The MuCool Program

The charge of the MuCool Collaboration is to develop and test components for muon cooling channels to be used in muon colliders and neutrino factories. The continuing engineering and technical developments by the MuCool group, conducted by Illinois Consortium for Accelerator Research (ICAR) institutions (NIU, IIT and UIUC), the University of Mississippi and Oxford University in cooperation with Fermilab, are summarized here, including results from the first test of an absorber prototype from Osaka University and KEK cooled by internal convection at the newly constructed FNAL MuCool Test Area (MTA). Plans are in place for the high-power test of another absorber prototype (employing external heat exchange) to be built in 2005. The RF group is completing the manufacture of a 201 MHz RF cell to be tested early 2005 in the MTA.