SINBAD, A BRILLIANT IR SOURCE FROM THE DA-PHI-NE STORAGE-RING

SINBAD is the Italian IR synchrotron radiation beamline, designed to w ork at wavelengths greater than 10 mu m. It is being installed on DA P hi NE, a new collider that is designed to work at 0.51 GeV with a beam current up to 5 A. Due to such a high current, the IR extracted from a bending magnet will be more brilliant than that of a black body at 2 000 K by two orders of magnitude at 100 mu m. The beamline optical sys tem, projected by ray-tracing simulation, consists of six mirrors that first focus the radiation on a wedged CVD diamond-film window and the n transfer the collimated beam to the experimental area where a Michel son interferometer will be installed.