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High-power particle production targets are crucial elements of future neutrino and other rare particle beams. Fermilab plans to produce a beam of neutrinos (LBNE) with a 2.3 MW proton beam (Project X). Any solid target is unlikely to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-08-14 P. Hurh , O. Caretta , T. Davenne , C. Densham , P. Loveridge , N. Simos

We report on the status of the Fermilab accelerator complex, including recent performance, upgrades in progress, and plans for the future. Beam delivery to the neutrino experiments surpassed our goals for the past year. The Proton…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 M. E. Convery

Fermilab is dedicated to hosting world-class experiments in search of new physics that will operate in the coming years. The Muon g-2 Experiment is one such experiment that will determine with unprecedented precision the muon anomalous…

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

Fermilab is planning the construction of a prototype front end of the Project X linac. The Project X Injector Experiment (PXIE) is expected to accelerate 1 mA cw H- beam up to 30 MeV. Some of the major goals of the project are to test a cw…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-01-30 V. A. Lebedev , A. V. Shemyakin , J. Steimel , M. Wendt , B. M. Hanna , L. R. Prost , V. E. Scarpine

The eventual prospect of muon colliders reaching several TeV encourages us to consider the experimental opportunities presented by very copious stores of muons, approaching $10^{21}$ per year. I summarize and comment upon some highlights of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Chris Quigg

Charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) is expected in a diverse set of new physics scenarios. The current generation of experiments probe CLFV in the muon sector in three complementary channels: $\mu^-N \rightarrow e^- N$ (Mu2e, COMET),…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-28 Sophie Middleton

We sketch a staged plan for a series of muon-based facilities that can do compelling physics at each stage. Such a plan is unique in its ability to span both the Intensity and Energy Frontiers as defined by the P5 sub-panel of the US High…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Daniel M. Kaplan

In response to the growing interest in building a Neutrino Factory to produce high intensity beams of electron- and muon-neutrinos and antineutrinos, in October 1999 the Fermilab Directorate initiated two six-month studies. The first study,…

We outline in detail a staging scenario for realizing the Neutrino Factory and the Muon Collider. As a first stage we envisage building an intense proton source that can be used to perform high intensity conventional neutrino beam…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-17 Rajendran Raja , D. Cline , J. Gallardo , S. Geer , D. Kaplan , K. McDonald , R. Palmer , A. Sessler , A. N. Skrinsky , D. Summers , M. Tigner , A. Tollestrup , J. Wurtele , M. Zisman

The next generation of accelerators for Megawatt proton and heavy-ion beams moves us into a completely new domain of extreme specific energies of up to 0.1 MJ/g (Megajoule/gram) and specific power up to 1 TW/g (Terawatt/gram) in beam…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 N. V. Mokhov , S. R. Childress , A. I. Drozhdin , V. S. Pronskikh , D. Reitzner , I. S. Tropin , K. Vaziri

The Booster Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab is preparing to search for muon to electron neutrino oscillations. The experiment is designed to make a conclusive statement about LSND's neutrino oscillation evidence. The experimental prospects…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew O. Bazarko

To date, the 120 GeV Fermilab Main Injector accelerator has accelerated a single batch of protons from the 8 GeV rapid-cycling Booster synchrotron for production of antiprotons for Run II. In the future, the Main Injector must accelerate 6…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Zwaska , S. Kopp , W. Pellico , R. Webber

A multi-laboratory collaboration is studying the feasibility of building a muon collider, the first phase of which maybe a neutrino factory. The phase space occupied by the muons is very large and needs to be cooled several orders of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Moretti , N. Holtkamp , T. Jurgens , Z. Qian , V. Wu

Muon colliders and neutrino factories are attractive options for future facilities aimed at achieving the highest lepton-antilepton collision energies and precision measurements of parameters of the Higgs boson and the neutrino mixing…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Daniel M. Kaplan

Muon colliders and neutrino factories are attractive options for future facilities aimed at achieving the highest lepton-antilepton collision energies and precision measurements of Higgs boson and neutrino mixing matrix parameters. The…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Daniel M. Kaplan

Project-X is a leading candidate of the next major accelerator construction project at Fermilab. The mission need of Project-X is to establish an intensity frontier for particle physics research, or more precisely, to build a multi-MW…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-12-16 W. Chou

One of the fundamental challenges for future leptonic colliders and neutrino factories as well as for high-sensitivity studies of lepton universality is to design and construct new high-intensity sources of muons and positrons. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-10-18 Armen Apyan , Mieczyslaw Witold Krasny , Wiesław Płaczek

The nuSTORM facility has been designed to deliver beams of electron neutrinos and muon neutrinos (and their anti-particles) from the decay of a stored muon beam with a central momentum of 3.8 GeV/c and a momentum acceptance of 10%. The…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-03-20 D. Adey , S. K. Agarwalla , C. M. Ankenbrandt , R. Asfandiyarov , J. J. Back , G. Barker , E. Baussan , R. Bayes , S. Bhadra , V. Blackmore , A. Blondel , S. A. Bogacz , C. Booth , S. B. Boyd , A. Bravar , S. J. Brice , A. D. Bross , F. Cadoux , H. Cease , A. Cervera , J. Cobb , D. Colling , P. Coloma , L. Coney , A. Dobbs , J. Dobson , A. Donini , P. Dornan , M. Dracos , F. Dufour , R. Edgecock , J. Evans , M. Geelhoed , M. A. George , T. Ghosh , J. J. Gomez-Cadenas , A. de Gouvea , A. Haesler , G. Hanson , P. F. Harrison , M. Hartz , P. Hernandez , J. A. Hernando Morata , P. Hodgson , P. Huber , A. Izmaylov , Y. Karadzhov , T. Kobilarcik , J. Kopp , L. Kormos , A. Korzenev , Y. Kuno , A. Kurup , P. Kyberd , J. B. Lagrange , A. Laing , A. Liu , J. M. Link , K. Long , K. Mahn , C. Mariani , C. Martin , J. Martin , N. McCauley , K. T. McDonald , O. Mena , S. R. Mishra , N. Mokhov , J. Morfin , Y. Mori , W. Murray , D. Neuffer , R. Nichol , E. Noah , M. A. Palmer , S. Parke , S. Pascoli , J. Pasternak , M. Popovic , P. Ratoff , M. Ravonel , M. Rayner , S. Ricciardi , C. Rogers , P. Rubinov , E. Santos , A. Sato , T. Sen , E. Scantamburlo , J. K. Sedgbeer , D. R. Smith , P. J. Smith , J. T. Sobczyk , L. Soby , F. J. P. Soler , S. Soldner-Rembold , M. Sorel , P. Snopok , P. Stamoulis , L. Stanco , S. Striganov , H. A. Tanaka , I. J. Taylor , C. Touramanis , C. D. Tunnell , Y. Uchida , N. Vassilopoulos , M. O. Wascko , A. Weber , M. J. Wilking , E. Wildner , W. Winter , U. K. Yang

One of the future multi-MW accelerators is the LBNE Experiment where Fermilab aims to produce a beam of neutrinos with a 2.3 MW proton beam as part of a suite of experiments associated with Project X. Specifically, the LBNE Neutrino Beam…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-08-28 N. Simos , J. O. Conor , P. Hurh , N. Mokhov , Z. Kotsina