The Hadron Hose: Continuous Toroidal Focusing for Conventional Neutrino Beams
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2008-11-26 v1 Accelerator Physics
Abstract
We have developed a new focusing system for conventional neutrino beams. The ``Hadron Hose'' is a wire located in the meson decay volume, downstream of the target and focusing horns. The wire is pulsed with high current to provide a toroidal magnetic field which continuously focuses mesons. The hose increases the neutrino event rate and reduces differences between near-field and far-field neutrino spectra for oscillation experiments. We have studied this device as part of the development of the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) project, but it might also be of use for other conventional neutrino beams.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0210051,
title = {The Hadron Hose: Continuous Toroidal Focusing for Conventional Neutrino Beams},
author = {J. Hylen and D. Bogert and R. Ducar and V. Garkusha and J. Hall and C. Jensen and S. E. Kopp and M. Kostin and A. Lyukov and A. Marchionni and M. May and M. D. Messier and R. Milburn and F. Novoskoltsev and M. Proga and D. Pushka and W. Smart and J. Walton and V. Zarucheisky and R. M. Zwaska},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0210051},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
accepted for publication in Nuclear Instruments and Methods