FLUENCE: Felix Light for the UK: Exploiting Novel Characteristics and Expertise.

FLUENCE的提案是对EPSRC的一项要求的回应，EPSRC要求为中型设施（MRF）开发ARTFUL需求声明（SoN）的这些方面，这将有助于显著增加英国科学家使用FELIX加速器驱动光源套件的数量。EPSRC与FELIX的合同已于2017年1月1日续签，为期五年。然而，如果英国想要从FELIX的订阅中获益，那么重要的是要大幅扩大和扩大寻求获得这些光源的用户群体。这是根据评估FELIX MRF上一份年度报告的小组提供的反馈得出的。该小组评论说：“然而，据报道，目前英国的使用率很小，可以扩大”，并得出结论：“通过这种订阅，英国学者可以获得世界领先的设施，这有很大的潜力。”然而，需要与更广泛的英国学术界进行更多的接触，以确保这一潜力得到充分实现。”该提案解决了这些问题，并表明ARTFUL SoN可以重新聚焦，以显着增加使用FELIX的英国科学家数量，并确保英国获得续签准入合同的全部好处。ARTFUL中提出的MRF能力以及随之而来的EPSRC的成本取决于由两个外部机构维护的现有设施基础设施，即stfc资助的ALICE设施和内梅亨大学FELIX设施。自提交以来，STFC以承诺的600万英镑资本升级的形式撤回了对ALICE的支持，以便将可用的人力和资本资源集中在达斯伯里用于新的CLARA x光机。该提案将促进社区中很大一部分寻求访问ALICE的人转移到FELIX，并熟悉这个社区，以及ARTFUL提案中确定的新用户，以及它的功能。该方案还将为早期职业科学家和FELIX新用户的实验方案提供支助。这份ARTFUL需求声明列出了来自33所英国大学、医院和公司的59个部门的116名科学家，他们希望在一个多样化的研究项目中利用FELIX和ALICE光源的独特能力。FLUENCE的提案得到了ARTFUL社区相当一部分人的支持，预计来自27所大学和公司39个部门的74名科学家的研究将受益于FELIX。这是英国科学家对FELIX目前使用的一次重大扩展。如果在FELIX上建立成像能力，这个社区将来可能会扩大。对支持ARTFUL的科学家进行的部分调查显示，他们在过去5年中在参考期刊上发表了2440多篇论文，目前持有233项研究资助，价值3.58亿英镑。ARTFUL获得了优秀的裁判报告，所有四份报告都给出了最高的6分。没有任何负面评论，在支持科学研究的能力和潜力方面，爱丽丝和菲利克斯都被评为“独特”和“世界领先”。需求说明是小组中评价最高的建议。该提案由领导INSPIRE和ARTFUL提案的Weightman教授领导，并将成立一个咨询委员会，就MRF的进展以及如何使MRF的潜力引起英国科学界的注意向PI和EPSRC提供建议。

The FLUENCE proposal is a response to a request from the EPSRC to develop those aspects of the ARTFUL Statement of Need (SoN) for a mid range facility (MRF) that would facilitate a significant increase in the number of UK scientists having access to the FELIX suite of accelerator driven light sources. The EPSRC contract with FELIX has been renewed from the 1st of January 2017 for five years. However if the UK is to obtain the benefits of its subscription to FELIX it will be important to significantly expand and broaden the user community seeking access to these light sources. This follows from the feed-back provided by the panel assessing the last annual report on the FELIX MRF. The panel commented "However the current UK usage as reported is small and could be expanded" and concluded "There is great potential through this subscription, with UK academics being offered access to world-leading facilities. However greater engagement with the broader UK academic community is needed to ensure that this potential is fully realised." This proposal addresses these concerns and demonstrates that the ARTFUL SoN can be refocused to significantly increase the number of UK scientists using FELIX and ensure that the UK gets the full benefits of the renewed access contract. The MRF capabilities proposed in ARTFUL and the consequent cost to the EPSRC hinged on existing facility infrastructure maintained by two external bodies, the STFC-funded ALICE facility and the Radboud University FELIX Facility. Since the submission the STFC has withdrawn support for ALICE, in the form of a promised £6M capital upgrade, in order to concentrate the available human and capital resources at Daresbury for the new CLARA X-Ray machine. This proposal will facilitate the transfer of a significant fraction of the community that sought access to ALICE to FELIX and familiarise this community, and new users identified in the ARTFUL proposal, with its capabilities. The programme will also provide support for the experimental programmes of early career scientists and new users of FELIX. The ARTFUL statement of need lists 116 scientists from 59 departments in 33 UK Universities, Hospitals and Companies seeking to exploit the unique capabilities of the FELIX and ALICE light sources in a diverse research programme. The FLUENCE proposal is supported by a significant fraction of the ARTFUL community and it is expected that the research of 74 scientists from 39 departments in 27 Universities and Companies will benefit from access to FELIX. This is a significant expansion of the current use of FELIX by UK scientists. It is possible that this community can be expanded in the future if it is established that an imaging capability can be established on FELIX. A partial survey of the scientists supporting ARTFUL showed that they have produced over 2440 publications in referred journals in the previous 5 years and currently hold 233 research grants of value £ 358M. ARTFUL received excellent referee reports with all four reports giving the highest grade of 6. There were no negative comments and aspects of the capabilities and potential to support scientific research of both ALICE and FELIX were rated as "unique" and "world leading". The statement of need was the top-rated proposal at the Panel. The proposal is lead by Prof. Weightman who lead the INSPIRE and ARTFUL proposals and will have an Advisory Board to advise the PI and the EPSRC on the progress of the MRF and on how to bring the potential of the MRF to the attention of the UK scientific community.