The BTF (Beam-Test Facility) is a transfer line using the electron or positron beam of the DAΦNE LINAC. The particle beams can be attenuated, energy-selected and collimated for a wide range of energy and intensity. The beam parameters can be tuned to match the needs of each users, mainly in the field of HEP detector testing, but also dedicated studies of electromagnetic interaction. The BTF has been operational for more than 10 years, mainly in 'parasitic' mode to the operation of the DAΦNE collider, delivering beams for an average of more than 220 days/year. The potential of the BTF facility can be further enlarged following different lines of development, which are briefly discussed in this paper: improvement of the environmental shielding for high-intensity applications; extension of the beam bunch time-width; addition of new collimators to reduce beams divergence and background at low intensity; doubling of the beam extraction system and transport line; improvement of the tagged photon source; increase of the maximum energy from 750/550 MeV (for electrons/positrons) to about 1 GeV/750 MeV respectively; improvement of a neutron line using the photo-production target; improvement of the beam diagnostics, mainly based on particle detectors, and the develop of a new BTF sub-system controls.
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