Magnetic field measurements of Fermilab main injector dipoles

Electron Cloud Measurements in Fermilab Main Injector and Recycler

This conference paper presents a series of electron cloud measurements in the Fermilab Main Injector and Recycler. A new instability was observed in the Recycler in July 2014 that generates a fast transverse excitation in the first high intensity batch to be injected. Microwave measurements of electron cloud in the Recycler show a corresponding dependence on the batch injection pattern. These e...

Tune Control in the Fermilab Main Injector

We describe methods used to measure and control tunes in the Fermilab Main Injector (FMI). Emphasis is given to software implementation of the operator interface, to the front-end embedded computer system, and handling of hysteresis of main dipole and quadrupole magnets. Techniques are developed to permit control of tune of the Main Injector through several acceleration cycles: from 8.9 GeV/c t...

Long Baseline Neutrino Experiments with the Fermilab Main Injector*

Main Injector Particle Production Experiment (MIPP) at Fermilab

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 u...

Longitudinal emittance monitoring in the Fermilab Main Injector using Intensity and RMS width sampled bunch data

For Run II, 36 by 36 proton and antiproton bunches will be collided in the Tevatron during accelerator operations. The probability of successful collisions is dependent on the luminosity levels achieved during the acceleration cycles. Longitudinal emittance, a measure of the phase-space area occupied by the particles in an rf bucket, directly affects luminosity. As a result, diagnosing and elim...