Performance of the PEP-II B-Factory Collider at SLAC

PEP-II is an e
⁺
e
^-
asymmetric B-Factory Collider located at SLAC operating at the Upsilon 4S resonance (3.1 GeV x 9 GeV). It has reached a luminosity of 9.21×10
³³
/cm
²
/s and has delivered an integrated luminosity of 710 pb
^-1
in one day. PEP-II has delivered, over the past six years, an integrated luminosity to the BaBar detector of over 262 fb-1. PEP-II operates in continuous injection mode for both beams boosting the integrated luminosity. The peak positron current has reached 2.45 A in 1588 bunches. Steady progress is being made in reaching higher luminosity. The goal over the next several years is to reach a luminosity of 2.1x10
³⁴
/cm
²
/s. The accelerator physics issues being addressed in PEP-II to reach this goal include the electron cloud instability, beam-beam effects, parasitic beam-beam effects, high RF beam loading, shorter bunches, lower
y
interaction region operation, and coupling control. Figure 1 shows the PEP-II tunnel.