Referee B Title-- Changed to “Recent Progress in Neutrino Factory and Muon Collider.pdfVIP

Response to Referees for ZU8005 Referee A We have changed the sign of Equation 29 1st part and also the overall sign in Equation 31. Referee B Title:-- Changed to “Recent Progress in Neutrino Factory and Muon Collider Research within the Muon Collaboration” in accordance with requests made by the referee to a)be different from “Status Report” and be “specific about the origin of the research”. Abstract:- Changes made as requested Introduction:- Added the phrase “Also known as the Muon Collaboration” after “Neutrino Factory and Muon Collider Collaboration” in second paragraph to clarify the title. The second paragraph starting “This document indicates our progress” now reads correctly as the referee wants, since the title explicitly states “within the Muon Collaboration”. So no further changes have been implemented. We have added references to NUFACT 01, 02 and 03 and also to the recently submitted MICE proposal at the end of paragraph 2 on Page 7 as per referee’s suggestion. In addition references have been added to the Neutrino Factory efforts at CERN and Japan. We have added the sentence on “Neutrino Factory vs the Muon Collider cooling as suggested by referee on Page 6 , in the paragraph starting “While the Neutrino Factory..”. LH_2 has been replaced by liquid hydrogen. III Neutrino Factory All the Referee’s suggestions followed except F. The rep rate is described in the proton driver section; it is not simply quantified as a single frequency. IV Muon Colliders Page 65, line 6 Spelling of enegies corrected. Text added after Line 17 as asked to refer to cooling and accelerator stages. Page 66 Higgs Factory being the 0.1TeV collider is made clearer along the lines asked. Page 68 “added three types of” before ring coolers. Fig 29 Changed SS to “straight Section” p.71 Line 19 Changed posibility to possibility p.72 lines 7-8 Added sentence “