•Running as we are now, the Booster can deliver a
little over 1E20 protons per year – this is about a factor of six over typical
stacking operations, and gives MiniBooNE
about 20% of their baseline.
•NuMI will come on line in 2005, initially wanting about
half of MiniBooNE’s rate, but hoping to
increase their capacity – through Main Injector
Improvements – until it is
equal to MiniBooNE.
•Whatever the lab’s official policy, there will be great
pressure (and good physics arguments) for running MiniBooNE and NuMI at the same time.
•-> By 2006 or so, the Proton Source
might be called upon to deliver
10 times what it is
delivering now.
•At the moment, there is no plan for
assuring this, short of a complete replacement!
•So what are we going to try?…