Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 6, 081001 (2003) [52 pages]

Recent progress in neutrino factory and muon collider research within the Muon Collaboration

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Mohammad M. Alsharo’a et al.
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Received 12 July 2002; revised 22 April 2003; published 14 August 2003

We describe the status of our effort to realize a first neutrino factory and the progress made in understanding the problems associated with the collection and cooling of muons towards that end. We summarize the physics that can be done with neutrino factories as well as with intense cold beams of muons. The physics potential of muon colliders is reviewed, both as Higgs factories and compact high-energy lepton colliders. The status and time scale of our research and development effort is reviewed as well as the latest designs in cooling channels including the promise of ring coolers in achieving longitudinal and transverse cooling simultaneously. We detail the efforts being made to mount an international cooling experiment to demonstrate the ionization cooling of muons.


©2003 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRSTAB/v6/e081001
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.6.081001
PACS: 13.66.–a, 14.60.Ef, 29.27.–a, 29.20.Dh

* Corresponding author. Electronic address: raja@fnal.gov
Also at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclo tron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

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