Final Muon Cooling For A Muon Collider

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 μs 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 β* region to cool the beam to the required limit with available low Z absorbers.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D. in Physics

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Physics and Astronomy

Year dc:date.available

2017

Author dc:creator

• Acosta Castillo, John Gabriel

Contributors dc:contributor

• Donald J. Summers
• Hailin Sang
• Alakabha Datta

• Elementary Particles and Fields and String Theory

Repository record dc:identifier

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/767

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:egrove.olemiss.edu:etd-1766