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| WEPE047 | Frictional Cooling for a Slow Muon Source | 3452 |
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Low energy muon beams are useful for a wide range of physics experiments. High quality muon beams are also required for muon colliders and neutrino factories. The frictional cooling method holds promise for delivering slow muon beams with narrow energy spreads. With this technology, we consider the production of a cold muon beam from a surface muon source, such as that at the Paul Scherrer Institute. A cooling scheme based on frictional cooling is outlined. Simulation results show that the efficiency of slow muon production can be raised to 1%, which is significantly higher than current schemes. |
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| TUPEB030 | Frictional Cooling Demonstration Experiment | 1590 |
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Simulations of frictional cooling for a muon collider front end scheme show that it is a viable technique for quickly producing colliding beams. The Frictional Cooling Demonstration experiment at the Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, aims to demonstrate the working principle of frictional cooling on protons using a 10-cm-long cooling cell. The experiment is nearing the final data taking stages. The status of the experiment is presented along with recent data. Simulation of the experiment setup is also presented. |
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| TUPEB031 | A Muon Collider Scheme Based on Frictional Cooling | 1593 |
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Muon colliders would open new frontiers of investigation in high energy particle physics, allowing precision measurements to be made at the TeV energy frontier. One of the greatest challenges to constructing a muon collider is the cooling of a beam of muons on a timescale comparable to the lifetime of the muon. Frictional cooling holds promise for use in a muon collider scheme. By balancing energy loss to a gas with energy gain from an electric field, a beam of muons is brought to an equilibrium energy in 100s of nanoseconds. A frictional cooling scheme for producing high-luminosity beams for a muon collider is presented. |