Booster Tunnel Losses
• Harder to quantify – no hard limits
• Major worry is activation of high maintenance
components (e.g. RF cavities).
• Administrative limit set at twice the total power loss
during “messy” stacking (for 9 times the beam!!!).
• If we had to run tomorrow, we could deliver roughly
20% of the nominal MiniBooNE intensity under this
scenario.
• Steps are being taken to reduce beam losses and
proton source consistency.