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https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2015-WEPJE016
Title INTENSE MUON BEAMS FROM THE CSNS SPALLATION TARGET
Authors
  • Y. Bao, G.G. Hanson
    UCR, Riverside, California, USA
Abstract Intense muon beams are useful for a wide range of physics experiments. Currently most of the muon beams are produced by protons hitting thin targets sitting upstream of spallation neutron targets. The intensity of the muons is greatly limited by the small thickness of the muon targets, which are intended to have minimum impact on the proton beams. When the majority of the proton beam hits the spallation target, a large number of pions/muons are produced. After being captured in a solenoidal magnetic field, a high intensity muon beam can be produced. In this paper we take the Chinese Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) target as an example and investigate the production of high intensity muon beams. Two possibilities are presented in this paper: an upstream collection of surface muons and a downstream collection of pions which is followed by a decay and compress channel to obtain a high intensity muon beam. Simulations show both methods can reach high intensities which could significantly increase the statistics of many experiments.
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Conference IPAC2015, Richmond, VA, USA
Series International Particle Accelerator Conference (6th)
Proceedings Link to full IPAC2015 Proccedings
Session Wednesday Posters (Jefferson)
Date 06-May-15   16:00–18:00
Main Classification 3: Alternative Particle Sources and Acceleration Techniques
Sub Classification A09 - Muon Accelerators and Neutrino Factories
Keywords target, solenoid, proton, neutron, experiment
Publisher JACoW, Geneva, Switzerland
Editors Stuart Henderson (ANL, Argonne, IL, USA); Evelyn Akers (Jlab, Newport News, VA, USA); Todd Satogata (JLab, Newport News, VA, USA); Volker R.W. Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany)
ISBN 978-3-95450-168-7
Published June 2015
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