Australian Access to and Operation of Advanced Synchrotron Radiation Facilities at the Photon Factory

Funding is sought for a two-year extension of the very successful Australian National Beamline Facility program at the Photon Factory, Japan. To enable the successful continuation and completion of ARC-funded projects, uninterrupted access to this established beamline is required until beamlines at the Australian Synchrotron (AS) are fully functional. Thereafter, additional and complementary capacities are required to accommodate a projected two-fold oversubscription and enable AS beamlines to be most efficiently used for the true cutting-edge experiments for which they were designed. This short-term extension further serves as a bridging capability as the community-driven design and construction of an enhanced AS beamline progresses.