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The Mu2e collaboration has proposed an experiment to search for the coherent, neutrino-less conversion of a muon into an electron in the Coulomb field of a nucleus with an expected sensitivity of $R_{\mu e}<6.0\times 10^{-17}$, at the 90%…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-12-02 Robert K. Kutschke

A new experiment at Fermilab will measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon with a precision of 140 parts per billion (ppb). This measurement is motivated by the results of the Brookhaven E821 experiment that were first released…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-10-02 Frederick Gray

High-power particle production targets are crucial elements of future neutrino and other rare particle beams. Fermilab plans to produce a beam of neutrinos (LBNE) with a 2.3 MW proton beam (Project X). Any solid target is unlikely to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-08-14 P. Hurh , O. Caretta , T. Davenne , C. Densham , P. Loveridge , N. Simos

DUNE/LBNF constitutes an international multi-decadal physics program for leading-edge neutrino science and proton decay studies [1] and is expected to serve as the flagship particle experiment based at Fermilab.

We have conducted tests at the Fermilab Booster of ionization chambers to be used as monitors of the NuMI neutrino beamline. The chambers were exposed to proton fluxes of up to 10$^{12}$ particles/cm$^2$/1.56$\mu$s. We studied space charge…

This letter reports results from the MINOS experiment based on its initial exposure to neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI beam. The rate and energy spectra of charged current muon neutrino interactions are compared in two detectors located…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 MINOS Collaboration

The Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab will search for coherent, neutrinoless conversion of muons into electrons in the field of a nucleus, with a sensitivity improvement of a factor of 10^4 over previous experiments. Such a charged lepton…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-12 Raffaella Donghia

The Booster Neutrino Experiment (MiniBooNE) searches for numu-to-nue oscillations using the O(1 GeV) neutrino beam produced by the Booster synchrotron at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL). The Booster delivers protons with 8…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-05-29 MiniBooNE Collaboration

Neutrino beam with about 300 MeV in energy, high-flux and medium baseline is considered a rational choice for measuring CP violation before the more powerful Neutrino Factory will be built. Following this concept, a unique neutrino beam…

One of the fundamental challenges for future leptonic colliders and neutrino factories as well as for high-sensitivity studies of lepton universality is to design and construct new high-intensity sources of muons and positrons. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-10-18 Armen Apyan , Mieczyslaw Witold Krasny , Wiesław Płaczek

The next generation of lepton flavor violation experiments need high intensity and high quality muon beams. Production of such beams requires sending a short, high intensity proton pulse to the pion production target, capturing pions and…

The results from the initial exposure of the MINOS detectors to neutrinos produced by the Fermilab NuMI beam are reported here. The exposure consisted of 1.27 x 10^{20} 120 GeV protons incident on the NuMI target. The data show the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Brian J. Rebel

The planned neutrino program at Fermilab requires large proton beam intensities in excess of 2 MW. Measuring the transverse profiles of these high intensity beams is challenging and often depends on non-invasive techniques. One such…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-03-06 R. Thurman-Keup , M. Alvarez , J. Fitzgerald , C. Lundberg , P. Prieto , J. Zagel , W. Blokland

Fermilab operates the world's most intense antiproton source. Newly proposed experiments can use those antiprotons either parasitically during Tevatron Collider running or after the Tevatron Collider finishes. For example, the annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-23 Daniel M. Kaplan

The planned neutrino program at Fermilab requires large proton beam intensities in excess of 2 MW. Measuring the transverse profiles of these high intensity beams is challenging and often depends on non-invasive techniques. One such…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-11-09 R. Thurman-Keup , M. Alvarez , J. Fitzgerald , C. Lundberg , P. Prieto , M. Roberts , J. Zagel , W. Blokland

Neutrino beam facilities, like spallation neutron facilities, produce copious quantities of neutrinos from the decay at rest of mesons and muons. The viability of decay-in-flight neutrino beams as sites for decay-at-rest neutrino studies…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-21 C. Grant , B. R. Littlejohn

The experimental evidence that \theta_{13} is large opens new opportunities to identify the neutrino mass spectrum. We outline a possibility to investigate this issue by means of conventional technology. The ideal setup turns out to be long…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-04 Carolina Lujan-Peschard , Giulia Pagliaroli , Francesco Vissani

There is a long standing discrepancy between the Standard Model prediction for the muon g-2 and the value measured by the Brookhaven E821 Experiment. At present the discrepancy stands at about three standard deviations, with a comparable…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Graziano Venanzoni

The Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab will measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon to a precision of 140 parts per billion, which is a factor of four improvement over the previous E821 measurement at Brookhaven. The experiment will…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-01-04 J. L. Holzbauer