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The Fermilab Proton Improvement Plan II, or PIP-II, would enable the world's most intense high-energy neutrino beam and would help scientists search for rare particle physics processes. The PIP-II goal is to deliver 1.2 MW of proton beam…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Sergei Nagaitsev , Valeri Lebedev

The Proton Improvement Plan II (PIP-II) at Fermilab is a program of upgrades to the injection complex. At its core is the design and construction of a CW-compatible, pulsed H- superconducting RF linac. To validate the concept of the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-11-05 L. Prost , M. Alvarez , R. Andrews , J. -P. Carneiro , B. Hanna , V. Scarpine , A. Shemyakin , R. D'Arcy , C. Wiesner

As the main $H^{-}$ ion source for the accelerator complex, magnetron ion sources have been used at Fermilab since the 1970s. At the offline test stand, new R&D is carried out to develop and upgrade the present magnetron-type sources of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 A. Sosa , D. S. Bollinger , P. R. Karns , C. Y. Tan

The Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) facility at Fermilab is under construction and due to begin operations in late 2004. NuMI will deliver an intense $\nu_{\mu}$ beam of variable energy 2-20 GeV directed into the Earth at 58 mrad.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Sacha E. Kopp

The Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) will utilize a neutrino beamline facility located at Fermilab to carry out a compelling research program in neutrino physics. The facility will aim a beam of neutrinos toward a detector placed at…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-01-30 R. Andrews , A. Z. Chen , S. C. Childress , C. D. Moore , V. Papadimitriou , M. R. Campbell

Fermilab's Superconducting RF Beam Test Facility currently under construction will produce electron beams capable of damaging the acceleration structures and the beam line vacuum chambers in the event of an aberrant accelerator pulse. The…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-10-01 A. Warner , L. Carmichael , M. Church , R. Neswold

The Project X Injector Experiment (PXIE), a test bed for the Project X front end, will be completed at Fermilab at FY12-16. One of the challenging goals of PXIE is demonstration of the capability to form a 1 mA H- beam with an arbitrary…

A superconducting RF accelerator test facility is being constructed at Fermilab. The existing New Muon Lab (NML) building is being converted for this facility. The accelerator will consist of an electron gun, injector, beam acceleration…

Fermilab operates the world's most intense antiproton source. Newly proposed experiments can use those antiprotons either parasitically during Tevatron Collider running or after the end of the Tevatron Collider program. For example, the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Daniel M. Kaplan

With the planned turn-on of the PIP-II 800 MeV superconducting proton linac, Fermilab will potentially become the world's best laboratory at which to carry out fundamental muon measurements, sensitive searches for symmetry violation, and…

Investigation of neutrino oscillations and rare meson decays are main physics goals of Project X. The successful physics outcome relies on the feasibility of high-intensity neutrino and meson (K+ and \mu) beams. In order to meet this goal…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-05-09 Henryk Piekarz

The Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) facility at Fermilab began operations in late 2004. NuMI will deliver an intense muon neutrino beam of variable energy (2-20 GeV) directed into the Earth at 58 mrad for short (~1km) and long…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sacha E. Kopp

Fermilab has had a very active long baseline neutrino program since initiation of the NuMI project in 1998. Commissioned in 2005, the NuMI beam with 400 kW design power has been in operation for the MINOS neutrino oscillation program since…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 S. Childress , J. Strait

At the end of its operations in 2011, the Fermilab antiproton production complex consisted of a sophisticated target system, three 8-GeV storage rings (namely the Debuncher, the Accumulator and the Recycler), 25 independent multi-GHz…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-08-05 Sergei Nagaitsev

A staged approach towards muon based facilities for Intensity and Energy Frontier science, building upon existing and proposed facilities at Fermilab, is presented. At each stage, a facility exploring new physics also provides an R&D…

The Fermilab Proton-Improvement-Plan-II (PIP-II) is being implemented in order to support the precision neutrino oscillation measurements at the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, the U.S. flagship neutrino experiment. The PIP-II LINAC…

The Main Injector is a new rapid cycling accelerator at Fermilab which is a source of protons to be used in antiproton production to enhance the luminosity of the Tevatron Collider and to provide extracted beams for use in a range of fixed…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Hugh E. Montgomery

We propose a new high-resolution neutrino experiment within a dipole magnetic field, HiResM$\nu$. This experiment will run along with long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments (LBL$\nu$) such as NO$\nu$A, a large-cavity detector at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-04-14 S. R. Mishra , R. Petti , C. Rosenfeld

Fermilab is committed to upgrade its accelerator complex to support HEP experiments at the intensity frontier. The ongoing Proton Improvement Plan (PIP) enables us to reach 700 kW beam power on the NuMI neutrino targets. By the end of the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-04-27 C. M. Bhat

Over the past decade, Fermilab has focused efforts on the intensity frontier physics and is committed to increase the average beam power delivered to the neutrino and muon programs substantially. Many upgrades to the existing injector…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-10-29 C. M. Bhat