PIP2-BD: GeV Proton Beam Dump at Fermilab's PIP-II Linac

M. Toups, R. G. Van de Water, Brian Batell, S. J. Brice, Patrick deNiverville, Jeff Eldred, Roni Harnik, Kevin J. Kelly, Doojin Kim, Tom Kobilarcik, Gordan Krnjaic, B. R. Littlejohn, Bill Louis, Pedro A. N. Machado, Z. Pavlovic, William Pellico, Michael Shaevitz, P. Snopok, Rex Tayloe, R. T. Thornton, Jacob Zettlemoyer, Bob Zwaska

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arXiv

2203.08079

Date

2022-03-15

Frontier

Rare Processes and Precision Frontier (RF)

Topical groups

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Matt Toups

Abstract

The PIP-II superconducting RF linac is currently under construction at Fermilab and is expected to be completed by the end of 2028. PIP-II is capable of operating in a continuous-wave mode and can concurrently supply 800 MeV protons to a mega-watt, GeV-scale beam dump facility and to LBNF/DUNE. Designs for proton accumulator rings are being studied to bunch the PIP-II protons into the short pulses needed for neutrino and low-mass dark matter experiments. PIP2-BD is a proposed 100-ton LAr scintillation-only experiment, whose detector design is inspired by CENNS-10 and CCM, that would have world-leading sensitivities to BSM physics, including low-mass dark matter produced in the PIP-II proton beam dump.