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Bunch compression is necessary for many accelerator applications, one of which being the creation of muons for the proposed muon collider. The design of a proton driver to deliver a short and very intense proton pulse to a target for the creation of muons is being developed. Some challenges with the proposed baseline design, notably the ambitious requirements for the radiofrequency system, motivate the investigation of alternative compression methods. A series of chirped bunch trains can be compressed in the same compressor ring as in the baseline design, removing the need for an accumulator ring and radiofrequency cavities in the compressor ring. Such a scheme has been investigated using PyORBIT simulations, where the chirp is created by off-frequency cavities at the end of the linac. The impact of space charge was investigated, and was found to be too detrimental for realising the proposed scheme with the current parameters. However, other use cases are foreseen.
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- Work funded by the European Union and endorsed by the IMCC and MuCol
| Paper status | Resubmitted proceeding files received and assigned to an editor. Accepted. |
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