PPT-High-Power Targets for Muon (and Neutrino) Production

Context Muon Collider and Neutrino Factory 1997 Colin Johnson argued that the next step after the ACOL antiproton production target should be a mercury jet target U Miss Workshop Jan 1997 my introduction to Muon Collider . Introduction to MICE. After the LHC…. Many open questions in physics:. Gravity & standard model. Matter-antimatter imbalance. Dark matter. Higher energy collisions = . MUON COLLIDER. Neutrino physics = . Satoshi Nakamura. Osaka University, Japan. Collaborators : H. . Kamano. (RCNP, Osaka Univ.), T. Sato (Osaka Univ.). T.-S.H. Lee (Argonne Nat’l Lab). Contents. Introduction . electron, and electron-neutrino have =+1; their anti-particles have =-1; muon, and muon-neutrino have =+1; their anti-particles have THUS, there should be two types of neutrinos: electron-kind and muo 1997: Colin Johnson argued that the next step after the ACOL antiproton production target should be a mercury jet target. . [U. Miss. Workshop, Jan 1997; my introduction to Muon Collider . Targetry. Upgrade Status. P. Campana, . Muon Upgrade . Meeting, . September 3rd, . 2010. . Progress of the work on Muon Upgrade. . Preparation of LOI-Muon. 1. 2. Some work done since our last meeting:. ODE electronics (Caterina et al. – see separate talk). Muon. Source. K. McDonald. Princeton U.. . (December . 5. , 2014). MAP Winter Meeting. SLAC. The Target System Concept. A . M. uon. Collider needs . muon. beams of both signs.. A Neutrino Factory based on neutrinos from . MINERvA is studying neutrino interactions in unprecedented detail on a variety of different nuclei. Low . Energy (LE) . Beam Goals: . S. tudy . both signal and background reactions relevant . to oscillation experiments (current and future). End. (IPAC13, TUPFI075. ) . H. K. Sayed,. *1. . J.S. Berg. 1. , X. Ding. 2. , . H.G Kirk,. 1. . K.T. McDonald. 3. 1 . Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11953, USA. 2. UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. Outline. Class 1 Atlas Control Room Shifts. Booking. Present Status + Experience+ Feedback. Class . 2 reminder. A. . Polini. & Z. Yan. May 21. th. 2012. Class 1 Control Room . Muon. Shifts. Following Steering and IB discussions in November:. 1. The basis of the potential of . muon. beams. Muon. mass:. 200. . m. e. ~ . m. m. ~ 0.1. . m. p. Muon. decay:. n. e. , . n. m. Precisely known energy spectrum. Energy frontier:. No . brem. -/beam-. . . ILC and More Workshop. Lake Como, Italy. . May 16-17, 2013. Why . Muons. ?. What’s so special about . Muons. ?. Muons. are . Heavy. Past and Present. Art McDonald. Queen’s University. And. SNOLAB. 1940’s to 1960’s:. Neutrino oscillations were proposed by . Pontecorvo. in 1957 motivated by initial reports of measurements by Davis with a Chlorine detector at a reactor. At that point, the transitions being considered were electron neutrino to electron anti-neutrino.. MINERvA. Experiment. Tammy Walton. New Perspectives Meeting. Hampton University. June 10-11, 2013 . 1. Outline. Motivation. Overview of the Analysis. Conclusions. 2. 3. n. m. n. m. J.A. Formaggio and G.P. Zeller, Rev. Mod. Phys. 84, 1307-1341, 2012. 1. John Beacom, The Ohio State University. High Energy . Neutrino . Astronomy. Topic: Impossible. Requires. : sources that reach high energies. . sources that are luminous. . sources of different types.