Author: Cummings, M.A.
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TUPOTK058 Development and Testing of High Power CW 1497 MHz Magnetron 1351
 
  • M. Popovic, M.A. Cummings, A. Dudas, R.P. Johnson, R.R. Lentz, M.L. Neubauer, T. Wynn
    Muons, Inc, Illinois, USA
  • T. Blassick, J.K. Wessel
    Richardson Electronics Ltd, Lafox, Illinois, USA
  • K. Jordan, R.A. Rimmer, H. Wang
    JLab, Newport News, Virginia, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by DOE NP STTR grant DE-SC0013203
We have designed, built, and tested a new magnetron tube that generates RF power at 1497 MHz. In the tests so far, the tube has produced CW 9 kW RF power, where the measured power is limited by the test equipment. The final goal is to use it to power superconducting (SC) cavities.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-TUPOTK058  
About • Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Revised ※ 10 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 27 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 06 July 2022
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WEPOPT053 Characterisation of Cooling in the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment 1976
 
  • C.T. Rogers
    STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
  • M.A. Cummings
    Muons, Inc, Illinois, USA
 
  A high-energy muon collider could be the most powerful and cost-effective collider approach in the multi-TeV regime, and a neutrino source based on decay of an intense muon beam would be ideal for measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters. Muon beams may be created through the decay of pions produced in the interaction of a proton beam with a target. The muons are subsequently accelerated and injected into a storage ring where they decay producing a beam of neutrinos, or collide with counter-rotating antimuons. Cooling of the muon beam would enable more muons to be accelerated resulting in a more intense neutrino source and higher collider luminosity. Ionization cooling is the novel technique by which it is proposed to cool the beam. The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment collaboration has constructed a section of an ionization cooling cell and used it to provide the first demonstration of ionization cooling. Here the observation of ionization cooling is described. The results of the further analysis of the data is presented, including studies in different magnet configurations and with more detailed understanding of the detector systematic uncertainty.  
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About • Received ※ 06 June 2022 — Revised ※ 14 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 16 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 23 June 2022
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THPOMS043 Mu*STAR: Superconducting Accelerator Driven Subcritical Molten Salt Nuclear Power Plants 3067
 
  • R.P. Johnson, R.J. Abrams, M.A. Cummings, J.D. Lobo, T.J. Roberts
    Muons, Inc, Illinois, USA
 
  The Mu*STAR Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is a transformational and disruptive concept using advances in superconducting accelerator technology to burn spent nuclear fuel (SNF) to close the fuel cycle and to eliminate need for uranium enrichment. One linac drives multiple Mu*STAR Small Modular Reactors (SMR) using subcritical molten salt fueled reactors with an internal spallation neutron target. Neutrons initiate fission chains that die out in the subcritical core. That means intrinsic immunity to criticality accidents. This new way to make nuclear energy employs continuous online removal of all fission products from molten salt fuel volatiles removed by helium purge gas. This reduces chance of accidental release. Non-volatiles removed by vortex separators, allowing complete burning of SNF.  
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About • Received ※ 09 June 2022 — Revised ※ 12 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 14 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 16 June 2022
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