The ARES Linac is dedicated to accelerator R&D DESY internally, but also available for external users. Its advantages are easy accessibility, flexibility in beam parameters and excellent beam control and diagnostics.

Beam diagnostic tests

• 4D and 5D beam tomography developments.
• Novel stripe detectors development for low-charge applications.
• High resolution screens and optics development.
• High precision beam position monitors.
• Nano-wirescanners and beam loss monitor tests.
• Non-invasive beam diagnostics with dielectric structures.

 

Hardware tests and prototyping for the big DESY user machines

• Injection kickers for PETRA IV
• Movable magnetic bunch compressor
• 3D printed vacuum chambers
• RF waveguide windows test stand
• High stability infrastructures (precision water cooling and RF stations)
• High resolution cathode charge maps

 

Beam Controls

• Master oscillator developments and fs synchronization
• Machine learning towards autonomous accelerators
• Neural nets for emittance data analysis
• fs bunches and their diagnostics with the PolariX TDS