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https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2015-WEPWA066
Title The Advancement of Cooling Absorbers in COSY Infinity
Authors
  • J.D. Kunz
    IIT, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • M. Berz, K. Makino
    MSU, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
  • P. Snopok
    Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illlinois, USA
Abstract COSY Infinity is an arbitrary-order beam dynamics simulation and analysis code. It can determine high-order transfer maps of combinations of particle optical elements of arbitrary field configurations. For precision modeling, design, and optimization of next-generation muon beam facilities, its features make it a very attractive code. New features are being developed for inclusion in COSY to follow the distribution of charged particles through matter. To study in detail some of the properties of muons passing through material, the transfer map approach alone is not sufficient. The interplay of beam optics and atomic processes must be studied by a hybrid transfer map–Monte-Carlo approach in which transfer map methods describe the average behavior of the particles in the accelerator channel including energy loss, and Monte-Carlo methods are used to provide small corrections to the predictions of the transfer map accounting for the stochastic nature of scattering and straggling of particles. The advantage of the new approach is that it is very efficient in that the vast majority of the dynamics is represented by fast application of the high-order transfer map of an entire element and accumulated stochastic effects as well as possible particle decay. The gains in speed are expected to simplify the optimization of muon cooling channels which are usually very computationally demanding due to the need to repeatedly run large numbers of particles through large numbers of configurations. Progress on the development of the required algorithms is reported.
Funding Work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Conference IPAC2015, Richmond, VA, USA
Series International Particle Accelerator Conference (6th)
Proceedings Link to full IPAC2015 Proccedings
Session Wednesday Posters (Washington)
Date 06-May-15   16:00–18:00
Main Classification 3: Alternative Particle Sources and Acceleration Techniques
Sub Classification A09 - Muon Accelerators and Neutrino Factories
Keywords scattering, simulation, electron, controls, proton
Publisher JACoW, Geneva, Switzerland
Editors Stuart Henderson (ANL, Argonne, IL, USA); Evelyn Akers (Jlab, Newport News, VA, USA); Todd Satogata (JLab, Newport News, VA, USA); Volker R.W. Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany)
ISBN 978-3-95450-168-7
Published June 2015
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