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The longitudinal compression of high-intensity, space-charge-dominated proton bunches is a critical requirement for future proton-driven muon colliders. We propose a proton bunch compression experiment at the Integrable Optics Test…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Benjamin Simons , Nilanjan Banerjee , Jeffrey Eldred , Vladimir Shiltsev

Fermilab is developing a Proton Improvement Plan (PIP) to increase throughput of its proton source. The plan addresses hardware modifications to increase repetition rate and improve beam loss while ensuring viable operation of the proton…

Over the past decade, Fermilab has focused efforts on the intensity frontier physics and is committed to increase the average beam power delivered to the neutrino and muon programs substantially. Many upgrades to the existing injector…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-10-29 C. M. Bhat

Fermilab is upgrading its Booster synchrotron to increase ramp rate and intensity. This is part of the Proton Improvement Plan (PIP-II) that will allow the Main Injector to achieve proton beam power of 1.2 MW within the next few years. This…

The Fermilab Proton Improvement Plan (PIP) was formed in late 2011 to address important and necessary upgrades to the Proton Source machines (Injector line, Linac and Booster). The goal is to increase the proton flux by doubling the Booster…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-04-29 T. A. Butler , F. G. Garcia , M. R. Kufer , H. Pfeffer , D. Wolff

To date, the 120 GeV Fermilab Main Injector accelerator has accelerated a single batch of protons from the 8 GeV rapid-cycling Booster synchrotron for production of antiprotons for Run II. In the future, the Main Injector must accelerate 6…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Zwaska , S. Kopp , W. Pellico , R. Webber

The Fermilab Booster is being upgraded under the Proton Improvement Plan (PIP) to be capable of providing a proton flux of $2.25^{17}$ protons per hour. The intensity per cycle will remain at the present operational $4.3^{12}$ protons per…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-11-05 K. Seiya , C. M. Bhat , D. E. Johnson , V. V. Kapin , W. A. Pellico , C. Y. Tan , R. J. Tesarek

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…

Recently, the study of integrable Hamiltonian systems has led to nonlinear accelerator lattices with one or two transverse invariants and wide stable tune spreads. These lattices may drastically improve the performance of high-intensity…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-11-06 G. Stancari , A. Burov , V. Lebedev , S. Nagaitsev , E. Prebys , A. Valishev

The Proton Improvement Plan - II (PIP-II) injector linac is an 800 MeV superconducting H$^-$ linac, christened Linac2, that will replace the existing 400 MeV injector to the accelerator complex at Fermilab. The higher energy, intensity and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 S. Krishnagopal , M. Convery , J. Dey

The Fermilab Proton Improvement Plan II, or PIP-II, would enable the world's most intense high-energy neutrino beam and would help scientists search for rare particle physics processes. The PIP-II goal is to deliver 1.2 MW of proton beam…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Sergei Nagaitsev , Valeri Lebedev

The latest generation of IPMs installed in the Fermilab Main Injector and Recycler incorporate a 1 kG permanent magnet, a newly designed high-gain, rad-tolerant preamp, and a control grid to moderate the charge that is allowed to arrive on…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-02-11 J. R. Zagel , M. Alvarez , B. Fellenz , C. Jensen , C. Lundberg , E. McCrory , D. Slimmer , R. Thurman-Keup , D. Tinsley

A fast-reading current integrator is developed for high time-resolution and low-noise ion beam diagnostics under both continuous-wave and pulsed operating conditions. The system combines a low-leakage transimpedance front-end with a hybrid…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-01 I-Chun Cho , Chien-Hsu Chen , Huan Niu , Cheng-Ya Pan , Chun-Hui Hsing , Tung-Yuan Hsiao

Fermilab is constructing the Integrable Optics Test Accelerator (IOTA) as the centerpiece of the Accelerator R&D Program towards high-intensity circular machines. One of the factors limiting the beam intensity in present circular…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Sergey A. Antipov , Sergei Nagaitsev , Alexander Valishev

Programmable linear optical interferometers are promising for classical and quantum applications. Their integrated design makes it possible to create more scalable and stable devices. To use them in practice, one has to reconstruct the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 B. I. Bantysh , A. Yu. Chernyavskiy , S. A. Fldzhyan , Yu. I. Bogdanov

The Proton Improvement Plan-II (PIP-II) [1] has been developed at Fermilab to provide powerful proton beams to the laboratorys experiments. An 800-MeV superconducting linear accelerator-a centerpiece of the project-is currently under…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-01-23 Igor Rakhno , Nikolai Mokhov , Igor Tropin , Sergei Striganov , Yury Eidelman

As the main $H^{-}$ ion source for the accelerator complex, magnetron ion sources have been used at Fermilab since the 1970s. At the offline test stand, new R&D is carried out to develop and upgrade the present magnetron-type sources of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 A. Sosa , D. S. Bollinger , P. R. Karns , C. Y. Tan

The use of nonlinear lattices with large betatron tune spreads can increase instability and space charge thresholds due to improved Landau damping. Unfortunately, the majority of nonlinear accelerator lattices turn out to be nonintegrable,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-01-30 S. Nagaitsev , A. Valishev , V. V. Danilov , D. N. Shatilov

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.…

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…