30 July 2022 to 6 August 2022
Cliff Lodge
US/Mountain timezone

Characterisation of Cooling in the Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment

4 Aug 2022, 11:20
30m
Wasatch A

Wasatch A

Talk WG3: Accelerator Physics WG3: Accelerator Physics

Speaker

Chris Rogers (Rutherford Lab)

Description

A high-energy muon collider could be the most powerful and cost-effective collider approach in the multi-TeV regime, and a neutrino source based on decay of an intense muon beam would be ideal for measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters. Muon beams may be created through the decay of pions produced in the interaction of a proton beam with a target. The muons are subsequently accelerated and injected into a storage ring where they decay producing a beam of neutrinos, or collide with counter-rotating antimuons. Cooling of the muon beam would enable more muons to be accelerated resulting in a more intense neutrino source and higher collider luminosity. Ionization cooling is the novel technique by which it is proposed to cool the beam. The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment collaboration has constructed a section of an ionization cooling cell and used it to provide the first demonstration of ionization cooling. Here the observation of ionization cooling is described. The results of the further analysis of the data is presented, including studies in different magnet configurations and with more detailed understanding of the detector systematic uncertainty.

Attendance type Virtual presentation

Primary author

Chris Rogers (Rutherford Lab)

Presentation materials