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Status Report and Future Plans for the PEP-II B Factory

Alan S. Fisher
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The PEP-II B Factory at SLAC has been in operation with the BABAR detector since the summer of 1999. The peak currents and luminosity steadily increased through the end of the 2000 run on October 31. By that time, 0.75 A of electrons (the design current) routinely collided with 1.4 A of positrons in 657 bunches, to give a peak luminosity of 2.6E33 cm^{-2} s^{-1}. We delivered an integrated luminosity of up to 184/pb per day and 1033 per week; BABAR logged a total of 25/fb. Three days of machine development at the end of the run raised the peak luminosity to 3.29E33, exceeding the design goal of 3.0. BABAR then logged data for an hour, starting with a peak of 3.20. Next, we achieved the design value for positron current, 2.14 A, operating without collisions. The major limitation has been growth in the size of the positron beam in the low-energy ring (LER) due to electron clouds and multipacting. Since the arcs benefit from antechambers and a TiN coating with low secondary emission, our efforts have concentrated on the straights, where we added solenoid windings. Each straight wound allowed higher LER current without blow-up, and a consequent increase in luminosity. Measurements of the bunch-by-bunch luminosity showed that the effect becomes significant by about the tenth bunch in a train, but clears after a short gap. Careful control of the fill pattern has thus been essential in raising luminosity. For the 2001 run, which began in February, we added a third LER RF station, to collide with more LER current and more bunches, and also tried reducing beta_x* from 50 to 35 cm, with the goal of reaching a luminosity of 5E33 by year's end. In 2003, we plan to add a fourth LER and sixth HER RF station to reach 1E34.

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Alan S. Fisher. 2001-04-13. Status Report and Future Plans for the PEP-II B Factory. https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0104044

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