Fermilab Director Research Articles

Fermilab's director reassures staff

Fermilab's director reassures staff

An interview with the director of Fermilab, Pier Oddone

An interview with the director of Fermilab, Pier Oddone

US neutrino factory studies

The design and simulated performance of a second feasibility study are presented. The efficiency of producing muons is ≈0.17 μ/ p with 24 GeV protons. This study was sponsored by the BNL Director, with BNL site specific driver and layout. It was a follow on to the First Study ( http://www.fnal.gov/projects/muon_collider/nu-factory/fermi_study_after_april1st/) sponsored by the Fermilab Director, with Fermilab site specific driver and layout, and was the main US collaboration conceptual effort during the past year. Other studies, and technical work by the collaboration is reported in other papers.

A feasibility study of a neutrino source based on a muon storage ring

We present the results of a study commissioned by the Fermilab Director on the feasibility of an intense neutrino source, based on a muon storage ring. Muon colliders have been discussed as an alternate route to very high-energy lepton colliders. As a by-product, such a collider would produce very intense neutrino beams because of the decaying muons circulating in the storage ring. In a dedicated storage ring, these neutrino beams could be produced in long straight sections which would point towards long, medium or short baseline detectors, opening up a whole new class of neutrino physics experiments because of the enormous neutrino flux that, in principle, could be achieved in such a facility as compared to more standard fixed target sources. Intense pion sources in combination with powerful emittance cooling strategies for the comparatively large muon emittance are necessary to make this type of neutrino source as well as a muon collider, feasible for a possible future high energy physics facility. The Neutrino Factory and Muon Collider collaboration studies the different subsystems being required and presently focuses on the layout of a neutrino source based on a 50GeV Muon Storage Ring.

Top physics labs ‘must bury the hatchet’

washington Michael Witherell has been appointed director of Fermilab, the largest high energy physics laboratory in the United States.

Fermilab faces up to uncertain future

John Peoples will retire next year as director of Fermilab, leaving it in solid shape. But with CERN expected to usurp its position at the forefront of high-energy physics, and doubts about government investment, his replacement must find a way of ensuring a secure future for the US lab.

Peoples is New Deputy Director of Fermilab

Peoples is New Deputy Director of Fermilab

Leon Lederman to be director of Fermilab

Leon Lederman to be director of Fermilab

Fermilab Director Resigns: Cites Subminimal Funding

Fermilab Director Resigns: Cites Subminimal Funding

Fermilab director resigns over funding

Fermilab director resigns over funding

Fermilab's director threatens resignation

Fermilab's director threatens resignation