Author: Bilanishvili, S.
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THPAK023 Proposal for Using DAΦNE as Pulse Stretcher for the Linac Positron Beam 3258
 
  • S. Guiducci, D. Alesini, M.E. Biagini, S. Bilanishvili, O.R. Blanco-García, M. Boscolo, B. Buonomo, S. Cantarella, D.G.C. Di Giulio, L.G. Foggetta, A. Gallo, A. Ghigo, L. Kankadze, C. Milardi, R. Ricci, U. Rotundo, L. Sabbatini, M. Serio, A. Stella
    INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy
  • P. Valente
    INFN-Roma, Roma, Italy
 
  The PADME experiment* proposes a search for the dark photon (A') in the e+e -> gamma A' process in a positron-on-target experiment, exploiting the positron beam of the DAΦNE linac at the Frascati National Laboratory. The linac could provide a number of positrons as high as 109/pulse in a 200 ns pulse but the number of positrons for PADME is limited below 105/pulse in order to keep the pile-up probability in the calorimeter low enough. The PADME experiment is indeed limited by the low duty factor (10e-5=200ns/20ms). An alternative proposal to use the DAΦNE positron ring as a linac pulse stretcher, by injecting each pulse into the ring and extracting it by a slow resonant extraction using the m/3 resonance, is described in this paper. This allows to distribute the positrons of a linac pulse in a much longer pulse (0.2 - 0.5 ms) increasing the duty factor up to ~ 2%. The required modifications of the DAΦNE positron transfer line and main ring are presented. A dedicate lattice for the ring has been designed and tracking of the positrons in the ring has been performed to optimize extraction parameters and give a preliminary estimate of the extracted beam characteristics.
* M. Raggi et al., EPJ Web Conf. 96 (2015) 01025
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2018-THPAK023  
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