No. 28 (2002): LNF-02/022 (P): New European SR facilities

Editors-in-Chief: W. Chou and J.M. Jowett, Editors: C. Biscari, S. Chattopadhyay, S. Ivanov, H. Mais, J. Wei, and C. Zhang

This issue of the ICFA Beam Dynamics Newsletter dedicates a section to the description of the French and Spanish projects.

SOLEIL with its beamlines producing VUV and soft X-rays will be complemetary to ESRF.

LLS is the first accelerator facility to be built in Spain: it is a first priority project for the Spanish science. It will be housed at Barcelona, and will produce high brightness soft X-rays in the region 0.05–2 keV and high intensities X- rays in the region 4–30 keV.

An interesting article has been written by Prof. Khan on the necessity of creating an International Asian Facility. He appeals the Asian scientists and institutions to collaborate in the construction of an Asian Accelerator Laboratory (AAL), which could promote exchange of progress and technologies among all the Asian countries.

Several activity reports have been included in this issues:

• An important step at the CLIC test facilities, demonstrating the feasibility of the recombination principle for the frequency multiplication system.

• The description of the NewSUBARU storage ring, operated in the positive momentum compaction mode.

• The studies on the radiation wigglers to be installed at CESR for the luminosity runs at lower energies.

• The analytical description of many beam dynamics aspects by Gao at LAL. Two exhaustive descriptions on the 26th and 27th ICFA Advanced Accelerator and Beam Dynamics Workshops have been written: the first one by M. Ferrario, assisting the workshop on "The Physics and Applications of High Brightness Electron Beams", held in Sardinia at June and the second by R. Assmann and F. Zimmermann, organizers of the workshop ‘Nanometre-Size Colliding Beams’, held at Lausanne at beginning of September.