Recent Developments in Simulations of an Inverse Cyclotron for Intense Muon Beams

Abstract

A number of recent developments have led to simulations of an inverse cyclotron for cooling intense muon beams for neutrino factories and muon colliders. Such a device could potentially act as a novel beam cooling mechanism for muons, and it would be significantly smaller and cheaper than other cooling channel designs. Realistic designs are still being explored, but the first simulations of particle tracking in the inverse cyclotron, with accumulation in the cyclotron core, have been done with electrostatic simulations in the particle-in-cell code VORPAL. We present an overview of the muon inverse cyclotron concept and recent simulation results.