Future plans at the Photo Injector Test Facility at DESY Zeuthen

Abstract The Photo Injector Test facility PITZ will be upgraded in 2004. Its main research goals are studies on the production and the conservation of low transverse emittance electron beams. The installation of an additional accelerating cavity is planned, which increases the beam energy from − 5 MeV after the gun to about 30 MeV after the booster. The goal is to produce and conserve a normalized transverse emittance of about 1 π mm mrad at 1 nC charge. For the characterization of the low emittance beam at higher beam energy, new diagnostics tools need to be installed. In this article, an overview about the layout of the upgraded facility and the planned physics activities is given.