Speaker
Prof.
Ömer Yavaş
(Ankara University)
Description
Turkish Accelerator Center (TAC) Project has started with support of the Ministry of Development (MD) of Turkey under coordination of Ankara University. After completing the Feasibility Report (FR, 2000) and the General Design Repot (GDR, 2005), the third phase of the project started in 2006 as an inter- university collaboration under the coordination of Ankara University. The third phase has two principal goals: to write the Conceptual/Technical Design Reports of proposed GeV scale TAC facilities and to establish superconducting electron linac based infrared free electron laser facility (TARLA) as a first facility. TARLA facility is under construction in Gölbasi Campus area of Ankara University and planned as an IR FEL (2-250 microns) and Bremsstrahlung facility based on 15-40 MeV superconducting electron linac. Main purpose of the facility is to use IR FEL for research in material science, nonlinear optics, semiconductors, biotechnology, medicine and photochemical processes (http://tarla.org.tr).
Recently, in 2015, technical design reports of proposed TAC facilities are completed. These GeV scale accelerator and light source facilities 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, an electron-positron collider as a super charm factory (TURKFAB) with 3.77 GeV center of mass energy and a multi-purpose proton accelerator facility (TURKPRO) with 3 MeV-2 GeV energy range to use particles and radiations for research and applications in basic and applied sciences in Turkey and our region (http://thm.ankara.edu.tr).
In this talk, main outcomes, national and international colloborations, the status and research potentials of TAC facilities and the road map are explained.
Author
Prof.
Ömer Yavaş
(Ankara University)
