ARW 2013 Opening Melbourne, Australia, 15 April 2013 Dr Mark Boland Principal Scientist Accelerator Physics Australian Synchrotron ACAS Deputy Director
PASSION Accelerator Physics at the Heart of the Australian Synchrotron 14 April 20132ARW ACAS Mark Boland
14 April 2013ARW ACAS Mark Boland3 The Synchrotron Light Source World Map – as seen from Australia
ACAS – Building on the past 14 April 2013ARW ACAS Mark Boland4 Sir Mark Oliphant
14 April 2013ARW ACAS Mark Boland5 ACAS Institutes Formation of:
ACAS Launch 13 July 2010 Launched by the Australian Minister for Science Kim Carr Announced intention to join international FEL and Collider projects FEL project planned; e-gun, IR-FEL, beam diagnostics and detectors 14 April 2013ARW ACAS Mark Boland6
ACAS – Building the future Nurture students into accelerator physics Willing to contribute to ambitious science projects Strong desire to collaborate 14 April 2013ARW ACAS Mark Boland7
ACAS Facility Overview: ANU 14 April 2013ARW ACAS Mark Boland8
ACAS Facility Overview: Uni. of Melb. 14 April 2013ARW ACAS Mark Boland9 Pelletron - 5 MV ion accelerator X-ray detector development High Energy Particle Physics at the LHC Primary provider of top students! ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Tera-Scale Funding: $25.2 M AUD over 7 years Centre Director: Prof Geoffrey Taylor Administering Organisation: The University of Melbourne
ACAS Facility Overview: ANSTO 14 April 2013ARW ACAS Mark Boland10 STAR - 2 MV Tandetron ion acceleratorANTARES - 10 MV Tandem ion accelerator
ACAS Facility Overview: Australian Synchrotron light source $300 M AUD proposal for machine development and 10 new beamlines $38 M AUD building upgrade; science centre, user accommodation, engineering workshop and laboratory space (construction started Dec 2010) 14 April 2013ARW ACAS Mark Boland11
Australian Synchrotron Timeline 2001 Victorian Government funding announced 2003 Technical team assembled – Building complete, moved on-site – Linac commissioning begins – Booster commissioning, 1 st April 3 GeV beam – Storage ring Commissioning July – First Light Beamline Commissioning April – User operations begin October – 1000 th User visit November 2010 – 98% beam up-time 14 April 2013ARW ACAS Mark Boland12 Facility History
Machine Overview 14 April 2013ARW ACAS Mark Boland13 3 GeV Booster Synchrotron 100 MeV Linac 3 GeV Storage Ring BTS LTB Machine Overview
User Beam Availability 14 April 2013ARW ACAS Mark Boland14
Student Numbers × PhD 3 × Masters/Honours 6 × Bachelor 2 × Summer 10 × Undergraduate Lab 24 in total Accelerator Schools, one week introductory lectures: – 2008 ACCEL08, Prof Ted Wilson, Oxford University – 2010 ASAP, Prof Ken Peach, Oxford University – 2012 ASAP, Prof Emmanuel Tsesmelis, Oxford University 14 April 2013ARW ACAS Mark Boland15 ACAS
ICHEP 2012 in Melbourne 14 April 2013ARW ACAS Mark Boland16
We welcome you to Melbourne, Australia for IBIC September, 2015
14 April 2013ARW ACAS Mark Boland18 CLIC Collider X-ray Free Electron Laser Top 2 ACAS Projects “Big Science”
Body of evidence for low emittance 14 April 2013ARW ACAS Mark Boland19 ε y = 1.24 ± 0.4 pm World Record Achieved
Vertical Undulator Measurement Technique Kent Wootton (PhD student Melbourne) 14 April 2013ARW ACAS Mark Boland20 Vertical Beam Size Measurement New technique invented to observe picometer emittances
Summary ACAS formed to grow the field of accelerator physics ACAS Facilities have a good user program and government support Strong student interest Developing international collaborations Promising future! 14 April 2013ARW ACAS Mark Boland21
14 April 2013ARW ACAS Mark Boland22 ACAS