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In March 2018 DAΦNE, the Italian electron-positron Phi-factory based on the Crab Waist collision concept, has successfully completed the challenging experimental run for the KLOE-2 detector. At present, installation of the SIDDHARTA-2 detector is underway in order to start data acquisition with the new experimental apparatus in the year 2019. In this paper we review the collider performances during the KLOE-2 run in terms of the achieved beam currents, the peak and integrated luminosity and encountered beam dynamics challenges. The design and development work done in view of the SIDDHARTA-2 operation is presented and discussed., Proceedings of the 26th Russian Particle Accelerator Conf., RUPAC2018, Protvino, Russia

Dafne, the Italian lepton collider, is running since more than a decade thanks to a radical revision of the approach used to deal with the beam-beam interaction: the Crab-Waist collision scheme. In this context, the collider has recently completed a long term activity program aimed at providing an unprecedented sample of data to the KLOE-2 detector, a large experimental apparatus including a high intensity solenoidal field strongly perturbing ring optics and beam dynamics. The KLOE-2 run has been undertaken with the twofold intend of collecting data for rare decay flavor physics studies, and testing the effectiveness of the new collision scheme in the presence of a strongly perturbing experimental apparatus. The performances of the collider are reviewed and the limiting factors discussed along with the preparatory phase activities planned to secure a new collider run to the SIDDHARTA-2 experiment., Proceedings of the 62th ICFA ABDW on High Luminosity Circular e$^+$e$^-$ Colliders, eeFACT2018, Hong Kong, China

DAΦNE, the Frascati lepton collider working at the c.m. energy of the F resonance, continues to be a very suitable infrastructure to realize experiments aimed at studying elementary particles and nuclear physics. The motivations of this long lasting interest are related to the DAΦNE ability of increasing its performances in terms of luminosity thanks to the innovative Crab-Waist collision scheme. In this framework, a new run for the SIDDHARTA-2 experiment has been planned in the year 2019. The detector presently installed in the interaction region, KLOE-2, will be removed and a new low-beta session, equipped with new permanent magnets quadrupoles, will be installed. Diagnostics tools will be improved especially the ones used to keep under control the beam-beam interaction. The horizontal feedback in the positron ring will be potentiated in order to achieve a higher positron current. The design and development work done in view of the SIDDHARTA-2 run is presented and discussed., Proceedings of the 9th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2018, Vancouver, BC, Canada