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The Proton Improvement Plan II (PIPII) is a superconducting linear accelerator being built at Fermilab that will provide 800 MeV proton beams for neutrino production. The Linac requires cooling at 80 K, 5 K, and 2 K temperatures, which will…
The Proton Improvement Plan-II (PIP-II) is a superconducting linear accelerator being built at Fermilab that will provide 800 MeV proton beam for neutrino production. The linac consists of a total of twenty-three (23) cryomodules of five…
Details on Final design for Cryogenic Electrical & Controls System for Fermilab' s next-gen particle accelerator PIP-II. Electrical Controls System includes instrumentation and controls of Cryogenics Distribution System and Cryomodules.…
The Proton Improvement Plan-II (PIP-II) is a major upgrade to the Fermilab accelerator complex, featuring a new 800-MeV Superconducting Radio-Frequency (SRF) linear accelerator (Linac) powering the accelerator complex to provide the world's…
In this paper, a complete industrial validation of a recently published scheme for on-line adaptation of the control updating period in Model Predictive Control is proposed. The industrial process that serves in the validation is a…
The beam volume of the Pre-Production Single Spoke Resonator type 2 (ppSSR2) cryomodule [1] for the Proton Improvement Plan-II (PIP-II) [2] project will be protected against over-pressurization using a burst disk. This contribution focuses…
SPIRAL2 is a superconducting accelerator for protons, deuterons and heavy ions delivering a maximum beam power of 200 kW at 40 MeV (for deuteron beams). 26 superconducting quarter wave cavities are operated at 4.4 K, plunged in a liquid…
High-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is widely used for thermal-fluid design, but repeated CFD solves remain expensive for design optimization, uncertainty analysis, and digital-twin workflows. Recently, our team has…
We outline a physics program at Fermilab that would significantly improve our ability to understand the behavior of hadronic showers in calorimeters. This would involve a two-pronged approach designed to measure particle production cross…
The need for larger mK cooling platforms is being driven by the desire to host ever growing numbers of cryogenic qubits in quantum computing platforms. As part of the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center at Fermilab funded…
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The reported research work presents numerical studies validated by experimental results of a flat micro heat pipe with sintered copper wick structure. The objectives of this project are to produce and demonstrate the efficiency of the…
The cooling system is a key factor in power transformer designs. The frequent need for optimized projects further increases the importance of development through of increasingly developed tools. This work aims to evaluate a transformer…
Developing Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs) is a crucial step during the development of chemical processes. Currently, this is a tedious, manual, and time-consuming task. We propose a novel, completely data-driven method for the…
The period 1980-2000 saw the impressive development of applied superconductivity in high-energy particle accelerators, from single components to long strings of superconducting magnets and high-frequency acceleration cavities. Large and…
Accurate real-time forecasting of cryogenic tank behavior is essential for the safe and efficient operation of propulsion and storage systems in future deep-space missions. While cryogenic fluid management (CFM) systems increasingly require…
The Proton Improvement Plan II (PIP-II) at Fermilab is a program of upgrades to the injection complex. At its core is the design and construction of a CW compatible, pulsed H- SRF linac. To validate the concept of the front-end of such…
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Industrial and power systems rely on engineering predictions of the flow properties of working fluids. The paper proposes a way of the utilization of the vapor quality values along the new retrograde condensation curve in the generation of…
Liquid Nitrogen precooling is used in most Cryoplants to achieve cooldown to 80 K temperature range. In one such system at Fermilab's CMTF Superfluid Cryoplant, where the Helium supply directly exchanges heat with liquid Nitrogen, freezing…