THE FIRST FACILITY OF TURKISH ACCELERATOR CENTER ( TAC ) ∗

Turkish Accelerator and Radiation Laboratory in Ankara (TARLA) is proposed as first accelerator based infrastructure in Turkey as a first step Turkish Accelerator Center (TAC). The facility under construction at Institute of Accelerator Technologies of Ankara University since 2012. Based superconducting technology, TARLA accelerator will offer a multi-experiment facility providing various acceleratorbased radiation sources for the users coming from different fields like physics, chemistry, biology, material sciences, medicine and nanotechnology. Two of the planed freeelectron laser (FEL) beamlines of TARLA will provide Continuous Wave (CW) tunable radiation of high brightness in the midand far-infrared regime. In addition a Bremmstrahlung radiation station is proposed within current scope of TARLA. In this paper current status of facility is presented.