FERMILAB TEST BEAM FACILITYFERMILAB TEST BEAM FACILITY

Aria SohaAll Experimenter’s Meeting

October 20, 2014

2014 Facility Upgrades

• MCenter Beamline!• Area for High Rate Trackers (M03)• New Instrumentation– Wire chamber tracking system– Si strip telescope

• Improved Infrastructure– Temperature control– Table control / new tables

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2014 Statistics

• 18 Experiments• 321 Collaborators• 84 Institutions• 20 Countries• 9 New TSW’s

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Beam Delivery

• 416,139 Total Fxd Trgt events

• 183,225 MTest beam pulses• 16,496 MCntr beam pulses• MTest Beam Sum: 7.9E15• MCntr Beam Sum: 2.4E16

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Weekly Usage

MTest– 48 available beam-weeks– 78 experiment-weeks– 6 weeks of beam studies/

commissioning– 177% Usage

MCenter– 5 available beam-weeks– 0.5 experiment-weeks– 5 weeks of beam studies/

commissioning– 100% Usage

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Experiments (18)

• 9 new TSW’s approved• 11 new experiments started• 7 returning experiments

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Experiment Types• T1015 DRO Calorimetry• T1037 FLYSUB-Consortium• T958 FP420 (CMS+ATLAS) Fast Timing Group• T979 Fast Timing w/Cherenkov Counters• T989 DAMIC• T1058 Secondary Emission Calorimeter • T1031 Atlas Tile Calorimeter Electronics• T1036 CMS High Rate Pixel Detector• T1041CMS Forward Calorimetry• T1049 ATLAS large scale TGC• T1056 ATLAS DBM Module Qualification• T992 Radiation-hard Sensors for the SLHC• T1042 Muon g-2 straw tracker• T1018 Spacordion Tungsten Fiber Calorimeter• T1044 sPHENIX• T1048 PHENIX fast TOF• T1054 sPHENIX Pre-Shower Calorimeter• T994 JASMIN

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Two Large Neutrino experiments on schedule for FY15: MINERvA & LAriaTTwo Large Neutrino experiments on

schedule for FY15: MINERvA & LAriaT

Institutions (84)

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Summary

• Facility is growing at an incredible rate, and is on track to continue

• 321 collaborators this year

• Will likely break 500 next year, with new beamline

• 1.4 FTE for facility management is not enough

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ADDITIONAL SLIDES

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Latest Experiments

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T-10565 Users

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So Far in FY 2014

• 70 Experiment Weeks• 1 Installation week• 6 weeks Facility beam studies

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Current Status

MTest•T-1041 running now. (6 sub-experiments) •Wednesday they will uninstall•Thursday will be spent installing T-992, T-1058, T-1015, and T-958 (until Sept Shutdown)MCenter•LAriaT Commissioning•Characterization of Tertiary Beam •T- 979 will run parasitically with punch-through muons

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