2 MW upgrade of the Fermilab main injector

Author

Chou, W.

Author_Institution

Fermi Nat. Accel. Lab., USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

12-16 May 2003

Firstpage

604

Abstract

In January 2002, the Fermilab Director initiated a design study for a high average power, modest energy proton facility. An intensity upgrade to Fermilab´s 120GeV Main Injector (MI) represents an attractive concept for such a facility, which would leverage existing beam lines and experimental areas and would greatly enhance physics opportunities at Fermilab and in the U.S. With a Proton Driver replacing the present Booster, the beam intensity of the MI is expected to be increased by a factor of five. Accompanied by a shorter cycle, the beam power would reach 2 MW. This would make the MI a more powerful machine than the SNS or the J-PARC. Moreover, the high beam energy (120 GeV) and tunable energy range (8 - 120 GeV) would make it a unique high power proton facility. The upgrade study has been completed and published. This paper gives a summary report.

Keywords

linear accelerators; particle beam diagnostics; particle beam injection; proton accelerators; 2 MW; 2 MW upgrade; 8 to 120 GeV; Fermilab main injector; beam power; existing beam lines; high average power; modest energy proton facility; tunable energy range; Acceleration; Computational modeling; Linear particle accelerator; Particle beam injection; Particle beams; Physics; Proton accelerators; Radio frequency; Space charge; Synchrotrons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2003. PAC 2003. Proceedings of the

ISSN

1063-3928

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7738-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2003.1288988

Filename

1288988