New equipment for the FREIA laboratory for development of new accelerators and research instruments

The FREIA accelerator and instrumentation development laboratory designs, develops and tests new leading experimental infrastructure for specific next-generation scientific research-projects and fulfils VRs definition and five criteria for being a research infrastructure of national interest. The FREIA Laboratory Division is part of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University.

It has more than 30 employed researchers, engineers and technicians and is directed by a Board, led by the Head of Division.

The scientific goal of the FREIA Laboratory is to enable new leading experimental investigations in particle and nuclear physics, atomic and molecular physics, chemistry, molecular biology and material, energy and environmental science.

The main equipment of the FREIA Laboratory currently includes a high capacity Helium liquefier, a large horizontal and a vertical cryostat, powerful vacuum-tube radiofrequency sources, advanced hard- and software for process control and safe test bunkers, allowing for tests of superconducting high-power equipment like magnets and accelerating cavities.

We apply for funding to acquire- a compact femtosecond source of electrons for ultrafast science,- high-power transistors and combiners to enable compact and reliable high-power radiofrequency power generation for accelerators and other applications,- a magnetic field measurement bench for accelerator magnets and- a high current, long pulse H- ion source for the development of high intensity, short pulse accelerators.This equipment will create added national value by providing cutting edge instrumentation enabling new experimental research within the science fields mentioned above.

After their development, instruments for large research infrastructures are most often series-produced in industry which then also leads to transfer of novel technologies and innovations to the industry