CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
CEA-DRF-IRFU, France
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
The International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC) is studying a 3 TeV center-of-mass muon collider ring, as well as a possible next stage at 10 TeV. Muons being 200 times heavier than electrons, limitations from synchrotron radiation are mostly suppressed, but the muon decay drives the accelerator chain design. After the muon and anti-muon bunches are produced and 6D cooled, a series of Linac, recirculating Linac and Rapid Cycling Synchrotron (RCS) quickly accelerate the bunches before the collider ring. A large number of RF cavities are required in the RCS to ensure that over 90% of the muons survive in each ring. The effects of cavities higher-order modes on transverse coherent stability have been looked at in detail, including the one of a bunch offset in the cavities, along with possible mitigation measures. In the collider ring, the decay of high-energy muons is a challenge for heat load management and radiation shielding. A tungsten liner would protect the superconducting magnet from decay products. Impedance and related beam stability have been investigated to identify the minimum vacuum chamber radius and transverse damper properties required for stable beams.
CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Rostock University, Faculty of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Rostock, Germany
The muon collider offers an attractive path to a compact, multi-TeV lepton collider. However, the short muon lifetime leads to stringent requirements on the fast energy increase. While extreme energy gains in the order of several GeV per turn are crucial for a high elevated muon survival rate, ultra-short and intense bunches are needed to achieve large luminosity. The longitudinal beam dynamics of a chain of rapid cycling synchrotrons (RCS) for acceleration from around 60 GeV to several TeV is being investigated in the framework of the International Muon Collider Collaboration. Each RCS must have a distributed radio-frequency (RF) system with several hundred RF stations to establish stable synchrotron motion. In this contribution, the beam-induced voltage in each RCS is studied, assuming a single high-intensity bunch per beam in each direction and ILC-like 1.3 GHz accelerating structures. The impact of single- and multi-turn wakefields on longitudinal stability and RF power requirements is analysed with particle tracking simulations. Special attention is moreover paid to the beam power deposited into the higher-order modes of the RF cavities.
