Fermilab

Records

The following are performance records achieved by the AD accelerators.


Name Value Date Description

Booster
Hourly Beam Intensity 2.561 E17 June 11, 2018 Highest sum of protons through Booster in one hour.

Main Injector
Beam Power Hour Average 1018 kW June 26, 2024 Main Injector one hour average beam power record at 120 GeV, delivered to NuMI. Using a 1.067 second ramp in Main Injector and off-center slip-stacking in Recycler.
Previous Record Beam Power Hour Average 959 kW May 22, 2023 Main Injector one hour average beam power record at 120 GeV, delivered to NuMI. Using a 1.133 second ramp in Main Injector and off-center slip-stacking in Recycler.
Beam Intensity (120 GeV) 58.4 E12 May 4, 2023 Highest intensity Main Injector pulse at 120 GeV. Using 12 batch off-center slip-stacking in Recycler.

Recycler
Beam Intensity (8 GeV) 60.2 E12 April 20, 2023 Highest intensity Recycler pulse at 8 GeV. Using 12 batch off-center slip-stacking.

Recycler (Tevatron Era)
Antiproton "Stash" Size 608 E10 March 21, 2011 Largest amount of antiprotons stored in the Recycler storage ring.
Sustained Antiproton "Stash" Time 49 days, 9 hours August 15, 2008 - October 3, 2008 Longest uninterrupted amount of time antiprotons were stored in Recycler storage ring.
Antiprotons Delivered to the TeVatron (One week) 3977 E10 April 24, 2010 - May 1, 2010 Most amount of antiprotons delivered to the TeVatron for collider stores in one week.
Antiprotons "Stashed" (Floating week) 3980 E10 January 25, 2011 03:11:15 - February 1, 2011 03:11:15 Most amount of antiprotons stored in the Recycler storage ring in one week.

ECool
Electron Cooling through entire Cooling Section 720 mA October 19, 2005 Largest current ran through the ECool cooling section beam line.
Electron Cooling through UBend 1800 mA April 9, 2006 Largest current ran through the UBend (Not delivered to the ECool cooling section beam line).
DC Electron Beam Power 7.8 MW April 9, 2006 Electron DC beam power generated by ECool.

Accumulator
Antiproton "Stack" Size 338.0 E10 April 15, 2011 04:43:21 Largest amount of antiprotons stored in the PBar accumulator ring.
Sustained Antiproton "Stack" Time 69 days, 10 hours, 18 minutes March 26, 2004 - June 4, 2004 Longest uninterrupted amount of time antiprotons were stored in Accumulator storage ring.
Antiproton "Stacking" Rate (One hour) 28.56 E10/hr December 19, 2008 17:43:37 Largest amount of antiprotons accumulated in one hour.
Antiproton "Stacking" Rate Average (One week) 25.65 E10/hr January 30, 2011 00:00:00 Largest average amount of antiprotons accumulated in one hour for a week.

TeVatron
Antiproton Beam Energy 980 GeV 2001 - 2011 The energy of antiprotons in the TeVatron.
"Store" Initial Luminosity 4.3107 E32 1/cm**2 sec May 3, 2011 Store: 8709 Largest amount of integrated luminosity for proton/antiproton collisions in the TeVatron.
"Store" Integrated Luminosity CDF: 12150.17 D0: 12048.1 1/nb April 17, 2010 Store: 7748 Largest amount of integrated luminosity for proton/antiproton collisions in the TeVatron.
Integrated Luminosity (One week) 78.439 1/pb March 2010 Largest average integrated luminosity for proton/antiproton collisions in the TeVatron in a week.
Sustained "Store" Duration 53.75 hours Store: 4862 July 29, 2006 - July 31, 2006 Longest amount of time proton/antiproton collisions in the TeVatron were sustained.