Design Concepts for Muon-Based Accelerators

Conference · Fri May 01 04:00:00 EDT 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2015-WEPWA057· OSTI ID:1968556

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

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1. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
2. LBNL, Berkeley CA
3. BNL, Long Island NY
4. FNAL, IL
5. IIT, Chicago IL
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: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-06OR23177
• OSTI ID: 1968556
• Report Number(s): JLAB-ACP-15-2126; DOE/OR/23177-3665
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English