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A second harmonic RF cavity which uses perpendicularly biased garnet for frequency tuning is currently being constructed for use in the Fermilab Booster. The cavity will operate at twice the fundamental RF frequency, from ~76 - 106 MHz, and…

The Booster Neutrino Experiment (MiniBooNE) searches for numu-to-nue oscillations using the O(1 GeV) neutrino beam produced by the Booster synchrotron at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL). The Booster delivers protons with 8…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-05-29 MiniBooNE Collaboration

The development of magnetic cogging is part of the Fermilab Booster upgrade within the Proton Improvement Plan (PIP). The Booster is going to send 2.25E17 protons/hour which is almost double the present flux, 1.4E17 protons/hour to the Main…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-02-03 K. Seiya , S. Chaurize , C. Drennan , W. Pellico , A. K. Triplett , A. Waller

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

The Main Injector is a new rapid cycling accelerator at Fermilab which is a source of protons to be used in antiproton production to enhance the luminosity of the Tevatron Collider and to provide extracted beams for use in a range of fixed…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Hugh E. Montgomery

The Long Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) will produce the worlds most intense neutrino beam. Three series connected magnetic horns will require 5kV, 300kA, 800$\mu$s pulses at a rate of 0.7Hz to focus the beam. Fermilab has designed and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-07-07 C. C. Jensen , T. Omark , H. Pfeffer , K. Roon , J. Hugyik , B. Morris

The Short-Baseline Neutrino, or SBN, program consists of three liquid argon time projection chamber detectors located along the Booster Neutrino Beam at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Its main goals include searches for new…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-01-08 Pedro A. N. Machado , Ornella Palamara , David W. Schmitz

Project-X is a proposed project to be built at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory with several potential missions. A primary part of the Project-X accelerator chain is a Superconducting linac, and In October 2009 a workshop was held to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-02-02 J. Galambos , R. Garoby , S. Geer

Project-X is the proposed high intensity proton facility to be built at Fermilab, US. Its Superconducting Linac, to be used at first stage of acceleration, will be operated in continuous wave (CW) mode. The Linac is divided into three…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-02-27 A. Saini , K. Ranjan , N. Solyak , S. Mishra , V. Yakovlev

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

Long baseline neutrino oscillation physics in the U.S. is centered at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), in particular at the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beamline commissioned in 2004-2005. Already, the MINOS…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Sacha E. Kopp

The Warm Front End (WFE) of the Proton Improvement Plan II Injector Test at Fermilab has been constructed to its full length. It includes a 15-mA DC, 30-keV H- ion source, a 2 m-long Low Energy Beam Transport (LEBT) with a switching dipole…

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

We discuss in detail the physics reach of an experimental set-up where electron neutrinos (anti-neutrinos) produced in a beta-beam facility at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) are sent, over a distance of L~1300km, to the Deep…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Patrick Huber

The Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) will utilize a neutrino beamline facility located at Fermilab. The facility is designed to aim a beam of neutrinos toward a detector placed at the Deep Underground Science and Engineering…

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

Presently large efforts are conducted towards the development of highly brilliant gamma beams via Compton back scattering of photons from a high-brilliance electron beam, either on the basis of a normal-conducting electron linac or a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-27 C. Hugenschmidt , K. Schreckenbach , D. Habs , P. G. Thirolf

At the end of its operations in 2011, the Fermilab antiproton production complex consisted of a sophisticated target system, three 8-GeV storage rings (namely the Debuncher, the Accumulator and the Recycler), 25 independent multi-GHz…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-08-05 Sergei Nagaitsev

The Integrable Optics Test Accelerator (IOTA) at the Fermilab Accelerator Science & Technology (FAST) Facility is beginning operations, with an experimental program aimed at developing technology to enable future high intensity particle…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-03-15 Ben Freemire , Jeffrey Eldred

Modernizing the Fermilab accelerator control system is essential to future operations of the laboratory's accelerator complex. The existing control system has evolved over four decades and uses hardware that is no longer available and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-01-05 D. Finstrom , E. Gottschalk