ALBA Synchrotron
Dr. Ömer Yavaş - Professor in Ankara University and Director of TAC Collaboration
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Inma Hernández
Turkish Accelerator Center (TAC) Project has started with support of the Ministry of Development (MD) to establish a national accelerator center in Turkey including different accelerator and light source facilities. In first two phases of studies feasibility and conceptual design reports for proposed facilities are completed. In third phase of project an inter-university collaboration with 12 Turkish universities is established under the coordination of Ankara University and two main golas are defined: to write technical design reports for proposed facilities and to establish a first facility (http://tac.en.ankara.edu.tr).
The first facility “Turkish Accelerator and Radiation Laboratory (TARLA)” is under construction in Ankara that is planned as an infrared free electron laser and bremsstrahlung facility based on 10-40 MeV superconducting electron linac. Main purpose of facility is to use IR FEL for research in material science, nonlinear optics, semiconductors, biotechnology, medicine and photochemical processes. It is expected that the facility will be commissioning in 2018 (http://tarla.org.tr).
Proposed GeV scale facilities in frame of TAC are a third generation synchrotron radiation facility (TURKAY) based on 3 GeV electron synchrotron, a fourth generation SASE FEL facility (TURKSEL) based on 1-6 GeV electron linac, a multi-purpose proton accelerator and neutron facility (TURKPRO) with 3 MeV-2 GeV and an electron-positron collider as a super charm factory (TURKFAB) with 3.77 GeV center of mass energy.
In this talk, the status and road map of TAC studies are explained. The user and international collaboration profiles are given, also.