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Linear Accelerator Test Facility at LNF: Conceptual Design Report

Valente, Paolo; et al.

Test beam and irradiation facilities are the key enabling infrastructures for research in high energy physics (HEP) and astro-particles. In the last 11 years the Beam-Test Facility (BTF) of the DAΦNE accelerator complex in the Frascati laboratory has gained an important role in the European infrastructures devoted to the development and testing of particle detectors. At the same time the BTF operation has been largely shadowed, in terms of resources, by the running of the DAΦNE electron-positron collider. The present proposal is aimed at improving the present performance of the facility from two different points of view: • Extending the range of application for the LINAC beam extracted to the BTF lines, in particular in the (in some sense opposite) directions of hosting fundamental physics and providing electron irradiation also for industrial users; • Extending the life of the LINAC beyond or independently from its use as injector of the DAΦNE collider, as it is also a key element of the electron/positron beam facility. The main lines of these two developments can be identified as: • Consolidation of the LINAC infrastructure, in order to guarantee a stable operation in the longer term; • Upgrade of the LINAC energy, in order to increase the facility capability (especially for the almost unique extracted positron beam); • Doubling of the BTF beam-lines, in order to cope with the signicant increase of users due to the much wider range of applications. Even though such a project stems from a facility already existing and operational since more than a decade, based on an accelerator complex designed more than 20 years ago, it is probably useful considering the resulting infrastructure as a new facility, more than an improvement of the existing DAΦNE BTF: BTF2 or TALYA, Linear Accelerator Test fAcilitY are the suggested names (Fig. 0.1).

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