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

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Alsharo'a, MM
Ankenbrandt, CM
Atac, M
Autin, BR
Balbekov, VI
Barger, VD
Benary, O
Bennett, JRJ
Berger, MS
Berg, JS
Berz, M
Black, EL
Blondel, A
Bogacz, SA
Bonesini, M
Bracker, SB
Bross, AD
Bruno, L
Buckley-Geer, EJ
Caldwell, AC
Campanelli, M
Cassel, KW
Catanesi, MG
Chattopadhyay, S
Chou, WR
Cline, DB
Coney, LR
Conrad, JM
Corlett, JN
Cremaldi, L
Cummings, MA
Darve, C
DeJongh, F
Drozhdin, A
Drumm, P
Elvira, VD
Errede, D
Fabich, A
Fawley, WM
Fernow, RC
Ferrario, M
Finley, DA
Fisch, NJ
Fukui, Y
Furman, MA
Gabriel, TA
Galea, R
Gallardo, JC
Garoby, R
Garren, AA
机构
[1] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[2] IIT, Div Phys, Chicago, IL 60616 USA
[3] CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[4] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[5] Tel Aviv Univ, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
[6] Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[7] Indiana Univ, Dept Phys, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[8] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[9] Michigan State Univ, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[10] Univ Geneva, DPNC, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
[11] Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA 23606 USA
[12] Univ Mississippi, University, MS 38677 USA
[13] Columbia Univ, Nevis Lab, Irvington, NY 10533 USA
[14] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
[15] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[16] No Illinois Univ, De Kalb, IL 60115 USA
[17] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[18] Princeton Univ, Dept Astrophys Sci, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[19] Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
[20] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Math, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
[21] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[22] Univ Calif Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[23] Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[24] Cornell Univ, Newman Lab Nucl Studies, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
[25] Muons Inc, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[26] Univ Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[27] Univ Groningen, Kernfys Versneller Inst, NL-9747 AA Groningen, Netherlands
[28] Pohang Univ Sci & Technol, Pohang, South Korea
[29] Northwestern Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[30] Osaka Univ, Osaka 567, Japan
[31] Univ Oxford, Oxford, England
[32] Univ Hawaii, Dept Phys, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[33] Princeton Univ, Joseph Henry Labs, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[34] Boston Univ, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[35] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Phys & Astron, Stony Brook, NY 11790 USA
[36] KEK, High Energy Accelerator Res Org, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
[37] Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
[38] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[39] Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
[40] DESY Zeuthen, Zeuthen, Germany
[41] Budker Inst Nucl Phys, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
[42] Tech X Corp, Boulder, CO 80301 USA
[43] Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[44] Fairfield Univ, Fairfield, CT 06430 USA
[45] Univ Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA
[46] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.6.081001
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O57 [原子核物理学、高能物理学];
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070202 ;
摘要
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.
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