• M. Meddahi, S. Bart Pedersen, A. Boccardi, A.C. Butterworth, B. Goddard, G.H. Hemelsoet, W. Höfle, D. Jacquet, M. Jaussi, V. Kain, T. Lefèvre, E.N. Shaposhnikova, J.A. Uythoven, D. Valuch
  CERN, Geneva
• A.S. Fisher
  SLAC, Menlo Park, California
• E. Gianfelice-Wendt
  Fermilab, Batavia

Unbunched beam is a potentially serious issue in the LHC as it may quench the superconducting magnets during a beam abort. Unbunched particles, either not captured by the RF system at injection or leaking out of the RF bucket, will be removed by using the existing damper kickers to excite resonantly the particles in the abort gap. Following beam simulations, a strategy for cleaning the abort gap at different energies was proposed. The plans for the commissioning of the beam abort gap cleaning are described, and the first results from the beam commissioning are presented.

• N. Solyak, E. Gianfelice-Wendt, I.G. Gonin, S. Kazakov, V.A. Lebedev, S. Nagaitsev, J.-F. Ostiguy, N. Perunov, G.V. Romanov, V.P. Yakovlev
  Fermilab, Batavia

The concept design of the 2.5 GeV superconducting CW linac of the Project X is discussed. The linac structure and break points for different cavity families are described. The results of the RF system optimization are presented as well as the lattice design and beam dynamics analysis.

• Y. Alexahin, E. Gianfelice-Wendt, W.L. Marsh
  Fermilab, Batavia

In fast ramping synchrotrons, like the Fermilab Booster, the usual methods for evaluating the betatron tunes from the spectrum of turn-by-turn data may fail due to fast decoherence of particle motion or rapid tune changes, in addition to the BPM noise. We propose a technique based on phasing of the signals from different BPMs. Although the number of the Fermilab Booster BPMs is limited to 48 per plane, this method allows to detect the beam tunes in conditions where the other algorithms were unsuccessful. In this paper we describe the method and its implementation in the Fermilab Booster control system. Results of measurements are also presented.

• Y. Alexahin, E. Gianfelice-Wendt, A.V. Netepenko
  Fermilab, Batavia

Muon collider is a promising candidate for the next energy frontier machine. However, in order to obtain peak luminosity in the 10³⁵/cm²/s range the collider lattice design must satisfy a number of stringent requirements, such as low beta at IP (beta*<1 cm), large momentum acceptance and dynamic aperture and small value of the momentum compaction factor. Here we present a particular solution for the interaction region optics whose distinctive feature is a three-sextupole local chromatic correction scheme. Together with a new flexible momentum compaction arc cell design this scheme allows to satisfy all the above-mentioned requirements and is relatively insensitive to the beam-beam effect.

• Y. Alexahin, E. Gianfelice-Wendt, V. Kashikhin, N.V. Mokhov, A.V. Zlobin
  Fermilab, Batavia
• V.Yu. Alexakhin
  JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region

Design of a muon collider interaction region (IR) presents a number of challenges arising from low beta* < 1 cm, correspondingly large beta-function values and beam sizes at IR magnets, as well as the necessity to protect superconducting magnets and collider detectors from muon decay products. As a consequence, the designs of the IR optics, magnets and machine-detector interface are strongly interlaced and iterative. A consistent solution for the 1.5 TeV c.o.m. muon collider IR is presented. It can provide an average luminosity of 10³⁴/cm²/s with an adequate protection of magnet and detector components.