[BDXlist] Dark matter search at SLAC?

[Daniel Snowden-Ifft]

BDXers,

	In response to a query to Clive Field at SLAC I got the following reply.  The second to the last sentence caught my eye.  Was anyone aware of this initiative?

	Optimistically I get 1e16 EOT per year so it wouldn’t compete with JLab.

> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: "Field, R. Clive" <sargon at slac.stanford.edu>
> Subject: RE: Automatic reply: Low e-flux in ESTB
> Date: October 17, 2016 at 1:29:03 PM PDT
> To: "'Daniel Snowden-Ifft'" <ifft at oxy.edu>
> 
> Dan,
> On the third point, the linac will be shut down from late December until July 2017 for infrastructure work in preparation for LCLS-II. It will then run for one more year (2017-2018). The end station beam should be available for most of the time when the linac is running (assuming enough funding, as always).
> After that the linac will shut down for a year and then restart (in 2019) with both copper and superconducting accelerators. However, there is an initiative to rebuild the beam to ESA at that time to run as a ~100 MHz repetition rate, few particle per pulse, beam --- for a dark matter production search. Don’t know if this will actually happen.
> -Clive
> 


-- Dan

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