAC and to establish the first (test) facility. The first facility is planned as superconducting electron linac based IR FEL and bremsstrahlung facility. Third phase will be completed in 2013. It is planned that TAC will include a linac on ring type electron positron collider as a super charm factory, third and fourth generation light sources (SR and SASE FEL) and a proton facility. TAC collaboration is an inter-university collaboration of ten Turkish Universities under the coordination of Ankara University and TAC is a national project with international collaboration. In this study, the status of the project and the road map is explained with some results from design and construction studies.