How  We Do Business in ELETTRA

     by Emanuel karantzoulis
     Sincrotrone Trieste, S.S. 14  Km 163,5   in Area Science Park
     34012 Trieste - Italy

   The Italian third-generation synchrotron-radiation source ELETTRA
   came into  operation in October 1993 and is optimised for photon
   energies in the ultraviolet to soft X-rays.  During the
   commissioning year 1994, the amount of beam time dedicated to User
   experiments was increased from 25% to 75%.  Since the start of 1995
   the facility has routinely provided synchrotron radiation for
   experiments. 

   ELETTRA functions 24 hours per day, 7 days a week for long periods
   of 6-8 weeks, following by shutdown periods of 1-3 weeks.  The
   laboratory has a staff of 180, of which 45% -mainly physicists
   engineers and technicians- belong to the accelerator sector.  An
   additional number of more than 100 users are always present in the
   laboratory presently amounting to a total of 400 per year.

   The accelerator sector is divided in five areas: controls and
   electronics, radio-frequency and linac, magnets and power supplies,
   vacuum and mechanics, Operations and accelerator physics.  The area
   operations and accelerator physics is responsible for the
   operations' management and machine physics theory and experiments. 
   For the moment the storage ring is not operated by a crew of
   operators but rather by 24 technicians who belong to various areas
   of the accelerator sector under the direct management of the
   operations' area head.  More details will be shown in the poster.


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 Dr. Emanuel karantzoulis
 Operations and Accelerator Physics Area Head
 Accelerator  Division
 Sincrotrone Trieste
 S.S.14  Km 163 in Area Science Park
 I-34012 Trieste - Italy
 URL: http//www.elettra.trieste.it/~emanuel
 E-mail        : karantzoulis@elettra.trieste.it
 Phone         : + 39 - 40 - 3758580
 Fax           : + 39 - 40 - 3758565