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TY - CONF AU - Seiya, K. AU - Bhat, C.M. AU - Johnson, D.E. AU - Kapin, V.V. AU - Pellico, W. AU - Tan, C.-Y. AU - Tesarek, R. ED - Henderson, Stuart ED - Akers, Evelyn ED - Satogata, Todd ED - Schaa, Volker R.W. TI - Beam Studies for the Proton Improvement Plan (PIP) - Reducing Beam Loss at the Fermilab Booster J2 - Proc. of IPAC2015, Richmond, VA, USA, May 3-8, 2015 C1 - Richmond, VA, USA T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 6 LA - english AB - The Fermilab Booster is being upgraded under the Proton Improvement Plan (PIP) to be capable of providing a proton flux of 2.25·10¹⁷ protons per hour. The intensity per cycle will remain at the present operational 4.3·10¹² protons per pulse, however the Booster beam cycle rate is going to be increased from 7.5 Hz to 15 Hz. One of the biggest challenges is to maintain the present beam loss power while the doubling the beam flux. Under PIP, there has been a large effort in beam studies and simulations to better understand the mechanisms of the beam loss. The goal is to reduce it by half by correcting and controlling the beam dynamics and by improving operational systems through hardware upgrades. This paper is going to present the recent beam study results and status of the Booster operations. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 4027 EP - 4029 KW - booster KW - injection KW - proton KW - simulation KW - lattice DA - 2015/06 PY - 2015 SN - 978-3-95450-168-7 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2015-THPF131 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2015/papers/thpf131.pdf ER -