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The Main Injector (MI) at Fermilab currently produces high-intensity beams of protons at energies of 120 GeV for a variety of physics experiments. Acceleration of polarized protons in the MI would provide opportunities for a rich spin…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-12-29 M. Xiao , W. Lorenzon , C. Aldred

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 intensities and profiles of the muon beam behind the beam dump of the Fermilab test beam area when the facility is running in the "pion" beam mode are measured and summarized in this note. This muon beam with momenta in the range 10 -…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-08-12 Dmitri Denisov , Valery Evdokimov , Strahinja Lukić , Predrag Ujić

Two barrier RF systems were fabricated, tested and installed in the Fermilab Main Injector. Each can provide 8 kV rectangular pulses (the RF barriers) at 90 kHz. When a stationary barrier is combined with a moving barrier, injected beams…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2010-01-18 W. Chou , D. Capista , J. Griffin , K-Y. Ng , D. Wildman

We present the strategy which has been used recently to optimize integrated luminosity at the Fermilab Tevatron proton-antiproton collider. We use a relatively simple model where we keep the proton intensity fixed, use parameters from fits…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-10-09 M. E. Convery

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

During Nova operations it is planned to run the Fermilab Recycler in a 12 batch slip stacking mode. In preparation for this, measurements of the tune during a six batch injection and then as the beam is slipped by changing the RF frequency,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-02-01 D. J. Scott , D. Capista , I. Kourbanis , K. Seiya , M. -J. Yan

The Fermilab accelerator complex delivers intense high-energy proton beams to a variety of fixed-target scientific programs, including a flagship long-baseline neutrino program. With the advent of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Jeffrey Eldred , Valeri Lebedev , Alexander Valishev

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

We are commissioning a 2.5-MeV proton beam for the Integrable Optics Test Accelerator at Fermilab, allowing experiments in the strong space-charge regime with incoherent betatron tune shifts nearing 0.5. Accurate modelling of space-charge…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 N. Banerjee , A. Romanov , M. Wallbank

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 ionization profile monitors (IPMs) are used to measure the beam size in synchrotrons. Both the Fermilab Recycler and Main Injector (MI) machines have IPMs. However, they were not well understood enough to provide confidence in their…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-07-17 B. Babacan , R. Ainsworth , K. J. Hazelwood , D. K Morris , P. Snopok

We have conducted tests at the Fermilab Booster of ionization chambers to be used as monitors of the NuMI neutrino beamline. The chambers were exposed to proton fluxes of up to 10$^{12}$ particles/cm$^2$/1.56$\mu$s. We studied space charge…

The peak current limit for the Fermilab Linac was recently studied. The purpose was to learn what components of the present Linac can be used for the first stage of a proposed proton driver[1]. For this application the Linac must provide a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Popovic , L. Allen , A. Moretti , E. McCrory , C. W. Schmidt , T. Sullivan

The next generation of high-energy physics experiments requires high intensity protons in the multi-GeV energy range for efficient production of secondary beams. The Fermilab long-term future requires an 8 GeV proton source to feed the Main…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-03-09 L. Jenner , C. Johnstone , D. Neuffer , J. Pasternak

A CW-compatible, pulsed H- superconducting linac "PIP-II" is being planned to upgrade Fermilab's injection complex. To validate the front-end concept, a test accelerator (The PIP-II Injector Test, formerly known as "PXIE") is under…

New experiments at Fermilab require higher beam intensities at Booster, resulting in higher influence of magnet steel on the beam. In order to carefully take these effects into account it is necessary to know geometric and material…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2011-12-06 Yury Tokpanov , Valeri Lebedev , William Pellico

In conjunction with efforts to predict residual radiation levels in the Fermilab Main Injector, measurements of residual radiation were correlated with the time history of losses. Detailed examination suggested that the list of radioactive…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-02-06 Bruce C. Brown , Nikolai V. Mokhov , Vitaly S. Pronskikh

The FNAL accelerator complex is poised to reach MW neutrino beams on target for the exploration of the dark sector physics and rare physics program spaces. Future operations of the complex will include CW linac operations at beam…

The proton irradiation accelerator is widely founded for industry application, and should be designed as compact, reliable, and easy operate. A 10 MeV proton beam is designed to be injected into the slow circulation ring with the repetition…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-11-24 Yu-Wen An , Hong-Fei Ji , Sheng Wang , Shou-Yan Xu
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