Project X: Project Status

Steve HolmesProject X Working Group Meeting

December 15, 2011

Outline

Agenda

• Project News/Status (Steve)– Collaboration Meeting– DOE Intensity Frontier Workshop– PXIE– MOU’s PNNL

• FY13-14 Budgets (Steve)

• Short Term Plan

• Action Items

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Collaboration MeetingOctober 25-27, Fermilab

• Goals– Review of RDR technical status– Planning for PXIE– FY2012 Plan– Experimental Program and accelerator requirements

• Prepare for DOE Workshop

• Extended Plenary Session– PX Status and plans; International reports; DOE Workshop planning; Task Force reports

• Four Working Groups– CW Linac/PXIE– Pulsed Linac– MI/Recycler– Experimental Program Requirements

•  Collaboration Council– Strategy– Governance Plan– Budget outlook– Institutional assignments

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Collaboration MeetingOctober 25-27, Fermilab

• Attendance: 108 registrants (63 Fermilab)

• CW Linac– Moving towards a coherent plan for PXIE – need cost/schedule;

complete set of FRSs– HINS SSR1 design judged acceptable for PX– Pneumatic tuners?

•  Pulsed Linac– Primary technical issue is long pulse length w/ low beam loading

• Long-pulse testing currently underway (NML)– Modeling and experimental support – LFD and LLRF– Appears 8 GeV transfer line does not need cryogenic cooling

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Collaboration MeetingOctober 25-27, Fermilab

• MI/Recycler– Direct injection into MI – does not appear to work at MI-60 or 62 – need

backup plan if/when LBNE opts for MI-10– e-cloud: MI SEY measurements; in-situ beam coating– H- injection: lasers, rotating foils– Simulations with space-charge etc.

• Experimental Facilities– Meeting with DOE Workshop conveners– Discussion of materials irradiation facility with PNNL– Discussion of possible 8 GeV program– How to utilize PX beam power for muon conversion experiment– Target development

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Collaboration MeetingOctober 25-27, Fermilab

• Collaboration Council slides available in PX docdb– Discussion of Collaboration Governance Plan– Institutional assignments– PNNL will be signing the Collaboration MOU

•  What do we do next (~3 months)?– RDR update– PXIE scope, cost, schedule– Keep up FRSs– Cost estimate update– Get started on drafts of CD-1 documentation

• Next Collaboration Meeting at LBNL, ~April

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DOE Intensity Frontier Workshop

• Dates: November 23 – December 2, Rockville, MD

– Not a Project X workshop: Facilities discussions deliberately downplayed

• But excellent presentations by Bob T on PX in the neutrino and heavy quark WGs

– Focus on opportunities for U.S. leadership: both particle and nuclear physics research

– Engagement with Energy and Cosmic Frontier proponents

– Poster session on Wednesday with three PX posters (Physics Program, Technologies, Indian Interest)

• Great turnout: >520 registrants

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Project X Initial Funding

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DOE Intensity Frontier Workshop

• Neutrino WG– >200 participants with high engagement/enthusiasm levels– Significant enthusiasm for a multi-MW capability at 8 GeV

• Beyond scope of Reference Design, but strong overlap with the Muon Collider upgrade path

• Heavy quarks– Good turnout, but smaller room than neutrinos– Discussions on b’s and kaons– (SDH asked at reception why Fermilab is not proposing construction of

a next generation B-Factory)

•  Charged leptons– Primary discussion on g-2, tau’s, and mu2e (and equivalent channel)– MW sources already up and running at PSI

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DOE Intensity Frontier Workshop

• Nuclei– n-nbar oscillations and various edms discussed– Role of PX in these experiments is appreciated

• Next Steps– Summary talks available on the website– Conveners will write a report to DOE in January.– This will become the basis for the Intensity Frontier strategy requested

by Congress (due ~June). – There will be a brochure prepared on the basis of the report.

• Audience = Congressional staffers, OMB, etc. – Harry Weerts and JoAnne Hewett will provide briefings to higher ups in

the Office of Science + OMB + OSTP + Congressional staff

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Siegrist Slides

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Siegrist Slides

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Siegrist Slides

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Front End ProtoypePXIE

• Proposing to build a prototype of the first ~10-30 MeV of Project X.– Validate the concept for the Project X front end, thereby mitigating the primary

technical risk element within the Reference Design.– Wideband chopper; low-b acceleration– Operate at full design parameters

• Integrated systems test goals:– 1 mA average current with 80% chopping of beam delivered from RFQ– Efficient acceleration with minimal emittance dilution through ~15 MeV

• Potential utilization in Project X facility following successful demonstration

• Collaboration between Fermilab, ANL, LBNL, (SLAC); India & China?

• White paper available, and shared with DOE

• Location identified – NML/CMTF

Þ Oct 2016: Beam through b=0.1 , 0.2 CM at ~15 MeV with nearly final parameters (1 mA cw, 5 mA peak, arbitrary bunch chopping)

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Project X Injector ExperimentScope

• CW H- source delivering 5 mA at 30 keV

• LEBT with beam pre-chopping

• CW RFQ operating at 162.5 MHz and delivering 5 mA at 2.1 MeV

• MEBT with integrated wide band chopper and beam absorbers capable of generating arbitrary bunch patterns at 162.5 MHz, and disposing of 4 mA average beam current

• Low beta superconducting cryomodules capable of accelerating 1 mA to 15 MeV

• Beam dump capable of accommodating 1 mA at 15 MeV (15 kW) for extended periods.

• Associated beam diagnostics, utilities and shielding

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Beam Dump

Ion Source

LEBT RFQ MEBT HWR SSR1

Diagnostics

~40 m

MOUs

• PNNL has signed the Project X Collaboration MOU– Propose to develop a proposal for submission to NE

• Material irradiation and other topics of interest to NE– Not transmutation

• Whitepaper in circulation at PNNL• Will forward to Fermilab and ANL before Christmas

• Fermilab has signed an MOU with the European Spallation Source (ESS)

– Cooperation in areas of mutual interest– Possibility of work for others assignments

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FY2012 Budget

Through 11/30/11

FY12 Budget Actual %Spent

SWF $4,500 $525 11.7%

M&S $4,820 $338 7.0%

Overhead $4,567 $464 10.2%

TOTAL $13,887 $1,338 9.6%

~70% of budgeted manpower is actually being delivered.

Primary need is to increase the effort on the CW linac/PXIE. We are working with AD to get an additional 2.5 MEs added to the effort.

Even if we do this we are likely to remain underrunning. If this is the case we will shift funds from SWF to either PX or P18 M&S, for procurements or to engage more help from collaborators.

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FY2013-14 Budget

• Guidance– FY13: $13M– FY14: $14M

• Goals– CD-1 in 2013– CD-2 in 2014– PXIE beam in 2016

• Personnel Resources– To meet goals: FY13 = 57 FTE; FY14 = 66 FTE– To align with available budgets: FY13 = 37; FY14 = 40

• Strategy/consequences– Strategy is to protect PXIE to the best of our ability– Consequence is that we are not close to having resources to achieve CD-

1, CD-2 goals above

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Next Steps

• Post two job openings within AD to support PXIE– ME - submitted– RFE – under development

• Discuss with India participation/deliverables for PXIE

• Update RDR (1/31)

• Update Project X Cost Estimate (3/1)

• Develop concept for 2-4 MW at 8 GeV (1/31)

• Develop PXIE Cost/Schedule (1/31)

• Complete set of PXIE Functional Requirements Specifications

• Get started on CD-1 supporting documentation

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