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Practical ionization cooling rings could lead to lower cost or improved performance in neutrino factory or muon collider designs. The ring modeled here uses realistic three-dimensional fields. The performance of the ring compares favorably…

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is designed to study p-p and Pb-Pb collisions at ultra-relativistic energies. ALICE is equipped with a Muon Spectrometer (MS) to study the heavy charmonia in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-09 Livia Terlizzi

A six-dimensional muon ionization cooling in a helical magnet channel has been studied. The cooling performance which is analytically evaluated by solving the exact Hamiltonian is reproduced in numerical simulation. One of the key beam…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Katsuya Yonehara

The pion-production target that serves the MICE Muon Beam consists of a titanium cylinder that is dipped into the halo of the ISIS proton beam. The design and construction of the MICE target system are described along with the…

In order to produce muon beam of high enough quality to be used for a Muon Collider, its large phase space must be cooled several orders of magnitude. This task can be accomplished by ionization cooling. Ionization cooling consists of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2010-09-10 Gennady Romanov , Vladimir Kashikhin

The RICE experiment (Radio Ice Cherenkov Experiment) at the South Pole, co-deployed with the AMANDA experiment, seeks to detect ultra-high energy (UHE) electron neutrinos interacting in cold polar ice. Such interactions produce…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 I. Kravchenko

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) studies the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP): a deconfined state of matter obtained in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. One of the probes for QGP study are quarkonia and open heavy flavour, of which…

The cooling simulation of a high intensity ions beam by a new generation of a buffer gas radio-frequency cooler within the SHIRaC (SPIRAL-2 High Intensity Radiofrequency Cooler) project, installed at the SPIRAL 2/DESIR facility, is…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ramzi Boussaid

An intense beam of muons is needed to provide a luminosity on the order of 10$^{34}$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$ for a multi-TeV collider. Because muons produced by colliding a multi-MW proton beam with a target made of carbon or mercury have a large…

We outline in detail a staging scenario for realizing the Neutrino Factory and the Muon Collider. As a first stage we envisage building an intense proton source that can be used to perform high intensity conventional neutrino beam…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-17 Rajendran Raja , D. Cline , J. Gallardo , S. Geer , D. Kaplan , K. McDonald , R. Palmer , A. Sessler , A. N. Skrinsky , D. Summers , M. Tigner , A. Tollestrup , J. Wurtele , M. Zisman

ALICE, which stands for A Large Ion Collider Experiment, is designed to study hadronic collisions at ultrarelativistic energies at the LHC. The primary objective of ALICE is to investigate the properties of quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a state…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-02-20 Livia Terlizzi

The MUonE experiment has been proposed to measure the differential cross section of $\mu e$ elastic scattering, by colliding the 160 GeV muons of the CERN M2 beam with atomic electrons of thin target plates. From a very precise measurement…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-04-26 Giovanni Abbiendi

The CALICE Collaboration is carrying out research and development into calorimetry for a detector at the International Linear Collider (ILC). CALICE is investigating a range of technologies for both electromagnetic and hadronic calorimetry.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 D. S. Bailey

A multi-laboratory collaboration is studying the feasibility of building a muon collider, the first phase of which maybe a neutrino factory. The phase space occupied by the muons is very large and needs to be cooled several orders of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Moretti , N. Holtkamp , T. Jurgens , Z. Qian , V. Wu

The muon collider has the potential to be a powerful tool for the exploration of frontiers in particle physics. In order to reach high luminosity, the 6D emittance of the muon beam needs to be reduced by several orders of magnitude. The…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Ruihu Zhu , Chris Rogers , Jiancheng Yang , He Zhao , Cheng Guo , Jiangdong Li

Muon colliders and neutrino factories are attractive options for achieving the highest lepton-antilepton collision energies and the most precise measurements of the parameters of the neutrino mixing matrix. The performance and cost of these…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel M. Kaplan

Muon colliders have been proposed for the next generation of particle accelerators that study high-energy physics at the energy and intensity frontiers. In this paper we study a possible implementation of muon ionization cooling,…

A number of recent developments have led to simulations of an inverse cyclotron for cooling intense muon beams for neutrino factories and muon colliders. Such a device could potentially act as a novel beam cooling mechanism for muons, and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2010-12-06 Kevin Paul , Estelle Cormier-Michel , Terrence Hart , Donald Summers

The ALICE Collaboration is planning to construct a new detector (ALICE 3) aiming at exploiting the potential of the high-luminosity Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The new detector will allow ALICE to participate in LHC Run 5 scheduled from…