17–22 May 2026
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ALBA II Accelerator Upgrade Project Status

THP2009
21 May 2026, 16:00
2h
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Deauville, France
Poster Presentation MC2.A04: Photon sources: Circular Accelerators Poster session

Speaker

Francis Perez (ALBA Synchrotron (Spain))

Description

ALBA is working on the upgrade project that shall transform the actual storage ring, in operation since 2012, into a 4th generation light source, in which the soft X-rays part of the spectrum shall be diffraction limited. The project was launched in 2021 with an R&D budget to build prototypes of the more critical components. The storage ring upgrade is based on a MBA lattice which has to comply with several constraints imposed by the decision of maintaining the same circumference (269m), the same number of cells (16), the same beam energy (3GeV), and as many of the source points as possible unperturbed. At present, the lattice optimization, iterating with the technical constraints of space and performance, is ongoing. This paper presents the situation of the project, with the present proposed lattice and equipment design; the status of the prototyping of magnets, pulsed elements. vacuum chambers, buttons BPMs, and girders; the proposed RF system with fundamental and harmonics cavities; and the general context of the upgrade.

Funding Agency

Prototypes are co-funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU project Ref. ICTS-MRR-2021-02-CELS from the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism.

Footnotes

On behalf of the ALBA Team.

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Author

Francis Perez (ALBA Synchrotron (Spain))

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