Benchmarking possibilities at Fermilab: accelerators, experiments and irradiation facilities

Possibilities for transport code and physics model benchmarking at the Fermilab complex are described. The facilities include: a 400 MeV linac, an 8 GeV booster, a 150 GeV main injector, a 980 x 980 GeV proton-antiproton Tevatron collider, CDF and Ddiameter collider detectors, fixed-target particle production and neutrino experiments, and two special irradiation facilities at the booster and antiproton target station. The complex provides a variety of conditions for particle spectra (ranging from an electron volt to 1 000 GeV) and a variety of possibilities to study source terms, the deep penetration shielding problem, induced radioactivity, radiation damage, etc. Results are presented of recent calculational and experimental radiation studies performed at these facilities, including beam-induced damage to the Tevatron collimators (December 2003). (author)