Final Cooling with Thick Wedges for a Muon Collider
- Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
A muon collider is a particle accelerator that collides muons rather than protons or electrons. An important component of such a collider is cooling, in which the emittance of the muon beam is reduced to make it suitable for use in a collider. In the last stage of this process, called final 4D cooling, emittance in the transverse axes is reduced while emittance in the longitudinal axis is allowed to grow. In previous studies, Final 4-D cooling used absorbers within very high field solenoids to cool low-momentum muons. Simulations of the systems did not reach the desired cooling design goals. In this study, we develop and optimize a different conceptual design for the final 4D cooling channel, which is based on single thick wedges. We used G4Beamline to simulate the channel and Python to generate and analyze particle distributions. We characterized the effects of various parameters on the performance of this system, including the initial emittances and Twiss parameters, the length and angle of the wedges, the length of the drift channel, and the length, frequency, gradient, and phase of the RF cavities. We optimized the design parameters of the cooling channel and produced two conceptual designs (corresponding to two possible starting points for the input beam) which achieve transverse cooling in both x and y by a factor of ≈ 3.5. These channels achieve a lower transverse and longitudinal emittance than the best design previously published.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 2246786
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-FN--1236-AD-STUDENT; oai:inspirehep.net:2736485
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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