MIUR International Project FERMI

The International Project FERMI begins in 2015, year of conclusion of the Flagship Project. Building on the results of the latter, the former represents the outlook into the future in the final stage of “user-assisted commissioning” of the FERMI source. La strategy will be based on:

• the commissioning experience;
• the operation for users;
• the interest of the user community for

1. special FEL configurations;
2. higher photon energies.

Other Italian public research institutions involved

The International Project FERMI will consolidate the collaborations, formal as well as informal, initiated within the Flagship Project with INFN, ENEA, CNR, INSTM and several Italian Universities exploiting at best the previous experiences.

Scientific and technical international collaborations

• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, USA;
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA;
• University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, USA;
• UChicago Argonne, LLC as operator of Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, USA;
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, USA;
• SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, USA;
• RADIABEAM Technologies, LLC, Santa Monica, USA;
• Stiftung Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY), Amburgo, Germania;
• Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germania;
• MAX-lab - Lund University, Lund, Svezia;
• Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Villigen, Svizzera;
• University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia;
• Instrumentation Technologies d.d., Solkan, Slovenia;
• The Russian Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute”, Mosca, Russia.

Strategic objectives

The upgrade plan encompasses perspectives for the next 3 to 5 years. Its main directions are focused towards:

• further improve the source reliability;
• enhance FEL-1 performance in special configurations;
• extend FEL-2 range to lower wavelengths;
• explore alternative schemes.