Author: Fernow, R.C.
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TUPPR011 Six-dimensional Bunch Merging for Muon Collider Cooling 1831
 
  • R.B. Palmer, R.C. Fernow
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • D.V. Neuffer
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by US Department of Energy under contracts DE-AC02-98CH10886 and DE-AC02-07CH11359.
Muons for a Muon Collider are diffusely produced from pion decay. They are first phase rotated into a trains of bunches. The trains are ionization cooled in all six dimensions until they can be merged into single bunches, one of each sign. They are then further cooled in six dimensions before acceleration and injection into the collider. This merging matches more efficiently into the second phase of cooling if the merging is also in six dimensions. A scheme to do this is proposed. Groups of 3, of the initial 12, bunches are merged longitudinally into 4 longer bunches, using rf with multiple harmonics. These 4 are then kicked into 4 separate (trombone) channels of different lengths to bring them to closely packed transverse locations at the same time. Here they are captured into a single bunch with now increased transverse emittance.