• G. Mazzitelli, R. Bedogni, B. Buonomo, M. De Giorgi, A. Esposito, L. Quintieri
  INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
• P. Valente
  INFN-Roma, Roma

A neutron source, based on photo-neutron production, has been designed and is under construction to upgrade the electron/positron/photon DAΦNE Beam Test Facility (BTF). We present the feasibility study, the solution chosen and the optimization done in order to maximize the neutron/photon yield as well as the comparison between different simulation codes (FLUKA/GEANT4/MCNPX). The first experimental test is foreseen in March 2010.

• C. Milardi, D. Alesini, M.E. Biagini, C. Biscari, R. Boni, M. Boscolo, F. Bossi, B. Buonomo, A. Clozza, G.O. Delle Monache, T. Demma, E. Di Pasquale, G. Di Pirro, A. Drago, M. Esposito, A. Gallo, A. Ghigo, S. Guiducci, C. Ligi, F. Marcellini, G. Mazzitelli, L. Pellegrino, M.A. Preger, L. Quintieri, P. Raimondi, R. Ricci, U. Rotundo, C. Sanelli, M. Serio, F. Sgamma, B. Spataro, A. Stecchi, A. Stella, S. Tomassini, C. Vaccarezza, M. Zobov
  INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
• S. Bettoni
  CERN, Geneva
• E.B. Levichev, S.A. Nikitin, P.A. Piminov, D.N. Shatilov
  BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk

Recently the peak luminosity achieved on the DAΦNE collider has been improved by almost a factor 3 by implementing a novel collision scheme based on large Piwinski angle and Crab-Waist. This encouraging result opened new perspectives for physics research and a new run with the KLOE-2 detector has been scheduled to start by spring 2010. The KLOE-2 installation is a complex operation requiring a careful design effort and a several months long shutdown. The high luminosity interaction region has been deeply revised in order to take into account the effect on the beam caused by the solenoidal field of the experimental detector and to ensure background rejection. The shutdown has been also used to implement several other modifications aimed at improving beam dynamics: the wiggler poles have been displaced from the magnet axis in order to cancel high order terms in the field, the feedback systems have been equipped with stronger power supplies and more efficient kickers and electrodes have been inserted inside the wiggler and the dipole vacuum chambers, in the positron ring, to avoid the e-cloud formation. A low level RF feedback has been added to the cavity control in both rings.