UK testing facilities
STFC Daresbury CLARA/FEBE User Facility
STFC ASTeC / Daresbury Laboratory
Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, Cheshire, England
Access: Conditional
Testing capabilities
- Testing—unspecified
Services
Friendly-user beam experiments and accelerator diagnostics in the CLARA/FEBE user area; the cited evidence supports user experimentation, not a general hardware qualification, radiation-effects or optical-device test service.
Equipment
CLARA design energy 250 MeV; electron bunch charge up to 250 pC, repetition rates up to 100 Hz and bunch lengths as short as 5 fs; two ~2 m³ vacuum chambers in FEBE user area; 120 TW laser installation described as commissioning in 2026 source.
Standards
No accreditation or test standards stated on the cited operator page; first friendly-user run and further 2026 experiments are reported, so access is Conditional pending programme/beamtime arrangements.
Contact
Operator-wide contact: Phone: +44 1925603000
Approximate location
Daresbury · Town location