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The beam properties of low-energy neutrino beams that would be possible at an upgraded 2 MW Fermilab 8 GeV Proton Source are described. In particular three options are considered; (i) a MiniBooNE-like beam using a conventional neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 S. J. Brice , S. Geer , K. Paul , R. Tayloe

The Proton Improvement Plan, Stage Two (PIP-II) is a program of upgrades proposed for the Fermilab injection complex, which central part is an 800 MeV, 2 mA CW SRF linac. A prototype of the PIP-II linac front end called PIP-II Injector Test…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-08-28 A. Shemyakin , J. -P. Carneiro , B. Hanna , V. Lebedev , L. Prost , A. Saini , V. Scarpine , V. L. S. Sista , C. Richard

In order to dissipate long-lived radioactive waste, not only high ux proton accelerator but also electron linac have been proposed. A proton accelerator directly induces nuclear fission and mutation. On the other hand, electron beam has two…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 Y. Kawashima , T. Asaka , H. Ego , M. Hara

This paper will cover several studies and design changes that will eventually be implemented to the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) magnetron ion source. The topics include tungsten cathode insert, solenoid gas valves, current…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 D. S. Bollinger , A. Sosa

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

With the planned turn-on of the PIP-II 800 MeV superconducting proton linac, Fermilab will potentially become the world's best laboratory at which to carry out fundamental muon measurements, sensitive searches for symmetry violation, and…

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

The Intensity Frontier (IF) experiments at Fermilab require computing, software, data handling, and infrastructure development for detector and beamline design and to extract maximum scientific output from the data. The emphasis of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-10-14 Stephen Wolbers

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…

We describe the status of the Main Injector particle production Experiment (MIPP) at Fermilab which has to date acquired 18 million events of particle interactions using (5 GeV/c-120 GeV/c) $\pi^\pm, K^\pm$ and $p^\pm$ beams on various…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Rajendran Raja

The main `bottleneck' limiting the beam power in circular machines is caused by space charge effects that produce beam instabilities. To increase maximally the beam power of a `proton driver', it is proposed to build a facility consisting…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-06-28 Radoje Belusevic

The Long Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) project will build a beamline located at Fermilab to create and aim an intense neutrino beam of appropriate energy range toward the DUNE detectors at the SURF facility in Lead, South Dakota.…

The Booster Operation Optimization Sequential Time-series for Regression (BOOSTR) dataset was created to provide a cycle-by-cycle time series of readings and settings from instruments and controllable devices of the Booster, Fermilab's…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-04-16 Diana Kafkes , Jason St. John

In Fermilab's neutrino facilities such as the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) and the upcoming Long Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF), a proton beam strikes high-power target, producing positively and negatively charged pions and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 D. A. Wickremasinghe , S. Ganguly , K. Yonehara , R. Zwaska , P. Snopok , Y. Yu

Fermilab has had a very active long baseline neutrino program since initiation of the NuMI project in 1998. Commissioned in 2005, the NuMI beam with 400 kW design power has been in operation for the MINOS neutrino oscillation program since…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 S. Childress , J. Strait

In view of a possible evolution of the CERN accelerator complex towards higher proton intensities, a 2.2 GeV H- linac with 4 MW beam power has been designed, for use in connection with an accumulator and compressor ring as proton driver of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Vretenar

Neutrino beam with about 300 MeV in energy, high-flux and medium baseline is considered a rational choice for measuring CP violation before the more powerful Neutrino Factory will be built. Following this concept, a unique neutrino beam…

For Project X Fermilab Main Injector will be required to provide up to 2.3 MW to a neutrino production target at energies between 60 and 120 GeV. To accomplish the above power levels 3 times the current beam intensity will need to be…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-08-17 J. Dey , I. Kourbanis

The Fermilab Booster is a fast ramping (15Hz) synchrotron which accelerates protons from 400MeV to 8GeV. During commissioning of a transverse digital damper system, it was shown that the damper could provide a measurement of the machine…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-09-20 N. Eddy , O. Lysenko

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