Title :
The Australian Synchrotron project
Author_Institution :
Australian Synchrotron, Melbourne
Abstract :
Funding for the Australian Synchrotron, a 3 GeV synchrotron light source, was announced by the Victorian State Government in January 2003, and six months later bulldozers moved onto the green-field site in the South- East suburbs of Melbourne. After a remarkably fast construction and installation period the accelerators, which form the heart of the facility, were commissioned in 2006. Installation of the first five beamlines commenced in January 2007, and the first experiments were carried out in April. In this presentation we give an update on the status of the facility and present highlights of the commissioning activities.
Keywords :
beam handling equipment; particle beam injection; storage rings; synchrotron radiation; synchrotrons; Australian synchrotron project; beamlines; injection system; storage ring; synchrotron light source; Australia; Contracts; Government; Lattices; Light sources; Magnets; Radio frequency; Storage rings; Strontium; Synchrotrons;
Conference_Titel :
Particle Accelerator Conference, 2007. PAC. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Albuquerque, NM
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0916-7
DOI :
10.1109/PAC.2007.4440932
