•Presently, the Booster is limited to an
average rep. Rate of 2.5 Hz,
which would only yield a small fraction of the desired MiniBooNE intensity. The primary
limitation is the pulsed extraction
septum magnet (MP02).
•A new power supply will go in in the next
few weeks, which will raise
this rate to 4.5 Hz, which would give about half the nominal MiniBooNE rate.
•A new magnet will go in during the January
shutdown which will allow
the Booster to go to 7.5 Hz – enough for MiniBooNE or NUMI.
•In order to run both MiniBooNE and NUMI,
we need
–More cables for the extraction
septum.
–Cooling for the RF cavities (or new RF
cavities)
–A new “bump” magnet, which steers beam out
during injection.