SIMULATIONS OF A MUON LINAC FOR A NEUTRINO FACTORY

Conference · Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2011

OSTI ID:1012227

Kevin Beard, Alex Bogacz ,Slawomir Bogacz, Vasiliy Morozov, Yves Roblin

The Neutrino Factory baseline design involves a complex chain of accelerators including a single-pass linac, two recirculating linacs and an FFAG. The first linac follows the capture and bunching section and accelerates the muons from about 244 to 900 MeV. It must accept a high emittance beam about 30 cm wide with a 10% energy spread. This linac uses counterwound, shielded superconducting solenoids and 201 MHz superconducting cavities. Simulations have been carried out using several codes including Zgoubi, OptiM, GPT, Elegant and G4beamline, both to determine the optics and to estimate the radiation loads on the elements due to beam loss and muon decay.

• Research Organization: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-06OR23177
• OSTI ID: 1012227
• Report Number(s): JLAB-ACP-11-1355; DOE/OR/23177-1537; TRN: US1102211
• Resource Relation: Conference: 2011 Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC'11)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
ACCELERATORS
CAVITIES
CHAINS
DECAY
DESIGN
LINEAR ACCELERATORS
MUONS
NEUTRINOS
OPTICS
RADIATIONS
SOLENOIDS
SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS