Optics for the Alba Lattice

ALBA is a third generation light source being built in Spain. Since 2003 a redesign of the accelerator complex is under way and a thorough investigation of the optimization of the lattice has been done [1], [2]. ALBA will be a medium energy machine (3 GeV), providing a small emittance (4.3 nm-rad) and beam sizes, with a large number of straight sections for insertion devices, in a small circumference (268 m). The responsibility for the construction (and future operation) of the ALBA facility belongs to the Consortium for the Construction, Equipping and Exploitation of the Synchrotron Light source (CELLS). CELLS is funded on the basis of an equal share between the MEC (Ministerio de Educacin y Ciencia) of the Spanish Government and the DURSI (Departament dUniversitats, Recerca i Societat de la informaci) of the Generalitat de Catalunya.