Accelerator system for the PRISM based muon to electron conversion experiment
Abstract
The next generation of lepton flavor violation experiments need high intensity and high quality muon beams. Production of such beams requires sending a short, high intensity proton pulse to the pion production target, capturing pions and collecting the resulting muons in the large acceptance transport system. The substantial increase of beam quality can be obtained by applying the RF phase rotation on the muon beam in the dedicated FFAG ring, which was proposed for the PRISM project.This allows to reduce the momentum spread of the beam and to purify from the unwanted components like pions or secondary protons. A PRISM Task Force is addressing the accelerator and detector issues that need to be solved in order to realize the PRISM experiment. The parameters of the required proton beam, the principles of the PRISM experiment and the baseline FFAG design are introduced. The spectrum of alternative designs for the PRISM FFAG ring are shown. Progress on ring main systems like injection and RF are presented. The current status of the study and its future directions are discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1310.0804,
title = {Accelerator system for the PRISM based muon to electron conversion experiment},
author = {A. Alekou and R. Appleby and M. Aslaninejad and R. J. Barlow and R. Chudzinski K. M. Hock and J. Garland and L. J. Jenner and D. J. Kelliher and Y. Kuno and A. Kurup and J-B. Lagrange and M. Lancaster and S. Machida and Y. Mori and B. Muratori and C. Ohmori and H. Owen and J. Pasternak and T. Planche and C. Prior and A. Sato and Y. Shi and S. Smith and Y. Uchida and H. Witte and T. Yokoi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.0804},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
Studies performed within the PRISM Task Force initiative