Development and lattice design of an ion-production ring for a beta-beam neutrino facility

Neutrino beams can be produced by accelerating beta active ions which will decay in a race track accelerator ring to produce intense focused neutrino beams. The production of these radioactive isotopes need special technology. One idea is to let a circulating low energy beam of 7Li or 6Li in a small production ring perform multiple traversals in a target to produce 8Li and 8B. The lattice of this production ring has to satisfy conditions to permit the radioactive isotope production but also to permit ionization cooling of the circulating beam. The lattice should be flexible and have margins for further optimization. This thesis describes the design of such a production ring lattice, having symmetry and flexibility. A simplified model of the wedge shaped target has been implemented, using results from Monte Carlo simulations, and is used as an element in the lattice to perform 6D tracking simulations of the cooling process. Tools for this simulation have been developed and tested.