Status of the BNL muon (g-2) experiment

Journal Article · Tue May 20 04:00:00 EDT 1997 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.54301· OSTI ID:21175476

Miller, J P; Brown, D H; Carey, R M; Earle, W; Efstathiadis, E; Hazen, E S; Hughes, B J; Krienen, F; Ouyang, J; Rind, O; Roberts, B L; Sulak, L R; Trofimov, A; Worstell, W A ^[1]; Barkov, L M; Chertovskikh, A; Druzhinin, V P; Fedotovich, G V; Grigorev, D N; Golubev, V B ^[2]

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1. Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 (United States)
2. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk (Russian Federation)

The muon (g-2) experiment at Brookhaven has just completed a 3-month run for checkout and initial data-taking. In the first two months beam was taken in a parasitic mode where one out of ten AGS pulses was delivered for commissioning of the beam line, quadrupoles, detectors, and data acquisition system. This was followed by four weeks of dedicated data collection. The main components of the experiment, which include the pion/muon beam line, the superconducting inflector, the superferric storage ring with its pulsed electric quadrupoles and magnetic field measurement system, and the detector system based on lead-scintillating fiber electron calorimeters, have been satisfactorily commissioned. The muon (g-2) precession frequency is clearly seen as a large signal. It is estimaed that over 25x10{sup 6} decay positrons with energies greater than 1.5 GeV have been detected.

• OSTI ID: 21175476
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 412; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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