• B. C. Brown, P. Adamson, D. Capista, D. E. Johnson, I. Kourbanis, D. K. Morris, M.-J. Yang
  Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois

High intensity operation of the Fermilab Main Injector has resulted in increased activation of machine components. Efforts to permit operation at high power include creation of collimation systems to localize losses away from locations which require maintenance. As a first step, a collimation system to remove halo from the incoming beam was installed in the Spring 2006 Facility Shutdown*. We report on commissioning studies and operational experience including observations of Booster beam properties, effects on Main Injector loss and activation, and operational results.

* B. C. Brown, et al., "Collimation System for the Fermilab Booster to Main Injector Transfer Line", this conference.

• B. C. Brown, D. Capista, I. Kourbanis, N. V. Mokhov, V. Sidorov
  Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois

A collimation system has been created for removing proton beam halo in the 8 GeV transfer line from the Fermilab Booster to Main Injector. A pair of 1.14 meter collimators with 5.08 cm rectangular apertures are installed in a 5 meter straight section. Horizontal and vertical motion systems allow them to be positioned such that halo can be scraped from four sides. An additional pair of collimators, placed one cell (90 degrees) downstream scrape halo which is of opposite phase. Each collimator pair can scrape about 600 Watts of beam power, limited by long term activation of materials outside of the beam line tunnel. Personnel exposure is reduced by surrounding the iron absorber with a layer of marble. Design features,radiation calculations and instrumentation considerations will be described.

• W. Chou, D. Capista, E. Griffin, K. Y. Ng, D. Wildman
  Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois

Two barrier rf systems were fabricated, tested and installed in the Fermilab Main Injector.* Each can provide 8-10 kV rectangular pulses (the rf barriers) at 90 kHz. When a stationary barrier is combined with a moving barrier, injected beams from the Booster can be continuously deflected, folded and stacked in the Main Injector (MI), which leads to doubling of the beam intensity. This paper gives a report on the beam experiment using this novel technology.

* W. Chou, D. Wildman and A. Takagi, "Induction Barrier RF and Applications in Main Injector," Fermilab-Conf-06-227 (2006).

• W. Chou, C. L. Bartelson, B. C. Brown, D. Capista, J. L. Crisp, J. DiMarco, J. Fitzgerald, H. D. Glass, D. J. Harding, B. Hendricks, D. E. Johnson, V. S. Kashikhin, I. Kourbanis, W. F. Robotham, T. Sager, M. Tartaglia, L. Valerio, R. C. Webber, M. Wendt, D. Wolff, M.-J. Yang
  Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois

A two-year Large Aperture Quadrupole (WQB) Project was completed in the summer of 2006 at Fermilab.* Nine WQBs were designed, fabricated and bench-tested by the Technical Division. Seven of them were installed in the Main Injector and the other two for spares. They perform well. The aperture increase meets the design goal and the perturbation to the lattice is minimal. The machine acceptance in the injection and extraction regions is increased from 40π to 60π mm-mrad. This paper gives a brief report of the operation and performance of these magnets. Details can be found in Ref**.

* D. Harding et al, "A Wide Aperture Quadrupole for the Fermilab Main Injector," this conference.
** W. Chou, Fermilab Beams-doc-#2479, http://beamdocs.fnal.gov/AD-public/DocDB/DocumentDatabase