• Y.E. Tan, D.R.T. Appadoo, M.J. Boland, R.T. Dowd
  ASCo, Clayton, Victoria

Generating short bunches for time resolved studies or the generation of THz radiation has been done at many other light sources and is of increasing interest in the user community. Light sources not designed with ps bunchs can usually tune the lattice to reduce ps bunchs without much difficulty, sometimes referred to as a Low Alpha mode. At the Australian light source a low alpha configuration has been investigated. The results looking into the 'shaping' of the momentum compaction factor, beam stability and current limitations will be presented.