Italy revises its SuperB Project
The results of an international commission appointed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research [MIUR] for the costing review of the Italian “flagship project” SuperB in the Frascati area were made public at the end of November 2012. SuperB is included in the future European scenario for particle physics. The project involves the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics [INFN] and the newborn Cabibbo-Lab.
Neither the relevance nor the quality of the SuperB program were brought into question by the MIUR review…
SuperB accelerator to gain Free Electron Laser
The SuperB accelerator will soon expand its scientific offerings through a multidisciplinary infrastructure: the Free Electron Laser [FEL]. This will add to the accelerator apparatus – based at Cabibbolab, Italy – which will be completed in the next five years.
The FEL contains a long magnetic “ondulator”, comprising a large number of magnets of alternating polarities, which force electrons into a slalom-type path. This nano-beam of light has the characteristics of typical laser light…
