The design of the Double Bend Achromat (DBA) lattice was originally motivated by the desire to increase the brightness of a synchrotron ring by storing a low emittance electron beam [1]. Alternating the direction of the bends in the DBA lattice turns the ring into a linear transport line, which has advantages over the straight transport lines typically used in linac FEL's. The dipoles in the DBA cells provide synchrotron images of the electron beam, a real-time non-destructive diagnostic during operation. As in circular machines, sections between DBA cells provide a low-emittance dispersion free beam for insertion devices such as FEL's and inverse Compton backscattering sources. This paper describes an example linear DBA, which has been designed and commissioned as part of the MkV 40 MeV electron accelerator facility at the University of Hawaii.
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