A Muon beam for cooling experiments

Within the framework of the Fermilab Muon Collider Task Force, the possibility of developing a dedicated muon test beam for cooling experiments has been investigated. Cooling experiments can be performed in a very low intensity muon beam by tracking single particles through the cooling device. With...

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Main Authors: Jansson, A., Balbekov, V.I., Broemmelsiek, D., Hu, M., Mokhov, N.V., Yonehara, K.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Colliding beam devices
Electronics cooling
Mesons
Muon colliders
Particle beams
Particle measurements
Particle tracking
Performance evaluation
Position measurement
Testing
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Summary:Within the framework of the Fermilab Muon Collider Task Force, the possibility of developing a dedicated muon test beam for cooling experiments has been investigated. Cooling experiments can be performed in a very low intensity muon beam by tracking single particles through the cooling device. With sufficient muon intensity and large enough cooling decrement, a cooling demonstration experiment may also be performed without resolving single particle trajectories, but rather by measuring the average size and position of the beam. This allows simpler, and thus cheaper, detectors and readout electronics to be used. This paper discusses muon production using 400MeV protons from the Linac, decay channel and beamline design, as well as the instrumentation required for such an experiment, in particular as applied to testing the Helical Cooling Channel (HCC) proposed by Muons Inc.
ISSN:1944-4680
2152-9582
DOI:10.1109/PAC.2007.4440630