What next at LNF: Perspectives of physics research at the Frascati National Laboratories
Creators: name: F. Bossi
name: D. Alesini
name: M.P. Anania
name: M. Antonelli
name: D. Babusci
name: A. Balerna
name: S. Bartalucci
name: M. Bazzi
name: M. Bellaveglia
name: S. Bellucci
name: G. Bencivenni
name: M. Benfatto
name: L. Benussi
name: M. Bertani
name: S. Bianco
name: S. Bistarelli
name: A. Boni
name: M. Boscolo
name: P. Branchini
name: B. Buonomo
name: P. Campana
name: C. Cantone
name: M. Caponero
name: A. Cataldo
name: M. Cestelli Guidi
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name: V. Chiarella
name: P. Ciambrone
name: A. Cianchi
name: R. Cimino
name: A. Clozza
name: C. Curceanu
name: S.B. Dabagov
name: R. Del Grande
name: S. Dell'Agnello
name: G. Delle Monache
name: E. De Lucia
name: R. De Sangro
name: A. De Santis
name: A. Di Domenico
name: D. Di Gioacchino
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name: D. Domenici
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name: A. Drago
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name: M. Ferrario
name: G. Finocchiaro
name: L. Foggetta
name: M. A. Franceschi
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name: A. Ghigo
name: P. Gianotti
name: S. Giovannella
name: C. Guaraldo
name: D. Hampai
name: M. Iliescu
name: G. Lamanna
name: G. Lanfranchi
name: A. Liedl
name: C. Ligi
name: M. P. Lombardo
name: V. Lucherini
name: P. Levi Sandri
name: A. Marcelli
name: M. Martini
name: M. MascoloM. Mastrucci
name: F. Micciulla
name: M. Mirazita
name: S. Miscetti
name: G. Morello
name: D. Moricciani
name: V. Muccifora
name: Murtas
name: E. Nardi
name: S. Okada
name: E. Pace
name: M. Pallavicini
name: M. Palutan
name: A. Paoloni
name: A. Passeri
name: L. Pellegrino
name: D. Piccolo
name: K. Piscicchia
name: C. Polese
name: M. Poli Lener
name: L. Porcelli
name: G. Raffone
name: M. Raggi
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name: L. Sabbatini
name: P. Santangelo
name: I. Sarra
name: G. Saviano
name: E. Sbardella
name: B. Sciascia
name: A. Scordo
name: H. Shi
name: D. L. Sirghi
name: F. Sirghi
name: T. Spadaro
name: B. Spataro
name: E. Spiriti
name: A. Stecchi
name: S.Tomassini
name: C. Vaccarezza
name: P. Valente
name: A. Variola
name: G. Venanzoni
name: F. Villa
name: J. Zmeskal
name: M. Zobov
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2015

description: The Frascati National Laboratories (LNF) are the oldest and largest research infrastructure of INFN, mainly devoted to the research in nuclear and particle physics, to the development of particle accelerators and frontier studies on new acceleration techniques. LNF is the place where the first electron-positron collisions were obtained in the early 60s.  Presently LNF operates two accelerator complexes: DAFNE, an e+e- collider with center of mass energy set to the mass of the Φ  meson, 1020 MeV. SPARC, a high intensity photoinjector capable of delivering electron beams up to 200 MeV, combined with a high power laser (FLAME), able to produce ultra short pulses, in the so called SPARC_LAB facility. The laboratory hosts also the NAUTILUS gravitational waves resonant bar detector, and thanks to the availability of several infrastructures, workshops, clean rooms etc.., it is also widely used as a facility for constructing large particle detectors used in other laboratories. The purpose of the present document is to address the question: is there a viable program on the development of internal activities which can allow the Laboratory to maximally exploit its capabilities and to maintain its role at the forefront of scientific research in the next decade? In particular, given the present Italian financial situation, is this possible by wisely upgrading the presently running infrastructures at moderate costs? On November 10-11, 2014 a workshop was held at LNF with the aim to discuss the above issues, with a broad participation of researchers from Italian and foreign institutions. A second workshop dedicated to the applications of the existing facilities to Materials Science was held on February 26-27, 2015. This document tries to summarize the main conclusions of these discussions.