Design Concepts for Muon-Based Accelerators

Conference · Fri May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015

OSTI ID:1223244

Ryne, R. D. ^[1]; Berg, J. S. ^[2]; Kirk, H. G. ^[2]; Palmer, R. B. ^[2]; Stratkis, D. ^[2]; Alexahin, Y. ^[3]; Bross, A. ^[3]; Gollwitzer, K. ^[3]; Mokhov, N. V. ^[3]; Neuffer, D. ^[3]; Palmer, M. A. ^[3]; Yonehara, K. ^[3]; Snopok, P. ^[4]; Bogacz, A. ^[5]; Roberts, T. J. ^[6]; Delahaye, J. -P. ^[7]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
2. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
3. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
4. IIT, Chicago, IL (United States)
5. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
6. Muons Inc., Batavia, IL (United States)
7. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Muon-based accelerators have the potential to enable facilities at both the Intensity and the Energy Frontiers. Muon storage rings can serve as high precision neutrino sources, and a muon collider is an ideal technology for a TeV or multi-TeV collider. Progress in muon accelerator designs has advanced steadily in recent years. In regard to 6D muon cooling, detailed and realistic designs now exist that provide more than 5 order-of-magnitude emittance reduction. Furthermore, detector performance studies indicate that with suitable pixelation and timing resolution, backgrounds in the collider detectors can be significantly reduced, thus enabling high-quality physics results. Thanks to these and other advances in design & simulation of muon systems, technology development, and systems demonstrations, muon storage-ring-based neutrino sources and a muon collider appear more feasible than ever before. A muon collider is now arguably among the most compelling approaches to a multi-TeV lepton collider. This paper summarizes the current status of design concepts for muon-based accelerators for neutrino factories and a muon collider.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1223244
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-CONF-15-389-AD-APC; TRN: US1601474
• Resource Relation: Conference: 6. International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC2015), Richmond, VA (United States), 3-8 May 2015
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
MUON BEAMS
NEUTRINOS
TEV RANGE
DESIGN
LINEAR COLLIDERS
FORECASTING
STORAGE RINGS
BEAM COOLING
PERFORMANCE
SIMULATION