https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-023-01076-0
Review
The CompactLight Design Study
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Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., AREA Science Park, Basovizza, 34149, Trieste, Italy
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CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
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ASTeC, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Keckwick Lane, WA4 4AD, Warrington, UK
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Cockcroft Institute, SciTech Daresbury, WA4 4AD, Warrington, UK
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VDL ETG Precision, 5652, Eindhoven, North Brabant, The Netherlands
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ANSTO–Australian Synchrotron, Clayton, Australia
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ENEA C. R. Frascati-Fusion and Nuclear Safety Department, Via E. Fermi 45, 00044, Frascati (Roma), Italy
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Engineering Department, Lancaster University, LA1 4YR, Lancaster, UK
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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
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Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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INFN–Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Via E Fermi 54, 00044, Frascati (Roma), Italy
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University of Helsinki-Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland
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FREIA Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Sapienza, University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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ALBA Synchrotron-CELLS, Barcelona, Spain
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Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), University of Valencia-CSIC, Valencia, Spain
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Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Shanghai, China
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Department of Physics, Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications (IASA), Panepistimioupoli
Zografou, Athens, Greece
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ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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Institute of Accelerator Technology, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
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Kyma S. p. A., AREA Science Park, 34149, Trieste, Italy
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CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire de Physique des
2 infinis Irène Joliot-Curie–IJCLab, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France
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Paul Scherrer Institute, Forschungsstrasse 111, 5232, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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Free University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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The University of Strathclyde, 16 Richmond St, G1 1XQ, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Tor Vergata University of Rome, Via Cracovia 50, 00133, Rome, Italy
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Bilfinger Noell GmbH, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Kyma Tehnologija d.o.o., Kraška ulica 2, 6210, Sežana, Slovenia
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Athens University of Economics and Business, 76 Patission Street, 10434, Athens, Greece
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National Technical University of Athens, Patission Complex 42, Patission Street, 10682, Athens, Greece
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University of Groningen, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography ARCNL, Science Park 106, 1098 XG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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European Spallation Source ERIC, ESS Campus, Partikelgatan 2, 224 84, Lund, Sweden
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University of Oslo, P. O. Box 1072, Blindern, 0316, Oslo, Norway
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Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Notkestraße 85, 22607, Hamburg, Germany
Received:
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April
2023
Accepted:
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December
2023
Published online:
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March
2024
CompactLight is a Design Study funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation funding programme, with Grant Agreement No. 777431. CompactLight was conducted by an International Collaboration of 23 international laboratories and academic institutions, three private companies, and five third parties. The project, which started in January 2018 with a duration of 48 months, aimed to design an innovative, compact, and cost-effective hard X-ray FEL facility complemented by a soft X-ray source to pave the road for future compact accelerator-based facilities. The result is an accelerator that can be operated at up to 1 kHz pulse repetition rate, beyond today’s state of the art, using the latest concepts for high brightness electron photoinjectors, very high gradient accelerating structures in X-band, and novel short-period undulators. In this report, we summarize the main deliverable of the project: the CompactLight Conceptual Design Report, which overviews the current status of the design and addresses the main technological challenges.
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