CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF AN X-FEL FACILITY USING CLIC X-BAND ACCELERATING STRUCTURE
Within last decade a linear accelerating structure with an average loaded gradient of 100 MV/m at 12 GHz has been demonstrated in the CLIC study. Recently, it has been pro- posed to use the CLIC structure to drive an FEL linac. In contrast to CLIC the linac would be powered by klystrons not by a drive beam. The main advantage of this proposal is achieving the required energies in a very short distance, thus the facility would be rather compact. In this study, we present the conceptual design parameters of a facility which could generate laser photon pulses covering the range of 1- 75 Angstrom. Shorter wavelengths could also be reached with slightly increasing the energy.