A Test Facility for the International Linear Collider, at SLAC End Station a for Prototypes of Beam Delivery and IR Components

The SLAC Linac can deliver damped bunches with ILC parameters for bunch charge and bunch length to End Station A. A 10Hz beam at 28.5 GeV energy can be delivered there, parasitic with PEP-II operation. We plan to use this facility to test prototype components of the Beam Delivery System and Interaction Region. We discuss our plans for this ILC Test Facility and preparations for carrying out experiments related to collimator wakefields and energy spectrometers. We also plan an interaction region mockup to investigate effects from backgrounds and beam-induced electromagnetic interference.

INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW

The International Linear Collider (ILC) is envisioned to be the next frontier accelerator facility for particle physics after the LHC begins operation, providing exceptional resolving power and precision for exploring the TeV energy scale. New discoveries are expected in one or more exciting areas: Higgs and the explanation of particle masses, supersymmetry, dark matter, extra dimensions, unification of fundamental forces. The luminosity at this facility will be a factor 1000 greater than that achieved at LEP and 10,000 times greater than achieved at the SLC.