Performance and Upgrade of the DAFNE Beam Test Facility (BTF)

Author

Buonomo, B. ; Mazzitelli, G. ; Valente, P.

Author_Institution

Lab. Nazionali di Frascati, Italy

Volume

52

Issue

4

fYear

2005

Firstpage

824

Lastpage

829

Abstract

The DAFNE Beam Test Facility (BTF) at the Frascati National Laboratory of INFN (LNF) has been operational since October 2002. This facility provides electron and positron beams with tunable energy from 25 MeV to 750 MeV, while the intensity can be varied from $10^10/ pulse$ @ 0–50 Hz down to a single particle. In the last two years many experiments and beam tests have been hosted, so that the large use of the facility pushed the DAFNE staff to upgrade both the beam line, in order to improve the duty cycle, limited by frequent beam injection in the DAFNE main rings, and the diagnostic devices. The beam characteristics, the user experience and their typical measurements, the diagnostic tools developed and the available equipment are presented. Finally, we report on the facility upgrade and on operation in the new configuration.

Keywords

electron beams; particle beam diagnostics; particle beam injection; particle calorimetry; position sensitive particle detectors; DAFNE Beam Test Facility; Frascati National Laboratory; INFN; beam characteristics; beam injection; calorimetry; diagnostic devices; diagnostic tools; electron beams; particle beam measurements; position sensitive particle detectors; positron beams; Electron beams; Laboratories; Linear particle accelerator; Magnetic separation; Particle beam injection; Particle beam measurements; Particle beams; Positrons; Test facilities; Testing; Calorimetry; electron beams; particle beam measurements; position sensitive particle detectors;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2005.852704

Filename

1495769