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physics.acc-ph2023

Transverse Emittance Reduction in Muon Beams by Ionization Cooling

The MICE Collaboration, M. Bogomilov, R. Tsenov +134

Accelerated muon beams have been considered for next-generation studies of high-energy lepton-antilepton collisions and neutrino oscillations. However, high-brightness muon beams h…

physics.acc-ph2021★ 2 cited

Performance of the MICE diagnostic system

The MICE collaboration, M. Bogomilov, R. Tsenov +135

Muon beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well-characterised neutrino beams of a neutrino factory and for multi-TeV lepton-antilepton collisions at a muon coll…

physics.acc-ph2021★ 66 cited

Beam dynamics corrections to the Run-1 measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment at Fermilab

T. Albahri, A. Anastasi, K. Badgley +174

This paper presents the beam dynamics systematic corrections and their uncertainties for the Run-1 data set of the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment. Two corrections to the measured muo…

physics.acc-ph2019★ 3 cited

Unconventional Ideas for Ionization Cooling of Muons

T. L. Hart, J. G. Acosta, L. M. Cremaldi +5

Small muon beams increase the luminosity of a muon collider. Reducing the momentum and position spreads of muons reduces emittance and leads to small, cool beams. Ionization coolin…

physics.acc-ph2019★ 4 cited

Reduction of coherent betatron oscillations in a muon g-2 storage ring experiment using RF fields

On Kim, SeungPyo Chang, Jihoon Choi +15

This work demonstrates that two systematic errors, coherent betatron oscillations (CBO) and muon losses can be reduced through application of radio frequency (RF) electric fields,…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 9 cited

First particle-by-particle measurement of emittance in the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment

The MICE Collaboration, D. Adams, D. Adey +133

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) collaboration seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of ionization cooling, the technique by which it is proposed to cool the muon beam…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 4 cited

The liquid-hydrogen absorber for MICE

V. Bayliss, J. Boehm, T. Bradshaw +14

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) has been built at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory to demonstrate the principle of muon beam phase-space reduction via ionizati…

physics.acc-ph2017

RF system for the MICE demonstration of ionization cooling

K. Ronald, C. G. Whyte, A. J. Dick +29

Muon accelerators offer an attractive option for a range of future particle physics experiments. They can enable high energy (TeV+) high energy lepton colliders whilst mitigating t…

physics.acc-ph2017

Use of Wedge Absorbers in MICE

David Neuffer, D. Summers, T. Mohayai +2

Wedge absorbers are needed to obtain longitudinal cooling in ionization cooling. They also can be used to obtain emittance exchanges between longitudinal and transverse phase space…

physics.acc-ph2017

Wedge Absorbers In Final Cooling For A High-Energy High Luminosity Lepton Collider

David Neuffer, D. Summers, P. Snopok +1

A high-energy muon collider scenario requires a final cooling system that reduces transverse emittance to ~25 microns (normalized) while allowing longitudinal emittance increase. I…

physics.acc-ph2017★ 5 cited

Design and expected performance of the MICE demonstration of ionization cooling

MICE Collaboration, M. Bogomilov, R. Tsenov +129

Muon beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well-characterised neutrino beams necessary to elucidate the physics of flavour at a neutrino factory and to provide…

physics.acc-ph2016★ 10 cited

Final Cooling for a High-Energy High-Luminosity Lepton Collider

David Neuffer, Hisham Sayed, Terry Hart +1

A high-energy muon collider scenario require a "final cooling" system that reduces transverse emittance by a factor of ~10 while allowing longitudinal emittance increase. The basel…

physics.acc-ph2016★ 1 cited

Accomplishments of the Heavy Electron Particle Accelerator Program

D. Neuffer, D. Stratakis, M. Palmer +4

The Muon Accelerator Program (MAP) has completed a four-year study on the feasibility of muon colliders and on using stored muon beams for neutrinos. That study was broadly success…

physics.acc-ph2016★ 3 cited

Wedge Absorbers For Muon Cooling With a Test Beam At MICE

David Neuffer, J. Acosta, D. Summers +2

Emittance exchange mediated by wedge absorbers is required for longitudinal ionization cooling and for final transverse emittance minimization for a muon collider. A wedge absorber…

physics.acc-ph2015★ 3 cited

Final Muon Emittance Exchange in Vacuum for a Collider

Don Summers, John Acosta, Lucien Cremaldi +5

We outline a plan for final muon ionization cooling with quadrupole doublets focusing onto short absorbers followed by emittance exchange in vacuum to achieve the small transverse…

physics.acc-ph2013★ 27 cited

Characterisation of the muon beams for the Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment

The MICE Collaboration, D. Adams, D. Adey +141

A novel single-particle technique to measure emittance has been developed and used to characterise seventeen different muon beams for the Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment (MICE).…

physics.acc-ph2012★ 1 cited

A 233 km Tunnel for Lepton and Hadron Colliders

D. J. Summers, L. M. Cremaldi, A. Datta +3

A decade ago, a cost analysis was conducted to bore a 233 km circumference Very Large Hadron Collider (VLHC) tunnel passing through Fermilab. Here we outline implementations of $e^…

physics.acc-ph2012★ 6 cited

Test of a 1.8 Tesla, 400 Hz Dipole for a Muon Synchrotron

D. J. Summers, L. M. Cremaldi, T. L. Hart +6

A 1.8 T dipole magnet using thin grain oriented silicon steel laminations has been constructed as a prototype for a muon synchrotron ramping at 400 Hz. Following the practice in la…

physics.acc-ph2012★ 68 cited

The MICE Muon Beam on ISIS and the beam-line instrumentation of the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment

MICE Collaboration

The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE), which is under construction at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), will demonstrate the principle of ionization c…

physics.acc-ph2011

A 233 km Circumference Tunnel for , , and Colliders

George T. Lyons

In 2001 a cost analysis survey was conducted to build a 233km circumference tunnel in northern Illinois in which to build a Very Large Hadron Collider. Ten years later I have reexa…

physics.acc-ph2010

Recent Developments in Simulations of an Inverse Cyclotron for Intense Muon Beams

Kevin Paul, Estelle Cormier-Michel, Terrence Hart +1

A number of recent developments have led to simulations of an inverse cyclotron for cooling intense muon beams for neutrino factories and muon colliders. Such a device could potent…

physics.acc-ph2007★ 8 cited

A Complete Scheme for a Muon Collider

Robert B. Palmer, J. Scott Berg, Richard C. Fernow +6

A complete scheme for production, cooling, acceleration, and ring for a 1.5 TeV center of mass muon collider is presented, together with parameters for two higher energy machines.…

physics.acc-ph2007★ 4 cited

Muon Acceleration to 750 GeV in the Tevatron Tunnel for a 1.5 TeV mu+ mu- Collider

D. J. Summers, L. M. Cremaldi, R. Godang +3

Muon acceleration from 30 to 750 GeV in 72 orbits using two rings in the 1000m radius Tevatron tunnel is explored. The first ring ramps at 400 Hz and accelerates muons from 30 to 4…

physics.acc-ph2005★ 45 cited

The RFOFO Ionization Cooling Ring for Muons

R. Palmer, V. Balbekov, J. S. Berg +8

Practical ionization cooling rings could lead to lower cost or improved performance in neutrino factory or muon collider designs. The ring modeled here uses realistic three-dimensi…