Author: Witte, H.
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MOPPC049 Status of the Non-scaling Fixed Field Alternating Gradient Ring Design for the International Design Study of the Neutrino Factory 241
 
  • J.S. Berg, H. Witte
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • M. Aslaninejad, J. Pasternak
    Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
  • N. Bliss, A.J. Moss
    STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • D.J. Kelliher, S. Machida
    STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
  • S.M. Pattalwar
    STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
 
  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).
 
 
MOEPPB003 Status of the PRISM FFAG Design for the Next Generation Muon-to-Electron Conversion Experiment 79
 
  • J. Pasternak, A. Alekou, M. Aslaninejad, R. Chudzinski, L.J. Jenner, A. Kurup, Y. Shi, Y. Uchida
    Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
  • R. Appleby, H.L. Owen
    UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
  • R.J. Barlow
    University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
  • K.M. Hock, B.D. Muratori
    Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • D.J. Kelliher, S. Machida, C.R. Prior
    STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
  • Y. Kuno, A. Sato
    Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
  • J.-B. Lagrange, Y. Mori
    Kyoto University, Research Reactor Institute, Osaka, Japan
  • M. Lancaster
    UCL, London, United Kingdom
  • C. Ohmori
    KEK, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan
  • T. Planche
    TRIUMF, Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vancouver, Canada
  • S.L. Smith
    STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • H. Witte
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • T. Yokoi
    JAI, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
  The PRISM Task Force continues to study high intensity and high quality muon beams needed for next generation lepton flavor violation experiments. In the PRISM case such beams have been proposed to be produced by sending a short proton pulse to a pion production target, capturing the pions and performing RF phase rotation on the resulting muon beam in an FFAG ring. This paper summarizes the current status of the PRISM design obtained by the Task Force. In particular various designs for the PRISM FFAG ring are discussed and their performance compared to the baseline one, the injection/extraction systems and matching to the solenoid channels upstream and downstream of the FFAG ring are presented. The feasibility of the construction of the PRISM system is discussed.  
 
THPPD020 Test of a 1.8 Tesla, 400 Hz Dipole for a Muon Synchrotron 3542
 
  • D.J. Summers, L.M. Cremaldi, T.L. Hart, L.P. Perera, M. Reep
    UMiss, University, Mississippi, USA
  • S.U. Hansen, M.L. Lopes
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
  • J. Reidy
    Oxford High School, Mississippi, USA
  • H. Witte
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
 
  Funding: Supported by DE-FG05-91ER40622.
A 1.8 Tesla dipole magnet using 0.011" AK Steel TRAN-COR H-1 grain oriented silicon steel laminations has been constructed as a prototype for a muon synchrotron ramping at 400 Hz. Following the practice in large 3 phase transformers and our own OPERA-2D simulations, joints are mitered to take advantage of the magnetic properties of the steel which are most effective in the direction in which the steel was rolled. Measurements with a Hysteresigraph 5500 and Epstein Frame show a high magnetic permeability which minimizes stored energy in the yoke so the magnet can ramp quickly with modest voltage. A power supply with a fast IGBT switch and a polypropylene capacitor was constructed. Coils are wound with 12 gauge copper wire which will eventually be cooled with with water flowing in stainless steel tubes. The magnetic field was measured with an F. W. Bell 5180 peak sensing Hall Probe connected to a Tektronics TDS3054B oscilloscope.
 
 
THPPD049 Conceptual Design of a Superconducting Septum for FFAGs 3620
 
  • H. Witte
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • M. Aslaninejad, J. Pasternak
    Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
  • K.J. Peach, T. Yokoi
    JAI, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
  Funding: This work was supported by STFC grant ST/G008531/1 and EPSRC Grant EP/E032869/1.
The fixed magnetic field in FFAG (Fixed Field Alternating Gradient) accelerators means that particles can be accelerated very rapidly. This makes them attractive candidates for many applications, for example for accelerating muons for a neutrino factory or for charged particle therapy (CPT). To benefit fully from this the particles have to be extracted at the same rate. In combination with the high magnetic rigidity of the particles this represents a significant challenge, especially where variable energy extraction is required, which implies extraction at variable radius. This paper presents a conceptual design of a 4T superconducting septum for the PAMELA accelerator, which is an FFAG for a combined proton/carbon ion therapy facility. The field in the septum is varied as a function of the horizontal position, which allows variable energy extraction without the need for sweeping of the magnetic field.