10–15 Aug 2025
SAFE Credit Union Convention Center
America/Los_Angeles timezone

Recent Progresses Regarding Enclosed RF Cavities for Future Muon Collider Cooling Channel

TUP084
12 Aug 2025, 16:00
2h
SAFE Credit Union Convention Center

SAFE Credit Union Convention Center

1401 K St, Sacramento, CA 95814
Poster Presentation MC1 - Colliders and other Particle and Nuclear Physics Accelerators TUP: Tuesday Poster Session

Speaker

Dillon Merenich (Northern Illinois University)

Description

The muon collider (MuC) holds strong potential for reaching the 10 TeV energy frontier but introduces several technical challenges. Ionization cooling is essential to reduce beam emittance and achieve required luminosities. As muons lose energy in absorbers, normal-conducting RF cavities restore it. However, strong magnetic fields—needed for beam focusing—increase the risk of RF cavity breakdowns. Thin beam windows are used to reduce breakdown probability and improve shunt impedance. In this paper, we present some recent studies on these cavities, including: 1) evaluating emittance growth due to particle scattering in the beam windows made of Be and Al by GEANT4, 2) calculating the beam loading effect in the presence of the beam windows with CST wakeifeld solver and Particle-In-Cell solver, 3) deriving the breakdown thresholds for different cavity materials in strong B fields based on a thermal-mechanical model.

Funding Agency

DoE SCGSR program contract number DE‐SC0014664.

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Authors

Dillon Merenich (Northern Illinois University) Tianhuan Luo (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Xueying Lu (Argonne National Laboratory, Northern Illinois University)

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