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Title: Final Cooling for a Muon Collider

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Abstract

To explore the new energy frontier, a new generation of particle accelerators is needed. Muon colliders are a promising alternative, if muon cooling can be made to work. Muons are 200 times heavier than electrons, so they produce less synchrotron radiation, and they behave like point particles. However, they have a short lifetime of 2.2 $$\mathrm{\mu s}$$ and the beam is more difficult to cool than an electron beam. The Muon Accelerator Program (MAP) was created to develop concepts and technologies required by a muon collider. An important effort has been made in the program to design and optimize a muon beam cooling system. The goal is to achieve the small beam emittance required by a muon collider. This work explores a final ionization cooling system using magnetic quadrupole lattices with a low enough $$\beta^{\star} $$ region to cool the beam to the required limit with available low Z absorbers.

Authors:
 [1]
  1. Univ. of Mississippi, Oxford, MS (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
OSTI Identifier:
1362137
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-THESIS-2017-15
1604156
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Thesis/Dissertation
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS

Citation Formats

Acosta Castillo, John Gabriel. Final Cooling for a Muon Collider. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.2172/1362137.
Acosta Castillo, John Gabriel. Final Cooling for a Muon Collider. United States. doi:10.2172/1362137.
Acosta Castillo, John Gabriel. Mon . "Final Cooling for a Muon Collider". United States. doi:10.2172/1362137. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1362137.
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title = {Final Cooling for a Muon Collider},
author = {Acosta Castillo, John Gabriel},
abstractNote = {To explore the new energy frontier, a new generation of particle accelerators is needed. Muon colliders are a promising alternative, if muon cooling can be made to work. Muons are 200 times heavier than electrons, so they produce less synchrotron radiation, and they behave like point particles. However, they have a short lifetime of 2.2 $\mathrm{\mu s}$ and the beam is more difficult to cool than an electron beam. The Muon Accelerator Program (MAP) was created to develop concepts and technologies required by a muon collider. An important effort has been made in the program to design and optimize a muon beam cooling system. The goal is to achieve the small beam emittance required by a muon collider. This work explores a final ionization cooling system using magnetic quadrupole lattices with a low enough $\beta^{\star} $ region to cool the beam to the required limit with available low Z absorbers.},
doi = {10.2172/1362137},
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place = {United States},
year = {Mon May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Mon May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
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