Workshop registration is open until Sept. 30. An electron-ion collider will be an unprecedented machine that will need to maintain high luminosity over a very wide range of center-of-mass energies while accommodating highly polarized beams and many different ion species. Addressing the challenges of this machine requires R&D in areas such as beam cooling, crab cavities and high-field magnets for the interaction points — areas in which Fermilab already has significant advancements.
Every year, the summer shutdown of the accelerator complex provides a short break in Fermilab accelerator operations. It allows for a brief time to reflect on the successful operation of the past year.
Sergei Nagaitsev Sergei Nagaitsev, head of the Accelerator Division, wrote this column. By most accounts, Hannibal’s Rome invasion force in 218 B.C. included 37 or 38 elephants. Nobody knows how he managed to march his army and his elephants over the Alps, but he ended up occupying much of the Roman homeland for many years. Our invasion force into the neutrino empire includes 19 cavities in the Booster — Fermilab’s oldest synchrotron, built more than 40 years ago. This week…
Sergei Nagaitsev Let’s be honest: There is no manual on how to run the Accelerator Division. Before I took my new job as the head of AD, I asked many people for guidance. The sagest advice came from outgoing head Roger Dixon: “Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.” During his nearly 11-year tenure as AD head, Roger led the division through many bounces, and the division always came…