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Description
A muon collider will require short, intense proton bunches on a high-power target to generate the initial muon beam. Current designs leverage charge-exchange injection and accumulation in a ring, followed by compression using a single-harmonic radiofrequency cavity. We are pursuing an experimental study of this bunch compression scheme at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), an operational high-power accelerator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The primary goal of these experiments is to benchmark computer simulations against the measured turn-by-turn phase space distribution during the compression. Here, we describe the operating parameters of the SNS compared to the muon collider design, the capabilities of the current RF system, and the available phase space diagnostics in the ring. We also present initial simulations and experiments to judge the feasibility of the proposed research.
| Region represented | America |
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| Paper preparation format | LaTeX |
