Design of an intense muon source with a carbon and mercury target

Conference · Sun May 03 00:00:00 EDT 2015

OSTI ID:1193222

Stratakis, D.; Berg, J. S.; Neuffer, D.; Ding, X.

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 Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
• DOE Contract Number: DE-SC00112704
• OSTI ID: 1193222
• Report Number(s): BNL-108096-2015-CP; R&D Project: KBCH139; KB0202011
• Resource Relation: Conference: 6th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC’15); Richmond, VA; 20150503 through 20150508
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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