Accelerator R&D at Fermilab’s FAST/IOTA for Future High Intensity Proton Accelerators

The physics programs of future hadron accelerators require larger beam current and power than existing facilities can provide. New facilities are being designed and existing accelerators up- graded in order to meet this demand. A significant impedement for such high intensity accel- erators is beam loss, which both damages the activates accelerator components. Losses must therefore be minimized, and the Fermilab Accelerator Science and Technology (FAST) facility team is building a storage ring, the Integrable Optics Test Accelerator (IOTA), to investigate ac- celerator technology for the next generation of particle accelerators. IOTA will host a variety of experiments with the goal of better understanding and controlling space charge effects and incoherent instabilities, while developing techniques to minimize beam loss.