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Title: Phase Rotation of Muon Beams for Producing Intense Low-Energy Muon Beams

Abstract

Low-energy muon beams are useful for rare decay searches, which provide access to new physics that cannot be addressed at high-energy colliders. However, muons are produced within a broad energy spread unmatched to the low-energy required. In this paper we outline a phase rotation method to significantly increase the intensity of low-energy muons. The muons are produced from a short pulsed proton driver, and develop a time-momentum correlation in a drift space following production. A series of rf cavities is used to bunch the muons and phase-energy rotate the bunches to a momentum of around 100 MeV/c. Then another group of rf cavities is used to decelerate the muon bunches to low-energy. This obtains ~0.1 muon per 8 GeV proton, which is significantly higher than currently planned Mu2e experiments, and would enable a next generation of rare decay searches, and other intense muon beam applications.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [2]
  1. Fermilab
  2. UC, Riverside
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1325968
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-CONF-16-135-AD-APC; arXiv:1607.00028; IPAC-2016-TUPMY008
1473380
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: 7th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Busan, Korea, 05/08-05/13/2016
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS

Citation Formats

Neuffer, D., Bao, Y., and Hansen, G. Phase Rotation of Muon Beams for Producing Intense Low-Energy Muon Beams. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2016-TUPMY008.
Neuffer, D., Bao, Y., & Hansen, G. Phase Rotation of Muon Beams for Producing Intense Low-Energy Muon Beams. United States. https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2016-TUPMY008
Neuffer, D., Bao, Y., and Hansen, G. 2016. "Phase Rotation of Muon Beams for Producing Intense Low-Energy Muon Beams". United States. https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2016-TUPMY008. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1325968.
@article{osti_1325968,
title = {Phase Rotation of Muon Beams for Producing Intense Low-Energy Muon Beams},
author = {Neuffer, D. and Bao, Y. and Hansen, G.},
abstractNote = {Low-energy muon beams are useful for rare decay searches, which provide access to new physics that cannot be addressed at high-energy colliders. However, muons are produced within a broad energy spread unmatched to the low-energy required. In this paper we outline a phase rotation method to significantly increase the intensity of low-energy muons. The muons are produced from a short pulsed proton driver, and develop a time-momentum correlation in a drift space following production. A series of rf cavities is used to bunch the muons and phase-energy rotate the bunches to a momentum of around 100 MeV/c. Then another group of rf cavities is used to decelerate the muon bunches to low-energy. This obtains ~0.1 muon per 8 GeV proton, which is significantly higher than currently planned Mu2e experiments, and would enable a next generation of rare decay searches, and other intense muon beam applications.},
doi = {10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2016-TUPMY008},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1325968}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}

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