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abstract:
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ORION will be a user-oriented research facility for understanding the physics and developing the technology for future high-energy particle accelerators. The ORION Facility will bring together the needed resources for performing a wide range of experiments in advanced accelerator and beam physics. The facility has as its centerpiece the Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator (NLCTA) within End Station B at the SLAC Central Research Yard. That site will be modified with the addition of a new high-brightness photoinjector, its associated drive laser and rf power system, a user laser room, a low-energy experimental hall supplied with electron beams up to approximately 60 MeV in energy, and a high-energy hall supplied with beams up to 350 MeV. Facility construction is anticipated to start in October 2003, contingent upon funding approval, and first beam is planned for 2005. The first experiment at ORION, the laser acceleration experiment E163, has been approved by SLAC. In this paper, results are presented on the revised facility layout and design which came out of the 2nd ORION Workshop in February 2003, and the beam physics design of the injector and the beamlines for the low and high-energy experimental halls.
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