Working Group 3: Accelerator Physics

Convenors

WG Session 1:
Friday, August 25 10:30-12:30
Huntington Room

Proton Driver and Conventional Facilities

10:30 High Power Proton Driver B. Weng
(BNL)
10:50 Time Structure of a Superbeam M. Mezzetto
(INFN-Padova)
11:10 NuMI Operational Experience vs. Design M. Bishai
(BNL)
11:30 CNGS: Results from Commissioning M. Meddahi
(CERN)
11:50 Focus Session: Conventional Neutrino Facilities and Superbeams Moderator:
M. Meddahi
(CERN)
Hazard & Operability Study Performed for the CNGS Horn Exchange Procedure A. Pardons
(CERN)

WG Session 2:
Friday, August 25 14:00-16:00
Huntington Room

Targets

14:00 CNGS Target L. Bruno
(CERN)
14:20 Shock Studies in Tantalum and Tungsten at High Temperature R. Bennett
(RAL)
14:40 Solid Target Studies in the UK: Simulations of Shock in Solids G. Skoro
(Sheffield)
15:00 Focus Session: High Power Solid Targets Moderator:
R. Bennett
(RAL)
15:40 Lower-Frequency RF Phase Rotation Techniques for Both Muon Signs S. Brooks
(RAL)
The J-PARC Neutrino Target Y. Hayato (ICRR)
for T. Nakadaira

Saturday, August 26

Open day, no talks

WG Session 3:
Sunday, August 27 11:00-12:30
Huntington Room

Betabeams

11:00 Ion Losses and Collimation for the Betabeam Acceleration Scenario A. Fabich
(CERN)
11:20 Betabeam Ring Optics Design and Optimization A. Chance
(CEA Saclay)
11:40 Large Aperature Superconducting Dipoles for the Betabeam Decay Ring E. Wildner
(CERN)
12:00 A Low-Energy Accumulator and Cooling Ring for the Betabeam M. Lindroos
(CERN)

WG Session 4:
Sunday, August 27 14:00-16:00
Huntington Room

Proton Driver/Horn and Collection Systems

14:00 SPL-based 5 GeV Proton Driver R. Garoby
(CERN)
14:20 On the Use of Non-Scaling FFAG Accelerator as Proton Driver A. Ruggiero
(BNL)
14:40 J-PARC Y. Yamazaki
(KEK)
15:00 Neutrino Factory (ISS) Scoping Studies G. Rees
(RAL)
15:20 Status of the Front-End Test Stand at RAL J. Pozimski
(RAL)
15:40 Measurement of the Production of Charged Pions by Low-Energy Protons S. Borghi
(CERN/Geneva)

WG Session 5:
Monday, August 28 10:30-12:30
Huntington Room

FFAG

10:30 Beam Dynamics Issues in Linear non-Scaling FFAGs J.S. Berg
(BNL)
10:50 Status of PRISM-FFAG M. Yoshida
(Osaka)
11:10 First Tracking Studies of Phase
Rotation Using a Scaling FFAG		 A. Kurup
(Imperial)
11:30 50T Muon-Cooling Solenoids D. Summers
(Mississippi)
11:50 Simulation of Multiple Coulomb Scattering and Comparison with Recent Data S. Striganov
(FNAL)

WG Session 6:
Monday, August 28 13:45-15:45
Huntington Room

Horn and Collection Systems

13:45 CNGS Horn A. Pardons
(CERN)
14:05 Horn and Solenoid H. Kirk
(BNL)
14:25 High-energy High Frequency Buncher Y. Iwashita
(Kyoto)
14:45 Muon Source at Fermilab D. Neuffer
(FNAL)
15:05 Pion Capture and Transport System M. Yoshida
(Kyoto)
15:25 G4Beamline T. Roberts
(Muons Inc.)

WG Session 7:
Tuesday, August 29 10:30-12:30
Huntington Room

Acceleration

10:30 Muon Acceleration System S. Machida
(RAL)
10:50 Dogbone RLA A. Bogacz
(JLAB)
11:10 Scheme for a Muon Collider R. Palmer
(BNL)
11:30 A Shared Superconducting Linac for Protons and Muons R. Johnson
(Muons Inc.)
11:50 Design Study of Muon Linac H. Miyadera
(LANL)
12:10 201 MHz Prototype RF Cavity Status for MUCOOL/MICE D. Li
(LBL)

WG Session 8:
Tuesday, August 29 14:00-16:00
Huntington Room

Cooling and Storage Ring

14:00 A Very High Field Solenoid Magnet for Muon Cooling S. Kahn
(Muons Inc.)
14:20 The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment T. Hart
(FNAL)
14:40 New Idea for Producing an Intense, Cool Muon Beam D. Kaplan
(IIT)
14:50 Storage Ring Options C. Johnstone
(FNAL)
15:10 Storage Ring Instrumentation A. Blondel
(Geneva)
15:30 Study of Errors in Muon Decay Ring F. Meot
(CEA Saclay)
15:50 Muon Acceleration with FFAG Accelerators A. Sato for
Y. Mori
(Kyoto)

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