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Starting this summer, Fermilab will host a key experiment dedicated to the search for signals of new physics: The Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment. Its aim is to precisely measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. In full operation, in…

The Fermilab High Intensity Neutrino Source program has built and commissioned a pulsed 325 MHz RFQ. The RFQ has successfully accelerated a proton beam at the RFQ design RF power. Experiences encountered during RFQ conditioning, including…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-02-09 R. C. Webber , T. Khabiboulline , R. Madrak , G. Romanov , V. Scarpine , J. Steimel , D. Wildman

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is constructing an Advanced Accelerator Research and Development facility at New Muon Lab. The cryogenic infrastructure in support of the initial phase of the facility consists of two Tevatron style…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-09-13 A. Martinez , A. L. Klebaner , J. C. Theilacker , B. D. DeGraff , M. White , G. S. Johnson

A CW-compatible, pulsed H- superconducting linac is envisaged as a possible path for upgrading Fermilab's injection complex. To validate the concept of the front- end of such a machine, a test accelerator (a.k.a. PXIE) is under…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-02-06 A. Shemyakin , M. Alvarez , R. Andrews , C. Baffes , A. Chen , B. Hanna , L. Prost , G. Saewert , V. Scarpine , J. Steimel , D. Sun , D. Li , R. D'Arcy

The Fermilab booster has an intensity upgrade plan called the Proton Improvement plan (PIP). The flux throughput goal is 2E17 protons/hour which is almost double the current operation at 1.1E17 protons/hour. The beam loss in the machine is…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-01-31 K. Seiya , C. Drennan , W. A. Pellico , K. Triplett , A. Waller

MiniBooNE is preparing to search for nu_mu to nu_e oscillations at Fermilab. The experiment is designed to make a conclusive statement about LSND's neutrino oscillation evidence. We give a status report on the preparation of the experiment…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrew Bazarko

Project X is a multi-megawatt proton facility being developed to support intensity frontier research in elementary particle physics, with possible applications to nuclear physics and nuclear energy research, at Fermilab. The centerpiece of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-08-29 S. Nagaitsev

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

We propose a 3500 ton (3000 ton fiducial volume) SiO_2 neutrino detector with sampling calorimetry, charged particle tracking, and muon spectrometers to run in a Tevatron Fixed Target Program. Improvements to the Fermilab accelerator…

The Fermilab Muon Campus will host the Muon g-2 experiment - a world class experiment dedicated to the search for signals of new physics. Strict demands are placed on beam diagnostics in order to ensure delivery of high quality beams to the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 D. Stratakis , B. Drendel , M. J. Syphers

One consequence of the application of superconductivity to accelerator construction is that the power consumption of accelerators will become much smaller. This raises the old possibility of using high energy protons to make neutrons which…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2010-08-02 R. R. Wilson

The D0 detector at Fermilab is in the final stages of an extensive upgrade. It is designed to meet the demands imposed by high luminosity Tevatron running planned to begin March 2001. The design and performance of the detector subsystems…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-09-25 John Ellison

This is an updated version of the NOvA proposal. The detector is a 30 kiloton tracking calorimeter, 15.7 m by 15.7 m by 132 m long, with alternating horizontal and vertical rectangular cells of liquid scintillator contained in PVC extrusion…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 The NOvA Collaboration , D. Ayres

NOvA is a next generation neutrino oscillation experiment designed to search for muon neutrino to electron neutrino oscillations by comparing electron neutrino event rates in a Near Detector at Fermilab with the rates observed in a large…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Gavin S. Davies

The D0 detector at The Fermilab Tevatron is undergoing a major upgrade to prepare for data taking with luminosities reaching 2 x 10^{32} cm^{-2} s^{-1}. The upgrade includes a new central tracking array, new muon detector components and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Petroff

The intensity of charged particle beams at Fermilab must be kept within pre-determined safety and operational envelopes in part by assuring all beam within a few percent has been transported from any source to destination. Beam intensity…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-09-25 J. Crisp , B. Fellenz , J. Fitzgerald , D. Heikkinen , M. A. Ibrahim

The following document provides a comprehensive look into the past, present, and future of Timing at Fermilab. By including historical context with technical implementation, this document seeks to help the reader gain a broader…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Evan Milton , Mark Austin , Dan McArthur

The Integrable Optics Test Accelerator (IOTA) is a storage ring for advanced beam physics research currently being built and commissioned at Fermilab. It will operate with protons and electrons using injectors with momenta of 70 and 150…

The Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) will utilize a beamline facility located at Fermilab to carry out a compelling research program in neutrino physics. The facility will aim a wide band beam of neutrinos toward a detector placed…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-02-06 V. Papadimitriou , R. Andrews , J. Hylen , T. Kobilarcik , A. Marchionni , C. D. Moore , P. Schlabach , S. Tariq

Neutrino beam facilities, like spallation neutron facilities, produce copious quantities of neutrinos from the decay at rest of mesons and muons. The viability of decay-in-flight neutrino beams as sites for decay-at-rest neutrino studies…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-21 C. Grant , B. R. Littlejohn