The DAFNE project at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF) is an e+e- collider with electron and positron beams accelerated to 510 MeV by a Linac injector. DAFNE is designed to reach a top luminosity L 1033cm-2s-1, that is, to produce 4 × 103 F(1020)s-1. The hypernuclear research program at DAFNE relies on low-energy kaons, 16MeV, being produced by F-meson decays at rest: F K- K+ with a B.R.49%. In the initial stage, DAFNE will operate at a L 1032cm-2s-1, however the number of F produced, and the large geometrical acceptance of the FINUDA detector, 3sr, will allow a strong hypernuclear physics program to be pursued.
