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The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for the charged lepton flavour violating process of coherent neutrinoless muon-to-electron conversion in the presence of an aluminum nucleus. The muons are produced by an 8 GeV proton beam from…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Z. Liu , J. Williams , A. Makovec , M. Hedges , F. Pellemoine , K. Yonehara , G. Annala , K. Lynch , M. Bloomer , J. Popp , A. Edmonds , J. Miller

Field emission (FE) remains a significant hurdle for achieving optimal performance and reliability in super-conducting radiofrequency (SRF) cavities used in accelerator cryomodules. A thorough understanding of the generation and propagation…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 S. A. K. Wijethunga , A. Sukhanov , O. Napoly , K. McGee

The UNILAC was improved for high current performance by replacing the Wideroe prestripper accelerator by an RFQ and an IH-type DTL. In addition, one of two ion source terminals was equipped with high current sources of MUCIS- and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 L. Dahl , P. Spaedtke

The commissioning of two cryomodule components is underway at Fermilab's Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) Accelerator Test Facility. The research at this facility supports the next generation high intensity linear accelerators such as…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-08-10 M. W. McGee , J. Leibfritz , A. Martinez , Y. Pischalnikov , W. Schappert

A new beam injection scheme is proposed for the Fermilab Booster to increase beam brightness. The beam is injected on the deceleration part of the sinusoidal magnetic ramp and capture is started immediately after the injection. During the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-04-28 C. M. Bhat

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

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2011-12-06 Vaia Papadimitriou

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

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 PROMETHEUS Project is ongoing for the design and development of a 4-vane radio frequency quadrupole (RFQ) together with its H+ ion source, a low energy beam transport (LEBT) line and diagnostics section. The main goal of the project is…

Ionization profile monitors (IPMs) are widely used in accelerators for non-destructive and fast diagnostics of high energy particle beams. Two such monitors - one vertical and one horizontal - are being developed for installation in the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-06-24 H. Piekarz , A. Romanov , R. Thurman-Keup , V. Shiltsev

The High Intensity Proton Accelerator (HIPA) cyclotron at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) delivers 590 MeV CW proton beam with a maximum power of 1.42 MW. After extraction, the beam is transferred in a 120 m long channel towards two target…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 M. Haj Tahar , D. Kiselev , A. Knecht , D. Laube , D. Reggiani , J. Snuverink

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 proton irradiation site for silicon detectors has been developed and commissioned at the Bonn Isochronous Cyclotron. The accelerator provides 14 MeV proton beams of up to 1 $\mu$A at beam widths of a few mm to the setup. Devices Under…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-05-07 Pascal Wolf , Dennis Sauerland , Reinhard Beck , Jochen Dingfelder

The Proton Improvement Plan-II (PIP-II, [1]) linac will include 35 Single Spoke Resonators type 2 (SSR2). A total of eight pre-production SSR2 jacketed cavities will be procured and five installed in the first pre-production cryomodule. The…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 M. Parise , D. Passarelli , P. Berrutti , V. Roger , D. Longuevergne , P. Duchesne

A 3.2 MeV injector has been designed and built for the Darht II Project at Los Alamos Lab. The installation of the complete injector system is nearing completion at this time. The requirements for the injector are to produce a 3.2 MeV, 2000…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Peters , B. Elliott , S. Yu , S. Eylon , E. Henestroza

A high energy beam absorber has been built for the Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator (ASTA) at Fermilab. In the facility's initial configuration, an electron beam will be accelerated through 3 TTF-type or ILC-type RF cryomodules to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-01-24 C. Baffes , M. Church , J. Leibfritz , S. Oplt , I. Rakhno

The Integrable Optics Test Accelerator (IOTA) is proposed for operation at Fermilab. The goal of IOTA is to create practical nonlinear accelerator focusing systems with a large frequency spread and stable particle motion. The IOTA is a 40 m…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-07-04 M. W. McGee , R. Andrews , K. Carlson , J. Leibfritz , L. Nobrega , A. Valishev

We report on the development of the HEC2 (High Energy Compression and Current) charge breeder, a possible high performance successor to REXEBIS at ISOLDE. The new breeder would match the performance of the HIE-ISOLDE linac upgrade and make…

A new Higher Order Mode (HOM) damper was designed and tested for the Booster accelerator cavity at Fermilab. In anticipation of the PIP-II upgrade, it was discovered that the higher beam intensity of PIP-II may cause beam instability due to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Dustin Pieper , Brian Vaughn , Robyn Madrak