Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
A neutrino factory or muon collider requires the capture and cooling of a large number of muons. Scenarios for capture, bunching, phase-energy rotation and initial cooling of muonss produced from a proton source target have been developed for neutrino factory and Muon Collider designs. The baseline scenarios requires a drift section from the target, a bunching section and a phase-energy rotation section leading into the cooling channel. The currently preferred cooling channel design is an 'HFOFO Snake' configuration that cools both μ+ and μ- transversely and longitudinally. The status of the design is presented and variations are discussed.
