Muon Acceleration: Neutrino Factory and Beyond

Conference · Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Proceedings of Science (PoS)

OSTI ID:1434489

Bogacz, Alex ^[1]

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1. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)

We summarize the current state of a concept for muon acceleration aimed at a future Neutrino Factory and extendable to Higgs Factory. The main thrust of these studies was to reduce the overall cost while maintaining performance by exploring the interplay between the complexity of the cooling systems and the acceptance of the accelerator complex. To ensure adequate survival for the short-lived muons, acceleration must occur at high average gradient. The need for large transverse and longitudinal acceptances drives the design of the acceleration system to an initially low RF frequency, e.g., 325 MHz, which is then increased to 650 MHz as the transverse size shrinks with increasing energy. High-gradient normal conducting RF cavities at these frequencies require extremely high peak-power RF sources. Hence superconducting RF (SRF) cavities are chosen. We consider an SRF-efficient design based on a multi-pass (4.5) ?dogbone? RLA, extendable to multi-pass FFAG-like arcs.

• Research Organization: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-06OR23177
• OSTI ID: 1434489
• Report Number(s): JLAB-ACP-18-2695; DOE/OR/23177-4427
• Journal Information: Proceedings of Science (PoS), Vol. NuFact17; Conference: 2017 International Workshop on Neutrinos from Accelerators (NuFact17) , 25-30 Sep 2017. Uppsala University Main Building, Uppsala, Sweden
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English