Published September 8, 1998 | Version v1
Journal article

An AGS experiment to test bunching for the proton driver of the muon collider

  • 1. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973 (United States)
  • 2. Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois 60510 (United States)

Description

The proton driver for the muon collider must produce short pulses of protons in order to facilitate muon cooling and operation with polarized beams. In order to test methods of producing these bunches we have operated the AGS near transition and studied procedures which involved moving the transition energy γ1, to the beam energy. We were able to produce stable bunches with RMS widths of σ=2.2-2.7 ns for longitudinal bunch areas of ∼1.5 V-s, in addition to making measurements of the lowest two orders of the momentum compaction factor

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
441
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 314-319
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
4. international conference on physics potential and development of #mu#+#mu#- colliders
Dates
10-12 Dec 1997
Place
San Francisco, CA (United States)

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
40069251
Subject category
S43: PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
BEAM BUNCHING; BEAM COOLING; BEAM OPTICS; BROOKHAVEN AGS; COLLIDING BEAMS; MUON BEAMS; OPERATION; POLARIZED BEAMS; PROTON BEAMS; PULSES; STORAGE RINGS
Descriptors DEC
ACCELERATORS; BEAM DYNAMICS; BEAMS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; DYNAMICS; LEPTON BEAMS; MECHANICS; NUCLEON BEAMS; PARTICLE BEAMS; SYNCHROTRONS

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(c) 1998 American Institute of Physics.