In the very early hours of Sunday, April 2'nd, the Danfysik Booster built for the Australian Synchrotron Project accelerated for the first time a beam to the maximum energy of 3 GeV.
The first picture shows the magnetic field and beam current as function of time during the 1 second cycle time. Injection is made at 100 MeV and the high-energy flat-top corresponds to an energy of 3 GeV. Large losses occur at low energy, whereas there are no further losses during the acceleration. The next step will consist in reducing these losses and in extracting the beam.
The second picture shows the crew (from left to right: Søren Weber Friis-Nielsen, Niels Hertel, and Greg LeBlanc) remaining in the control room at this late hour.
