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In the framework of the Eupraxia Design Study an advanced accelerator facility EUPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB has been proposed to be realized at Frascati (Italy) Laboratories of INFN. Two advanced acceleration schemes will be applied, namely an…

The Fermilab Linac delivers 400MeV, 25mA H$^-$; beam. The longitudinal bunch parameters are reconstructed using a Bunch Shape Monitor (BSM) installed in the middle of the Linac. For that, the bunch length is measured as a function of the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 R. Sharankova , J-P. Carneiro , E. Chen , A. Shemyakin

Fermilab is developing a compact superconducting CSRF accelerator as a source of a high-power, high-energy electron beam to produce an x-ray beam comparable to $\geq$ 2 MCi of cobalt-60. As part of this development, we are presently…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 Thomas K. Kroc

The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) Linac accepts 750 keV H- ions from the front end and accelerates them to 400 MeV for injection into the Booster rapid cycling synchrotron. Day-to-day drifts in the beam longitudinal…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 R. Sharankova , A. Shemyakin , S. Rego

The first phase of the HIE-ISOLDE project at CERN consists of a superconducting (SC) linac upgrade in order to increase the energy of post-accelerated radioactive ion beams from 2.8 MeV/u to over 10 MeV/u (for A/q = 4.5). In preparation for…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 M. A. Fraser , M. Pasini , R. M. Jones , D. Voulot

The planned neutrino program at Fermilab requires large proton beam intensities in excess of 2 MW. Measuring the transverse profiles of these high intensity beams is challenging and often depends on non-invasive techniques. One such…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-11-09 R. Thurman-Keup , M. Alvarez , J. Fitzgerald , C. Lundberg , P. Prieto , M. Roberts , J. Zagel , W. Blokland

The beam-profile diagnostics station prototype for the superconducting rf electron linac being constructed at Fermilab at the New Muon Lab has been tested. The station uses intercepting radiation converter screens for the low-power beam…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-08-22 A. Lumpkin , R. Flora , A. S. Johnson , J. Ruan , J. Santucci , V. Scarpine , Y. -E. Sun , R. Thurman-Keup , M. Church , M. Wendt

The PIP-II project is a program to upgrade the Fermilab accelerator complex. The PIP-II linac includes a 2.1 MeV Medium Energy Beam Transport (MEBT) section that incorporates a unique chopping system to perform arbitrary, bunch-by-bunch…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-06-25 G. Saewert , M. H. Awida , B. E. Chase , A. Chen , J. Einstein-Curtis , D. Frolov , K. Martin , H. Pfeffer , D. Wolff , S. Khole , D. Sharma

New high current accelerator facilities like proposed for HIDIF or ESS require a beam with a high brilliance. These beams can not be produced by a single pass rf-linac. The increase in brightness in such a driver linac is done by several…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Zimmermann

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 PIP2IT accelerator was assembled in multiple stages in 2014 - 2021 to test concepts and components of the future PIP-II linac that is being constructed at Fermilab. In its final configuration, PIP2IT accelerated a 0.55 ms x 20 Hz x 2 mA…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-09-08 A. Shemyakin

A dielectric-loaded linac powered by THz-pulses is one of the key parts of the "Attosecond X-ray Science: Imaging and Spectroscopy" (AXSIS) project at DESY, Hamburg. As in conventional accelerators, the AXSIS linac is designed to have phase…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 K. Galaydych , R. Assmann , U. Dorda , B. Marchetti , G. Vashchenko , I. Zagorodnov

The Fermilab High Intensity Neutrino Source program has built and commissioned a pulsed 325 MHz RFQ. The RFQ has successfully accelerated a proton beam at the RFQ design RF power. Experiences encountered during RFQ conditioning, including…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-02-09 R. C. Webber , T. Khabiboulline , R. Madrak , G. Romanov , V. Scarpine , J. Steimel , D. Wildman

The U.S. Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) report encouraged the realization of Fermilab's Proton Improvement Plan II (PIP-II) to support future neutrino programs in the United States. PIP-II aims at enhancing the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 A. Vivoli

This paper describes simulation analyses on beam and laser (X-ray)-driven accelerations in effective nanotube models obtained from Vsim and EPOCH codes. Experimental setups to detect wakefields are also outlined with accelerator facilities…

Here, we introduce Linac_Gen, a tool developed at Fermilab, which combines machine learning algorithms with Particle-in-Cell methods to advance beam dynamics in linacs. Linac_Gen employs techniques such as Random Forest, Genetic Algorithms,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Abhishek Pathak

Fermilab is executing a technology development program to develop a compact yet powerful electron accelerator. We are leveraging R&D breakthroughs in SRF cavities, cost-effective radio-frequency sources, modern cryo-coolers, and high…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-02-17 Jayakar Thangaraj

The HIE-ISOLDE project represents a major upgrade of the ISOLDE nuclear facility with a mandate to significantly improve the quality and increase the intensity and energy of radioactive nuclear beams produced at CERN. The project will…

The Fermilab booster has an intensity upgrade plan called the Proton Improvement plan (PIP). The flux throughput goal is 2E17 protons/hour, which is almost double the current operation at 1.1E17 protons/hour. The beam loss in the machine is…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-01-31 K. Seiya , J. Lackey , W. Marsh , W. Pellico , D. Still , K. Triplet , A. Waller

The Fermilab Linac delivers 400 MeV H- beam to the rest of the accelerator chain. Providing stable intensity, energy, and emittance is key since it directly affects downstream machines. To operate high current beam, accelerators must…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 R. Sharankova , M. Mwaniki , K. Seiya , M. Wesley