STORI'14 - 9th International Conference on Nuclear Physics at Storage Rings

The DAΦNE collider, located in the Frascati National Laboratories of INFN, has two main rings, where electrons and positrons are stored to collide at a center of mass energy of 1.02 GeV, the Φ resonance mass. KLOE-2 experiment is located at the collider interaction region. The detector is capable to observe and collect data coming from Φ decay: charged and neutral kaon pairs, lighter unflavoured mesons (η, η’ f0, a0, ω/ρ). In the first half of 2013 the KLOE detector has been upgraded inserting new detector layers in the inner part of the apparatus, around the interaction region: a new tracking system, Inner tracker, to improve tracking eficiency and vertex resolution and two new calorimenters, QCAL and CCAL-T in order to improve detector hermeticity and acceptance. The long shutdown has been used to undertake a general consolidation program aimed at improving the Φ-Factory operation stability and reliability and, in turn, the collider uptime. The DAΦNE collider has been successfully commissioned after the experimental detector modification and a major upgrade and consolidation program involving a large part of the accelerator complex. This contribution presents the Φ-Factory setup and the achieved performances in terms of beam currents, luminosity, detector background and related aspects together with the KLOE-2 physics program, upgrade status report and recent physics results.