Abstract
The “Helmholtz-Zentrum für Materialien und Energie,” HZB, in Berlin looks back on a long and successful history in the development and operation of storage ring (SR)-based synchrotron radiation sources, starting in the early 1980s with BESSY I, followed by BESSY II in the late 1990s and the Metrology Light Source set up for the PTB (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt) in 2008. Novel concepts to better tailor the radiation properties of storage rings to the user's demands (e.g., for short pulses such as low alpha optics and femto-slicing facility) have been pioneered or improved at the HZB. Despite these efforts and the recent progress made in the development towards diffraction-limited SR, it seems right to look into alternative accelerator technologies providing high average current and short-pulsed (sub-ps) beams of exceptional brilliance and low energy spread without the fundamental restrictions of a beam circulating in an equilibrium state of the phase-space distribution.
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