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!
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