  For Project X, it is planned to inject a beam of 3x10**11 particles per bunch
into the Main Injector. Therefore, at 8-GeV, there will be increased space
charge tune shifts and an increased incoherent tune spread. In preparation for
these higher intensity bunches exploratory studies have commenced looking at
the transmission of different intensity bunches at different tunes. An
experiment is described with results for bunch intensities between 20 and 300
10**9 particles. To achieve the highest intensity bunches coalescing at 8-GeV
is required, resulting in a longer bunch length. Comparisons show that similar
transmission curves are obtained when the intensity and bunch length have
increased by factors of 3.2 and 3.4 respectively, indicating the incoherent
tune shifts are similar, as expected from theory. The results of these
experiments will be used in conjugation with simulations to further study high
intensity bunches in the Main Injector.
