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The Proton Improvement Plan II (PIP-II) project is an essential upgrade to Fermilab's particle accelerator complex to enable the world's most intense neutrino beam for LBNF/DUNE and a broad particle physics program for many decades to come.…

"LUE200" - 200 MeV electron linac is being created at JINR as a driver of the pulsed neutron source "IREN" [1]. The special full-scale facilities for testing the main systems of LUE-200 (FSTF) are used at JINR, BINP, MEPhI and YerPhI [2].…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-10-05 S. N. Dolya , W. I. Furman , V. V. Kobets , E. M. Laziev , Yu. A. Metelkin , V. A. Shvets , A. P. Soumbaev

The upcoming Proton Improvement Plan-II (PIP-II), designated for enhancements to the Fermilab accelerator complex, features a new 800 MeV superconducting linac and a Beam Transfer Line (BTL) to transport the beam to the existing Booster…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 A. Pathak , O. Napoly , J. -F. Ostiguy

The Fermilab Linac delivers a variable intensity, 400-MeV beam to the The MuCool Test Area experimental hall via a beam line specifically designed to facilitate measurements of the Linac beam emittance and properties. A 10 m,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-01-30 F. G. G. Garcia , C. Johnstone , T. Kobilarcik , G. M. Koizumi , C. D. Moore , D. L. Newhart

Measurements and calculations of the air activation at a high-energy proton accelerator are described. The quantity of radionuclides released outdoors depends on operation scenarios including details of the air exchange inside the facility.…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 I. L. Rakhno , J. Hylen , P. Kasper , N. V. Mokhov , M. Quinn , S. I. Striganov , K. Vaziri

The Advanced Superconducting Test Acccelerator (ASTA) is being constructed at Fermilab. The existing New Muon Lab (NML) building is being converted for this facility. The accelerator will consist of an electron gun, injector, beam…

After a 14 month shutdown accelerator modifications and upgrades are in place to allow us doubling of the Main Injector beam power. We will discuss the past MI high power operation and the current progress towards doubling the power.

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-09-09 I. Kourbanis

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 counter fluctuations of Linac output due to various…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 R. Sharankova , M. Mwaniki , K. Seiya , M. Wesley

The new FNAL 750keV injector upgrade for the replacement of the 40 year old Fermi National Laboratory (FNAL) Cockcroft-Walton accelerators with a new ion source and 200MHz Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ), Low Energy Beam Transport (LEBT)…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 D. S. Bollinger

The Integrable Optics Test Accelerator (IOTA) at Fermilab provides a versatile platform for studying the interplay of space-charge, impedance, and non-linear optics in high-intensity hadron beams within synchrotrons and storage rings. This…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 N. Banerjee , A. Romanov , G. Stancari , M. Wallbank

The potential of muon beams for high energy physics applications is described along with the challenges of producing high quality muon beams. Two proposed approaches for delivering high intensity muon beams, a proton driver source and a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-09-26 Manuela Boscolo , Jean Pierre Delahaye , Mark Palmer

In the last ten years the use of proton beams in radiation therapy has become a clinical tool for treatment of deep-seated tumours. LIBO is a RF compact and low cost proton linear accelerator (SCL type) for hadrontherapy. It is conceived by…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Paolo Berra

DUNE/LBNF constitutes an international multi-decadal physics program for leading-edge neutrino science and proton decay studies [1] and is expected to serve as the flagship particle experiment based at Fermilab.

The Source Development Lab (SDL) at BNL consists of a 230 MeV electron linac and a 10 m long wiggler for short wavelength Free Electronic Laser (FEL) development. The original control system [1] was based on the one in use at the National…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. K. Feng , W. S. Graves , Y. N. Tang

Project X is a multi-megawatt proton facility being developed to support a world-leading program in Intensity Frontier physics at Fermilab. The facility is designed to support programs in elementary particle and nuclear physics, with…

A superconducting RF accelerator test facility is currently under construction at Fermilab. The accelerator will consist of an electron gun, 40 MeV injector, beam acceleration section consisting of 3 TTF-type or ILC-type cryomodules, and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-09-19 M. Church , J. Leibfritz , S. Nagaitsev

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…

Muon-based facilities offer unique potential to provide capabilities at both the Intensity Frontier with Neutrino Factories and the Energy Frontier with Muon Colliders. They rely on a novel technology with challenging parameters, for which…

Part 1 of "Project X: Accelerator Reference Design, Physics Opportunities, Broader Impacts". Part 1 contains the volume Preface and a description of the conceptual design for a high-intensity proton accelerator facility being developed to…

The closed-off structure of the Fermilab Drift Tube Linac precludes a robust array of instrumentation from directly monitoring the H- beam that is accelerated from 750 keV to 116 MeV. To improve beam tuning and operational assessment of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 E. V. Chen , A. L. Saewert , R. V. Sharankova