Conveners
Linac and MCR tour
- Alyssa Miller ()
Linac and MCR tour
- Alyssa Miller ()
Description
The Fermilab Linac is designed to accelerate negative hydrogen ions, which ultimately feeds laboratory's accelerator complex, beam lines and beam targets. On this tour, we will visit the pre-accelerator area and look down into the pit where the beam is created. We'll walk through the low energy portion of the Linac Gallery and learn about the physical components of linear acceleration, which are on display. We will stop off at the Main Injector tunnel mock up to learn about synchrotron acceleration, then make our way down to the Main Control Room(MCR). Tourists can see inside where operators and machine experts are monitoring all parts of the accelerator complex, performing beam studies, and fielding requests from experimenters.