Speaker
Aria Soha
(Fermilab)
Description
Located at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, the Fermilab Test Beam Facility is a world-class facility devoted to particle detector R&D. The goal of the Fermilab Test Beam Program is to provide flexible, equal and open access to test beams for all detector tests, with relatively low bureaucratic overhead and a guarantee of safety, coordination and oversight.
The facility consists of two versatile beamlines (MTest and MCenter) in which users can test equipment or detectors.
The MTest primary beamline consists of a beam of high energy protons (120 GeV) at moderate intensities (~1-300 kHz). This beam can also be targeted to create secondary, or even tertiary particle beams of energies down to below 1 GeV, consisting of pions, muons, and/or electrons. Recently we have developed a tertiary beamline for the facility, which can reconstruct beam particles with momentum down to 300 MeV/c.
FTBF is currently the only operating test beam facility in the United States, and in 2013 is expected to be the only operating hadrons test beam in the world. The schedule for beam and expected facility expansions will also be discussed.
Author
Aria Soha
(Fermilab)
