Proposed muon collider R&D at SNS

Conference · Mon Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 2024 · JACoW

DOI:https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2024-WEPR39· OSTI ID:2477645

Morozov, Vasiliy ^[1]; Hoover, Austin ^[1]; Stratakis, Diktys ^[2]; Pilat, Fulvia ^[1]; Evans, Nicholas ^[1]; Cousineau, Sarah ^[1]

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1. Oak Ridge
2. Fermilab

Generation of a muon beam at a Muon Collider requires relatively short, high-charge proton bunches. They are produced in a high-average-power proton driver by first accumulating a proton beam from a super-conducting linac, then bunching the beam and finally compressing and combining the bunches into a single high-intensity proton pulse. All of these beam formation stages involve handling of unprecedentedly high beam charges. Validation of these intricate beam manipulations requires better understanding of extreme space-charge effects and experimental demonstration. A facility perhaps most closely resembling the proton driver configuration and beam parameters is the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) accelerator complex at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Considering the energy scaling of the space-charge parameters, many of the beam formation steps planned for the proton driver can be experimentally checked at the SNS at the relevant space-charge interaction levels. This paper discusses potential proton driver and other muon-collider-related R\&D at the SNS.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 2477645
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-CONF-24-0665-AD; oai:inspirehep.net:2813360
• Conference Information: Journal Name: JACoW Journal Volume: IPAC2024
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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