Recirculating Linear Accelerators for Future Muon Facilities

Conference · Sat May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010

OSTI ID:1018926

S.A. Bogacz, K.B.Beard, R.P. Johnson

Neutrino Factories (NF) and Muon Colliders (MC) require rapid acceleration of short-lived muons to multi-GeV and TeV energies. A Recirculating Linear Accelerator (RLA) that uses superconducting RF structures can provide exceptionally fast and economical acceleration to the extent that the focusing range of the RLA quadrupoles allows each muon to pass several times through each high-gradient cavity. A new concept of rapidly changing the strength of the RLA focusing quadrupoles as the muons gain energy is being developed to increase the number of passes that each muon will make in the RF cavities, leading to greater cost effectiveness.

• Research Organization: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-06OR23177
• OSTI ID: 1018926
• Report Number(s): JLAB-ACP-10-1223; DOE/OR/23177-1279; TRN: US1103498
• Resource Relation: Conference: IPAC'10, Kyoto, Japan, 23-28 May 2010
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
ACCELERATION
CAVITIES
FOCUSING
LINEAR ACCELERATORS
MUONS
NEUTRINOS
QUADRUPOLES