Design of an Intense Muon Source with a Carbon and Mercury Target

Conference · Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015

OSTI ID:1249536

Stratakis, Diktys ^[1]; Berg, J. Scott ^[1]; Neuffer, David ^[2]; Ding, Xiaoping ^[3]

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1. Brookhaven
2. Fermilab
3. UCLA

In high-intensity sources, muons are produced by firing high energy protons onto a target to produce pions. The pions decay to muons which are captured and accelerated. In the present study, we examine the performance of the channel for two different target scenarios: one based on liquid mercury and another one based on a solid carbon target. We produce distributions with the two different target materials and discuss differences in particle spectrum near the sources. We then propagate the distributions through our capture system and compare the full system performance for the two target types.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1249536
• Report Number(s): IPAC-2015-MOPJE055; FERMILAB-CONF-15-214-AD-APC; 1391451
• Resource Relation: Conference: 6th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Richmond, Virginia, USA, 05/03-05/08/2015
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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