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Ahmed, S.

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TH5PFP076	Particle Tracking in Matter Dominated Beam Lines	3380
	T.J. Roberts, K.B. Beard Muons, Inc, Batavia S. Ahmed, D.M. Kaplan, L.K. Spentzouris Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois D. Huang IIT, Chicago, Illinois
	Funding: Supported in part by USDOE STTR Grant DE-FG02-06ER86281 Most computer programs that calculate the trajectories of particles in accelerators assume that the particles travel in an evacuated chamber. The development of muon beams, which are needed for muon colliders and neutrino factories and are usually required to pass through matter, is limited by the lack of user-friendly numerical simulation codes that accurately calculate scattering and energy loss in matter. Geant4 is an internationally supported tracking toolkit that was developed to simulate particle interactions in large detectors for high energy physics experiments, and includes most of what is known about the interactions of particles and matter. Geant4 has been partially adapted in a program called G4beamline to develop muon beam line designs. The program is now being developed and debugged by a larger number of accelerator physicists studying muon cooling channel designs and other applications. Space-charge effects and muon polarization are new features that are being implemented.

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TH5PFP076

Particle Tracking in Matter Dominated Beam Lines

3380

T.J. Roberts, K.B. Beard
Muons, Inc, Batavia
S. Ahmed, D.M. Kaplan, L.K. Spentzouris
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois
D. Huang
IIT, Chicago, Illinois

Funding: Supported in part by USDOE STTR Grant DE-FG02-06ER86281

Most computer programs that calculate the trajectories of particles in accelerators assume that the particles travel in an evacuated chamber. The development of muon beams, which are needed for muon colliders and neutrino factories and are usually required to pass through matter, is limited by the lack of user-friendly numerical simulation codes that accurately calculate scattering and energy loss in matter. Geant4 is an internationally supported tracking toolkit that was developed to simulate particle interactions in large detectors for high energy physics experiments, and includes most of what is known about the interactions of particles and matter. Geant4 has been partially adapted in a program called G4beamline to develop muon beam line designs. The program is now being developed and debugged by a larger number of accelerator physicists studying muon cooling channel designs and other applications. Space-charge effects and muon polarization are new features that are being implemented.