Stella, A.

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MOPCH028	Status of the SPARX FEL Project	107
	C. Vaccarezza, D. Alesini, M. Bellaveglia, S. Bertolucci, M.E. Biagini, R. Boni, M. Boscolo, M. Castellano, A. Clozza, L. Cultrera, G. Di Pirro, A. Drago, A. Esposito, M. Ferrario, D. Filippetto, V. Fusco, A. Gallo, A. Ghigo, S. Guiducci, M. Migliorati, L. Palumbo, L. Pellegrino, M.A. Preger, C. Sanelli, M. Serio, F. Sgamma, B. Spataro, A. Stella, F. Tazzioli, M. Vescovi, C. Vicario INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma) F. Alessandria, A. Bacci, F. Broggi, C. De Martinis, D. Giove, M. Mauri INFN/LASA, Segrate (MI) L. Catani, E. Chiadroni, A. Cianchi, C. Schaerf INFN-Roma II, Roma S. Cialdi, C. Maroli, V. Petrillo, M. Rome, L. Serafini INFN-Milano, Milano F. Ciocci, G. Dattoli, A. Doria, F. Flora, G.P. Gallerano, L. Giannessi, E. Giovenale, G. Messina, P.L. Ottaviani, G. Parisi, L. Picardi, M. Quattromini, A. Renieri, C. Ronsivalle ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma) P. Emma SLAC, Menlo Park, California L. Ficcadenti, A. Mostacci Rome University La Sapienza, Roma M. Mattioli Università di Roma I La Sapienza, Roma P. Musumeci INFN-Roma, Roma S. Reiche, J.B. Rosenzweig UCLA, Los Angeles, California
	The SPARX project consists in an X-ray-FEL facility jointly supported by MIUR (Research Department of Italian Government), Regione Lazio, CNR, ENEA, INFN and Rome University Tor Vergata. It is the natural extension of the ongoing activities of the SPARC collaboration. The aim is the generation of electron beams characterized by ultra-high peak brightness at the energy of 1 and 2 GeV, for the first and the second phase respectively. The beam is expected to drive a single pass FEL experiment in the range of 13.5-6 nm and 6-1.5 nm, at 1 GeV and 2 GeV respectively, both in SASE and SEEDED FEL configurations. A hybrid scheme of RF and magnetic compression will be adopted, based on the expertise achieved at the SPARC high brightness photoinjector presently under commissioning at Frascati INFN-LNF Laboratories. The use of superconducting and exotic undulator sections will be also exploited. In this paper we report the progress of the collaboration together with start to end simulation results based on a combined scheme of RF compression techniques.
MOPCH029	Status of the SPARC Project	110
	P. Musumeci, D. Levi, M. Mattioli, G. Medici, D. Pelliccia, M. Petrarca Università di Roma I La Sapienza, Roma D. Alesini, M. Bellaveglia, S. Bertolucci, R. Boni, M. Boscolo, M. Castellano, A. Clozza, L. Cultrera, G. Di Pirro, A. Drago, A. Esposito, M. Ferrario, L. Ficcadenti, D. Filippetto, V. Fusco, A. Gallo, G. Gatti, A. Ghigo, M. Incurvati, C. Ligi, F. Marcellini, M. Migliorati, A. Mostacci, L. Palumbo, L. Pellegrino, M.A. Preger, R. Ricci, C. Sanelli, M. Serio, F. Sgamma, B. Spataro, A. Stecchi, A. Stella, F. Tazzioli, C. Vaccarezza, M. Vescovi, C. Vicario INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma) F. Alessandria, A. Bacci, I. Boscolo, F. Broggi, S. Cialdi, C. De Martinis, D. Giove, C. Maroli, M. Mauri, V. Petrillo, M. Rome, A.R. Rossi, L. Serafini INFN-Milano, Milano L. Catani, E. Chiadroni, A. Cianchi, E. Gabrielli, S. Tazzari INFN-Roma II, Roma F. Ciocci, G. Dattoli, A. Dipace, A. Doria, G.P. Gallerano, L. Giannessi, E. Giovenale, G. Messina, P.L. Ottaviani, S. Pagnutti, L. Picardi, M. Quattromini, A. Renieri, G. Ronci, C. Ronsivalle, M. Rosetti, E. Sabia, M. Sassi, A. Torre, A. Zucchini ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma) A. Perrone INFN-Lecce, Lecce S. Reiche, J.B. Rosenzweig, G. Travish UCLA, Los Angeles, California
	The SPARC Project is starting the commissioning of its photo-injector. RF gun, RF sources, RF network and control, power supplies, emittance meter, beam diagnostics and control to measure the RF gun beam are installed. The photocathode drive laser has been characterized in terms of pulse shape and quality. We expect to conduct beam measurements at RF gun exit in the next future and consequently to start the installation of accelerating sections. The design of the 12 m undulator for the FEL experiment has been completed and the first undulator section out of 6 is under construction: we expect to characterize it at Frascati ENEA laboratory within the next months. SPARC as a facility will host FEL experiments using SASE, seeding and non-linear resonant harmonics. Additional R&D on X-band and S-band structures for velocity bunching are in progress, as well as studies on new photocathode materials and exotic undulator designs. We also present studies on solenoid field defects, beam based alignments, exotic electron bunch production (blow-out of short laser pulses or intensity modulated laser pulses). The possible use of segmented superconducting micro-undulators will be discussed too.
MOPLS093	Commissioning Status of the CTF3 Delay Loop	771
	R. Corsini, S. Doebert, F. Tecker, P. Urschütz CERN, Geneva D. Alesini, C. Biscari, B. Buonomo, A. Ghigo, F. Marcellini, B. Preger, M. Serio, A. Stella INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
	The CLIC Test Facility CTF3, built at CERN by an international collaboration, aims at demonstrating the feasibility of the CLIC scheme by 2010. In particular, one of the main goals is to study the generation of high-current electron pulses by interleaving bunch trains in delay lines and rings using transverse RF deflectors. This will be done in the 42 m long delay loop, built under the responsibility of INFN/LNF, and in the 84 m long combiner ring that will be installed in 2006. The delay loop installation was completed, and its commissioning started at the end of 2005. In this paper the commissioning results are presented, including the first tests of beam recombination.
TUODFI02	DAFNE Experience with Negative Momentum Compaction	989
	M. Zobov, D. Alesini, M.E. Biagini, A. Drago, A. Gallo, C. Milardi, P. Raimondi, B. Spataro, A. Stella INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
	There are several potential advantages for a collider operation with a lattice having a negative momentum compaction factor (alfa): bunches can be shorter and have a more regular shape; longitudinal beam-beam effects and synchrobetatron resonances are predicted to be less dangerous; requirements on sextupole strengths can be relaxed because there is no head-tail instability with the negative chromaticity. Since the lattice of the Frascati e+e- Phi-factory DAFNE is flexible enough to provide collider operation with alfa < 0, we have exploited this possibility to study experimentally the beam dynamics. The negative momentum compaction lattices have been successfully implemented and stable 1 A currents have been stored in both the electron and positron rings without any problem for RF cavities and feedback systems operation. First collisions have been tested at low currents. In this paper we describe the experimental results and compare them with expectations and numerical simulations. Present limitations to DAFNE operation with alfa < 0 are also discussed.
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TUPCH052	Turn by Turn Measurements at DAFNE Based on the Libera Beam Position Processor	1124
	A. Stella, M. Serio INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
	The BPM detection electronics developed by Instrumentation Techonologies implements digital receivers technology to measure beam position from the amplitude of pick-up signals. Besides the closed orbit mode, the Libera module can be operated also in the Turn-by-Turn mode. Operational experience with Libera at DAFNE, the Frascati e+ e- collider, has been focused on this functionality. Data obtained from DAFNE have been processed with well established extraction algorithms to accurately measure the betatron tunes from a small number of turns, providing instantaneous information on tune variations occurred also in fast damped decays after a kick. Hardware and software implementation together with experimental data are reported.
MOPLS028	DAFNE Status Report	604
	A. Gallo, D. Alesini, M.E. Biagini, C. Biscari, R. Boni, M. Boscolo, B. Buonomo, A. Clozza, G.O. Delle Monache, E. Di Pasquale, G. Di Pirro, A. Drago, A. Ghigo, S. Guiducci, M. Incurvati, P. Iorio, C. Ligi, F. Marcellini, C. Marchetti, G. Mazzitelli, C. Milardi, L. Pellegrino, M.A. Preger, L. Quintieri, R. Ricci, U. Rotundo, C. Sanelli, M. Serio, F. Sgamma, B. Spataro, A. Stecchi, A. Stella, S. Tomassini, C. Vaccarezza, M. Vescovi, M. Zobov INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma) G. Benedetti CELLS, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès) L. Falbo INFN-Pisa, Pisa J.D. Fox, P. Raimondi, D. Teytelman SLAC, Menlo Park, California E. Levichev, S.A. Nikitin, P.A. Piminov, D.N. Shatilov BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk
	The operation of DAFNE, the 1.02 GeV c.m. e+e- collider of the Frascati National Laboratory with the KLOE detector, started in April 2004 has been concluded at the end of March 2006 with a total delivered luminosity of 2 fb-1 on the peak of the Phi resonance, 0.2 fb-1 off peak and a high statistics scan of the resonance. The best performances of the collider during this run have been a peak luminosity of 1.5 1032 cm-2s-1 and a daily delivered luminosity of 10 pb-1. The KLOE detector has been removed from one of the two interaction regions and its low beta section substituted with a standard magnetic structure, allowing for an easy vertical separation of the beams, while the FINUDA detector has been moved onto the second interaction point. Several improvements on the rings have also been implemented and are described together with the results of machine studies aimed at improving the collider efficiency and testing new operating conditions.
WEPLS021	The PLASMONX Project for Advanced Beam Physics Experiments	2439
	L. Serafini, A. Bacci, R. Bonifacio, M. Cola, C. Maroli, V. Petrillo, N. Piovella, R. Pozzoli, M. Rome, A.R. Rossi, L. Volpe INFN-Milano, Milano D. Alesini, M. Bellaveglia, S. Bertolucci, R. Boni, M. Boscolo, M. Castellano, A. Clozza, G. Di Pirro, A. Drago, A. Esposito, M. Ferrario, L. Ficcadenti, D. Filippetto, V. Fusco, A. Gallo, G. Gatti, A. Ghigo, M. Incurvati, C. Ligi, F. Marcellini, M. Migliorati, A. Mostacci, L. Palumbo, L. Pellegrino, M.A. Preger, R. Ricci, C. Sanelli, M. Serio, F. Sgamma, B. Spataro, A. Stecchi, A. Stella, F. Tazzioli, C. Vaccarezza, M. Vescovi, C. Vicario INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma) F. Alessandria, F. Broggi, C. De Martinis, D. Giove, M. Mauri INFN/LASA, Segrate (MI) W. Baldeschi, A. Barbini, M. Galimberti, A. Giulietti, A. Gizzi, P. Koester, L. Labate, S. Laville, A. Rossi, P. Tomassini CNR/IPP, Pisa U. Bottigli, B. Golosio, P.N. Oliva, A. Poggiu, S. Stumbo INFN-Cagliari, Monserrato (Cagliari) C.A. Cecchetti, D. Giulietti UNIPI, Pisa D. Levi, M. Mattioli, G. Medici, D. Pelliccia, M. Petrarca Università di Roma I La Sapienza, Roma P. Musumeci INFN-Roma, Roma
	The Project PLASMONX is well progressing into its design phase and has entered as well its second phase of procurements for main components. The project foresees the installation at LNF of a Ti:Sa laser system (peak power > 170 TW), synchronized to the high brightness electron beam produced by the SPARC photo-injector. The advancement of the procurement of such a laser system is reported, as well as the construction plans of a new building at LNF to host a dedicated laboratory for high intensity photon beam experiments (High Intensity Laser Laboratory). Several experiments are foreseen using this complex facility, mainly in the high gradient plasma acceleration field and in the field of mono-chromatic ultra-fast X-ray pulse generation via Thomson back-scattering. We present an innovative scheme of external injection of the SPARC beam into laser wake-field driven plasma waves. Detailed numerical simulations have been carried out to study the generation of short electron bunches, to be injected into plasma waves driven with adiabatically variable density in order to compress the bunch at injection and further accelerate it by preserving a small energy spread and good beam quality.