Search

Mu2e, a charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) experiment is planned to start at Fermilab late in this decade. The proposed experiment will search for neutrinoless muon to electron conversions with unprecedented sensitivity, better than 6\times 10^-17 at 90% CL. To achieve this sensitivity the incoming proton beam must be highly suppressed during the window for detecting the muon decays. The current proposal for beam extinction is based on a collimator design with two dipoles running at 300 kHz and 5.1 MHz and synchronized to the proton bunch spacing. The appropriate choice of ferrite material for the magnet yoke is a critical step in the overall design of the dipoles and their reliable operation at such high frequencies over the life of the experiment. This choice, based on a series of the thermal and magnetic measurements of the ferrite samples, is discussed in the paper. Additionally, the first results from the testing at 300 kHz of a prototype AC dipole are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A charged lepton flavor violation experiment, Mu2e, is planned at Fermilab, searching for muon to electron conversions with an unprecedented sensitivity, better than 6 x 10-17 at 90% CL. To achieve such sensitivity the incoming beam must be highly suppressed during the window for detecting the conversion a muon into an electron. One proposal for beam extinction is based on a collimator with two dipoles running in a resonant circuit at ~300 kHz synchronized to the bunch spacing. An appropriate choice of the ferrite material for the magnet yoke is critical to ensuring the reliable operation of such a high frequency dipole over the life of the experiment. In this paper, we present the results of the thermal and magnetic measurements of the selected ferrite material, including the field non-linearity effects and power losses. Some dimensional optimization of the ferrite bricks is also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]