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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

The Fermilab Linac accepts the 0.75 MeV H- ions from the front end and accelerates them to 400 MeV for injection into the Booster. Day-to-day drifts of the longitudinal trajectory in the Linac, reconstructed from phase readings of Beam…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Sheldon Rego , Ralitsa Sharankova , Alexander Shemyakin

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 PIP-II Injector Test 1 PIP2IT facility accelerator was assembled in multiple stages in 2014 $-$ 2021 to test concepts and components of the future PIPII linac that is being constructed at Fermilab. In its final configuration, PIP2IT…

In a long-term planning for neutrino experiments in China, a medium baseline neutrino beam is proposed which uses a CW superconducting linac of 15 MW in beam power as the proton driver. The linac will be based on the technologies which are…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-07-14 Zhihui Li , Jingyu Tang

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…

The conception of High Power Linac developed in Russian accelerator centres is based on the use of independently phased SC resonators with quadrupole lenses between them. The type and parameters of the resonators as well as focusing…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kolomiets , S. Yaramishev

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 , J. Lackey , W. Marsh , W. Pellico , D. Still , K. Triplet , A. Waller

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab is being designed to study the coherent neutrino-less conversion of a negative muon into an electron in the field of a nucleus. This process has an extremely low probability in the Standard Model, and its…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 V. Pronskikh , D. Glenzinski , K. Knoepfel , N. Mokhov , R. Tschirhart

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab is being designed to study the coherent neutrino-less conversion of a negative muon into an electron in the field of a nucleus. This process has an extremely low probability in the Standard Model and its…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 V. Pronskikh , D. Glenzinski , N. Mokhov , R. Tschirhart

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 operate high current beam, accelerators must…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 R. Sharankova , M. Mwaniki , K. Seiya , M. Wesley

For the PIP-II Injector Test (PI-Test) at Fermilab, a four-vane radio frequency quadrupole (RFQ) is designed to accelerate a 30-keV, 1-mA to 10-mA, H- beam to 2.1 MeV under both pulsed and continuous wave (CW) RF operation. The available…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 A. L. Edelen , S. G. Biedron , S. V. Milton , D. Bowring , B. E. Chase , J. P. Edelen , D. Nicklaus , J. Steimel

"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 Fermilab Linac is a roughly 145 meter linear accelerator that accelerates H- beam from 750 keV to 400 MeV and provides beam for the Booster and the rest of the accelerator chain. The first section of the Linac is a Drift-Tube Linac…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-05-25 J. Stanton , R. Sharankova , K. Seiya , M. Wesley

PIP-II beam transfer line (BTL) to transport the beam from PIP-II Linac to the Booster ring at Fermilab. One crucial aspect of the BTL design involved the implementation of collimators. These collimators play a vital role in removing large…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 M. Xiao , F. Ostiguy , D. Johnson

The warm front end of the PIP2IT accelerator, assem-bled and commissioned at Fermilab, consists of a 15 mA DC, 30 keV H- ion source, a 2 m long Low Energy Beam Transport (LEBT) line, and a 2.1 MeV, 162.5 MHz CW RFQ, followed by a 10 m long…

The Fermilab accelerator complex delivers intense high-energy proton beams to a variety of fixed-target scientific programs, including a flagship long-baseline neutrino program. With the advent of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Jeffrey Eldred , Valeri Lebedev , Alexander Valishev

Suppression of beam losses is essential for successful operation of high-intensity linac. Historically, the values of the field amplitudes and phases of the side-coupled, 805-MHz LANSCE linac modules are maintained using a well-known…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Y. K. Batygin , F. E. Shelley , H. A. Watkins

The upgrade of the normal conducting (NC) Radioactive Ion Beam EXperiment (REX)-ISOLDE heavy ion accelerator at CERN, under the High Intensity and Energy (HIE)-ISOLDE framework, proposes the use of superconducting (SC) quarter-wave…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-06-20 M. A. Fraser , M. Pasini , R. M. Jones , M. Lindroos