Title:
"The Upgraded MIPP P960 experiment at Fermilab"
Abstract:
The Main Injector Particle Production Experiment at Fermilab is under consideration to continue data taking with an upgraded experiment in 2008. The extended physics goals beyond improvements to the current data-sets physics goals would be to further support the neutrino production targets studies needed, charm production from anti-proton interactions, missing baryon resonances and support of ILC calorimeter research and development. The current uncertainties of the atmospheric neutrino flux results of present and future experiments being dominated by a 50% uncertainties comes from errors on pion and Kaon production cross-sections. While accelerator neutrino experiments such a MINOS or MiniBooNE will need similar production cross-sections for their composite targets dramatically improved to yield the full physics potential from their data samples. The exceptional tagging of secondary beam particles of the MIPP experiment would give Fermilab world dominance in high-momentum anti-proton physics studies. The upgraded MIPP experiment will greatly assist the ILC hadron calorimeter research and development efforts by providing a test area for their hadron calorimeter proto-types that can tag neutrons and do a detailed study of thirty different elements used in detector construction to improve hadronic shower simulation codes.