Beam Dynamics Studies for the First Muon Linac of the Neutrino Factory

Conference · Sat May 01 04:00:00 EDT 2010

OSTI ID:1018931

Within the Neutrino Factory Project the muon acceleration process involves a complex chain of accelerators including a (single-pass) linac, two recirculating linacs and an FFAG. The linac consists of RF cavities and iron shielded solenoids for transverse focusing and has been previously designed relying on idealized field models. However, to predict accurately the transport and acceleration of a high emittance 30 cm wide beam with 10 % energy spread requires detailed knowledge of fringe field distributions. This article presents results of the front-to-end tracking of the muon beam through numerically simulated realistic field distributions for the shielded solenoids and the RF fields. Real and phase space evolution of the beam has been studied along the linac and the results are presented and discussed.

• Research Organization: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-06OR23177
• OSTI ID: 1018931
• Report Number(s): JLAB-ACP-10-1242; DOE/OR/23177-1301
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
ACCELERATION
ACCELERATORS
BEAM DYNAMICS
CAVITIES
CHAINS
FOCUSING
IRON
LINEAR ACCELERATORS
MUON BEAMS
MUONS
NEUTRINOS
PHASE SPACE
SOLENOIDS
TRANSPORT