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| WEAZ02 | Beam Loss at the Fermilab Booster and Main Injector: Recent Experience and the Road to MW Class Beams | 0 |
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| The Fermilab Booster and Main Injector synchrotrons produce high-rate proton beams for neutrino and antiproton production. Operation of these machines at high beam power has required novel approaches to managing beam loss during acceleration and at extraction. Routinely, the beam loss in the Booster limits it throughput, instead of any physical limitation. With pending intensity upgrades the same may also become true of the Main Injector. Future advances in beam power require a fully complementary reduction of oncontrolled losses. | ||
| THAW05 | Electron Cloud Investigations in the Fermilab Main Injector | 0 |
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| The Fermilab Main Injector currently accelerates 300 kW of 120 GeV protons for antiproton and neutrino production. We report on searches for the formation of an electron cloud within the Main Injector, and possible associated proton beam instabilities. Current capabilities and instrumentation upgrades will be discussed. These studies are performed with the anticipation that future plans could lead to a fourfold increase of the proton charge in the Main Injector. | ||
| THBZ03 | Commissioning of the Fermilab NuMI Neutrino Beam | 0 |
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NuMI (Neutrinos at the Main Injector) is an intense muon-neutrino beam used for long-baseline accelerator neutrino experiments. The neutrinos are produced from the interactions of a high-power, high-energy proton beam in a solid target. NuMI was commisioned in the winter of 2004-2005 and subsequently began regular operation. This talk will discuss: commissioning of the primary, secondary, and tertiary beams; beam-based alignment of the beam components; and incremental tuning of the accelerator and beamline for high-power running (current max of ~ 250 kW).
Present on behalf of the MINOS collaboration. |