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BTF 2015 call for applications

October 10th, 2014

to INFN scientific comm. coordinators
to INFN group leaders
to BTF users

 
The Beam Test Facility has been operational in 2014 with a good efficiency and we expect to close in mid December with more than 250 beam-days (see final 2014 schedule).
 
For 2015 we plan some activity on the linac and BTF itself for maintenance, testing and developments - also in view of future upgrades - at the beginning of the year, so that we expect to open the facility for users access not before late February/beginning of March 2015.
 
In addition to the online form: http://www.lnf.infn.it/acceleratori/btf/php/btfLogin.php we warmly invite all applicants to send a one-page summary of the planned setup via email to btf@lnf.infn.it, including:

    - infrastructural and diagnostics needs
    - required beam parameters
    - motivation or reference to approved experiment/scientific committee reports
    - list of recent publication with citation or acknowledgement or any other reference to BTF.

We remind you that we will assign beam periods in unit of weeks (as a general rule), from Monday to Monday (with overlap in the morning for installation/de-installation), and that some level of rejection - due to the large amount of requests - is expected.
 
We invite to submit beam requests, at least for the period March-July 2015, by the end of 2014; a draft schedule will be released by January 2015.
 
We also underline that after the beam time assignment, small adjustments of the schedule could be possible; all affected users will be promptly informed.
 
Finally, we remind you that the beam request contact person will be also the team-leader and responsible for the access procedures and safety of all the team members, unless a different team-leader name is indicated.
 
Thanks for your collaboration from the BTF staff!