The Main Injector Particle Physics Experiment (MIPP FNAL E-907) at Fermilab - status and plans

TL;DR

The MIPP experiment at Fermilab has collected extensive particle interaction data and plans a major upgrade to significantly increase data acquisition speed, enhancing the quality and scope of nuclear target measurements relevant to cosmic ray physics.

Contribution

This paper reports on the current status of MIPP and outlines plans for a 100-fold upgrade to improve data collection for particle production studies.

Findings

Collected 18 million particle interaction events.

Plans to upgrade data acquisition to 100 times faster.

Will enable high-quality, extensive data on nuclear targets.

Abstract

We describe the status of the Main Injector particle production Experiment (MIPP) at Fermilab which has to date acquired 18 million events of particle interactions using (5 GeV/c-120 GeV/c) $\pi^\pm, K^\pm$ and $p^\pm$ beams on various targets. We describe plans to upgrade the data acquisition speed of MIPP to make it run 100 times faster which will enable us to obtain particle production data of unprecdented quality and statistics on a wide variety of nuclear targets including nitrogen which is of importance to cosmic ray physics.