2015
24-26 March		Installation of the Landau Cavity and modification of ASTRID2 bumper 3.
2014
27-29 October		Modification of ASTRID2 bumper 2.
22-24 September		AU-IR beam line installed.
18-20 August		Modification of ASTRID2 bumper 1.
11th August		First users on the AU-CD beam line.
12th May		First users on the MatLine and SGM3/ARPES beam lines.
9th May		The AU-CD beam line has been installed on ASTRID2 and is under vacuum.
22nd April		CD1 is the final beam line to be removed from ASTRID.
2013
2nd December		First external user of ASTRID2 on the AU-UV beam line.
11th September		First User Beam. Commissioning of the AU-UV beam line starts, first spectrum recorded.
9th September		The design current of 200 mA has now been stored in ASTRID2. Top-up operation at 200 mA succesful.
28th August		Installation of the old ASTRID undulator (WUN131) in ASTRID2
23rd August		186 mA accumulated in ASTRID2
16th July		Installation of the AMO undulator (WUN121) in ASTRID2
12th July		Closed WIG121 (Multipole wiggler) to 13 mm with beam in ASTRID2. No degredation in injectino efficiency. A small chamber alignment error prevented closure of the gap to the noiminal 12 mm.
11th July		Stable top-up operation at 90 mA. The limit is still due to high temperatures in the bumper magnets despite upgrades.
11th June		FMH111 bumper upgraded with better chamber transitions and cooling
14th May		First light in a beam line. With only 1 mA of stored beam in ASTRID2 opened up the A2-UV1 beam line for initial tests.
30th April		FMH121 bumper upgraded with better chamber transitions and cooling
16th April		FMH161 bumper upgraded with better chamber transitions and cooling
6th February		The first beam line is now attached to ASTRID2. The final section of beam pipe for A2-UV1 was installed and the whole beam line is now under vacuum.
1st February		155 mA accumulated current in ASTRID2.
7th January		100 mA current stored in ASTRID2 for the first time!
2012
14th December		The new 2.5m undulator for the AMO beamline was delivered
12th December		A stored current of 36 mA in ASTRID2.
2nd November		The first stored beam with RF in ASTRID2! It was also possible to accummulate beam in the new ring.
10th September		The official opening of ASTRID2 by Morten Østergaard, the Danish Minister for Research, Innovation and Higher Education.
7th August		The electrons injected into ASTRID2 can now circulate the ring more than 1300 turns (200 microseconds).
10th July		First full turn around the ring!
29th May		The beam is now half way around the ring.
14th May		First beam in ASTRID2.
13th May		First beam through the transfer beamline.
11th May		RF Cavity for ASTRID2 has been delivered and installed.
10th May		The radiation wall around ASTRID2 is almost finished.
26th April		The transfer beamline between ASTRID and ASTRID2 has been completed and is under vacuum.
25th April		The radiation wall starts to go up around the ring.
20th April		All of the girders for the ASTRID2 ring are now under vacuum and have been baked.
6th February		Half of the ASTRID2 ring is now under vacuum and has been baked. Section 2 bakeout was completed today, section 3 baking will start this week.
2011
2nd November		Section 1 of ASTRID2 is now being baked.
21st October		First vacuum! Section 1 of ASTRID2 is now under vacuum.
20th September		The concrete blocks which will be used to build the radiation shielding are being placed in the basement.
26th August		Installation of the power cables for the dipole and quadrupole magnets commenced.
21st July		First section of the transfer beamline under vacuum, in preparation for further extraction diagnostics.
20th July		All girders for the ring have now been installed
6th July		First extraction of beam with ASTRID running in booster mode (22 second cycle time)
29th June		The first girder for the ring has been installed. Girder 2 has been placed on its supports.
28th June		First two girders for ASTRID2 delivered today
28th June		The first extracted beam from ASTRID
20th June		The multipole wiggler was delivered
April/May		The magnets for the transfer beam line were installed
23rd March		Supports for the magnet girders were put in place.
24th February		Gate valves for the ring were delivered.
18th February		The ion pumps for the ring were delivered
February		Utilities required for the ring are being installed.
7th January		Gate valves for ASTRID2 ordered
January		The ASTRID2 ring hall is empty and construction on the podium has started
2010
8th December		Ion pumps for ASTRID2 ordered
6th December		Main dipole chambers for ASTRID2 ordered
2th December		Extraction kicker for ASTRID received
February		Order of main power supplies for ASTRID2
January		Multi Pole Wiggler (MPW) for ASTRID2 ordered
2009
7th September		Girders with magnets for ASTRID2 ordered
7th September		Fast magnets with power supplies for ASTRID2 ordered
August		Preliminary design report for the ASTRID2 ring sent out for review.
January		Design of ASTRID2 started
2008
December 2008		ISA awarded money to build ASTRID2

Current Status as of Friday 4th Janaury 2013: All of the ring is now under vacuum and has been baked. The RF cavity has been delivered and installed. Commissioning of the ASTRID2 ring is well underway with currents of around 30-40 mA stored.

By clicking on one of the links below you can view a video showing the construction progress of the ring. There is a short 20 second film which shows the complete construction of the ring from the beginning of 2011, when the ring hall was empty, until the ring was enclosed with a concrete wall in May 2012. The longer films show the daily progress of the construction and have been split into separate files according to year. The film for 2012 was last updated: 15th May 2012. The 2011 film shows the progress of the building of ASTRID2 throughout 2011. Some of the files are quite large.

.avi (mpeg4) file	.mov file Quick time	.wmv file Windows Media Player
20 Second film	20 Second film	20 Second film
2012 to 15th May	2012 to 15th May	2012 to 15th May
2011	2011	2011

Below you will find a selection of photographs showing the progress with ASTRID2. Click on a thumbnail to view the picture in a larger version

December 2010	3rd January 2011	12th January 2011	4th February 2011
23rd March 2011	April/May 2011	20th June 2011	28th June 2011
28th June 2011	29th June 2011	20th July 2011	8th March 2012
25th April 2012	10th May 2012	11th May 2012	11th May 2012
13th May 2012	14th May 2012	29th May 2012	10th July 2012
7th August 2012	10th September 2012	2nd November 2012	26th November 2012
14th December 2012	15th May 2013	16th July 2013	28th August 2013
9th September 2013

Last Modified 11 October 2018