  Over the past decade, Fermilab has focused efforts on the intensity frontier
physics and is committed to increase the average beam power delivered to the
neutrino and muon programs substantially. Many upgrades to the existing
injector accelerators, namely, the current 400 MeV LINAC and the Booster, are
in progress under the Proton Improvement Plan (PIP). Proton Improvement Plan-II
(PIP-II) proposes to replace the existing 400 MeV LINAC by a new 800 MeV LINAC,
as an injector to the Booster which will increase Booster output power by
nearly a factor of two from the PIP design value by the end of its completion.
In any case, the Fermilab Booster is going to play a very significant role for
nearly next two decades. In this context, I have developed and investigated a
new beam injection scheme called "early injection scheme" (EIS) for the Booster
with the goal to significantly increase the beam intensity output from the
Booster thereby increasing the beam power to the HEP experiments even before
PIP-II era. The scheme, if implemented, will also help improve the
slip-stacking efficiency in the MI/RR. Here I present results from recent
simulations, beam studies, current status and future plans for the new scheme.
