Abstract :
Muon accelerators have proved to be difficult to design because of potentially heavy losses from decay. The rapidity with which acceleration must occur precludes the use of conventional synchrotrons. The current baseline approach is a recirculating linac (RLA) in the shape of a racetrack with opposing linacs and separate, fixed-field arcs for each acceleration turn. However, the RLAs have proved costly and, in addition, they represent a bottleneck in the acceptance of a neutrino factory. An alternative, a fixed-field, alternating gradient (FFAG) accelerator is actively being revisited in recent work and this paper emphasizes the FFAG option
Keywords :
beam handling equipment; linear accelerators; muons; FFAG; baseline approach; fixed-field alternating gradient accelerator; fixed-field arcs; muon accelerators; neutrino factory; racetrack; recirculating linac; Acceleration; Cooling; Lattices; Linear particle accelerator; Mesons; Muon colliders; Neutrino sources; Production facilities; Superconducting magnets; Synchrotrons;
