ELETTRA NEW FULL ENERGY INJECTOR STATUS REPORT

The Elettra new full energy injector will be based on a 100 MeV linac pre-injector, a 2.5 GeV booster synchrotron and two new beam transfer lines. It will replace the existing 1.2 GeV linac injector and transfer line. Full funding was finally available in 2005, which allowed to start, or in some cases to re-start, the construction activities. The status of the project will be presented in this paper, in particular the progress of the fabrication of various components, like magnets, power supplies, vacuum chambers; also the status of the construction of the building and technical plants will be given. Results of recent optimization studies will also be outlined. The commissioning of the new injector is scheduled to start in Spring 2007, while the first ELETTRA operation for user's with the new full energy injector is expected for the last quarter of 2007.