• S.L. Smith, R. Bate, C.D. Beard, M.A. Bowler, R.K. Buckley, S.R. Buckley, J.A. Clarke, P.A. Corlett, M. Dufau, D.J. Dunning, B.D. Fell, P. Goudket, A.R. Goulden, S.A. Griffiths, J.D. Herbert, C. Hill, F. Jackson, S.P. Jamison, J.K. Jones, L.B. Jones, A. Kalinin, N. Marks, 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, M.W. Poole, Y.M. Saveliev, D.J. Scott, B.J.A. Shepherd, R.J. Smith, N. Thompson, B. Todd, T.M. Weston, A.E. Wheelhouse, P.H. Williams
  STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
• J.R. Alexander, P. Atkinson, N. Bliss, I. Burrows, G. Cox, P.A.D. Dickenson, A. Gallagher, K.D. Gleave, J.P. Hindley, B.G. Martlew, I.D. Mullacrane, A. Oates, P.D. Quinn, D.G. Stokes, J. Strachan, P.J. Warburton, C.J. White
  STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
• W.R. Flavell, E.A. Seddon
  UMAN, Manchester
• F.G. Gabriel
  FZD, Dresden
• C. Gerth
  DESY, Hamburg
• F.E. Hannon, C. Hernandez-Garcia, K. Jordan, G. Neil
  JLAB, Newport News, Virginia
• K. Harada
  KEK, Ibaraki
• P. Harrison, D.J. Holder, G.M. Holder, P. Weightman
  The University of Liverpool, Liverpool
• S.F. Hill, G. Priebe, R.V. Rotheroe, M. Surman
  STFC/DL/SRD, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
• G.J. Hirst, P.G. Huggard
  STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
• P. vom Stein
  ACCEL, Bergisch Gladbach

ALICE (Accelerators and Lasers in Combined Experiments) is a 35 MeV energy recovery linac based light source. ALICE is being developed as an experimental test-bed for a broad suite of science and technology activities that make use of electron acceleration and ultra-short pulse laser techniques. This paper reports the progress made in accelerator commissioning and includes the results of measurement made on the commissioning beam. The steps taken to prepare the beam for short pulse operation as a driver for a Compton Back Scattered source and in preparation for the commissioning of the free electron laser are reported.

• I. Mardor, D. Berkovits, I. Gertz, A. Perry, J. Rodnizki, L. Weissman
  Soreq NRC, Yavne
• K. Dunkel, F. Kremer, M. Pekeler, C. Piel, P. vom Stein
  ACCEL, Bergisch Gladbach

The Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility, SARAF, is currently under construction at Soreq NRC. SARAF is based on a continuous wave (CW), proton/deuteron RF superconducting linear accelerator with variable energy (5–40 MeV) and current (0.04-2 mA). SARAF is designed to enable hands-on maintenance, which implies beam loss below 10^-5 for the entire accelerator. Phase I of SARAF consists of a 20 keV/u ECR ion source, a low energy beam transport section, a 4-rod RFQ, a medium energy (1.5 MeV/u) transport section, a superconducting module housing 6 half-wave resonators and 3 superconducting solenoids, a diagnostic plate and a beam dump. Phase II will include 5 additional superconducting modules. The ECR source is in routine operation since 2006, the RFQ is in routine operation with protons since 2008 and has been further operated with molecular hydrogen and deuterons. The superconducting module is being operated and characterized with protons. Phase I commissioning results, their comparison to beam dynamics simulations and Phase II plans will be presented.