ANKA - OPERATION AND FUTURE PLANS

ANKA, a 2.5 GeV storage ring for synchrotron radiation in Karlsruhe, delivers beam to ten bending magnet beamlines: an infrared (edge effect), three LIGA and several X-ray beamlines (absorption, diffraction, fluorescence, topography, protein crystallography and surface diffraction). Generally, there is one injection per day with a current of around 200 mA and a lifetime of more than 20 hours. Several machine improvements have been done during the last year: calibration of the BPMs by a Beam Based Alignment procedure, improvement of the orbit correction, studies of the cavity’s HOM and