Interactions News Wire #31-09
14 May 2009 http://www.interactions.org
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Source: INFN Frascati National Lab
Content: Press Release
Date Issued: 14 May 2009
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Important step-forward towards the SuperB realization

On April 23rd-24th the second meeting of the SuperB Machine Advisory Committee chaired by Jonathan Dorfan and composed of well known international machine experts was held in Frascati.

The outcome of the meeting was that: "MAC now feels secure in enthusiastically encouraging the SuperB design team to proceed to the TDR phase, with confidence that the design parameters are achievable". This result recognizes the validity of the novel beam-beam technology called "crab-waist" developed in the INFN Frascati National Lab and successfully tested by an international team at the Dafne collider during 2008. This scheme, that will be the base for the design of the future Super Flavour Factory (SuperB) whose proposed location is in Italy, opens up a new domain in accelerator physics with possible applications for all future cutting-edge accelerators.

The main result of the test is reported in the figure where one can clearly see the gain in luminosity obtained when applying the "crab-waist" configuration for the interaction region.

Although work must be added in order to freeze the parameters of the new machine, these results, together with state-of-the-art simulations on beam optics and backgrounds, represents an important milestone towards SuperB.

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For further details:

Dr. Pantaleo Raimondi
INFN Frascati National Labs
+390694031