We present a status update on the dedicated R\&D facility SINBAD which is currently under construction at DESY. The facility will host multiple independent experiments on the acceleration of ultra-short electron bunches and novel, high gradient acceleration methods. The first experiment is the ARES-experiment with a normal conducting 100\,MeV S-band linac at its core. We present the objectives of this experiment ranging from the study of compression techniques to sub-fs level to its application as injector for various advanced acceleration schemes e.g. the plans to use ARES as a test-site for DLA experiments in the context of the ACHIP collaboration. The time-line including the planned extension with laser driven plasma-wakefield acceleration is presented. The second initial experiment is AXSIS which aims to accelerate fs-electron bunches to 15\,MeV in a THz driven dielectric structure and subsequently create X-rays by inverse Compton scattering.
@article{arxiv.1801.02825,
title = {Status and Objectives of the Dedicated Accelerator R&D Facility "SINBAD" at DESY},
author = {U. Dorda and B. Marchetti and J. Zhu and F. Mayet and W. Kuropka and T. Vinatier and G. Vashchenko and K. Galaydych and P. A. Walker and D. Marx and R. Brinkmann and R. Assmann and N. H. Matlis and A. Fallahi and F. X. Kaertner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.02825},
year = {2018}
}