Muon capture in the front end of the IDS neutrino factory

Conference · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 2003 · Conf.Proc.C100523:wepe068,2010

OSTI ID:982230

Neuffer, D; Martini, M; Prior, G; Rogers, C; Yoshikawa, C

We discuss the design of the muon capture front end of the neutrino factory International Design Study. In the front end, a proton bunch on a target creates secondary pions that drift into a capture transport channel, decaying into muons. A sequence of rf cavities forms the resulting muon beams into strings of bunches of differing energies, aligns the bunches to (nearly) equal central energies, and initiates ionization cooling. The muons are then accelerated to high energy where their decays provide neutrino beams. For the International Design Study (IDS), a baseline design must be developed and optimized for an engineering and cost study. We present a baseline design that can be used to establish the scope of a future neutrino Factory facility.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 982230
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-CONF-10-112-APC
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Conf.Proc.C100523:wepe068,2010
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
ACCELERATORS
Accelerators
CAPTURE
CAVITIES
COOLING
COST
DESIGN
ENERGY
ENGINEERING
IONIZATION
JAPAN
MUON BEAMS
MUONS
NEUTRINO BEAMS
NEUTRINOS
PARTICLES
PIONS
PROTONS
TARGETS
TRANSPORT