Download or read book Experimental Test of a New Antiproton Acceleration Scheme in the Fermilab Main Injector written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an effort to provide higher intensity and lower emittance antiproton beam to the Tevatron collider for high luminosity operation, a new Main Injector (MI) antiproton acceleration scheme has been developed [1-4]. In this scheme, beam is accelerated from 8 to 27 GeV using the 2.5 MHz rf system and from 27 to 150 GeV using the 53 MHz rf system. This paper reports the experimental results of beam study. Simulation results are reported in a different PAC'05 paper [5]. Experiments are conducted with proton beam from the Booster. Acceleration efficiency, emittance growth and beam harmonic transfer between 2.5 MHz (h=28) and 53 MHz (h=588) buckets have been studied. Beam study shows that one can achieve an overall acceleration efficiency of about 100%, longitudinal emittance growth less than 20% and negligible transverse emittance growth. accelerated to 150 GeV and injected to the Tevatron. The multi-bunch coalescing process is eliminated in this acceleration scheme. Consequently, longitudinal emittance growth is reduced. Smaller emittance growth reduces beam loss.

Download or read book Antiproton Acceleration in the Fermilab Main Injector Using 2 5 MHz H written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Run II era at Fermilab, the Recycler stores antiprotons at 8 GeV and the Main Injector accelerates the antiprotons and the protons from 8 GeV to 150 GeV for Tevatron injection. The Recycler injects antiprotons to the Main Injector in 2.5 MHz rf buckets. This report presents an acceleration scheme for the antiprotons that involves a slow ramp with initial 2.5 MHz acceleration and subsequent fast acceleration with 53 MHz rf system. Beam acceleration and rf manipulation with space charge and beam loading effects are simulated using the longitudinal simulation code ESME. Simulation suggests that one can expect about 15% emittance growth for the entire acceleration cycle with beam loading compensations. Preliminary experimental results with proton beam will also be presented.

Download or read book Simulations of an Acceleration Scheme for Producing High Intensity and Low Emittance Antiproton Beam for Fermilab Collider Operation written by C. M. Bhat and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During Fermilab collider operation, the Main Injector (MI) provides high intensity and low emittance proton and antiproton beams for the Tevatron. The present coalescing scheme for antiprotons in the Main Injector yields about a factor of two increase in the longitudinal emittance and a factor of 5% to 20% decrease in intensity before injection to the Tevatron. In order to maximize the integrated luminosity delivered to the collider experiments, it is important to minimize the emittance growth and maximize the intensity of the MI beam. To this end, a new scheme using a combination of 2.5 MHz and 53 MHz accelerations has been developed and tested. This paper describes the full simulation of the new acceleration scheme, taking account of space charge, 2.5 MHz and 53 MHz beam loading, and the effect of residual 53 MHz rf voltage during 2.5 MHz acceleration and rf manipulations. The simulations show the longitudinal emittance growth at the 10% level with no beam loss. The experimental test of the new scheme is reported in another PAC05 paper.

Download or read book Antiproton Acceleration in the Fermilab Main Ring and Tevatron written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The operation of the Fermilab Main Ring and Tevatron rf systems for colliding beams physics is discussed. The changes in the rf feedback system required for the accelration of antiprotons, and the methods for achieving proper transfer of both protons and antiprotons are described. Data on acceleration and transfer efficiencies are presented.

Download or read book Antiproton Acceleration in the Main Injector with RF at Harmonic Number H written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antiproton bunches of 1.5 eVs are required for the Tevatron but can not be accelerated through transition in the Main Injector (MI) with the h=588 rf system. Chandra Bhat has developed parameters for h=28 acceleration from 8 GeV followed by h=588 acceleration from 25 to 150 GeV.[1] This note refines the h=28 scenario and also adapts it to the h=84 case needed for 132 ns separation. It is practicable to accelerate the 1.5 eVs {bar p} bunches in about seven seconds with no loss and less than ten percent emittance growth using the existing 2.5 MHz cavities. Both the cycle time and emittance growth are significantly improved by the scheme described in this note. Excellent results can be obtained for the 7.5 MHz case with only 75 kV except that there is a 0.5 % beam loss. For completely clean 53 MHz capture of the tail produced by shape mismatch at transition, 250 kV is desirable for bunch rotation at 26 GeV.

Download or read book Physics at an Upgraded Proton Driver at Fermilab written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The accelerator-based particle physics program in the US is entering a period of transition. This is particularly true at Fermilab which for more than two decades has been the home of the Tevatron Proton-Antiproton Collider, the World's highest energy hadron collider. In a few years time the energy frontier will move to the LHC at CERN. Hence, if an accelerator-based program is to survive at Fermilab, it must evolve. Fermilab is fortunate in that, in addition to hosting the Tevatron Collider, the laboratory also hosts the US accelerator-based neutrino program. The recent discovery that neutrino flavors oscillate has opened a new exciting world for us to explore, and has created an opportunity for the Fermilab accelerator complex to continue to address the cutting-edge questions of particle physics beyond the Tevatron Collider era. The presently foreseen neutrino oscillation experiments at Fermilab (MiniBooNE [1] and MINOS [2]) will enable the laboratory to begin contributing to the Global oscillation physics program in the near future, and will help us better understand the basic parameters describing the oscillations. However, this is only a first step. To be able to pin down all of the oscillation parameters, and hopefully make new discoveries along the way, we will need high statistics experiments, which will require a very intense neutrino beam, and one or more very massive detectors. In particular we will require new MW-scale primary proton beams and perhaps ultimately a Neutrino Factory [3]. Plans to upgrade the Fermilab Proton Driver are presently being developed [4]. The upgrade project would replace the Fermilab Booster with a new 8 GeV accelerator with 0.5-2 MW beam power, a factor of 15-60 more than the current Booster. It would also make the modifications needed to the Fermilab Main Injector (MI) to upgrade it to simultaneously provide 120 GeV beams of 2 MW. This would enable a factor of 5-10 increase in neutrino beam intensities at the MI, while also supporting a vigorous 8 GeV fixed-target program. In addition, a Proton Driver might also serve as a stepping-stone to future accelerators, both as an R & D test bed and as an injector, with connections to the Linear Collider, Neutrino Factories, and a VLHC. Hence, although neutrino physics would provide the main thrust for the science program at an upgraded Fermilab proton source, the new facility would also offer exciting opportunities for other fixed-target particle physics (kaons, muons, neutrons, antiprotons, etc.) and a path towards new accelerators in the future.

Download or read book The Fermilab Antiproton Source Design Report April 1981 written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the Fermilab Antiproton source is to provide at least $10^$ cooled, accumulated antiprotons for acceleration in the Main Ring and Tevatron for colliding-beams experiments with 1-TeV protons. This will provide the highest available energy in the world for particle-physics experiments through at least the 1980's. Collisions at 2 TeV in the center of mass will provide a unique experimental tool in a new energy range. The design of the Antiproton Source has been carried out by the Colliding Beams Department of the Accelerator Division in collaboration with Argonne National Laborator.y, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, the Institute of Nuclear Physics at Novosibirsk, and the University of Wisconsin ...

Download or read book Synchronization of the Fermilab Booster and Main Injector for Multiple Batch Injection written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 or more Booster batches simultaneously; the first will be extracted to the antiproton source, while the remaining are extracted for the NuMI/MINOS (Neutrinos at the Main Injector/Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search) neutrino experiment. Performing this multi-batch operation while avoiding unacceptable radioactivation of the beamlines requires a previously unnecessary synchronization between the accelerators. We describe a mechanism and present results of advancing or retarding the longitudinal progress of the Booster beam by active feedback radial manipulation of the beam during the acceleration period.

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Download or read book Main Injector Particle Production Experiment MIPP at Fermilab written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Main Injector Particle Production Experiment at Fermilab uses particle beams of charged pions, kaons, proton and anti-proton with beam momenta of 5 to 90 GeV/c and thin targets spanning the periodic table from (liquid) hydrogen to uranium to measure particle production cross sections in a full acceptance spectrometer with charged particle identification for particles from 0.1 to 120 GeV/c using Time Projection Chamber, Time of Flight, multicell Cherenkov, and Ring Imaging Cherenkov detectors and Calorimeter for neutrons. Particle production using 120 GeV/c protons from Main Injector on the MINOS target was also measured. We describe the physics motivation to perform such cross section measurements and highlight the impact of hadronic interaction data on neutrino physics. Recent results on forward neutron cross sections and analysis of MINOS target data are also presented.

Download or read book The Fermilab Main Injector written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fermilab has proposed the construction of a new 150 GeV accelerator called the Main Injector. This accelerator will replace the existing Main Ring in all its functions. The Main Injector is expected to perform at a significantly higher level than the Main Ring as measured either in protons delivered per cycle, protons delivered per second, or transmission efficiency. It is anticipated that following construction of this machine the antiproton production rate at Fermilab will exceed 1 x 1011 /bar p//hour and that a luminosity in excess of 5 /times/ 1031 cm/sup -1/ will be supported in the existing collider. Additional benefits accruing from this accelerator include reduction of backgrounds at the collider detectors, potential development of a third interaction region in the Tevatron, and the availability of slow extracted 120 GeV beams year around. Design criteria and parameters of the Main Injector will be discussed. 1 fig., 3 tabs.

Download or read book Fermilab Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Status of the Fermilab Main Injector written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fermilab Main Injector is a rapid cycling proton synchrotron. It is designed to accelerate protons and antiprotons to 150GeV. The initial commissioning phase was in the summer of 1999. Since then, Main Injector has been supporting the high energy physics program at Fermilab. Beam studies for continued improvements in machine performance are in progress, in order to support a luminosity of 8*1031 cm−2 sec−1 during Run IIa. The status of the Main Injector and beam studies results are presented.

Download or read book Fermilab Accelerator written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fermilab accelerator has been in operation since 1972. The first operation was at 200 GeV, although the energy was soon raised to a nominal value of 300 GeV. Since July 1975, 400 GeV has been the normal energy. The machine was operated at 500 GeV in May 1976. The accelerator system is composed of a 750-kV Cockcroft--Walton, a 200-MeV linac, an 8-GeV to 15-Hertz booster, and a 500-GeV main ring. The linac injects one pulse into the booster and the booster injects the 8-GeV pulse into the main ring, each using single-turn injection. This process is repeated 13 times to fill the main ring circumference before accelertion begins. A switchyard system splits the extracted beam to 6 different external targets. There is one internal target area with 3 possible targets. The linac can also deliver a 66-MeV beam to a neutron cancer therapy facility and a 200-MeV proton beam to a radiography experiment. A project is being initiated to study electron cooling of 200-MeV protons. Upon successful cooling of protons, studies will begin on the cooling and accumulation of antiprotons. The antiprotons would be injected into the main ring and simultaneously accelerated with protons to produce antiproton-proton colliding beams. Work is in progress at Fermilab on the construction of a 1000-GeV superconducting Energy Doubler/Saver to be installed in the present main-ring tunnel. With both the main ring and energy doubler in the same tunnel, it is obvious proton--proton colliding beams will be possible. The complete system of 1000-GeV fixed-target physics, 250 GeV (main ring) x 1000 GeV (doubler) proton--proton physics and 1000 GeV x 1000 GeV proton--antiproton physics in the doubler has been named the Tevatron.

Download or read book A New Antiproton Beam Transfer Scheme Without Coalescing written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An effective way to increase the luminosity in the Fermilab Tevatron collider program Run2 is to improve the overall antiproton transfer efficiency. During antiproton coalescing in the Main Injector (MI), about 10-15% particles get lost. This loss could be avoided in a new antiproton transfer scheme that removes coalescing from the process. Moreover, this scheme would also eliminate emittance dilution due to coalescing. This scheme uses a 2.5 MHz RF system to transfer antiprotons from the Accumulator to the Main Injector. It is then followed by a bunch rotation in the MI to shorten the bunch length so that it can be captured by a 53 MHz RF bucket. Calculations and ESME simulations show that this scheme works. No new hardware is needed to implement this scheme.