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A STAGED MUON ACCELERATOR FACILITY FOR NEUTRINO AND COLLIDER PHYSICS

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  1. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  2. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  3. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
  4. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
  5. Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois
  6. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  7. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Muon-based facilities offer unique potential to provide capabilities at both the Intensity Frontier with Neutrino Factories and the Energy Frontier with Muon Colliders. They rely on a novel technology with challenging parameters, for which the feasibility is currently being evaluated by the Muon Accelerator Program (MAP). A realistic scenario for a complementary series of staged facilities with increasing complexity and significant physics potential at each stage has been developed. It takes advantage of and leverages the capabilities already planned for Fermilab, especially the strategy for long-term improvement of the accelerator complex being initiated with the Proton Improvement Plan (PIP-II) and the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE). Each stage is designed to provide an R&D platform to validate the technologies required for subsequent stages. The rationale and sequence of the staging process, and the critical issues to be addressed at each stage, are presented.
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:
1968795
Report Number(s):
JLAB-ACP-14-1897; DOE/OR/23177-3109
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English