CRYSTAL: a storage ring for crystalline beams and other applications

The possibility of generating crystallized ion beams has always excited the interest of most people working on particle accelerators. The reason of this interest has manifold aspects: either a knowledge on a completely new research field or some of the applicative potentialities, connected with crystalline beams, would justify a careful investigation on this content. The Conceptual Design of a low-energy heavy-ion storage ring, called CRYSTAL, proposed for the experimental demonstration of crystalline beams at Legnaro Laboratories is presented. Besides the study of crystalline beams the CRYSTAL Storage Ring (CSR) offers a large potential for fundamental research in nuclear, atomic and molecular physics. In this sense, the development of a second generation cooler ring with better lattice will give large possibilities to investigate more deeply in fundamental physics.