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The new measurement of the muon's anomalous magnetic moment released by the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab sets strong constraints on the properties of many new particles. Using an effective field theory approach to the interactions of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 Juan C. Criado , Abdelhak Djouadi , Niko Koivunen , Kristjan Müürsepp , Martti Raidal , Hardi Veermäe

Experimental and theoretical activities are underway at CERN with the aim of examining the feasibility of a very-high-flux neutrino source. In the present scheme, a high-power proton beam (some 4 MW) bombards a target where pions are…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 G. Franchetti , S. Gilardoni , P. Gruber , K. Hanke , H. Haseroth , E. B. Holzer , D. Kuechler , A. M. Lombardi , R. Scrivens

A new scheme to produce very low emittance muon beams using a positron beam of about 45~GeV interacting on electrons on target is presented. One of the innovative topics to be investigated is the behaviour of the positron beam stored in a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 M. Boscolo , M. Antonelli , O. R. Blanco-Garcia , S. Guiducci , S. Liuzzo , P. Raimondi , F. Collamati

The next generation of high-energy physics experiments requires high intensity protons in the multi-GeV energy range for efficient production of secondary beams. The Fermilab long-term future requires an 8 GeV proton source to feed the Main…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-03-09 L. Jenner , C. Johnstone , D. Neuffer , J. Pasternak

A new experimental area designed to develop, test and verify muon ionization cooling apparatus using the 400-MeV Fermilab Linac proton beam has been fully installed and is presently being commissioned. Initially, this area was used for…

After a five year upgrade period, the Fermilab experiments CDF and DO are taking high quality data in Run II of the Tevatron Collider. We report on the start-up of both detectors and present a selection of first B physics results from the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Manfred Paulini

The Large Hadron Collider is currently undergoing its High Luminosity upgrade, which is set to increase the instantaneous luminosity by about a factor of five. Consequently, the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment is upgrading its muon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-05-18 Stephen D. Butalla , Marcus Hohlmann

Muon accelerators offer an attractive option for a range of future particle physics experiments. They can enable high energy (TeV+) high energy lepton colliders whilst mitigating the difficulty of synchrotron losses, and can provide intense…

The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab seeks to measure the muon magnetic moment anomaly, $a_\mu =(g-2)/2$, with a final target precision of 0.14 parts-per-million (ppm). The experiment's initial result, published in 2021 using Run 1 data from…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-27 Estifa'a Zaid

Conceptual design studies are underway for muon colliders and other high-current muon storage rings that have the potential to become the first true ``neutrino factories''. Muon decays in long straight sections of the storage rings would…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-28 I. Bigi , T. Bolton , J. Formaggio , D. A. Harris , B. Kayser , B. J. King , K. S. McFarland , J. Morfin , A. A. Petrov , H. Schellman , R. Shrock , P. G. Spentzouris , M. Velasco , J. Yu

We calculate the corrections for constant radial magnetic field in muon g--2 and electric-dipole-moment experiments in storage rings. While the correction is negligible for the current generation of g--2 experiments, it affects the upcoming…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-10-27 Alexander J. Silenko

Fermilab carries out an extensive program of accelerator-based high energy particle physics research at the Intensity Frontier that relies on the operation of 8 GeV and 120 GeV proton beamlines for a number of fixed target experiments.…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-05-15 Vladimir Shiltsev

These lectures form a personal, and not necessarily comprehensive, survey of physics at the Fermilab Tevatron proton-antiproton collider. They cover detectors, analysis issues, and physics prospects for the current Tevatron run. (Version 2…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 John Womersley

We report the test of many of the key elements of the laser-based calibration system for muon g - 2 experiment E989 at Fermilab. The test was performed at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati's Beam Test Facility using a 450 MeV electron…

The Muon g-2 Experiment (E989) at Fermilab measures the muon magnetic anomaly, aiming to resolve the greater than 3$\sigma$ discrepancy between the previous measurement and the Standard Model calculation with an improved precision of 140…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-10 Ran Hong

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for the charged-lepton flavor-violating process of a neutrino less muon-to-electron decay in the presence of a nucleus. The experiment expects a single-event sensitivity of $2.9\times10^{-17}$,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-03 Hannah Woodward

After a hiatus of almost 6 years and an extensive upgrade, Tevatron, the world largest proton--antiproton collider, has resumed the operation for the so called RUN II. In this paper we give a brief overview of the many new features of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-08-31 M. Rescigno

A precision measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment, $a_{\mu} = (g-2)/2$, was previously performed at BNL with a result of 2.2 - 2.7 standard deviations above the Standard Model (SM) theoretical calculations. The same experimental…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-01-30 C. Yoshikawa , A. Leveling , N. V. Mokhov , J. Morgan , D. Neuffer , S. Striganov

The precise measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment $a_\mathrm{\mu}$ has stimulated much theoretical and experimental efforts over more than six decades. The last experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-25 Martin Fertl