• C. Milardi, D. Alesini, M.E. Biagini, C. Biscari, A. Bocci, R. Boni, M. Boscolo, F. Bossi, B. Buonomo, A. Clozza, G.O. Delle Monache, T. Demma, E. Di Pasquale, G. Di Pirro, A. Drago, A. Gallo, A. Ghigo, S. Guiducci, C. Ligi, F. Marcellini, G. Mazzitelli, F. Murtas, 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)
• N. Arnaud, D. Breton, L. Burmistrov, A. Stocchi, A. Variola, B.F. Viaud
  LAL, Orsay
• S. Bettoni
  CERN, Geneva
• P. Branchini
  roma3, Rome
• M. Esposito
  Rome University La Sapienza, Roma
• E.B. Levichev, P.A. Piminov, D.N. Shatilov
  BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk
• K. Ohmi
  KEK, Ibaraki
• V.V. Smaluk
  BINP, Novosibirsk
• D. Teytelman
  SLAC, Menlo Park, California
• P. Valente
  INFN-Roma, Roma

In 2007 DAΦNE was upgraded to operate in a regime of large Piwinski angle, with a novel IR optics, reduced vertical beta at the interaction point, and additional sextupoles providing for crab waist collisions. The specific luminosity was boosted by more than a factor of four, and the peak luminosity was more than doubled with respect to the maximum value obtained with the original collider configuration. The DAΦNE commissioning as well as the first experience with large Piwinski angle and crab waist collisions scheme will be reported.

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• S. Tomassini, M.E. Biagini, R. Boni, E. Di Pasquale, M. Esposito, L. Pellegrino, R. Ricci, C. Sanelli, F. Sgamma
  INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
• P. Raimondi, J. Seeman
  SLAC, Menlo Park, California

The SuperB collider project aims at the construction of an asymmetric high luminosity B-Factory in the Tor Vergata University campus in Rome (Italy). The engineering aspects of the SuperB design and construction with the aim to reuse at maximum the PEP II components will be presented. Sinergies with the Italian FEL project SPARX, which will start civil construction this year, will be discussed. The two projects can share the Linac tunnel and other facilities. A study of ground motion will also be presented.

• M. Ferrario, D. Alesini, M. Bellaveglia, M. Benfatto, R. Boni, M. Boscolo, M. Castellano, E. Chiadroni, A. Clozza, L. Cultrera, G. Di Pirro, A. Drago, A. Esposito, L. Ficcadenti, D. Filippetto, V. Fusco, A. Gallo, G. Gatti, A. Ghigo, A. Marcelli, A. Marinelli, C. Marrelli, M. Migliorati, A. Mostacci, E. Pace, L. Palumbo, L. Pellegrino, R. Ricci, U. Rotundo, C. Sanelli, F. Sgamma, B. Spataro, S. Tomassini, C. Vaccarezza, M. Vescovi, C. Vicario
  INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
• A. Bacci, I. Boscolo, F. Broggi, F. Castelli, S. Cialdi, C. De Martinis, D. Giove, C. Maroli, V. Petrillo, A.R. Rossi, L. Serafini
  Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Milano
• M. Bougeard, B. Carré, D. Garzella, M. Labat, G. Lambert, H. Merdji, P. Salières, O. Tchebakoff
  CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette
• L. Catani, A. Cianchi, B. Marchetti
  INFN-Roma II, Roma
• F. Ciocci, G. Dattoli, M. Del Franco, A. Dipace, A. Doria, G.P. Gallerano, L. Giannessi, E. Giovenale, G.L. Orlandi, S. Pagnutti, A. Petralia, M. Quattromini, C. Ronsivalle, E. Sabia, I.P. Spassovsky, V. Surrenti
  ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma)
• M.-E. Couprie
  SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette
• M. Mattioli, M. Serluca
  INFN-Roma, Roma
• M. Rezvani Jalal
  University of Tehran, Tehran
• J.B. Rosenzweig
  UCLA, Los Angeles, California

The SPARC project foresees the realization of a high brightness photo-injector to produce a 150-200 MeV electron beam to drive 500 nm FEL experiments in SASE, Seeding and Single Spike configurations. The SPARC photoinjector is also the test facility for the recently approved VUV FEL project named SPARX. The second stage of the commissioning, that is currently underway, foresees a detailed analysis of the beam matching with the linac in order to confirm the theoretically prediction of emittance compensation based on the “invariant envelope” matching , the demonstration of the “velocity bunching” technique in the linac and the characterisation of the spontaneous and stimulated radiation in the SPARC undulators. In this paper we report the experimental results obtained so far. The possible future energy upgrade of the SPARC facility to produce UV radiation and its possible applications will also be discussed.

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