Summary of the Accelerator Working Group Summary of the Accelerator Working Group

Abstract. We present a summary of the main topics discussed in the Accelerator Working Group during the "Workshop on the Physics at the First Muon Collider". The discussions centered on critical design issues for a high-intensity, medium-energy proton synchrotron that would replace the present Fermilab 8 GeV Booster early in the next century. Such a machine is intended both to serve the hadron program with an order of magnitude increase in average proton current and to be compatible as a source for a future muon collider. Particular issues discussed at length include rf system design, control of longitudinal space-charge effects, bunching of proton beams and beam instabilities