Project X Forum on Spallation Sources for Particle Physics
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Hornet's Nest (Wilson Hall North 8 Floor Crossover) (Fermilab)
Hornet's Nest (Wilson Hall North 8 Floor Crossover)
Fermilab
PO Box 500
Kirk & Pine Street
Batavia IL 60510
Robert Tschirhart
(Fermilab)
Description
“Project-X*” is a US led accelerator initiative with strong international participation that aims to realize a next generation proton accelerator complex that will dramatically extend the reach of Intensity Frontier research in particle physics. The state of the art in Super-Conducting RF has advanced to a point where it can be implemented as the core enabling technology for a next generation multi-megawatt proton source--reliably delivering unprecedented beam power at duty factors ranging from 0.001% to 100%. The baseline Super-Conducting RF technology also supports flexible beam-timing configurations among simultaneous experiments, allowing a broad range of experiments to develop and operate in parallel. The DOE Office of High Energy Physics and its advisory bodies have recognized this potential and are supporting R&D for Project-X that could lead to a construction start as early as 2017.
Project-X will provide multi-megawatt proton beams from the Fermilab Main Injector over the energy range 60-120 GeV simultaneous with multi-megawatt protons beams 1-3 GeV (kinetic) with very flexible beam-timing characteristics as well as substantial beam power at 8 GeV. The Project-X research program includes world leading sensitivity in long-baseline and short-baseline neutrino experiments, a rich program of ultra-rare muon and kaon decays and opportunities for next-generation electric dipole moment (edm) experiments and other nuclear/particle physics probes that reach far beyond the Standard Model.
The pursuit of fundamental measurements with neutrons and atomic systems, particularly electric dipole moments and neutron-antineutron oscillations, are broadly recognized as very deep probes in particle physics which has motivated a world-wide research campaign for many decades now. The goal of this forum is to explore a next generation spallation source optimized for a particle physics research program. To this end the Project X team has invited leaders in the field to come together and advise on a R&D road map with particular attention paid to simulations, engineering, and test-stands necessary for the development of conceptual designs optimized for particle physics.
* http://projectx.fnal.gov/