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Title: LAMPF II

Conference · · AIP Conf. Proc.; (United States)
OSTI ID:5731587

We present a plan for a 45-GeV 40-..mu..A proton synchrotron with a 200-..mu..A 9-GeV booster. These machines can provide simultaneously 45-GeV slow-extracted beam for production of kaons, antiprotons, and other secondary particles, and 9-GeV fast-extracted beam for neutrino and pulsed muon physics. The LAMPF II machines are compared with existing and proposed kaon factories. Relative to the Brookhaven AGS as it exists today, LAMPF II will provide 90 times as many neutrino events per year and 300 times as many kaons per year. A number of experiments requiring vastly increased beam current are examined. Two programs, the search for quark-gluon plasma using high-energy antiproton annihilation in nuclei, and the measurement of nuclear quark structure functions using the Drell-Yan process, address the highest priority problems of the NSAC long-range plan. Some of the design features of the LAMPF II accelerators are shown to be important for reducing beam losses and increasing beam availability.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-84OR21400
OSTI ID:
5731587
Report Number(s):
CONF-8405193-
Journal Information:
AIP Conf. Proc.; (United States), Vol. 123:1; Conference: Conference on the intersections between particle and nuclear physics, Steamboat Springs, CO, USA, 23 May 1984
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English