DAΦNE OPERATING EXPERIENCE WITH CRAB WAIST COLLISIONS

M. Zobovª for DAΦNE Collaboration

Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Frascati, Italy for DAΦNE Collaboration Team

Abstract

The Φ-factory DAΦNE was upgraded in the second half of 2007 in order to implement a recently proposed scheme of crab waist collisions aimed at substantial luminosity increase. Commissioning of the modified collider started in November 2007. In this paper we briefly describe the crab waist collision concept and discuss in detail the DAΦNE hardware upgrade and obtained experimental results.

ª – corresponding author

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