Speaker
Description
International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC) has been formed about 5 years ago picking up and continuing the long-standing R&D effort initiated by the US Muon Accelerator Program (MAP). Since then, significant R&D progress has been made in key areas of the muon collider, one of which muon collider ionization cooling complex and its RF systems will be reviewed in this talk. Development of the RF cavities for the muon cooling will be presented together with associated RF systems and RF power sources. Several challenges will be addressed including operation of the cavities at the highest possible accelerating gradients in the range of ~20 to 30 MV/m in strong magnetic fields up to 17 T, very high beam loading effects and very large RF frequency range from 704 MHz in the 6D-cooling channel down to few MHz at the end of the final cooling. In addition to the design challenges, fundamental physics related to the phenomenon of vacuum breakdown in strong magnetic fields will be discussed and some new ideas and possible theoretical and experimental program worldwide to address these challenges will be presented.
| Working group | WG4 |
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