Fermilab is upgrading its accelerator complex under the upcoming Proton Improvement Plan II, or PIP-II. The heart of the project is a superconducting linear accelerator, which will help generate intense proton beams for the lab’s experiments. Follow the PIP-II beam as it accelerates to higher energies.
Fermilab’s Lia Merminga talks to Symmetry about her early experiences in STEM and her drive to solve science’s unanswered questions.
PIP-II, a particle accelerator project for generating intense neutrino beams, has achieved an important milestone.
Over the last year, the Booster accelerator has been hitting record highs in beam delivery, meeting or exceeding the increased needs of all of the lab’s beam-based experiments.
I’d like to share with you — whether you are actively involved in PIP-II or are generally interested in PIP-II’s progress — the top five takeaways from our May 11 all-hands meeting.
Lia Merminga, presently Associate Laboratory Director for Accelerators at SLAC and Professor at Stanford University, will join the Fermilab Directorate on February 1, 2018.
The Independent Project Review of the PIP-II project assessed our progress within the R&D program and through the more formalized project activities aimed at the next step: CD-1.
Three major projects will finish strong in 2017 as they move from project to operations.
Fermilab’s partnership with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai, India, recently bore its first fruit: preproduction magnets designed and built at the India laboratory. The magnets were installed and tested at the Fermilab PIP-II Injector Test Accelerator in late March.
A new radio-frequency quadrupole, designed and built by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, will help provide intense, focused beams to the entire Fermilab accelerator complex.