Design, specifications, and first beam measurements of the compact linear accelerator for research and applications front end

D Angal-Kalinin, A Bainbridge, AD Brynes… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2020 - APS
The compact linear accelerator for research and applications (CLARA) is an ultrabright
electron beam test facility being developed at STFC Daresbury Laboratory. The ultimate aim …

Demonstration of sub-luminal propagation of single-cycle terahertz pulses for particle acceleration

DA Walsh, DS Lake, EW Snedden, MJ Cliffe… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The sub-luminal phase velocity of electromagnetic waves in free space is generally
unobtainable, being closely linked to forbidden faster than light group velocities. The …

[PDF][PDF] Dark Current Studies in the CLARA Front-End Injector

F Jackson, IR Gessey, JW McKenzie… - 8th Int. Particle …, 2017 - s3.cern.ch
Abstract At STFC Daresbury Laboratory a new facility CLARA (Compact Linear Accelerator
for Research and Applications) is being designed and constructed. The principal aim of …

[PDF][PDF] Photocathode preparation and characteristics of the electron source for the VELA/CLARA facility

TCQ Noakes, D Angal-Kalinin… - 9th Int. Particle …, 2018 - accelconf.web.cern.ch
The VELA and CLARA accelerators at Daresbury are test facilities with a focus on FEL
research and industrial applications of electron beams. Recently the CLARA front-end has …

[PDF][PDF] Developments in CLARA accelerator design and simulations

P Williams, D Angal-Kalinin, AD Brynes… - … of International Particle …, 2015 - jacow.org
We present recent developments in the accelerator design of CLARA (Compact Linear
Accelerator for Research and Applications), the proposed UK FEL test facility at Daresbury …

[PDF][PDF] Model Independent Analysis of Beam Jitter on VELA

JK Jones, KD Dumbell, AJ Moss… - Proc. 7th International …, 2016 - jacow.org
Abstract The Versatile Electron Linear Accelerator (VELA) is a facility designed to provide
high quality electron beams for accelerator systems development, as well as industrial and …