Early Beam Injection Scheme for the Fermilab Booster: A Path for Intensity Upgrade

TL;DR

This paper proposes an early beam injection scheme for Fermilab's Booster to significantly increase beam intensity and power, supporting future high-energy physics experiments before PIP-II upgrades.

Contribution

The paper introduces and investigates a novel early injection scheme to enhance Booster beam intensity and slip-stacking efficiency, with simulation and experimental results.

Findings

Simulation results show increased beam intensity with EIS.

Beam studies confirm feasibility of EIS implementation.

Future plans include further testing and optimization.

Abstract

Over the past decade, Fermilab has focused efforts on the intensity frontier physics and is committed to increase the average beam power delivered to the neutrino and muon programs substantially. Many upgrades to the existing injector accelerators, namely, the current 400 MeV LINAC and the Booster, are in progress under the Proton Improvement Plan (PIP). Proton Improvement Plan-II (PIP-II) proposes to replace the existing 400 MeV LINAC by a new 800 MeV LINAC, as an injector to the Booster which will increase Booster output power by nearly a factor of two from the PIP design value by the end of its completion. In any case, the Fermilab Booster is going to play a very significant role for nearly next two decades. In this context, I have developed and investigated a new beam injection scheme called "early injection scheme" (EIS) for the Booster with the goal to significantly increase the beam intensity output from the Booster thereby increasing the beam power to the HEP experiments even before PIP-II era. The scheme, if implemented, will also help improve the slip-stacking efficiency in the MI/RR. Here I present results from recent simulations, beam studies, current status and future plans for the new scheme.