Recent progress in neutrino factory and muon collider research within the Muon Collaboration
We describe the status of our effort to realize a first neutrino factory and the progress made in understanding the problems associated with the collection and cooling of muons towards that end. We summarize the physics that can be done with neutrino factories as well as with intense cold beams of muons. The physics potential of muon colliders is reviewed, both as Higgs Factories and compact high energy lepton colliders. The status and timescale of our research and development effort is reviewed as well as the latest designs in cooling channels including the promise of ring coolers in achieving longitudinal and transverse cooling simultaneously. We detail the efforts being made to mount an international cooling experiment to demonstrate the ionization cooling of muons.
- Research Organization:
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA; Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Batavia, IL (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84ER40150
- OSTI ID:
- 829588
- Report Number(s):
- JLAB-ACT-03-07; DOE/ER/40150-2868; hep-ex/0207031; FNAL-Pub-02/149-E
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Special Topics AB, Journal Name: Physical Review Special Topics AB Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 6
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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