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Fourrier, J.; Machida, S.
Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Universite Joseph Fourier / CNRS-IN2P3, 53 Avenue des Martyrs, F-38026 Grenoble (France); Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot OX11 0QX (United Kingdom)2006
Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Universite Joseph Fourier / CNRS-IN2P3, 53 Avenue des Martyrs, F-38026 Grenoble (France); Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot OX11 0QX (United Kingdom)2006
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[en] The high flux accelerator based neutrino source is foreseen as one of the next generation facilities of particle physics. Called Neutrino Factory (NuFact), it will be based on a muon storage ring where muons will decay, creating high flux neutrino beams. Muons are supposed to be accelerated from 5 to 20 GeV before being injected into the storage ring. In that purpose, Fixed Field Alternating Gradient accelerators (FFAG) are one of the possibilities. Cell designs have been done and tracking studies are on their way using codes such as MAD, S-Code or Zgoubi. In order to cross-check results so obtained, we have performed comparisons between S-Code and Zgoubi at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The present report will explain the different simulations done and the results. The paper has the following contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Time of Flight comparisons; 3. Particle acceleration with different emittances; 4. Bunch acceleration. In conclusion it is shown that the difference of time of flight between the particle 1 and the others is comparable from Zgoubi to S- Code. Nevertheless, further investigation is necessary to make sure that the same revolution time will be found with the same initial conditions. Concerning the acceleration it was found that that the larger the emittance the less efficient appears to be the acceleration. Particles on ellipses 10 to 40 π mm rad are accelerated beyond 9 GeV while particles on ellipse 50 π mm rad are only accelerated up to 7.5 GeV and those on 60 π mm rad ellipse just reach 6 GeV. Thus, a beam whom emittance would be larger than 30 π mm rad would not be accelerated enough to reach 10 GeV and to be injected into the second FFAG. In the same way as for the first FFAG the larger the emittance the less efficient the acceleration. Particles on ellipses 10 to 40 π mm rad are accelerated beyond 18 GeV while particles on ellipses 50 and 60 π mm rad are only accelerated up to 12 GeV. Thus, beams whom emittance is lower than 30 π mm rad could be accelerated to an energy close to 20 GeV but not enough yet. Further simulations should be done to find out if the acceleration to 20 GeV is possible. As regarding the comparison between the codes it is easy to manage that both codes give similar results for the longitudinal phase space. They have a good agreement what makes the results reliable
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Jun 2006; 8 p; 7 figs., 1 tab.
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