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The commissioning of two cryomodule components is underway at Fermilab's Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) Accelerator Test Facility. The research at this facility supports the next generation high intensity linear accelerators such as…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-08-10 M. W. McGee , J. Leibfritz , A. Martinez , Y. Pischalnikov , W. Schappert

This paper describes the concept of a primary electron beam facility at CERN, to be used for dark gauge force and light dark matter searches. The electron beam is produced in three stages: A Linac accelerates electrons from a photo-cathode…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 T. Åkesson , R. Corsini , Y. Dutheil , L. Evans , B. Goddard , A. Grudiev , A. Latina , Y. Papaphilippou , S. Stapnes

Using the China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) linac as the injector, a 500 MeV proton synchrotron is proposed for multidisciplinary application, such as biology, material and proton therapy. The synchrotron will deliver proton beam with…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Liang-Sheng Huang , Sheng Wang , Hong-Fei Ji

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 2011-12-06 Vaia Papadimitriou

High-beta superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) elliptical cavities are being developed for several accelerator projects including Project X, the European XFEL, and the International Linear Collider (ILC). Fermilab has recently established…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-10-23 C. M. Ginsburg

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

In a long-term planning for neutrino experiments in China, a medium baseline neutrino beam is proposed which uses a CW superconducting linac of 15 MW in beam power as the proton driver. The linac will be based on the technologies which are…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-07-14 Zhihui Li , Jingyu Tang

A high-brilliance ($\sim10^{24}$~photon.s$^{-1}$.mm$^{-2}$.mrd$^{-2}$/0.1\%) gamma-ray source experiment is currently being planned at Fermilab ($E_\gamma\simeq 1.1$~MeV)~[1]. The source implements a high-repetition-rate inverse Compton…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 D. Mihalcea , A. Murokh , P. Piot , J. Ruan

This paper reviews the Initial Configuration Document for Fermilab's Project X and considers its possible upgrades for neutrino factory or muon collider.

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-06-28 Valeri Lebedev , Sergei Nagaitsev

PIP-II is an 800 MeV superconducting RF linear accelerator under development at Fermilab. As the new first stage in our accelerator chain, it will deliver high-power beam to multiple experiments simultaneously and thus drive Fermilab's…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Dennis J. Nicklaus , Pierrick Hanlet , Charles King , Daniel McArthur , Richard Neswold

The potential of muon beams for high energy physics applications is described along with the challenges of producing high quality muon beams. Two proposed approaches for delivering high intensity muon beams, a proton driver source and a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-09-26 Manuela Boscolo , Jean Pierre Delahaye , Mark Palmer

The intense neutron source for development of fusion materials planned by international collaboration makes a new step to clarify the technical issues for realizing the 40 MeV, 250 mA deuteron beam facility. The baseline concept employs two…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Sugimoto , M. Kinsho , H. Takeuchi

The High Intensity Proton Accelerator (HIPA) cyclotron at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) delivers 590 MeV CW proton beam with a maximum power of 1.42 MW. After extraction, the beam is transferred in a 120 m long channel towards two target…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 M. Haj Tahar , D. Kiselev , A. Knecht , D. Laube , D. Reggiani , J. Snuverink

Fermilab is currently constructing a superconducting electron linac that will eventually serve as the backbone of a user-driven facility for accelerator science. This contribution describes the accelerator and summarizes the enabled…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 P. Piot , V. Shiltsev , S. Nagaitsev , M. Church , P. Garbincius , S. Henderson , J. Leibfritz

Fermilab's Integrable Optics Test Accelerator is an electron storage ring designed for testing advanced accelerator physics concepts, including implementation of nonlinear integrable beam optics and experiments on optical stochastic…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-01-29 S. Nagaitsev , A. Valishev , V. V. Danilov , D. N. Shatilov

This document describes the concept of a primary electron beam facility at CERN, to be used for dark gauge force and light dark matter searches. The electron beam is produced in three stages: A Linac accelerates electrons from a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-06-01 T. Åkesson , Y. Dutheil , L. Evans , A. Grudiev , Y. Papaphilippou , S. Stapnes

This paper presents an 8 GeV Rapid Cycling Synchrotron (RCS) option for Project X. It has several advantages over an 8 GeV SC linac. In particular, the cost could be lower. With a 2 GeV 10 mA pulsed linac as injector, the RCS would be able…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Weiren Chou

Fermilab has submitted two Snowmass whitepapers on a future 2.4~MW upgrade for DUNE/LBNF featuring a 2 GeV extension of the PIP-II linac and the construction of a new rapid-cycling-synchrotron. This paper summarizes the relationship between…

The Solenoidal Large Intensity Device (SoLID) is a large acceptance spectrometer capable of operating at the luminosity frontier. It is proposed to fully exploit the scientific potential of the continuous electron beam accelerator facility…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-08-30 Zein-Eddine Meziani

A new test stand at FNAL is being constructed to carry out experiments to develop and upgrade the present magnetron-type sources of H- ions of up to 80 mA at 35 keV in the context of the Proton Improvement Plan (PIP). The aim of this plan…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 A. Sosa , D. S. Bollinger , K. Duel , P. Karns , W. Pellico , C. Y. Tan