Author: Kurup, A.
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MOPZ004 Studies for the PRISM FFAG Ring for the Next Generation Muon to Electron Conversion Experiment 826
 
  • J. Pasternak
    STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
  • M. Aslaninejad, L.J. Jenner, A. Kurup, J. Pasternak, Y. Shi, Y. Uchida
    Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
  • R.J. Barlow
    UMAN, Manchester, 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
    KURRI, 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, T. Yokoi
    JAI, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
  High intensity and high quality muon beams are needed for the next generation lepton flavour violation experiments. Such beams can 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. Such a solution was proposed for the PRISM project and this paper summarizes its current status. In particular the PRISM task force was created to address the accelerator and detector issues that need to be solved in order to realise the PRISM experiment. Alternative designs for the PRISM FFAG ring are discussed and their performance compared. The injection/extraction systems and matching to the solenoid channels upstream and downstream of the FFAG ring are presented. The future direction for the study will be outlined.  
 
MOPZ009 The Muon Linac for the International Design Study for the Neutrino Factory 838
 
  • A. Kurup, M. Aslaninejad, C. Bonţoiu, J.K. Pozimski
    Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
  • K.B. Beard
    Muons, Inc, Batavia, USA
  • S.A. Bogacz, V.S. Morozov
    JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
 
  The first stage of muon acceleration in the Neutrino Factory utilises a superconducting linac to accelerate muons from 244 MeV to 900 MeV. The linac is split into three types of cryomodules with decreasing magnetic fields and increasing amounts of RF voltage but with the design of the superconducting solenoid and RF cavities being the same for all cryomodules. The current status of the muon linac for the International Design Study for the Neutrino Factory will be presented including a final lattice design of the linac; electromagnetic simulations; and a preliminary cost estimate.  
 
MOPZ010 An Accelerator Design Tool for the International Design Study for the Neutrino Factory 841
 
  • A. Kurup
    Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
  • P. Bonnal, B. Daudin, J. De Jonghe, M. Dutour
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  A tool has been developed to simplify the accelerator design process from the lattice design, through tracking simulations with engineering features, to costing the facility. The aim of this tool is to facilitate going through the design loop efficiently and thus allow engineering features to be included early on in the design process without hindering the development of the lattice design. The tool uses a spreadsheet to store information about the accelerator and can generate MADX input files, G4beamline input files and interfaces with the costing tool developed by CERN. Having one source for the information simplifies going between lattice simulations, tracking simulations and costing calculations and eliminates the possibility of introducing discrepancies in the design. The application of this tool to cost the Neutrino Factory, which is part of the IDS-NF and EUROnu studies for delivering the Reference Design Report, will be presented.  
 
MOPZ011 An Automated Conditioning System for the MUCOOL Experiments at Fermilab 844
 
  • A. Kurup
    Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
 
  The MUCOOL project aims to study RF cavities for the Neutrino Factory and the Muon Collider. The large emittance muon beams in these accelerators require high-gradient RF cavities at low-frequencies and they need to operate in the presence of relatively strong magnetic fields. MUCOOL is conducting a number of tests on 805MHz and 201 MHz cavities in order to develop a technology that can meet all of these requirements. An automated conditioning system was developed for the 805MHz test program for MUCOOL. This system was designed to replicate the logic a human operator would use when conditioning an RF cavity and to provide automated logging of the conditioning process. This paper describes the hardware and software of the system developed.  
 
MOPZ012 The International Design Study for the Neutrino Factory 847
 
  • J.K. Pozimski, A. Kurup, K.R. Long
    Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
  • J.S. Berg
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
 
  The International Design Study for the Neutrino Factory (the IDS-NF) has recently completed the Interim Design Report* (IDR) for the facility as a step on the way to the Reference Design Report (RDR). The IDR has two functions: it marks the point in the IDS-NF at which the emphasis turns to the engineering studies required to deliver the RDR and it documents the present baseline design for the facility which will provide 1021 muon decays per year from 25 GeV stored muon beams. The facility will serve two neutrino detectors; one situated at source-detector distance of between 3000–5000 km, the second at 7000–8000 km. The conceptual design of the accelerator facility will be described and its performance will be presented. The steps that the IDS-NF collaboration has taken since the IDR was finalized and plans to take to prepare the RDR will also be presented.
* IDS-NF-020: https://www.ids-nf.org/wiki/FrontPage/Documentation?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=IDS-NF-020-v1.0.pdf
Submitted on behalf of the IDS-NF collaboration