• Y. Nosochkov, L.D. Bentson, R.A. Erickson, M.J. Hogan, N. Li, J. Seeman, A. Seryi, C.M. Spencer, W. Wittmer
  SLAC, Menlo Park, California

Funding: This work is supported by the Department of Energy contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.

FACET is a proposed facility at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory for beam driven plasma wakefield acceleration research. It is proposed to be built in the SLAC linac sector 20, where it will be separated from the LCLS located downstream and will gain the maximum beam energy from the upstream two kilometers of linac. FACET will also include an upgrade to linac sector 10, where a new e⁺ compressor chicane will be installed. The sector 20 will require a new optics consisting of two chicanes for e⁺ and e^- bunch length compression, a final focus system and an extraction line. The two chicanes will allow the transport of e^- and e⁺ bunches together, their simultaneous compression and proper positioning of e⁺ bunch behind e^- at the plasma Interaction Point (IP). For a minimal cost, the new optics will mostly use the existing SLAC magnets. The desired beam parameters at the IP are: up to 23 GeV beam energy, 2·10¹⁰ charge per bunch, 10 micron round beam spot without dispersion and 25 micron bunch length. Details of the FACET optics design and results of particle tracking simulations are presented.

• A. Seryi, J.W. Amann, P. Bellomo, B. Lam, D.J. McCormick, J. Nelson, J.M. Paterson, M.T.F. Pivi, T.O. Raubenheimer, C.M. Spencer, M.-H. Wang, G.R. White, W. Wittmer, M. Woodley, Y.T. Yan, F. Zhou
  SLAC, Menlo Park, California
• D. Angal-Kalinin, J.K. Jones
  STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
• R. Apsimon, B. Constance, C. Perry, J. Resta-López, C. Swinson
  JAI, Oxford
• S. Araki, A.S. Aryshev, H. Hayano, Y. Honda, K. Kubo, T. Kume, S. Kuroda, M. Masuzawa, T. Naito, T. Okugi, R. Sugahara, T. Tauchi, N. Terunuma, J. Urakawa, K. Yokoya
  KEK, Ibaraki
• S. Bai, J. Gao
  IHEP Beijing, Beijing
• P. Bambade, Y. Renier, C. Rimbault
  LAL, Orsay
• G.A. Blair, S.T. Boogert, V. Karataev, S. Molloy
  Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey
• B. Bolzon, N. Geffroy, A. Jeremie
  IN2P3-LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux
• P. Burrows
  OXFORDphysics, Oxford, Oxon
• G.B. Christian
  ATOMKI, Debrecen
• J.-P. Delahaye, D. Schulte, R. Tomás, F. Zimmermann
  CERN, Geneva
• E. Elsen
  DESY, Hamburg
• E. Gianfelice-Wendt, M.C. Ross, M. Wendt
  Fermilab, Batavia
• A. Heo, E.-S. Kim, H.-S. Kim
  Kyungpook National University, Daegu
• J.Y. Huang, W.H. Hwang, S.H. Kim, Y.J. Park
  PAL, Pohang, Kyungbuk
• Y. Iwashita, T. Sugimoto
  Kyoto ICR, Uji, Kyoto
• Y. Kamiya
  ICEPP, Tokyo
• S. Komamiya, M. Oroku, T.S. Suehara, T. Yamanaka
  University of Tokyo, Tokyo
• A. Lyapin
  UCL, London
• B. Parker
  BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
• T. Sanuki
  Tohoku University, Graduate School of Science, Sendai
• A. Scarfe
  UMAN, Manchester
• T. Takahashi
  Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Science, Higashi-Hiroshima
• A. Wolski
  Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire

ATF2 is a final-focus test beam line that attempts to focus the low-emittance beam from the ATF damping ring to a beam size of about 37 nm, and at the same time to demonstrate nm beam stability, using numerous advanced beam diagnostics and feedback tools. The construction is well advanced and beam commissioning of ATF2 has started in the second half of 2008. ATF2 is constructed and commissioned by ATF international collaborations with strong US, Asian and European participation.

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