2011•Unpublished venueRequires access
A SPHERE COOLER SCHEME FOR MUON COOLING
Yu Bao, A. Caldwell, D. Greenwald, Max Planck
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Abstract
Muon cooling is the greatest obstacle for producing an intensive muon beam. The frictional cooling method holds promise for delivering low-energy muon beams with narrow energy spreads. We outline a sphere cooler scheme based on frictional cooling to effectively produce such a “cold” muon beam. As an example source, we take the parameters of a surface muon source available at the Paul Scherrer Institute. Simulation results show that the sphere cooler has an efficiency of 50% to produce a “cold” muon beam with an energy spread of 0. 9k eV. This high quality beam could potentially meet the requirement of a neutrino factory or a muon collider.