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Increasing the Fermilab Main Injector (MI) beam power above ~1.2 MW requires replacement of the 8 GeV Booster by a higher intensity alternative. Earlier, rapid-cycling synchrotron and linac solutions were considered for this purpose. In…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 D. Neuffer , S. Belomestnykh , M. Checchin , D. Johnson , S. Posen , E. Pozdeyev , V. Pronskikh , A. Saini , N. Solyak , V. Yakovlev

A multi-MW proton facility, Project X, has been proposed and is currently under development at Fermilab. We are carrying out a program of research and development aimed at integrated systems testing of critical components comprising the…

We study the capabilities of the short baseline neutrino program at Fermilab to probe the unitarity of the lepton mixing matrix. We find the sensitivity to be slightly better than the current one. Motivated by the future DUNE experiment, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-31 O. G. Miranda , Pedro Pasquini , M. Tórtola , J. W. F. Valle

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 Short-Baseline Neutrino, or SBN, program consists of three liquid argon time projection chamber detectors located along the Booster Neutrino Beam at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Its main goals include searches for new…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-01-08 Pedro A. N. Machado , Ornella Palamara , David W. Schmitz

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 fixed-target MIPP experiment, Fermilab E907, was designed to measure the production of hadrons from the collisions of hadrons of momenta ranging from 5 to 120 GeV/c on a variety of nuclei. These data will generally improve the…

An overview is presented of the upgrade of JLab's cw electron accelerator from a maximum beam energy of currently 6 GeV to 12 GeV. Construction of the 12 GeV upgrade project has started in 2008. A broad experimental program has been…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-03-13 Volker D. Burkert

This paper presents a review of the study of Exclusive Central Production at a Center of Mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=40$ GeV at the Fermilab Fixed Target program. In all reactions reviewed in this paper, protons with an energy of 800 GeV were…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-10 Gaston Gutierrez , Marco A. Reyes

Fermilab's Superconducting RF Beam Test Facility currently under construction will produce electron beams capable of damaging the acceleration structures and the beam line vacuum chambers in the event of an aberrant accelerator pulse. The…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-10-01 A. Warner , L. Carmichael , M. Church , R. Neswold

This paper presents the first neutrino cross-section measurement from the ICARUS detector at Fermilab, using NuMI (Neutrinos at the Main Injector) beam data collected from two beam operation periods corresponding to $2.5\times10^{20}$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-29 ICARUS Collaboration , F. Abd Alrahman , P. Abratenko , N. Abrego-Martinez , A. Aduszkiewicz , F. Akbar , L. Aliaga Soplin , M. Artero Pons , J. Asaadi , W. F. Badgett , B. Baibussinov , B. Behera , V. Bellini , R. Benocci , J. Berger , S. Bertolucci , M. Betancourt , A. Blanchet , F. Boffelli , M. Bonesini , T. Boone , B. Bottino , A. Braggiotti , D. Brailsford , S. J. Brice , V. Brio , C. Brizzolari , H. S. Budd , A. Campani , A. Campos , D. Carber , M. Carneiro , I. Caro Terrazas , H. Carranza , F. Castillo Fernandez , S. Centro , G. Cerati , A. Chatterjee , D. Cherdack , S. Cherubini , N. Chithirasreemadam , M. Cicerchia , T. E. Coan , A. Cocco , M. R. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , S. Copello , H. Da Motta , M. Dallolio , A. A. Dange , A. de Roeck , S. Di Domizio , L. Di Noto , D. Di Ferdinando , M. Diwan , S. Dolan , S. Donati , F. Drielsma , J. Dyer , A. Falcone , C. Farnese , A. Fava , N. Gallice , C. Gatto , D. Gibin , A. Gioiosa , W. Gu , A. Guglielmi , G. Gurung , K. Hassinin , H. Hausner , A. Heggestuen , B. Howard , R. Howell , Z. Hulcher , G. Ingratta , M. S. Ismail , C. James , W. Jang , K. Jung , Y. -J. Jwa , L. Kashur , W. Ketchum , J. S. Kim , D. -H. Koh , J. Larkin , Y. Li , C. Mariani , C. M. Marshall , S. Martynenko , N. Mauri , K. S. McFarland , D. P. Méndez , A. Menegolli , G. Meng , O. G. Miranda , A. Mogan , N. Moggi , E. Montagna , C. Montanari , A. Montanari , M. Mooney , M. Moore , G. Moreno-Granados , J. Mueller , M. Murphy , D. Naples , S. Palestini , M. Pallavicini , V. Paolone , L. Pasqualini , L. Patrizii , G. Petrillo , C. Petta , V. Pia , F. Pietropaolo , F. Poppi , M. Pozzato , M. L. Pumo , G. Putnam , X. Qian , A. Rappoldi , G. L. Raselli , S. Repetto , F. Resnati , A. M. Ricci , M. Rosenberg , M. Rossella , N. Rowe , P. Roy , C. Rubbia , A. Ruggeri , S. Saha , G. Salmoria , S. Samanta , A. Scaramelli , D. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , D. Senadheera , S-H. Seo , F. Sergiampietri , G. Sirri , J. S. Smedley , J. Smith , M. Sotgia , L. Stanco , J. Stewart , H. A. Tanaka , M. Tenti , K. Terao , F. Terranova , V. Togo , D. Torretta , M. Torti , R. Triozzi , Y. -T. Tsai , K. V. Tsang , T. Usher , F. Varanini , N. Vardy , S. Ventura , M. Vicenzi , C. Vignoli , F. A. Wieler , Z. Williams , R. J. Wilson , P. Wilson , J. Wolfs , T. Wongjirad , A. Wood , E. Worcester , M. Worcester , S. Yadav , H. Yu , J. Yu , A. Zani , J. Zennamo , J. Zettlemoyer , S. Zucchelli

The Muon $g\textrm{-}2$ Experiment (E989) at Fermilab has a goal of measuring the muon anomaly ($a_\mu$) with unprecedented precision using positive muons. This measurement is motivated by the difference between the previous Brookhaven…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-09-25 Eremey Valetov

We introduce a new search strategy for visibly decaying muonphilic particles using a proton beam spectrometer modeled after the SpinQuest experiment at Fermilab. In this setup, a ${\sim}$100 GeV primary proton beam impinges on a thick fixed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-12 Diana Forbes , Christian Herwig , Yonatan Kahn , Gordan Krnjaic , Cristina Mantilla Suarez , Nhan Tran , Andrew Whitbeck

We discuss in detail the physics reach of an experimental set-up where electron neutrinos (anti-neutrinos) produced in a beta-beam facility at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) are sent, over a distance of L~1300km, to the Deep…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Patrick Huber

The NuMI facility at Fermilab will provide an extremely intense beam of neutrinos for the MINOS neutrino-oscillation experiment. The spacious and fully-outfitted MINOS near detector hall will be the ideal venue for a high-statistics,…

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

We report a study of muon neutrino charged-current quasi-elastic events in the segmented scintillator inner tracker of the MINERvA experiment running in the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. The events were selected by requiring a {\mu}^- and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-25 The MINERvA collaboration , G. A. Fiorentini , D. W. Schmitz , P. A. Rodrigues , L. Aliaga , O. Altinok , B. Baldin , A. Baumbaugh , A. Bodek , D. Boehnlein , S. Boyd , R. Bradford , W. K. Brooks , H. Budd , A. Butkevich , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , C. M. Castromonte , M. E. Christy , H. Chung , J. Chvojka , M. Clark , H. da Motta , D. S. Damiani , I. Danko , M. Datta , M. Day , R. DeMaat , J. Devan , E. Draeger , S. A. Dytman , G. A. Díaz , B. Eberly , D. A. Edmondson , J. Felix , T. Fitzpatrick , L. Fields , A. M. Gago , H. Gallagher , C. A. George , J. A. Gielata , C. Gingu , B. Gobbi , R. Gran , N. Grossman , J. Hanson , D. A. Harris , J. Heaton , A. Higuera , I. J. Howley , K. Hurtado , M. Jerkins , T. Kafka , J. Kaisen , M. O. Kanter , C. E. Keppel , J. Kilmer , M. Kordosky , A. H. Krajeski , S. A. Kulagin , T. Le , H. Lee , A. G. Leister , G. Locke , G. Maggi , E. Maher , S. Manly , W. A. Mann , C. M. Marshall , K. S. McFarland , C. L. McGivern , A. M. McGowan , A. Mislivec , J. G. Morfń , J. Mousseau , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , G. Niculescu , I. Niculescu , N. Ochoa , C. D. O'Connor , J. Olsen , B. Osmanov , J. Osta , J. L. Palomino , V. Paolone , J. Park , C. E. Patrick , G. N. Perdue , C. Peña , L. Rakotondravohitra , R. D. Ransome , H. Ray , L. Ren , C. Rude , K. E. Sassin , H. Schellman , R. M. Schneider , E. C. Schulte , C. Simon , F. D. Snider , M. C. Snyder , J. T. Sobczyk , C. J. Solano Salinas , N. Tagg , W. Tan , B. G. Tice , G. Tzanakos , J. P. Velásquez , J. Walding , T. Walton , J. Wolcott , B. A. Wolthuis , N. Woodward , G. Zavala , H. B. Zeng , D. Zhang , L. Y. Zhu , B. P. Ziemer

We report results from the first search for $\nu_\mu\to\nu_e$ transitions by the NOvA experiment. In an exposure equivalent to $2.74\times10^{20}$ protons-on-target in the upgraded NuMI beam at Fermilab, we observe 6 events in the Far…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-05-03 P. Adamson , C. Ader , M. Andrews , N. Anfimov , I. Anghel , K. Arms , E. Arrieta-Diaz , A. Aurisano , D. S. Ayres , C. Backhouse , M. Baird , B. A. Bambah , K. Bays , R. Bernstein , M. Betancourt , V. Bhatnagar , B. Bhuyan , J. Bian , K. Biery , T. Blackburn , V. Bocean , D. Bogert , A. Bolshakova , M. Bowden , C. Bower , D. Broemmelsiek , C. Bromberg , G. Brunetti , X. Bu , A. Butkevich , D. Capista , E. Catano-Mur , T. R. Chase , S. Childress , B. C. Choudhary , B. Chowdhury , T. E. Coan , J. A. B. Coelho , M. Colo , J. Cooper , L. Corwin , D. Cronin-Hennessy , A. Cunningham , G. S. Davies , J. P. Davies , M. Del Tutto , P. F. Derwent , K. N. Deepthi , D. Demuth , S. Desai , G. Deuerling , A. Devan , J. Dey , R. Dharmapalan , P. Ding , S. Dixon , Z. Djurcic , E. C. Dukes , H. Duyang , R. Ehrlich , G. J. Feldman , N. Felt , E. J. Fenyves , E. Flumerfelt , S. Foulkes , M. J. Frank , W. Freeman , M. Gabrielyan , H. R. Gallagher , M. Gebhard , T. Ghosh , W. Gilbert , A. Giri , S. Goadhouse , R. A. Gomes , L. Goodenough , M. C. Goodman , V. Grichine , N. Grossman , R. Group , J. Grudzinski , V. Guarino , B. Guo , A. Habig , T. Handler , J. Hartnell , R. Hatcher , A. Hatzikoutelis , K. Heller , C. Howcroft , J. Huang , X. Huang , J. Hylen , M. Ishitsuka , F. Jediny , C. Jensen , D. Jensen , C. Johnson , H. Jostlein , G. K. Kafka , Y. Kamyshkov , S. M. S. Kasahara , S. Kasetti , K. Kephart , G. Koizumi , S. Kotelnikov , I. Kourbanis , Z. Krahn , V. Kravtsov , A. Kreymer , Ch. Kulenberg , A. Kumar , T. Kutnink , R. Kwarciancy , J. Kwong , K. Lang , A. Lee , W. M. Lee , K. Lee , S. Lein , J. Liu , M. Lokajicek , J. Lozier , Q. Lu , P. Lucas , S. Luchuk , P. Lukens , G. Lukhanin , S. Magill , K. Maan , W. A. Mann , M. L. Marshak , M. Martens , J. Martincik , P. Mason , K. Matera , M. Mathis , V. Matveev , N. Mayer , E. McCluskey , R. Mehdiyev , H. Merritt , M. D. Messier , H. Meyer , T. Miao , D. Michael , S. P. Mikheyev , W. H. Miller , S. R. Mishra , R. Mohanta , A. Moren , L. Mualem , M. Muether , S. Mufson , J. Musser , H. B. Newman , J. K. Nelson , E. Niner , A. Norman , J. Nowak , Y. Oksuzian , A. Olshevskiy , J. Oliver , T. Olson , J. Paley , P. Pandey , A. Para , R. B. Patterson , G. Pawloski , N. Pearson , D. Perevalov , D. Pershey , E. Peterson , R. Petti , S. Phan-Budd , L. Piccoli , A. Pla-Dalmau , R. K. Plunkett , R. Poling , B. Potukuchi , F. Psihas , D. Pushka , X. Qiu , N. Raddatz , A. Radovic , R. A. Rameika , R. Ray , B. Rebel , R. Rechenmacher , B. Reed , R. Reilly , D. Rocco , D. Rodkin , K. Ruddick , R. Rusack , V. Ryabov , K. Sachdev , S. Sahijpal , H. Sahoo , O. Samoylov , M. C. Sanchez , N. Saoulidou , P. Schlabach , J. Schneps , R. Schroeter , J. Sepulveda-Quiroz , P. Shanahan , B. Sherwood , A. Sheshukov , J. Singh , V. Singh , A. Smith , D. Smith , J. Smolik , N. Solomey , A. Sotnikov , A. Sousa , K. Soustruznik , Y. Stenkin , M. Strait , L. Suter , R. L. Talaga , M. C. Tamsett , S. Tariq , P. Tas , R. J. Tesarek , R. B. Thayyullathil , K. Thomsen , X. Tian , S. C. Tognini , R. Toner , J. Trevor , G. Tzanakos , J. Urheim , P. Vahle , L. Valerio , L. Vinton , T. Vrba , A. V. Waldron , B. Wang , Z. Wang , A. Weber , A. Wehmann , D. Whittington , N. Wilcer , R. Wildberger , D. Wildman , K. Williams , S. G. Wojcicki , K. Wood , M. Xiao , T. Xin , N. Yadav , S. Yang , S. Zadorozhnyy , J. Zalesak , B. Zamorano , A. Zhao , J. Zirnstein , R. Zwaska

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 transfer line for beam extraction from the Recycler ring to P1 line provides a way to deliver 8 GeV kinetic energy protons from the Booster to the Delivery ring, via the Recycler, using existing beam transport lines, and without the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-02-20 M. Xiao , D. Capista , P. Adams , D. Morris , M. J. Yang , K. Hazewood

An "ultimate" high intensity proton source for neutrino factories and/or muon colliders was projected to be a ~4 MW multi-GeV proton source providing short, intense proton pulses at ~15 Hz. The JPARC ~1 MW accelerators provide beam at…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-04-27 D. Neuffer