Speakers:

1. Pallavi Saha  
2. Meltem Alemdar on CBB’s climate study results

Title: Upstream Collimation in the M4 Line: Optimization, Extinction, and Mu2e Calibration

Speaker: Steven Boi, Fermilab

Abstract:

Located between the Delivery Ring and the Mu2e experiment in the Muon campus, the M4 beamline serves as the transport line for a resonantly extracted, 8kW, 8GeV pulsed proton beam to the Mu2e production target. In addition to challenges posed by elevation and directional changes, the M4 line is tasked with removing beam halo from resonant extraction and ensuring adequate inter-pulse beam extinction. A brief overview of the M4 line will be presented alongside on-going work to optimize halo collimation and minimize the radiological effects while maintaining adequate beam extinction downstream. An additional topic of the transport of the beam halo to the production target as a low-intensity beam for Mu2e calibration is also presented.

Title: Improving the performance of SRF cavities by pairbreaking mechanisms

Speaker: Alex Gurevich (Old Dominion University)

I discuss possibilities of improving the performance of SRF cavities by engineering an optimum density of states of quasiparticles at the surface, the thickness of a suboxide metallic layer, and surface nanostructuring. The surface resistance R_s(T) in the Meissner state can be optimized and even reduced below its BCS value for an ideal surface by optimizing the quasiparticle the density of states at the suface using pairbreaking mechanisms, for instance, by incorporating a small density of magnetic impurities or by tuning the thickness and conductivity of the normal suboxide layer and its contact resistance.

I also discuss recent numerical simulations of vortices driven by a strong rf field in a film with randomly distributed pinning centers which revealed complex dependencies of R_s(ω, H) on frequency and the field amplitude H, particularly, a non-monotonic dependence of R_s(H). The ways of engineering an optimal density of states by surface nano-structuring and impurity management to reduce losses in SRF cavities for particle accelerators are discussed.

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Speaker: Michael Wallbank, University of Cincinnati

Title:Optimizing the MCenter Beamline for the NOvA Test Beam Experiment

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Abstract:

NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to study a wide range of outstanding critical questions in neutrino physics. The experiment uses the NuMI neutrino beam and comprises two functionally-identical detectors, placed 1 km and 810 km from the beam source at Fermilab and Ash River, Minnesota, respectively. The NOvA Test Beam experiment uses a scaled-down NOvA detector to analyze well-understood charged particles to improve our understanding of the detector response and data analysis techniques.

A new tertiary beamline deployed at Fermilab can select and identify electrons, muons, pions, kaons and protons with energies from 0.3 to 2 GeV. Using these data, the Test Beam program will provide NOvA with a better understanding of the largest systematic uncertainties impacting NOvA’s analyses, including the detector modeling and simulation, calibration, and hadronic and electromagnetic energy resolution. The NOvA Test Beam experiment is located at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility on the MCenter beamline.

I will overview the program and discuss its current status and plans, including showing preliminary results from data collected between 2019 and 2021. I will also discuss the work done in improving understanding of and optimizing the MCenter beam for NOvA’s use.