| Paper | Title | Page |
|---|---|---|
| MOPPC043 | Injection/Extraction of Achromat-based 6D Ionization Cooling Rings for Muons | 229 |
|
||
|
Funding: This work was supported in part by the US Department of Energy in part under award numbers DE-FG02-92ER40695 (UCLA), DE-AC02-98CH10886 (BNL) and DE-FG02-07ER84855 (Particle Beam Lasers, Inc.). An achromat-based cooing ring using dipoles and solenoids is introduced and it can cool muons by large factors in six dimensions to achieve the necessary luminosity for a muon collider. The ring is designed with sufficient space in each superperiod for injection and extraction magnets. We estimate the parameters for the injection system into the solenoid-dipole ring cooler. We also present some simulations for injection/extraction system and discuss the injection/extraction requirements*. * Al Garren, J.S. Berg, D. Cline, X. Ding, H.G. Kirk, “Robust 6D μ± cooling using a solenoid-dipole ring cooler for a muon collider”, NIM A 654 (2011) 40-44. |
||
| MOPPC044 | Gallium as a Possible Target Material for a Muon Collider or Neutrino Factory | 232 |
|
||
|
Funding: Work support by the U.S. Department of Energy in part under Awards No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 (BNL) and No. DF-FG02-92ER40695 (UCLA) We consider the potential for a free-gallium-jet as an option for the pion-production target at a Muon Collider or Neutrino Factory. Advantages of such a target choice are its liquid state at relatively low temperature, its relatively efficient meson production, and its lower activation (compared to mercury). Using the MARS15 code, we have simulated particle production initiated by incoming protons with kinetic energies (KE) between 2 and 16~GeV. For each proton beam energy, we optimized the geometric parameters of the target: the radius of the liquid jet, the incoming proton beam angle, and the crossing angle between the jet and the proton beam. We compare the quantity of generated muons using a Ga target to that from a mercury jet target. |
||
| MOPPC049 | Status of the Non-scaling Fixed Field Alternating Gradient Ring Design for the International Design Study of the Neutrino Factory | 241 |
|
||
|
Funding: This manuscript has been authored by employees of Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The International Design Study of the Neutrino Factory is working towards delivering the optimized design of the neutrino factory facility to be presented in the Reference Design Report (RDR) in 2013. In the current baseline design a linear non-scaling fixed field alternating gradient accelerator (FFAG) was chosen as an efficient solution for the final muon acceleration. We describe updates to the design since our previous report*. We report on beam dynamics studies on the lattice. We describe recent work on the engineering for the lattice, and the results of a recent first pass at a cost estimate for the machine. Finally, we describe how an FFAG may be applicable to a lower energy neutrino factory in light of recent experimental results regarding the value of the theta(13) neutrino mixing angle**. * J. S. Berg et al., in Proceedings of IPAC2011, San Sebastian, Spain, 832. ** F. P. An et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 171803 (2012); J. K. Ahn et al., arXiv:1204.0626v2 [hep-ex] (2012). |
||
| MOPPC050 | The International Design Study for the Neutrino Factory | 244 |
|
||
|
A neutrino factory is a facility for producing a large neutrino flux from the decay of high energy muons. The International Design Study for the Neutrino Factory (IDS-NF) aims to produce a reference design report for such a facility. The report will contain the physics motivation for the facility, describe the accelerator and detector, and estimate the cost for the facility. We will briefly discuss the physics capabilities for a neutrino factory, including how recent neutrino physics results affect our understanding of a neutrino factory's performance and advantages. We will give an overview of our baseline design for the accelerator facility. We will then outline the most significant areas of progress in our studies of the accelerator subsystems.
Paper submitted on behalf of the International Design Study for the Neutrino Factory collaboration. |
||
| MOPPR060 | Calibration of the EMMA Beam Position Monitors: Position, Charge and Accuracy | 921 |
|
||
| The accurate determination of transverse beam position is essential to understanding the performance of an accelerator system, and this is particularly the case with non-scaling FFAG machines such as EMMA, where, due to fundamental principles of design, the beam may deviate widely from the central beampipe axis. This paper describes the various modelling approaches taken for the three different button pickup assemblies used in EMMA, and the subsequent methods of calibration (‘mappings’) which allow beam position and charge to be deduced from the processed BPM signals. The use and validity of the modelling and mapping approach adopted is described, and the contributions to positional and bunch charge uncertainty arising from these procedures is discussed. | ||
| TUPPD021 | Orbit Correction in the EMMA Non-scaling FFAG – Simulation and Experimental Results | 1455 |
|
||
| The non-scaling FFAG EMMA (Electron Model for Many Applications) is currently in operation at Daresbury Laboratory, UK. Since the lattice is made up solely of linear elements, the betatron tune varies strongly over the momentum range according to the natural chromaticity. Orbit correction is complicated by the resulting variation in response to corrector magnet settings. We consider a method to optimise correction over a range of fixed momenta and discuss experimental results. Measurements of the closed orbit and response matrix are included. | ||