Performance and upgrade of the DAFNE beam test facility (BTF)

Author

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

Author_Institution

Lab. Nazionali di Frascati, Ist. Nazionale di Fisica Nucl., Frascati, Italy

Volume

4

fYear

2004

fDate

16-22 Oct. 2004

Firstpage

2240

Abstract

The DAFNE beam test facility has been delivering electron/positron beams to user groups since Oct. 2002. The test-beam has been active for more than two years, delivering beam time to a large number of experimental setups in many different conditions, ranging from typical detector calibration to fundamental measurements in nuclear physics. During this period several detectors were developed in order to characterize the beam quality in a wide range of beam intensities (from 1 to 10¹⁰ particles/pulse) and energies (50-750 MeV). The large use of the facility has pushed us to upgrade it in order to improve the duty cycle, presently limited by the frequent beam injection in the DAFNE main rings. A review of the results obtained, the diagnostic tools developed as well as the upgrade of the facility are presented.

Keywords

electron accelerators; linear accelerators; particle beam diagnostics; particle beam injection; BTF; DAFNE beam test facility; beam intensities; beam quality; detector calibration; diagnostic tools; electron/positron beams; frequent beam injection; linear accelerator; Calibration; Electron beams; Nuclear measurements; Nuclear physics; Particle beam measurements; Particle beams; Positrons; Test facilities; Testing; Time measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2004 IEEE

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8700-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2004.1462707

Filename

1462707