The main injector particle production experiment (MIPP) at Fermilab

Main Injector Particle Production Experiment (MIPP) at Fermilab

The Main Injector Particle Production Experiment at Fermilab uses particle beams of charged pions, kaons, proton and anti-proton with beam momenta of 5 to 90 GeV/c and thin targets spanning the periodic table from (liquid) hydrogen to uranium to measure particle production cross sections in a full acceptance spectrometer with charged particle identification for particles from 0.1 to 120 GeV/c u...

The Main Injector Particle Physics Experiment (mipp Fnal E-907) at Fermilab -status and Plans

We describe the status of the Main Injector particle production Experiment (MIPP) at Fermilab which has to date acquired 18 million events of particle interactions using (5 GeV/c-120 GeV/c) π, K and p beams on various targets. We describe plans to upgrade the data acquisition speed of MIPP to make it run 100 times faster which will enable us to obtain particle production data of unprecdented qu...

The Fermilab MIPP Experiment

Interactions of energetic particles on target nuclei producing secondary particles from the Fermilab MIPP E907 experiment will be reviewed. Current simulation codes rely upon poorly measured results from the past. While current neutrino experiments, both atmospheric and accelerator based, rely upon MIPP and pion production measurements which are poorly known and dominate their errors. The goal ...

Tune Control in the Fermilab Main Injector

We describe methods used to measure and control tunes in the Fermilab Main Injector (FMI). Emphasis is given to software implementation of the operator interface, to the front-end embedded computer system, and handling of hysteresis of main dipole and quadrupole magnets. Techniques are developed to permit control of tune of the Main Injector through several acceleration cycles: from 8.9 GeV/c t...

Long Baseline Neutrino Experiments with the Fermilab Main Injector*