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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

Because muons connect directly to a standard-model Higgs particle in s-channel production, a muon collider would be an ideal device for precision measurement of the mass and width of a Higgs-like particle, and for further exploration of its…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-02-10 D. Neuffer , M. Palmer , Y. Alexahin , C. Ankenbrandt , J. P. Delahaye

Both Muon Colliders and Neutrino Factories require a muon source capable of producing and capturing O(10^21) muons/year. This paper reviews the similarities and differences between Neutrino Factory and Muon Collider accelerator complexes,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2010-06-07 S. Geer

Besides continued work on the parameters of a 3-4 and 0.5 TeV CoM collider, many studies are now concentrating on a machine near 100 GeV that could be a factory for the s-channel production of Higgs particles. We mention the research on the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Palmer , A. Sessler , A. Tollestrup , J. Gallardo

Muon storage rings have been proposed for use as a source of high-energy neutrino beams (the Neutrino Factory) and as the basis for a high-energy lepton-antilepton collider (the Muon Collider). The Neutrino Factory is widely believed to be…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-07-16 D. M. Kaplan , K. Long

The recent discovery that neutrinos have masses opens a wide new field of experimentation. Accelerator-made neutrinos are essential in this program. Ideas for future facilities include high intensity muon neutrino beams from pion decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 A. Blondel , A. Cervera-Villanueva , A. Donini , P. Huber , M. Mezzetto , P. Strolin

The R&D efforts towards a neutrino factory are outlined with special emphasis on the muon cooling issue and the data collected for target optimization.

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-04-17 M. Bonesini

Stored-muon-beam neutrino factories have been recognized as the best option to measure precisely the elements of the MNSP matrix and sensitively test the consistency of the three-neutrino mixing picture. Now that all three mixing angles…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-12-05 Daniel M. Kaplan

A neutrino factory or muon collider requires the capture and cooling of a large number of muons. Scenarios for capture, bunching, phase-energy rotation and initial cooling of {\mu}'s produced from a proton source target have been developed,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 David Neuffer , Pavel Snopok , Yuri Alexahin

I give a brief overview of the physics potential of short baseline experiments at neutrino factories, i.e. facilities providing high energy and high intensity neutrino beams, like the one planned to be built in connection with the proposed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexey A. Petrov

Ionization cooling of a muon beam is a key technique for a Neutrino Factory or Muon Collider. An international collaboration is mounting an experiment to demonstrate muon ionization cooling at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. We aim to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Daniel M. Kaplan

Elegant experiments are being carried out, or are in preparation, to improve the precision with which the solar and atmospheric neutrino-oscillation parameters are known, and to attempt to make a first measurement of the small mixing angle…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-01-05 K. Long

The potential of muon beams for high energy physics applications is described along with the challenges of producing high quality muon beams. Two proposed approaches for delivering high intensity muon beams, a proton driver source and a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-09-26 Manuela Boscolo , Jean Pierre Delahaye , Mark Palmer

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

An overview is given of muon collider technology and of the current status of the muon collider research program. The exciting potential of muon colliders for both neutrino physics and collider physics studies is then described and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 Bruce J. King

The status of the research on muon colliders is discussed and plans are outlined for future theoretical and experimental studies. Besides continued work on the parameters of a 3-4 and 0.5 TeV center-of-mass (CoM) energy collider, many…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-04-17 Charles M. Ankenbrandt

We propose a neutrino lepton collider where the neutrino beam is generated from TeV scale muon decays. Such a device would allow for a precise measurement of the W mass based on single W production: nu l to W. Although it is challenging to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-25 Tianyi Yang , Sitian Qian , Sen Deng , Jie Xiao , Leyun Gao , Andrew Michael Levin , Qiang Li , Meng Lu , Zhengyun You

An overview is given of the potential for neutrino physics studies through parasitic use of the intense high energy neutrino beams that would be produced at future many-TeV muon colliders. Neutrino experiments clearly cannot compete with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-01-13 B. J. King

A muon collider would be a powerful tool for exploring the energy-frontier with leptons, and would complement the studies now under way at the LHC. Such a device would offer several important benefits. Muons, like electrons, are point…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2011-09-15 Michael S. Zisman

The physics potential of an intense source of low-energy muons is studied. Such a source is a necessary stage towards building the neutrino factories and muon colliders which are being considered at present. The CERN Neutrino Factory could…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Aysto , A. Baldini , A. Blondel , A. de Gouvea , J. Ellis , W. Fetscher , G. F. Giudice , K. Jungmann , S. Lola , V. Palladino , K. Tobe , A. Vacchi , A. van der Schaaf , K. Zuber