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The Collider-Accelerator Department of Brookhaven National
Laboratory is hosting the Semi-Annual International FFAG-2006 Workshop
to be held May 15 to 19. The meeting is the latest in a long sequence of
international workshops that was initiated several years ago and held
periodically every semester, once in the States (with few exception in
Europe and Canada) and then in Japan (usually in fall). The last
workshop was held in Osaka, Japan, December 5-9.
http://hadron.kek.jp/FFAG/FFAG05_HP/
The purpose of the workshops has been, and still is, the
discussion and the assessment of the status of art of Fixed-Field
Alternating-Gradient (FFAG) accelerators that are sought for a variety
of applications. Notably these are: acceleration of muons for Neutrino
Factories and Muon Colliders, acceleration of protons for Neutrino
Superbeams, medical applications, neutron production, proton drivers for
muons and neutrino production, energy production by impinging protons on
a sub-critical fissionable core, waste transmutation, tritium
production, etc. Other possible applications to be discussed are RIA,
eRHIC and ERL. Also presentations will be made on the design of few
electron models proposed to demonstrate the feasibility of Non-Scaling
FFAG lattices. During the meeting both beam dynamics issues and
engineering considerations are discussed and presented. In particular,
there are some outstanding beam dynamics issues concerning the selection
of the proper magnet lattice for the various projects that still need to
be resolved.
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