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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.…

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

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

PIP-II is a superconducting linac that is in the initial acceleration chain for the Fermilab accelerator complex. The RF system consists of a warm front-end with an RFQ and buncher cavities along with 25 superconducting cryo-modules…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 P. Varghese , S. Raman , M. Guran , L. Reyes , L. Doolittle , Q. Du , S. Murthy

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.…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Pratik Patel , Ram Dhuley , Ahmed Faraj , Alexander Martinez , Vrushank Patel , William Soyars , Sungwoon Yoon

For the PIP-II program, transverse emittance in the Fermilab Booster must remain well controlled at higher bunch intensities. 4-plate beam position monitors (BPMs) have a small but measurable quadrupole moment, making it possible to infer…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 M. A. Balcewicz , C. Y. Tan

The Proton Improvement Plan, Stage Two (PIP-II) is a program of upgrades proposed for the Fermilab injection complex, which central part is an 800 MeV, 2 mA CW SRF linac. A prototype of the PIP-II linac front end called PIP-II Injector Test…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-08-28 A. Shemyakin , J. -P. Carneiro , B. Hanna , V. Lebedev , L. Prost , A. Saini , V. Scarpine , V. L. S. Sista , C. Richard

Operation of complex systems which depend on one, or more, sub-systems with many process variables often operate in more than one state. For each state there may be a variety of parameters of interest, and for each of these, one may require…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 P. Hanlet

The Fermilab Linac experiences longitudinal beam phase drift, leading to increased particle loss, conventionally corrected through labor-intensive manual RF adjustments. This project explores machine learning-based automation for drift…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 R. R. Chichili , J. A. Sulskis , R. Sharankova , B. Vamanan , S. Ravi

PIP-II is an 800 MEV superconducting linac that is in the initial acceleration chain for the Fermilab accelerator complex. The RF system consists of a warm front-end with an ion source, RFQ and buncher cavities along with 25 superconducting…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 P. Varghese , B. Chase , E. Cullerton , S. Raman , S. Ahmed , P. Hanlet , D. Klepec

The energy of a bunched non-relativistic ion beam can be deduced from measuring the beam phases in neighbouring Beam Position Monitors (BPMs). This report discusses implementation of such a procedure at the PIP-II H- linac being constructed…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 A. Shemyakin , J. Kuharik , R. Sharankova

PIP-II is an essential upgrade of the Fermilab complex that will enable the worlds most intense high-energy beam of neutrinos for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment at LBNF and support a broad physics program at…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Abhishek Pathak , Eduard Pozdeyev

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

The readout electronics for the resonant beam position monitors (BPMs) in the Fermilab Switchyard (SY) have been upgraded, utilizing a low noise amplifier transition board and Fermilab designed digitizer boards. The stripline BPMs are…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 T. Petersen , J. Diamond , N. Liu , P. S. Prieto , D. Slimmer , A. Watts

From 2005 through 2012, the Fermilab Main Injector provided intense beams of 120 GeV protons to produce neutrino beams and antiprotons. Hardware improvements in conjunction with improved diagnostics allowed the system to reach sustained…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-02-01 Bruce C. Brown

Five 325 MHz high-power couplers will be integrated into the pre-production Single Spoke Resonator Type-II (ppSSR2) cryomodule for the PIP-II project at Fermilab. Couplers were procured by both Fermilab and IJCLAB for this effort. The…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 J. Helsper , S. Wallon , D. Passarelli , D. Longuevergne , S. Kazakov , N. Solyak

The Proton Improvement Plan II (PIP-II) project is a vital upgrade to the Fermilab accelerator complex. The magnet pulse rate of the PIP-II Injection system requires an increase from the current rate of 15 Hz to 20 Hz as well as a roughly…

Plasma impedance probes (PIPs) are a type of RF probe that primarily measure electron density. This work introduces two advancements: a streamlined analytical model for interpreting PIP-monopole measurements and techniques for achieving…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-27 John W. Brooks , Erik M. Tejero , Matthew C. Paliwoda , Michael S. McDonald

The Fermilab Booster uses multi-turn beam injection with all its cavities phased such that beam sees a net zero RF voltage even when each station is at the same maxi-mum voltage. During beam capture the RF voltage is increased slowly by…

Fermilab Booster synchrotron requires an intensity upgrade from 4.5x1012 to 6.5x1012 protons per pulse as a part of Fermilabs Proton Improvement Plan-II (PIP-II). One of the factors which may limit the high-intensity performance is the fast…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 S. A. K. Wijethunga , J. Eldred , C. Y. Tan , E. Pozdeyev