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ForewordA decade of dedicated R&D at KEK, DESY, CERN, SLAC and other laboratories were crucial to the successful development of the concepts for a linear collider and for demonstrating that the technical goals are achievable. We are now entering the global design phase for the ILC, and test facilities, demonstration experiments and fundamental R&D will continue to be very important to helping us develop the best possible ILC design, and one that employs forward looking technology.The ATF2 builds on the considerable investment, success and strong team that were responsible for the ATF. The new features provided by ATF2 will enable us to embark on a program to test the very demanding beam delivery requirements for the ILC. In addition, this project has the feature that it is being planned and executed internationally. Therefore, it represents a useful testing ground for managing and executing a complex international accelerator project.

EMMA -the Electron Model of Many Applicationsis to be built at the STFC Daresbury Laboratory in the UK and will be the first non-scaling FFAG ever constructed. EMMA will be used to demonstrate the principle of this type of accelerator and study its features in detail. The design of the machine and its hardware components are now far advanced and construction is due for completion in Autumn 2009.

This report describes the conceptual design of a proposed free electron laser test facility called CLARA that will be a major upgrade to the existing VELA accelerator test facility at Daresbury Laboratory in the UK. CLARA will be able to test a number of new free electron laser schemes that have been proposed but require a proof of principle experiment to confirm that they perform as predicted. The primary focus of CLARA will be on ultra short photon pulse generation which will take free electron lasers into a whole new regime, enabling a new area of photon science to emerge.

We report preliminary results of beam tests of the FONT3 Linear Collider intra-train position feedback system prototype at the Accelerator Test Facility at KEK. The feedback system incorporates a novel beam position monitor (BPM) processor with a latency below 5 nanoseconds, and a kicker driver amplifier with similar low latency. The 56 nanosecond-long bunchtrain in the ATF extraction line was used to test the prototype BPM processor. The achieved latency will allow a demonstration of intra-train feedback on timescales relevant even for the CLIC Linear Collider design.