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An FFAG Accelerator for Project X |
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- D.V. Neuffer, L.J. Jenner, C. Johnstone
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
- J. Pasternak
STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
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The next generation of high-energy physics experiments requires high intensity protons in the multi-GeV energy range for efficient production of secondary beams. The Fermilab long-term future requires an 8 GeV proton source to feed the Main Injector for a 2 MW neutrino beam source in the immediate future and to provide 4 MW pulsed proton beam for a future neutrino factory or muon collider. We note that a 3GeV cw linac matched to a 3–8 GeV FFAG ring could provide beam for both of these mission needs, as well as the cw 3 GeV experiments, and would be a natural and affordable scenario. We present details of possible scenarios and outline future design and research directions.
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Non-Scaling FFAG Proton Driver for Project X |
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- C. Johnstone, D.V. Neuffer
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
- M. Berz, K. Makino
MSU, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
- L.J. Jenner, J. Pasternak
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
- P. Snopok
IIT, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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The next generation of high-energy physics experiments requires high intensity protons at multi-GeV energies. Fermilab’s HEP program, for example, requires an 8-GeV proton source to feed the Main Injector to create a 2 MW neutrino beams in the near term and would require a 4 MW pulsed proton beam for a potential Neutrino Factory or Muon Collider in the future. High intensity GeV proton drivers are difficult at best with conventional re-circulating accelerators, encountering duty cycle and space-charge limits in the synchrotron and machine size and stability concerns in the weaker-focusing cyclotrons. Only an SRF linac, which has the highest associated cost and footprint, has been considered. Recent innovations in FFAG design, however, have promoted another re-circulating candidate, the Fixed-field Alternating Gradient accelerator (FFAG), as an attractive, but as yet unexplored, alternative. Its strong focusing optics coupled to large transverse and longitudinal acceptances would serve to alleviate space charge effects and achieve higher bunch charges than possible in a synchrotron and presents an upgradeable option from the 2 MW to the 4 MW program.
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