Project X: A Flexible High Power Proton Facility

TL;DR

Project X is a versatile, high-power proton facility at Fermilab designed to support diverse frontier physics experiments and future neutrino and muon research, with unprecedented beam flexibility and power.

Contribution

It introduces a unique high-power proton facility capable of delivering multiple simultaneous beams at various energies with flexible formats.

Findings

Supports up to 6 MW of beam power for multiple experiments

Enables a broad range of neutrino, muon, kaon, and nuclear physics experiments

Lays groundwork for future neutrino factory and muon collider

Abstract

Project X is a high intensity proton facility that will support a world-leading Intensity Frontier research program over the next several decades at Fermilab. When compared to other facilities in the planning stages elsewhere in the world Project X is completely unique in its ability to deliver, simultaneously, up to 6 MW of site-wide beam power to multiple experiments, at multiple energies, and with flexible beam formats. Project X will support a wide range of experiments based on neutrinos, muons, kaons, nucleons, and nuclei. In addition, Project X will lay the foundation for the long-term development of a Neutrino Factory and/or Muon Collider. A complete concept for Project X has been developed and is documented in the Project X Reference Design Report.