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DOE OSTI2018

Fermilab - The Proton Improvement Plan (PIP)

The Fermilab Proton Source is composed of three machines: an injector line, a normal conducting Linac and a Booster synchrotron. The proton improvement plan was proposed in 2012 to address the necessary accelerator upgrades and hardware modification to allow an increase in proton throughput, while maintaining acceptable activation levels, ensuring viable operation of the proton source to sustain the laboratory HEP program. A summary of work performed and respective results will be presented.

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DOE OSTI2013

Project X

Particle physics has made enormous progress in understanding the nature of matter and forces at a fundamental level and has unlocked many mysteries of our world. The development of the Standard Model of particle physics has been a magnificent achievement of the field. Many deep and important questions have been answered and yet many mysteries remain. The discovery of neutrino oscillations, discrepancies in some precision measurements of Standard-Model processes, observation of matter-antimatter asymmetry, the evidence for the existence of dark matter and dark energy, all point to new physics beyond the Standard Model. The pivotal developments of our field, including the latest discovery of the Higgs Boson, have progressed within three interlocking frontiers of research – the Energy, Intensity and Cosmic frontiers – where discoveries and insights in one frontier powerfully advance the other frontiers as well.

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