ALICE is a low energy electron accelerator utilising the energy recovery principle to maintain high quality beam properties. The machine incorporates a number of photon sources which the Magnetics and Radiation Sources Group is active in developing, with staff also contributing to the optimisation of the ALICE machine to produce these photons.
Our expertise in photon transport has been responsible for the optical design and commissioning of the beamlines installed to transfer THz and IR radiation from the coherently enhanced and IR-FEL sources on Alice to diagnostics areas and into a tissue culture laboratory. We have also provided expertise in the transport and detection of X-rays to the project to generate Compton Backscattered X-rays by scattering a high intensity laser pulse with the ALICE electron beam.
Plan of the THz beamline on ALICE
Section of the IR-FEL beamline on ALICE
