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The FAIR[1] facility is an international accelerator centre for research with ion and antiproton beams. It is being built at Darmstadt, Germany as an extension to the current GSI research institute. One major part of the facility will be…

Flat beams -- beams with asymmetric transverse emittances -- have important applications in novel light-source concepts, advanced-acceleration schemes and could possibly alleviate the need for damping rings in lepton colliders. Over the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 J. Zhu , P. Piot , D. Mihalcea , C. R. Prokop

The NOvA long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment is currently under construction and will use an upgraded NuMI neutrino source at Fermilab and a 14-kton detector at Ash River, Minnesota to explore the neutrino sector. NOvA uses a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-11-22 R. B. Patterson

Colorado State University (CSU) and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) have been developing a control system to regulate the resonant frequency of an RF electron gun. As part of this effort, we present initial test results for…

We present a status update on the dedicated R\&D facility SINBAD which is currently under construction at DESY. The facility will host multiple independent experiments on the acceleration of ultra-short electron bunches and novel, high…

Accelerator radio frequency (RF) technology has been and remains critical for modern high energy physics (HEP) experiments based on particle accelerators. Tremendous progress in advancing this technology has been achieved over the past…

A 2.1 MeV, 10 mA CW RFQ has been installed and commissioned at Fermilab's test accelerator known as PIP-II Injector Test. This report describes the measurements of the beam properties after acceleration in the RFQ, including the energy and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-09-25 A. Shemyakin , J. -P. Carneiro , B. Hanna , L. Prost , A. Saini , V. Scarpine , V. L. S. Sista , J. Steimel

This article is a short summary of the talk presented at 2014 Instrumentation Conference in Novosibirsk about Fermilab's experimental program and future plans. It includes brief description of the P5 long term planning progressing in US as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-22 Dmitri Denisov

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

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 2018-03-06 R. Thurman-Keup , M. Alvarez , J. Fitzgerald , C. Lundberg , P. Prieto , J. Zagel , W. Blokland

The Proton Improvement Plan phase II (PIP-II) project currently under construction at FNAL will replace the existing 400 MeV normal conducting linac with a new 800 MeV superconducting linac. The beam power in the downstream rapid-cycling…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 J. -F. Ostiguy , C. M. Bhat

The Fermilab Linac is a roughly 145 meter linear accelerator that accelerates H- beam from 750 keV to 400 MeV and provides beam for the Booster and the rest of the accelerator chain. The first section of the Linac is a Drift-Tube Linac…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-05-25 J. Stanton , R. Sharankova , K. Seiya , M. Wesley

The Fermilab Accelerator Science and Technology (FAST) Facility at FNAL is a dedicated research and development center focused on advancing particle accelerator technologies for future applications worldwide. Currently, a key objective of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Daniel R. MacLean , Dean R. Edstrom

This paper investigates the feasibility of re-purposing the MuCool Test Area (MTA) beamline and experimental hall to support a Muon Spin Resonance (MuSR) facility, which would make it the only such facility in the US. This report reviews…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 John A. Johnstone , Carol Johnstone

Results from commissioning and first year of operations of the cryogenic system of the Short-Baseline Neutrino Detector (SBND) and its membrane cryostat installed at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory are described. The SBND detector…

This review paper describes the energy-upgraded CEBAF accelerator. This superconducting linac has achieved 12 GeV beam energy by adding 11 new high-performance cryomodules containing eighty-eight superconducting cavities that have operated…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 P. A. Adderley , S. Ahmed , T. Allison , R. Bachimanchi , K. Baggett , M. BastaniNejad , B. Bevins , M. Bevins , M. Bickley , R. M. Bodenstein , S. A. Bogacz , M. Bruker , A. Burrill , L. Cardman , J. Creel , Y. -C. Chao , G. Cheng , G. Ciovati , S. Chattopadhyay , J. Clark , W. A. Clemens , G. Croke , E. Daly , G. K. Davis , J. Delayen , S. U. De Silva , R. Dickson , M. Diaz , M. Drury , L. Doolittle , D. Douglas , E. Feldl , J. Fischer , A. Freyberger , V. Ganni , R. L. Geng , C. Ginsburg , J. Gomez , J. Grames , J. Gubeli , J. Guo , F. Hannon , J. Hansknecht , L. Harwood , J. Henry , C. Hernandez-Garcia , S. Higgins , D. Higinbotham , A. S. Hofler , T. Hiatt , J. Hogan , C. Hovater , A. Hutton , C. Jones , K. Jordan , M. Joyce , R. Kazimi , M. Keesee , M. J. Kelley , C. Keppel , A. Kimber , L. King , P. Kjeldsen , P. Kneisel , J. Koval , G. A. Krafft , G. Lahti , T. Larrieu , R. Lauze , C. Leemann , R. Legg , R. Li , F. Lin , D. Machie , J. Mammosser , K. Macha , K. Mahoney , F. Marhauser , B. Mastracci , J. Matalevich , J. McCarter , M. McCaughan , L. Merminga , R. Michaud , V. Morozov , C. Mounts , J. Musson , R. Nelson , W. Oren , R. B. Overton , G. Palacios-Serrano , H. -K. Park , L. Phillips , S. Philip , F. Pilat , T. Plawski , M. Poelker , P. Powers , T. Powers , J. Preble , T. Reilly , R. Rimmer , C. Reece , H. Robertson , Y. Roblin , C. Rode , T. Satogata , D. J. Seidman , A. Seryi , A. Shabalina , I. Shin , R. Slominski , C. Slominski , M. Spata , D. Spell , J. Spradlin , M. Stirbet , M. L. Stutzman , S. Suhring , K. Surles-Law , R. Suleiman , C. Tennant , H. Tian , D. Turner , M. Tiefenback , O. Trofimova , A. -M. Valente , H. Wang , Y. Wang , K. White , C. Whitlatch , T. Whitlatch , M. Wiseman , M. J. Wissman , G. Wu , S. Yang , B. Yunn , S. Zhang , Y. Zhang

Investigations of the laser-induced microbunching as it is related to time-sliced electron-beam diagnostics and high-gain-harmonic generation (HGHG) free-electron lasers using bright electron beams are proposed for the ASTA facility.…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-08-28 A. H. Lumpkin , J. Ruan , J. M. Byrd , R. B. Wilcox

Radio Frequency (RF) power studies are in progress following the cryogenic commissioning of Cryomodule #1 (CM1) at Fermilab's Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) Accelerator Test Facility. These studies are complemented by the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-07-04 M. W. McGee , E. Harms , A. Klebaner , J. Leibfritz , A. Martinez , Y. Pischalnikov , W. Schappert

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

Many modern and most future accelerators rely on precise configuration of lattice and trajectory. The Integrable Optics Test Accelerator (IOTA) at Fermilab that is coming to final stages of construction will be used to test advanced…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-05-10 A. Romanov