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Project: Particle Tracking in Matter‑Dominated
Beam Lines—Muons, Inc.,
Dr. Thomas J. Roberts, Principal
Investigator, tjrob@muonsinc.com
Dr. Rolland P. Johnson, Business Official, rol@muonsinc.com
DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-06ER86281
Amount:
$750,000
Research
Institution
Illinois Institute of Technology
The development
of muon beams, which are needed for muon colliders and neutrino
factories, is limited by the lack of user-friendly numerical simulation codes
that accurately calculate scattering and energy loss in matter. Geant4 – an internationally supported
tracking toolkit developed to simulate particle interactions in large detectors
for high energy physics experiments – has been partially adapted in a program
called G4beamline to develop muon beam line
designs. This project will continue the
development of G4beamline to enhance its graphical user-interface and add other
features, in order to facilitate its use by a larger set of beam line and
accelerator physicists. In Phase I the
graphical user interface of G4beamline was enhanced for greater effectiveness
in beam line design, and the program environment was extended to Windows XP and
Commercial Applications and Other Benefits as described by the awardee: New discoveries and inventions in muon beam cooling over the last five years have greatly increased the probability that muon colliders and neutrino factories will be the discovery machines of the future. A sophisticated tracking code would permit designers to accurately and realistically improve the performance of these machines.