  The Fermilab Booster is being upgraded under the Proton Improvement Plan
(PIP) to be capable of providing a proton flux of $2.25^{17}$ protons per hour.
The intensity per cycle will remain at the present operational $4.3^{12}$
protons per pulse, however the Booster beam cycle rate is going to be increased
from 7.5 Hz to 15 Hz. One of the biggest challenges is to maintain the present
beam loss power while the doubling the beam flux. Under PIP, there has been a
large effort in beam studies and simulations to better understand the
mechanisms of the beam loss. The goal is to reduce it by half by correcting and
controlling the beam dynamics and by improving operational systems through
hardware upgrades. This paper is going to present the recent beam study results
and status of the Booster operations.
