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An 8 GeV Linac as the Booster Replacement in the Fermilab Power Upgrade: a Snowmass 2021 White Paper
Following the PIP-II 800 MeV Linac, Fermilab will need an accelerator that
extends from that linac to the MI injection energy of ~8 GeV, completing the
modernization of the Fermilab high-intensity accelerator complex. This will
maximize the beam available for neutrino production for the long baseline DUNE
experiment to greater than 2.5 MW and enable a next generation of intensity
frontier experiments. In this white paper, we propose an 8 GeV Linac for that
purpose. The Linac consists of an extension of the PIP-II Linac to 2.4 GeV
using PIP-II 650 MHz SRF cryomodules, followed by a 2.4-->8.0 GeV Linac
composed of 1300 MHz SRF cryomodules, based upon the LCLS-II cryomodules
developed at Fermilab. The 8 GeV Linac will incorporate recent improvements in
SRF technology. The research needed to implement this Linac is described.Comment: contribution to Snowmass 202
Pack light on the move: Exploitation and exploration in a dynamic environment
This paper revisits a recent study by Posen and Levinthal (Man Sci 58:587–601, 2012) on the exploration/exploitation tradeoff for a multi- armed bandit problem, where the reward probabilities undergo random shocks. We show that their analysis suffers two shortcomings: it assumes that learning is based on stale evidence, and it overlooks the steady state. We let the learning rule endogenously discard stale evidence, and we perform the long run analyses. The comparative study demonstrates that some of their conclusions must be qualified
Key directions for research and development of superconducting radio frequency cavities
Radio frequency superconductivity is a cornerstone technology for many future
HEP particle accelerators and experiments from colliders to proton drivers for
neutrino facilities to searches for dark matter. While the performance of
superconducting RF (SRF) cavities has improved significantly over the last
decades, and the SRF technology has enabled new applications, the proposed HEP
facilities and experiments pose new challenges. To address these challenges,
the field continues to generate new ideas and there seems to be a vast room for
improvements. In this paper we discuss the key research directions that are
aligned with and address the future HEP needs.Comment: contribution to Snowmass 202
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