Muon Cooling

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TUM2I04 Ionization Cooling 68
 
  • R. P. Johnson
    Muons, Inc, Batavia
 
  Funding: Supported by DOE SBIR/STTR grants DE-FG02-04ER84016, 04ER86191, 05ER86252, and 05ER886253

All three components of a particle’s momentum are reduced as a particle passes through and ionizes some energy absorbing material. If the longitudinal momentum is regenerated by RF cavities, the angular divergence of the particle is reduced. This is the basic concept of ionization cooling. What can be done for a muon beam with this simple idea is almost amazing, especially considering that the muon lifetime is only 2.2 μs in its rest frame. In this lecture we will discuss the evolution and present status of this idea, where we are now ready to design muon colliders, neutrino factories, and intense muon beams with very effective cooling in all six phase space dimensions. The discussion will include the heating effects and absorber Z-dependence of multiple scattering, numerical simulation programs, the accuracy of scattering models, emittance exchange, helical cooling channels, parametric-resonance ionization cooling, reverse emittance exchange, and the ionization cooling demonstration experiments, MICE and MANX.

 
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TUM2I05 MICE: The International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment 73
 
  • A. P. Blondel, J. S. Graulich
    DPNC, Genève
 
  An international experiment to demonstrate muon ionization cooling is scheduled for beam at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in 2008. The experiment comprises one cell of the neutrino factory cooling channel, along with upstream and downstream detectors to identify individual muons and measure their initial and final 6D emittance to a precision of 0.1%. Magnetic design of the beam line and cooling channel are complete and portions are under construction. The experiment will be described, including cooling channel hardware designs, fabrication status, and running plans. Phase 1 of the experiment will prepare the beam line and provide detector systems, including time-of-flight, Cherenkov, scintillating-fiber trackers and their spectrometer solenoids, and an electromagnetic calorimeter. The Phase 2 system will add the cooling channel components, including liquid-hydrogen absorbers embedded in superconducting Focus Coil solenoids, 201-MHz normalconducting RF cavities, and their surrounding Coupling Coil solenoids. The MICE Collaboration goal is to complete the experiment by 2010.  
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TUM2I06 Cooling Scheme for a Muon Collider 77
 
  • R. B. Palmer, J. S. Berg, R. C. Fernow, J. C. Gallardo, H. G. Kirk
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  • Y. Alexahin, D. V. Neuffer
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
  • S. A. Kahn
    Muons, Inc, Batavia
  • D. J. Summers
    UMiss, University, Mississippi
 
  Abstract text to be submitted by the author  
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