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STFC Daresbury CLARA/FEBE User Facility

STFC ASTeC / Daresbury Laboratory

Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, Cheshire, England

Access: Conditional

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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

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