High Intensity Secondary Beams Driven by Protons

TL;DR

This paper summarizes a 2013 workshop focused on high intensity secondary beams driven by proton beams, discussing facility capabilities, upgrade plans, and R&D needs for proton accelerators and targets at the intensity frontier.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of current proton beam capabilities, future upgrade plans, and identifies key R&D areas for supporting high intensity secondary beam experiments.

Findings

Assessment of existing high power proton machines

Proposed upgrade plans for proton facilities

Identified R&D needs for proton accelerators and targets

Abstract

As part of the Intensity Frontier effort within the 2013 Community Summer Study, a workshop on the proton machine capabilities was held (High Intensity Secondary Beams Driven by Proton Beams) April 17-20, 2013 at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY. Primary aims of the workshop were to understand: 1) the beam requirements for proposed high intensity proton beam based measurements; 2) the capabilities of existing world-wide high power proton machines; 3) proton facility upgrade plans and proposals for new facilities; 4) and to document the R&D needs for proton accelerators and target systems needed to support proposed intensity frontier measurements. These questions are addressed in this summary.