IPAC2013 - List of Authors (Neuffer, D.V.)

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vSTORM Facility Design and Simulation

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A. Liu, A.D. Bross, D.V. Neuffer
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
S.-Y. Lee
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

Funding: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
A facility producing neutrinos from muons that decay in a storage ring can provide an extremely well understood neutrino beam for oscillation physics and the search for sterile neutrinos. The "neutrinos from STORed Muons"(nuSTORM) facility is based on this idea. The facility includes a target station with secondary particle collection, pion transfer line, pion injection, and a ~3.8 GeV/c muon storage ring. No muon cooling or RF sub-systems are required. The injection scenario for nuSTORM avoids the use of a separate pion decay channel and fast kickers. This paper reports a detailed description of the proposed injection scheme with full G4beamline simulations. We also present progresses on possible design options for a muon racetrack decay ring.

Slides MOODB203 [14.079 MB]

TUPFI019

Magnet Misalignment Studies for the Front-end of the Neutrino Factory

1373

G. Prior, I. Efthymiopoulos
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
D.V. Neuffer, P. Snopok
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
C.T. Rogers
STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
D. Stratakis
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA

In the Neutrino Factory Front-End the muon beam coming from the interaction of a high-power (4 MW) proton beam on a mercury jet target, is transformed through a buncher, a phase rotator and an ionization cooling channel before entering the downstream acceleration system. The muon Front-End channel is densely packed with solenoid magnets, normal conducting radio-frequency cavities and absorber windows (for the cooling section). The tolerance to the misalignment of the different components has to be determined in order on one hand to set the limits beyond which the performance of the Front-End channel would be degraded; on the other hand to optimize the design and assembly of the Front-End cells such that the component alignment can be checked and corrected for where crucial for the performance of the channel. In this paper we will show the results of the simulations of the Front-End channel performance where different components such as magnets, cavities have been randomly shifted or rotated. Detailed simulations have been done in G4BeamLine*. * T. J. Roberts et al. G4BeamLine 2.06 (2010) http://g4beamline.muonsinc.com/

TUPFI055

Stochastic Injection Scenarios and Performance for NuSTORM

1469

D.V. Neuffer
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
A. Liu
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

At Fermilab, we are developing NuSTORM (Neutrinos from STORed Muons), a neutrino beam from muon decay in a long straight section of a storage ring. The baseline design for NuSTORM uses what was called “stochastic injection”. In that method, high-energy protons on a nuclear target produce pions that are directed by a chicane into a straight section of the storage ring. Pions that decay within that straight section can provide lower-energy muons that are within the circulating acceptance of the storage ring. This decay acceptance enables injection for multiple storage ring turns without kickers, and muon accumulation can be reasonably high. The design of a muon storage ring with pion injection is described and simulations of acceptance are discussed. Alternative injection approaches are also discussed.

TUPFI056

A Muon Collider as a Higgs Factory

1472

D.V. Neuffer, Y.I. Alexahin, M.A. Palmer
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
C.M. Ankenbrandt
Muons. Inc., USA
J.-P. Delahaye
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA

Because muons connect directly to a standard-model Higgs particle in s-channel production, a muon collider would be an ideal device for precision measurement of the mass and width of a Higgs-like particle, and for further exploration of its production and decay properties. The LHC has seen evidence for a 126 GeV Higgs particle, and a muon collider at that energy could be constructed. Parameters of a high-precision muon collider are presented and the necessary components and performance are described. An important advantage of the muon collider approach is that the spin precession of the muons will enable energy measurements at extremely high accuracy (E/E to 10^-6 or better). Extension to a higher-energy higher-luminosity device is also discussed.

TUPFI057

Muon Accelerators for the Next Generation of High Energy Physics Experiments

1475

M.A. Palmer, S. Brice, A.D. Bross, D.S. Denisov, E. Eichten, R.J. Lipton, D.V. Neuffer
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
C.M. Ankenbrandt
Muons. Inc., USA
S.A. Bogacz
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
J.-P. Delahaye
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
P. Huber
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA
D.M. Kaplan, P. Snopok
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA
H.G. Kirk, R.B. Palmer
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
R.D. Ryne
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA

Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. National Science Foundation
Muon accelerator technology offers a unique and very promising avenue to a facility capable of producing high intensity muon beams for neutrino factory and multi-TeV lepton collider applications. The goal of the US Muon Accelerator Program is to provide an assessment, within the next 6 years, of the physics potential and technical feasibility of such a facility. This talk will describe the physics opportunities that are envisioned, along with the R&D efforts that are being undertaken to address key accelerator physics and technology questions.

TUPFI060

Complete Muon Cooling Channel Design and Simulations

1484

C. Y. Yoshikawa, C.M. Ankenbrandt, R.P. Johnson
Muons. Inc., USA
Y.S. Derbenev, V.S. Morozov
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
D.V. Neuffer, K. Yonehara
Fermilab, Batavia, USA

Considerable progress has been made in developing promising subsystems for muon beam cooling channels to provide the extraordinary reduction of emittance required for an Energy-Frontier Muon Collider, but lacks an end-to-end design. Meanwhile, the recent discovery of a Higgs-like boson has created interest in the High Energy physics community for a Higgs Factory to investigate its properties and verify whether it is Standard Model or beyond. We present principles and tools to match emittances between and within muon beam cooling subsystems that may have different characteristics. The Helical Cooling Channel (HCC), which combines helical dipoles and a solenoid field, allows a general analytic approach to guide designs of transitions from one set of cooling channel parameters to another. These principles and tools will be applied to design a complete cooling channel that would be applicable to a Higgs Factory and an Energy Frontier Muon Collider.

TUPFI067

Energy Deposition and Shielding Study of the Front End for the Neutrino Factory

1505

P. Snopok
IIT, Chicago, Illinois, USA
D.V. Neuffer
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
C.T. Rogers
STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom

In the Neutrino Factory and Muon Collider muons are produced by firing high energy protons onto a target to produce pions. The pions decay to muons which are then accelerated. This method of pion production results in significant background from protons and electrons, which may result in heat deposition on superconducting materials and activation of the machine preventing manual handling. In this paper we discuss the design of a secondary particle handling system. The system comprises a solenoidal chicane that filters high momentum particles, followed by a proton absorber that reduces the energy of all particles, resulting in the rejection of low energy protons that pass through the solenoid chicane. We detail the design and optimization of the system, its integration with the rest of the muon front end, and energy deposition and shielding analysis in MARS15.

TUPFI087

Alternative Muon Cooling Options based on Particle-Matter-Interaction for a Neutrino Factory

1550

D. Stratakis
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
A. Alekou
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
D.V. Neuffer, P. Snopok
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
J. Pasternak
STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
J. Pasternak
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
C.T. Rogers
STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
P. Snopok
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Funding: This work is funded by US Dept. of Energy grant numbers DE AC02-98CH10886
An ionization cooling channel is a tightly spaced lattice containing absorbers for reducing the momentum of the muon beam, rf cavities for restoring the momentum and strong solenoids for focusing the beam. Such a lattice is an essential feature of most designs for Neutrino Factories and Muon Colliders. Here, we explore three different approaches for designing ionization cooling channels with periodic solenoidal focusing. Key parameters such as the engineering constraints that are arising from the length and separation between the solenoidal coils are systematically examined. In addition, we propose novel approaches for reducing the peak magnetic field inside the rf cavities by using either a magnetic shield system or a bucked coils configuration. Our lattice designs are numerically examined against two independent codes: The ICOOL and G4BL code. The feasibility of our proposed cooling channels to muon accelerators is examined by applying the proposed lattices to the front-end of a Neutrino Factory.

Paper	Title	Page
MOODB203	vSTORM Facility Design and Simulation	55
	A. Liu, A.D. Bross, D.V. Neuffer Fermilab, Batavia, USA S.-Y. Lee Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
	Funding: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory A facility producing neutrinos from muons that decay in a storage ring can provide an extremely well understood neutrino beam for oscillation physics and the search for sterile neutrinos. The "neutrinos from STORed Muons"(nuSTORM) facility is based on this idea. The facility includes a target station with secondary particle collection, pion transfer line, pion injection, and a ~3.8 GeV/c muon storage ring. No muon cooling or RF sub-systems are required. The injection scenario for nuSTORM avoids the use of a separate pion decay channel and fast kickers. This paper reports a detailed description of the proposed injection scheme with full G4beamline simulations. We also present progresses on possible design options for a muon racetrack decay ring.
	Slides MOODB203 [14.079 MB]

TUPFI019	Magnet Misalignment Studies for the Front-end of the Neutrino Factory	1373
	G. Prior, I. Efthymiopoulos CERN, Geneva, Switzerland D.V. Neuffer, P. Snopok Fermilab, Batavia, USA C.T. Rogers STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom D. Stratakis BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
	In the Neutrino Factory Front-End the muon beam coming from the interaction of a high-power (4 MW) proton beam on a mercury jet target, is transformed through a buncher, a phase rotator and an ionization cooling channel before entering the downstream acceleration system. The muon Front-End channel is densely packed with solenoid magnets, normal conducting radio-frequency cavities and absorber windows (for the cooling section). The tolerance to the misalignment of the different components has to be determined in order on one hand to set the limits beyond which the performance of the Front-End channel would be degraded; on the other hand to optimize the design and assembly of the Front-End cells such that the component alignment can be checked and corrected for where crucial for the performance of the channel. In this paper we will show the results of the simulations of the Front-End channel performance where different components such as magnets, cavities have been randomly shifted or rotated. Detailed simulations have been done in G4BeamLine. T. J. Roberts et al. G4BeamLine 2.06 (2010) http://g4beamline.muonsinc.com/

TUPFI055	Stochastic Injection Scenarios and Performance for NuSTORM	1469
	D.V. Neuffer Fermilab, Batavia, USA A. Liu Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
	At Fermilab, we are developing NuSTORM (Neutrinos from STORed Muons), a neutrino beam from muon decay in a long straight section of a storage ring. The baseline design for NuSTORM uses what was called “stochastic injection”. In that method, high-energy protons on a nuclear target produce pions that are directed by a chicane into a straight section of the storage ring. Pions that decay within that straight section can provide lower-energy muons that are within the circulating acceptance of the storage ring. This decay acceptance enables injection for multiple storage ring turns without kickers, and muon accumulation can be reasonably high. The design of a muon storage ring with pion injection is described and simulations of acceptance are discussed. Alternative injection approaches are also discussed.

TUPFI056	A Muon Collider as a Higgs Factory	1472
	D.V. Neuffer, Y.I. Alexahin, M.A. Palmer Fermilab, Batavia, USA C.M. Ankenbrandt Muons. Inc., USA J.-P. Delahaye SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
	Because muons connect directly to a standard-model Higgs particle in s-channel production, a muon collider would be an ideal device for precision measurement of the mass and width of a Higgs-like particle, and for further exploration of its production and decay properties. The LHC has seen evidence for a 126 GeV Higgs particle, and a muon collider at that energy could be constructed. Parameters of a high-precision muon collider are presented and the necessary components and performance are described. An important advantage of the muon collider approach is that the spin precession of the muons will enable energy measurements at extremely high accuracy (E/E to 10^-6 or better). Extension to a higher-energy higher-luminosity device is also discussed.

TUPFI057	Muon Accelerators for the Next Generation of High Energy Physics Experiments	1475
	M.A. Palmer, S. Brice, A.D. Bross, D.S. Denisov, E. Eichten, R.J. Lipton, D.V. Neuffer Fermilab, Batavia, USA C.M. Ankenbrandt Muons. Inc., USA S.A. Bogacz JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA J.-P. Delahaye SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA P. Huber Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA D.M. Kaplan, P. Snopok Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA H.G. Kirk, R.B. Palmer BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA R.D. Ryne LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
	Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. National Science Foundation Muon accelerator technology offers a unique and very promising avenue to a facility capable of producing high intensity muon beams for neutrino factory and multi-TeV lepton collider applications. The goal of the US Muon Accelerator Program is to provide an assessment, within the next 6 years, of the physics potential and technical feasibility of such a facility. This talk will describe the physics opportunities that are envisioned, along with the R&D efforts that are being undertaken to address key accelerator physics and technology questions.

TUPFI060	Complete Muon Cooling Channel Design and Simulations	1484
	C. Y. Yoshikawa, C.M. Ankenbrandt, R.P. Johnson Muons. Inc., USA Y.S. Derbenev, V.S. Morozov JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA D.V. Neuffer, K. Yonehara Fermilab, Batavia, USA
	Considerable progress has been made in developing promising subsystems for muon beam cooling channels to provide the extraordinary reduction of emittance required for an Energy-Frontier Muon Collider, but lacks an end-to-end design. Meanwhile, the recent discovery of a Higgs-like boson has created interest in the High Energy physics community for a Higgs Factory to investigate its properties and verify whether it is Standard Model or beyond. We present principles and tools to match emittances between and within muon beam cooling subsystems that may have different characteristics. The Helical Cooling Channel (HCC), which combines helical dipoles and a solenoid field, allows a general analytic approach to guide designs of transitions from one set of cooling channel parameters to another. These principles and tools will be applied to design a complete cooling channel that would be applicable to a Higgs Factory and an Energy Frontier Muon Collider.

TUPFI067	Energy Deposition and Shielding Study of the Front End for the Neutrino Factory	1505
	P. Snopok IIT, Chicago, Illinois, USA D.V. Neuffer Fermilab, Batavia, USA C.T. Rogers STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
	In the Neutrino Factory and Muon Collider muons are produced by firing high energy protons onto a target to produce pions. The pions decay to muons which are then accelerated. This method of pion production results in significant background from protons and electrons, which may result in heat deposition on superconducting materials and activation of the machine preventing manual handling. In this paper we discuss the design of a secondary particle handling system. The system comprises a solenoidal chicane that filters high momentum particles, followed by a proton absorber that reduces the energy of all particles, resulting in the rejection of low energy protons that pass through the solenoid chicane. We detail the design and optimization of the system, its integration with the rest of the muon front end, and energy deposition and shielding analysis in MARS15.

TUPFI087	Alternative Muon Cooling Options based on Particle-Matter-Interaction for a Neutrino Factory	1550
	D. Stratakis BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA A. Alekou CERN, Geneva, Switzerland D.V. Neuffer, P. Snopok Fermilab, Batavia, USA J. Pasternak STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom J. Pasternak Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom C.T. Rogers STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom P. Snopok Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA
	Funding: This work is funded by US Dept. of Energy grant numbers DE AC02-98CH10886 An ionization cooling channel is a tightly spaced lattice containing absorbers for reducing the momentum of the muon beam, rf cavities for restoring the momentum and strong solenoids for focusing the beam. Such a lattice is an essential feature of most designs for Neutrino Factories and Muon Colliders. Here, we explore three different approaches for designing ionization cooling channels with periodic solenoidal focusing. Key parameters such as the engineering constraints that are arising from the length and separation between the solenoidal coils are systematically examined. In addition, we propose novel approaches for reducing the peak magnetic field inside the rf cavities by using either a magnetic shield system or a bucked coils configuration. Our lattice designs are numerically examined against two independent codes: The ICOOL and G4BL code. The feasibility of our proposed cooling channels to muon accelerators is examined by applying the proposed lattices to the front-end of a Neutrino Factory.