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A muon collider would open new frontiers of investigation in high energy particle physics, allowing precision measurements to be made at the TeV energy frontier. One of the greatest challenges to constructing a muon collider is the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2010-12-20 Daniel Greenwald , Yu Bao , Allen Caldwell , Daniel Kollar

A Neutrino Factory requires an intense and well-cooled (in transverse phase space) muon beam. We discuss a hybrid approach for a linear 4D cooling channel consisting of high-pressure gas-filled RF cavities- potentially allowing high…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 Juan C. Gallardo , Michael S. Zisman

Muon storage rings have been proposed for use as sources of intense high-energy neutrino beams and as the basis for muon colliders. Phase-space compression (cooling) of the muon beam prior to acceleration and storage is needed to optimise…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Drumm

Muon cooling is the main technological obstacle in the building of a muon collider. A muon cooling scheme based on Frictional Cooling holds promise in overcoming this obstacle. An experiment designed to demonstrate the Frictional Cooling…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-08-21 R. Galea , A. Caldwell , L. Newburgh

A stored-muon-beam neutrino factory may require transverse ionization cooling of the muon beam. We describe recent progress in research and development on energy absorbers for muon-beam cooling carried out by a collaboration of university…

We discuss the design of the muon capture front end for a \mu+-\mu- Collider. In the front end, a proton bunch on a target creates secondary pions that drift into a capture transport channel, decaying into muons. A sequence of rf cavities…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-02-27 D. Neuffer , C. Yoshikawa

Low energy muon experiments such as mu2e and g-2 have a limited energy spread acceptance. Following techniques developed in muon cooling studies and the MICE experiment, the number of muons within the desired energy spread can be increased…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-01-23 D. V. Neuffer , D. Stratakis , J. Bradley

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

Possible application for muon experiments such as mu2e is discussed of the initial part of the ionization cooling channel originally developed for muon collider. It is shown that with the FNAL Booster as the proton driver the mu2e…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-09-22 Y. Alexahin , D. Neuffer , E. Prebys

Muon ionization cooling involves passing particles through solid or liquid absorbers. Careful simulations are required to design muon cooling channels. New features have been developed for inclusion in the transfer map code COSY Infinity to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Josiah Kunz , Pavel Snopok , Martin Berz , Kyoko Makino

Progress on six dimensional ionization muon cooling with relatively small rings of magnets is described. Lattices being explored include scaling sector cyclotrons with edge focusing and strong focusing, fixed field alternating gradient…

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

One of the focuses of research and development towards the construction of a muon collider is muon beam preparation. Simulation of frictional cooling shows that it can achieve the desired emittance reduction to produce high-luminosity muon…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-04-23 Daniel Greenwald , Allen Caldwell

This study performs a three-dimensional numerical simulation of the coupled flow field in a hydrogen-air rotating detonation combustor (RDC)-turbine system to evaluate the effectiveness of different film cooling strategies for the turbine…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-20 Yeqi Zhou , Songbai Yao , Jingtian Yu , Weijia Qian , Ping Wang , Wenwu Zhang

Cooling of muon beams for the next-generation lepton collider is necessary to achieve its higher luminosity with fewer muons. In this paper we present an idea to combine ionization cooling with parametric resonances that is expected to lead…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-05-16 Ya. S. Derbenev , V. S. Morozov , A. Afanasev , K. B. Beard , R. Johnson , B. Erdelyi , J. A. Maloney

We show that Compton scattering can be used to cool TeV-scale muon beams, and we derive analytical expressions for the equilibrium transverse angular spread, longitudinal energy spread, and power requirements. We find that a factor of a few…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Fritz DeJongh

Micro-channel cooling initially aiming at small-sized high-power integrated circuits is being transferred to the field of high energy physics. Today`s prospects of micro-fabricating silicon opens a door to a more direct cooling of detector…

Ionization cooling in a straight beamline reduces the transverse emittance of a beam, and has little effect on the longitudinal emittance (generally, in fact, it increases the longitudinal emittance). Once the beamline bends, the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Scott Berg

Muon colliders and neutrino factories are attractive options for future facilities aimed at achieving the highest lepton-antilepton collision energies and precision measurements of parameters of the Higgs boson and the neutrino mixing…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 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 2016-12-30 D. Neuffer , Y. Alexahin