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1. Transverse Emittance Reduction in Muon Beams by Ionization Cooling

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The MICE Collaboration, Bogomilov, M., Tsenov, R., Vankova-Kirilova, G., Song, Y. P., Tang, J. Y., Li, Z. H., Bertoni, R., Bonesini, M., Chignoli, F., Mazza, R., de Bari, A., Orestano, D., Tortora, L., Kuno, Y., Sakamoto, H., Sato, A., Ishimoto, S., Chung, M., Sung, C. K., Filthaut, F., Fedorov, M., Jokovic, D., Maletic, D., Savic, M., Jovancevic, N., Nikolov, J., Vretenar, M., Ramberger, S., Asfandiyarov, R., Blondel, A., Drielsma, F., Karadzhov, Y., Boyd, S., Greis, J. R., Lord, T., Pidcott, C., Taylor, I., Charnley, G., Collomb, N., Dumbell, K., Gallagher, A., Grant, A., Griffiths, S., Hartnett, T., Martlew, B., Moss, A., Muir, A., Mullacrane, I., Oates, A., Owens, P., Stokes, G., Warburton, P., White, C., Adams, D., Bayliss, V., Boehm, J., Bradshaw, T. W., Brown, C., Courthold, M., Govans, J., Hayler, T., Hills, M., Lagrange, J. B., Macwaters, C., Nichols, A., Preece, R., Ricciardi, S., Rogers, C., Stanley, T., Tarrant, J., Tucker, M., Watson, S., Wilson, A., Bayes, R., Nugent, J. C., Soler, F. J. P., Chatzitheodoridis, G. T., Dick, A. J., Ronald, K., Whyte, C. G., Young, A. R., Gamet, R., Cooke, P., Blackmore, V. J., Colling, D., Dobbs, A., Dornan, P., Franchini, P., Hunt, C., Jurj, P. B., Kurup, A., Long, K., Martyniak, J., Middleton, S., Pasternak, J., Uchida, M. A., Cobb, J. H., Booth, C. N., Hodgson, P., Langlands, J., Overton, E., Pec, V., Smith, P. J., Wilbur, S., Ellis, M., Gardener, R. B. S., Kyberd, P., Nebrensky, J. J., DeMello, A., Gourlay, S., Lambert, A., Li, D., Luo, T., Prestemon, S., Virostek, S., Palmer, M., Witte, H., Adey, D., Bross, A. D., Bowring, D., Liu, A., Neuffer, D., Popovic, M., Rubinov, P., Freemire, B., Hanlet, P., Kaplan, D. M., Mohayai, T. A., Rajaram, D., Snopok, P., Torun, Y., Cremaldi, L. M., Sanders, D. A., Coney, L. R., Hanson, G. G., and Heidt, C.

Subjects
Physics - Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

Accelerated muon beams have been considered for next-generation studies of high-energy lepton-antilepton collisions and neutrino oscillations. However, high-brightness muon beams have not yet been produced. The main challenge for muon acceleration and storage stems from the large phase-space volume occupied by the beam, derived from the muon production mechanism through the decay of pions from proton collisions. Ionization cooling is the technique proposed to decrease the muon beam phase-space volume. Here we demonstrate a clear signal of ionization cooling through the observation of transverse emittance reduction in beams that traverse lithium hydride or liquid hydrogen absorbers in the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE). The measurement is well reproduced by the simulation of the experiment and the theoretical model. The results shown here represent a substantial advance towards the realization of muon-based facilities that could operate at the energy and intensity frontiers., Comment: 23 pages and 5 figures

Published
2023

2. Workshop on a future muon program at FNAL

Author

Corrodi, S., Oksuzian, Y., Edmonds, A., Miller, J., Tran, H. N., Bonventre, R., Brown, D. N., Meot, F., Singh, V., Kolomensky, Y., Tripathy, S., Borrel, L., Bub, M., Echenard, B., Hitlin, D. G., Jafree, H., Middleton, S., Plestid, R., Porter, F. C., Zhu, R. Y., Bottura, L., Pinsard, E., Teixeira, A. M., Carelli, C., Ambrose, D., Badgley, K., Bautista, G. D., Bernstein, R. H., Boi, S., Crnkovic, J., Eldred, J., Gaponenko, A., Johnstone, C., Kiburg, B., Kutschke, R., Lynch, K., Mukherjee, A., Neuffer, D., Pellemoine, F., Pronskikh, V., Rakness, G., Tang, J., Tschirhart, R., Yucel, M., Zettlemoyer, J., Simons, B., Redigolo, D., Diociaiuti, E., Giovannella, S., Miscetti, S., Sarra, I., Muller, S. E., Ootani, W., Yucel, E. B., Kaplan, D. M., Phillips, T. J., Pasternak, J., Palo, D., Davydov, Y., Brown, D., Banerjee, S., Kawall, D., Hartwig, Z., Davidson, S., Abrams, R., Kampa, C., Mackenzie, M., Schmitt, M., Piot, P., Lee, Y. J., Morozov, V., Sato, A., Di Falco, S., Gioiosa, A., Morescalchi, L., Papa, A., Hedges, M. T., Renga, F., Lagrange, J. -B., Rogers, C., Wilcox, D., Petrov, A., Zhao, S., Dukes, E. C., Erlich, R., Group, C., Heeck, J., Pezzullo, G., Nguyen, T., and Popp, J. L.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Accelerator Physics
Abstract

The Snowmass report on rare processes and precision measurements recommended Mu2e-II and a next generation muon facility at Fermilab (Advanced Muon Facility) as priorities for the frontier. The Workshop on a future muon program at FNAL was held in March 2023 to discuss design studies for Mu2e-II, organizing efforts for the next generation muon facility, and identify synergies with other efforts (e.g., muon collider). Topics included high-power targetry, status of R&D for Mu2e-II, development of compressor rings, FFA and concepts for muon experiments (conversion, decays, muonium and other opportunities) at AMF. This document summarizes the workshop discussions with a focus on future R&D tasks needed to realize these concepts., Comment: 68 pages, 36 figures

Published
2023

3. Multiple Coulomb Scattering of muons in Lithium Hydride

Author

Bogomilov, M., Tsenov, R., Vankova-Kirilova, G., Song, Y. P., Tang, J. Y., Li, Z. H., Bertoni, R., Bonesini, M., Chignoli, F., Mazza, R., Palladino, V., de Bari, A., Orestano, D., Tortora, L., Kuno, Y., Sakamoto, H., Sato, A., Ishimoto, S., Chung, M., Sung, C. K., Filthaut, F., Fedorov, M., Jokovic, D., Maletic, D., Savic, M., Jovancevic, N., Nikolov, J., Vretenar, M., Ramberger, S., Asfandiyarov, R., Blondel, A., Drielsma, F., Karadzhov, Y., Charnley, G., Collomb, N., Dumbell, K., Gallagher, A., Grant, A., Griffiths, S., Hartnett, T., Martlew, B., Moss, A., Muir, A., Mullacrane, I., Oates, A., Owens, P., Stokes, G., Warburton, P., White, C., Adams, D., Bayliss, V., Boehm, J., Bradshaw, T. W., Brown, C., Courthold, M., Govans, J., Hills, M., Lagrange, J. -B., Macwaters, C., Nichols, A., Preece, R., Ricciardi, S., Rogers, C., Stanley, T., Tarrant, J., Tucker, M., Watson, S., Wilson, A., Bayes, R., Nugent, J. C., Soler, F. J. P., Gamet, R., Cooke, P., Blackmore, V. J., Colling, D., Dobbs, A., Dornan, P., Franchini, P., Hunt, C., Jurj, P. B., Kurup, A., Long, K., Martyniak, J., Middleton, S., Pasternak, J., Uchida, M. A., Cobb, J. H., Booth, C. N., Hodgson, P., Langlands, J., Overton, E., Pec, V., Smith, P. J., Wilbur, S., Chatzitheodoridis, G. T., Dick, A. J., Ronald, K., Whyte, C. G., Young, A. R., Boyd, S., Greis, J. R., Lord, T., Pidcott, C., Taylor, I., Ellis, M., Gardener, R. B. S., Kyberd, P., Nebrensky, J. J., Palmer, M., Witte, H., Adey, D., Bross, A. D., Bowring, D., Hanlet, P., Liu, A., Neuffer, D., Popovic, M., Rubinov, P., DeMello, A., Gourlay, S., Lambert, A., Li, D., Luo, T., Prestemon, S., Virostek, S., Freemire, B., Kaplan, D. M., Mohayai, T. A., Rajaram, D., Snopok, P., Torun, Y., Cremaldi, L. M., Sanders, D. A., Summers, D. J., Coney, L. R., Hanson, G. G., and Heidt, C.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

Multiple Coulomb Scattering (MCS) is a well known phenomenon occurring when charged particles traverse materials. Measurements of muons traversing low $Z$ materials made in the MuScat experiment showed that theoretical models and simulation codes, such as GEANT4 (v7.0), over-estimated the scattering. The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) measured the cooling of a muon beam traversing a liquid hydrogen or lithium hydride (LiH) energy absorber as part of a programme to develop muon accelerator facilities, such as a Neutrino Factory or a Muon Collider. The energy loss and MCS that occur in the absorber material are competing effects that alter the performance of the cooling channel. Therefore measurements of MCS are required in order to validate the simulations used to predict the cooling performance in future accelerator facilities. We report measurements made in the MICE apparatus of MCS using a LiH absorber and muons within the momentum range 160 to 245 MeV/c. The measured RMS scattering width is about 9% smaller than that predicted by the approximate formula proposed by the Particle Data Group. Data at 172, 200 and 240 MeV/c are compared to the GEANT4 (v9.6) default scattering model. These measurements show agreement with this more recent GEANT4 (v9.6) version over the range of incident muon momenta., Comment: 20 pages, 14 figures, journal

Published
2022
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4. A New Charged Lepton Flavor Violation Program at Fermilab

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Aoki, M., Appleby, R. B., Aslaninejad, M., Barlow, R., Bernstein, R. H., Bloise, C., Calibbi, L., Cervelli, F., Culbertson, R., de Gouvea, Andre Luiz, Di Falco, S., Diociaiuti, E., Donati, S., Donghia, R., Echenard, B., Gaponenko, A., Giovannella, S., Group, C., Happacher, F., Hedges, M. T., Hitlin, D. G., Hungerford, E., Johnstone, C., Kaplan, D. M., Kargiantoulakis, M., Kelliher, D. J., Kirch, K., Knecht, A., Kuno, Y., Kurup, A., Lagrange, J. -B., Lancaster, M., Long, K., Luca, A., Lynch, K., Machida, S., Martini, M., Middleton, S., Mihara, S., Miller, J., Miscetti, S., Morescalchi, L., Mori, Y., Murat, P., Muratori, B., Neuffer, D., Papa, A., Pasternak, J., Pedreschi, E., Pezzullo, G., Planche, T., Porter, F., Prebys, E., Prior, C. R., Pronskikh, V., Ray, R., Renga, F., Rogers, C., Sarra, I., Sato, A., Smith, S. L., Spinella, F., Stratakis, D., Syphers, M., Truong, N. M., Tygier, S., Uchida, Y., and Yucel, M.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The muon has played a central role in establishing the Standard Model of particle physics, and continues to provide valuable information about the nature of new physics. A new complex at Fermilab, the Advanced Muon Facility, would provide the world's most intense positive and negative muon beams by exploiting the full potential of PIP-II and the Booster upgrade. This facility would enable a broad muon physics program, including studies of charged lepton flavor violation, muonium-antimuonium transitions, a storage ring muon EDM experiment, and muon spin rotation experiments. This document describes a staged realization of this complex, together with a series of next-generation experiments to search for charged lepton flavor violation., Comment: A Contributed Paper for Snowmass 2021

Published
2022

5. Neutrinos from Stored Muons (nuSTORM)

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Ruso, L. Alvarez, Alves, T., Boyd, S., Bross, A., Hobson, P. R., Kyberd, P., Lagrange, J. B., Long, K., Lu, X. -G., Pasternak, J., Pfaff, M., and Rogers, C.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Accelerator Physics
Abstract

The 2020 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP) (see https://cds.cern.ch/record/2720129 ) recommended that muon beam R\&D should be considered a high-priority future initiative and that a programme of experimentation be developed to determine the neutrino cross-sections required to extract the most physics from the DUNE and Hyper-K long-baseline experiments. The ENUBET and nuSTORM collaborations have begun to work within and alongside the CERN Physics Beyond Colliders study group and the international Muon Collider collaboration to carry out a joint, five-year R\&D programme to deliver a detailed plan for the implementation of an infrastructure in which: (1) ENUBET and nuSTORM deliver the neutrino cross-section measurement programme identified in the ESPP and allow sensitive searches for physics beyond the Standard Model to be carried out; and in which \ (2) A 6D muon ionisation cooling experiment is delivered as part of the technology development programme defined by the international Muon Collider collaboration. This document summarises the status of development of the nuSTORM and 6D cooling experiments and identifies opportunities for collaboration in the development of the initiative outlined above., Comment: Contribution to Snowmass 2021

Published
2022

6. First demonstration of ionization cooling by the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment

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Bogomilov, M., Tsenov, R., Vankova-Kirilova, G., Song, Y. P., Tang, J. Y., Li, Z. H., Bertoni, R., Bonesini, M., Chignoli, F., Mazza, R., Palladino, V., de Bari, A., Orestano, D., Tortora, L., Kuno, Y., Sakamoto, H., Sato, A., Ishimoto, S., Chung, M., Sung, C. K., Filthaut, F., Jokovic, D., Maletic, D., Savic, M., Jovancevic, N., Nikolov, J., Vretenar, M., Ramberger, S., Asfandiyarov, R., Blondel, A., Drielsma, F., Karadzhov, Y., Charnley, G., Collomb, N., Dumbell, K., Gallagher, A., Grant, A., Griffiths, S., Hartnett, T., Martlew, B., Moss, A., Muir, A., Mullacrane, I., Oates, A., Owens, P., Stokes, G., Warburton, P., White, C., Adams, D., Bayliss, V., Boehm, J., Bradshaw, T. W., Brown, C., Courthold, M., Govans, J., Hills, M., Lagrange, J. -B., Macwaters, C., Nichols, A., Preece, R., Ricciardi, S., Rogers, C., Stanley, T., Tarrant, J., Tucker, M., Watson, S., Wilson, A., Bayes, R., Nugent, J. C., Soler, F. J. P., Gamet, R., Cooke, P., Blackmore, V. J., Colling, D., Dobbs, A., Dornan, P., Franchini, P., Hunt, C., Jurj, P. B., Kurup, A., Long, K., Martyniak, J., Middleton, S., Pasternak, J., Uchida, M. A., Cobb, J. H., Booth, C. N., Hodgson, P., Langlands, J., Overton, E., Pec, V., Smith, P. J., Wilbur, S., Chatzitheodoridis, G. T., Dick, A. J., Ronald, K., Whyte, C. G., Young, A. R., Boyd, S., Greis, J. R., Lord, T., Pidcott, C., Taylor, I., Ellis, M., Gardener, R. B. S., Kyberd, P., Nebrensky, J. J., Palmer, M., Witte, H., Adey, D., Bross, A. D., Bowring, D., Hanlet, P., Liu, A., Neuffer, D., Popovic, M., Rubinov, P., DeMello, A., Gourlay, S., Lambert, A., Li, D., Luo, T., Prestemon, S., Virostek, S., Freemire, B., Kaplan, D. M., Mohayai, T. A., Snopok, P., Torun, Y., Cremaldi, L. M., Sanders, D. A., Summers, D. J., Coney, L. R., Hanson, G. G., and Heidt, C.

Subjects
Physics - Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

High-brightness muon beams of energy comparable to those produced by state-of-the-art electron, proton and ion accelerators have yet to be realised. Such beams have the potential to carry the search for new phenomena in lepton-antilepton collisions to extremely high energy and also to provide uniquely well-characterised neutrino beams. A muon beam may be created through the decay of pions produced in the interaction of a proton beam with a target. To produce a high-brightness beam from such a source requires that the phase space volume occupied by the muons be reduced (cooled). Ionization cooling is the novel technique by which it is proposed to cool the beam. The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment collaboration has constructed a section of an ionization cooling cell and used it to provide the first demonstration of ionization cooling. We present these ground-breaking measurements., Comment: 19 pages and 6 figures

Published
2019

7. Pion contamination in the MICE muon beam

Author

Adams, D., Alekou, A., Apollonio, M., Asfandiyarov, R., Barber, G., Barclay, P., de Bari, A., Bayes, R., Bayliss, V., Bertoni, R., Blackmore, V. J., Blondel, A., Blot, S., Bogomilov, M., Bonesini, M., Booth, C. N., Bowring, D., Boyd, S., Bradshaw, T. W., Bravar, U., Bross, A. D., Capponi, M., Carlisle, T., Cecchet, G., Charnley, C., Chignoli, F., Cline, D., Cobb, J. H., Colling, G., Collomb, N., Coney, L., Cooke, P., Courthold, M., Cremaldi, L. M., DeMello, A., Dick, A., Dobbs, A., Dornan, P., Drews, M., Drielsma, F., Filthaut, F., Fitzpatrick, T., Franchini, P., Francis, V., Fry, L., Gallagher, A., Gamet, R., Gardener, R., Gourlay, S., Grant, A., Greis, J. R., Griffiths, S., Hanlet, P., Hansen, O. M., Hanson, G. G., Hart, T. L., Hartnett, T., Hayler, T., Heidt, C., Hills, M., Hodgson, P., Hunt, C., Iaciofano, A., Ishimoto, S., Kafka, G., Kaplan, D. M., Karadzhov, Y., Kim, Y. K., Kuno, Y., Kyberd, P., Lagrange, J-B, Langlands, J., Lau, W., Leonova, M., Li, D., Lintern, A., Littlefield, M., Long, K., Luo, T., Macwaters, C., Martlew, B., Martyniak, J., Mazza, R., Middleton, S., Moretti, A., Moss, A., Muir, A., Mullacrane, I., Nebrensky, J. J., Neuffer, D., Nichols, A., Nicholson, R., Nugent, J. C., Oates, A., Onel, Y., Orestano, D., Overton, E., Owens, P., Palladino, V., Pasternak, J., Pastore, F., Pidcott, C., Popovic, M., Preece, R., Prestemon, S., Rajaram, D., Ramberger, S., Rayner, M. A., Ricciardi, S., Roberts, T. J., Robinson, M., Rogers, C., Ronald, K., Rubinov, P., Rucinski, P., Sakamato, H., Sanders, D. A., Santos, E., Savidge, T., Smith, P. J., Snopok, P., Soler, F. J. P., Speirs, D., Stanley, T., Stokes, G., Summers, D. J., Tarrant, J., Taylor, I., Tortora, L., Torun, Y., Tsenov, R., Tunnell, C. D., Uchida, M. A., Vankova-Kirilova, G., Virostek, S., Vretenar, M., Warburton, P., Watson, S., White, C., Whyte, C. G., Wilson, A., Winter, M., Yang, X., Young, A., and Zisman, M.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a systematic investigation of ionization cooling with muon beams of momentum between 140 and 240\,MeV/c at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory ISIS facility. The measurement of ionization cooling in MICE relies on the selection of a pure sample of muons that traverse the experiment. To make this selection, the MICE Muon Beam is designed to deliver a beam of muons with less than $\sim$1\% contamination. To make the final muon selection, MICE employs a particle-identification (PID) system upstream and downstream of the cooling cell. The PID system includes time-of-flight hodoscopes, threshold-Cherenkov counters and calorimetry. The upper limit for the pion contamination measured in this paper is $f_\pi < 1.4\%$ at 90\% C.L., including systematic uncertainties. Therefore, the MICE Muon Beam is able to meet the stringent pion-contamination requirements of the study of ionization cooling., Comment: 16 pages, 7 figures

Published
2015
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8. Electron-Muon Ranger: performance in the MICE Muon Beam

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Adams, D., Alekou, A., Apollonio, M., Asfandiyarov, R., Barber, G., Barclay, P., de Bari, A., Bayes, R., Bayliss, V., Bene, P., Bertoni, R., Blackmore, V. J., Blondel, A., Blot, S., Bogomilov, M., Bonesini, M., Booth, C. N., Bowring, D., Boyd, S., Bradshaw, T. W., Bravar, U., Bross, A. D., Cadoux, F., Capponi, M., Carlisle, T., Cecchet, G., Charnley, C., Chignoli, F., Cline, D., Cobb, J. H., Colling, G., Collomb, N., Coney, L., Cooke, P., Courthold, M., Cremaldi, L. M., Debieux, S., DeMello, A., Dick, A., Dobbs, A., Dornan, P., Drielsma, F., Filthaut, F., Fitzpatrick, T., Franchini, P., Francis, V., Fry, L., Gallagher, A., Gamet, R., Gardener, R., Gourlay, S., Grant, A., Graulich, J. S., Greis, J., Griffiths, S., Hanlet, P., Hansen, O. M., Hanson, G. G., Hart, T. L., Hartnett, T., Hayler, T., Heidt, C., Hills, M., Hodgson, P., Hunt, C., Husi, C., Iaciofano, A., Ishimoto, S., Kafka, G., Kaplan, D. M., Karadzhov, Y., Kim, Y. K., Kuno, Y., Kyberd, P., Lagrange, J-B, Langlands, J., Lau, W., Leonova, M., Li, D., Lintern, A., Littlefield, M., Long, K., Luo, T., Macwaters, C., Martlew, B., Martyniak, J., Masciocchi, F., Mazza, R., Middleton, S., Moretti, A., Moss, A., Muir, A., Mullacrane, I., Nebrensky, J. J., Neuffer, D., Nichols, A., Nicholson, R., Nicola, L., Messomo, E. Noah, Nugent, J. C., Oates, A., Onel, Y., Orestano, D., Overton, E., Owens, P., Palladino, V., Pasternak, J., Pastore, F., Pidcott, C., Popovic, M., Preece, R., Prestemon, S., Rajaram, D., Ramberger, S., Rayner, M. A., Ricciardi, S., Roberts, T. J., Robinson, M., Rogers, C., Ronald, K., Rothenfusser, K., Rubinov, P., Rucinski, P., Sakamato, H., Sanders, D. A., Sandstrom, R., Santos, E., Savidge, T., Smith, P. J., Snopok, P., Soler, F. J. P., Speirs, D., Stanley, T., Stokes, G., Summers, D. J., Tarrant, J., Taylor, I., Tortora, L., Torun, Y., Tsenov, R., Tunnell, C. D., Uchida, M. A., Vankova-Kirilova, G., Virostek, S., Vretenar, M., Warburton, P., Watson, S., White, C., Whyte, C. G., Wilson, A., Wisting, H., Yang, X., Young, A., and Zisman, M.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a detailed study of ionization cooling to evaluate the feasibility of the technique. To carry out this program, MICE requires an efficient particle-identification (PID) system to identify muons. The Electron-Muon Ranger (EMR) is a fully-active tracking-calorimeter that forms part of the PID system and tags muons that traverse the cooling channel without decaying. The detector is capable of identifying electrons with an efficiency of 98.6%, providing a purity for the MICE beam that exceeds 99.8%. The EMR also proved to be a powerful tool for the reconstruction of muon momenta in the range 100-280 MeV/$c$., Comment: 22 pages, 19 figures

Published
2015
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9. Light sterile neutrino sensitivity at the nuSTORM facility

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Adey, D., Agarwalla, S. K., Ankenbrandt, C. M., Asfandiyarov, R., Back, J. J., Barker, G., Baussan, E., Bayes, R., Bhadra, S., Blackmore, V., Blondel, A., Bogacz, S. A., Booth, C., Boyd, S. B., Bramsiepe, S. G., Bravar, A., Brice, S. J., Bross, A. D., Cadoux, F., Cease, H., Cervera, A., Cobb, J., Colling, D., Coloma, P., Coney, L., Dobbs, A., Dobson, J., Donini, A., Dornan, P., Dracos, M., Dufour, F., Edgecock, R., Geelhoed, M., Uchida, M. A., Ghosh, T., Gómez-Cadenas, J. J., de Gouvêa, A., Haesler, A., Hanson, G., Harrison, P. F., Hartz, M., Hernández, P., Morata, J. A. Hernando, Hodgson, P., Huber, P., Izmaylov, A., Karadzhov, Y., Kobilarcik, T., Kopp, J., Kormos, L., Korzenev, A., Kuno, Y., Kurup, A., Kyberd, P., Lagrange, J. B., Laing, A., Liu, A., Link, J. M., Long, K., Mahn, K., Mariani, C., Martin, C., Martin, J., McCauley, N., McDonald, K. T., Mena, O., Mishra, S. R., Mokhov, N., Morfín, J., Mori, Y., Murray, W., Neuffer, D., Nichol, R., Noah, E., Palmer, M. A., Parke, S., Pascoli, S., Pasternak, J., Plunkett, R., Popovic, M., Ratoff, P., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M., Ricciardi, S., Rogers, C., Rubinov, P., Santos, E., Sato, A., Sen, T., Scantamburlo, E., Sedgbeer, J. K., Smith, D. R., Smith, P. J., Sobczyk, J. T., Søby, L., Soler, F. J. P., Sorel, M., Snopok, P., Stamoulis, P., Stanco, L., Striganov, S., Tanaka, H. A., Taylor, I. J., Touramanis, C., Tunnell, C. D., Uchida, Y., Vassilopoulos, N., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wilking, M. J., Wildner, E., and Winter, W.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract

A facility that can deliver beams of electron and muon neutrinos from the decay of a stored muon beam has the potential to unambiguously resolve the issue of the evidence for light sterile neutrinos that arises in short-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments and from estimates of the effective number of neutrino flavors from fits to cosmological data. In this paper, we show that the nuSTORM facility, with stored muons of 3.8 GeV/c $\pm$ 10%, will be able to carry out a conclusive muon neutrino appearance search for sterile neutrinos and test the LSND and MiniBooNE experimental signals with 10$\sigma$ sensitivity, even assuming conservative estimates for the systematic uncertainties. This experiment would add greatly to our knowledge of the contribution of light sterile neutrinos to the number of effective neutrino flavors from the abundance of primordial helium production and from constraints on neutrino energy density from the cosmic microwave background. The appearance search is complemented by a simultaneous muon neutrino disappearance analysis that will facilitate tests of various sterile neutrino models., Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Physical Review D

Published
2014
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10. nuSTORM - Neutrinos from STORed Muons: Proposal to the Fermilab PAC

Author

Adey, D., Agarwalla, S. K., Ankenbrandt, C. M., Asfandiyarov, R., Back, J. J., Barker, G., Baussan, E., Bayes, R., Bhadra, S., Blackmore, V., Blondel, A., Bogacz, S. A., Booth, C., Boyd, S. B., Bravar, A., Brice, S. J., Bross, A. D., Cadoux, F., Cease, H., Cervera, A., Cobb, J., Colling, D., Coloma, P., Coney, L., Dobbs, A., Dobson, J., Donini, A., Dornan, P., Dracos, M., Dufour, F., Edgecock, R., Evans, J., Geelhoed, M., George, M. A., Ghosh, T., Gomez-Cadenas, J. J., de Gouvea, A., Haesler, A., Hanson, G., Harrison, P. F., Hartz, M., Hernandez, P., Morata, J. A. Hernando, Hodgson, P., Huber, P., Izmaylov, A., Karadzhov, Y., Kobilarcik, T., Kopp, J., Kormos, L., Korzenev, A., Kuno, Y., Kurup, A., Kyberd, P., Lagrange, J. B., Laing, A., Liu, A., Link, J. M., Long, K., Mahn, K., Mariani, C., Martin, C., Martin, J., McCauley, N., McDonald, K. T., Mena, O., Mishra, S. R., Mokhov, N., Morfin, J., Mori, Y., Murray, W., Neuffer, D., Nichol, R., Noah, E., Palmer, M. A., Parke, S., Pascoli, S., Pasternak, J., Popovic, M., Ratoff, P., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M., Ricciardi, S., Rogers, C., Rubinov, P., Santos, E., Sato, A., Sen, T., Scantamburlo, E., Sedgbeer, J. K., Smith, D. R., Smith, P. J., Sobczyk, J. T., Soby, L., Soler, F. J. P., Soldner-Rembold, S., Sorel, M., Snopok, P., Stamoulis, P., Stanco, L., Striganov, S., Tanaka, H. A., Taylor, I. J., Touramanis, C., Tunnell, C. D., Uchida, Y., Vassilopoulos, N., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wilking, M. J., Wildner, E., Winter, W., and Yang, U. K.

Subjects
Physics - Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

The nuSTORM facility has been designed to deliver beams of electron neutrinos and muon neutrinos (and their anti-particles) from the decay of a stored muon beam with a central momentum of 3.8 GeV/c and a momentum acceptance of 10%. The facility is unique in that it will: 1. Allow searches for sterile neutrinos of exquisite sensitivity to be carried out; 2. Serve future long- and short-baseline neutrino-oscillation programs by providing definitive measurements of electron neutrino and muon neutrino scattering cross sections off nuclei with percent-level precision; and 3. Constitutes the crucial first step in the development of muon accelerators as a powerful new technique for particle physics. The document describes the facility in detail and demonstrates its physics capabilities. This document was submitted to the Fermilab Physics Advisory Committee in consideration for Stage I approval.

Published
2013

11. nuSTORM: Neutrinos from STORed Muons

Author

Kyberd, P., Smith, D. R., Coney, L., Pascoli, S., Ankenbrandt, C., Brice, S. J., Bross, A. D., Cease, H., Kopp, J., Mokhov, N., Morfin, J., Neuffer, D., Popovic, M., Rubinov, P., Striganov, S., Blondel, A., Bravar, A., Noah, E., Bayes, R., Soler, F. J. P., Dobbs, A., Long, K., Pasternak, J., Santos, E., Wascko, M. O., Agarwalla, S. K., Bogacz, S. A., Mori, Y., Lagrange, J. B., de Gouvêa, A., Kuno, Y., Sato, A., Blackmore, V., Cobb, J., Tunnell, C. D., Link, J. M., Huber, P., and Winter, W.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

The results of LSND and MiniBooNE, along with the recent papers on a possible reactor neutrino flux anomaly give tantalizing hints of new physics. Models beyond the neutrino-SM have been developed to explain these results and involve one or more additional neutrinos that are non-interacting or "sterile." Neutrino beams produced from the decay of muons in a racetrack-like decay ring provide a powerful way to study this potential new physics. In this Letter of Intent, we describe a facility, nuSTORM, "Neutrinos from STORed Muons," and an appropriate far detector for neutrino oscillation searches at short baseline. We present sensitivity plots that indicated that this experimental approach can provide over 10 sigma confirmation or rejection of the LSND/MinBooNE results. In addition we indicate how the facility can be used to make precision neutrino interaction cross section measurements important to the next generation of long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments.

Published
2012

12. Electron-muon ranger: performance in the MICE muon beam

Author

D. Adams, A. Alekou, M. Apollonio, R. Asfandiyarov, G. Barber, P. Barclay, A. de Bari, R. Bayes, V. Bayliss, P. Bene, R. Bertoni, V.J. Blackmore, A. Blondel, S. Blot, M. Bogomilov, M. Bonesini, C.N. Booth, D. Bowring, S. Boyd, T.W. Bradshaw, U. Bravar, A.D. Bross, F. Cadoux, M. Capponi, T. Carlisle, G. Cecchet, C. Charnley, F. Chignoli, D. Cline, J.H. Cobb, G. Colling, N. Collomb, L. Coney, P. Cooke, M. Courthold, L.M. Cremaldi, S. Debieux, A. DeMello, A. Dick, A. Dobbs, P. Dornan, F. Drielsma, F. Filthaut, T. Fitzpatrick, P. Franchini, V. Francis, L. Fry, A. Gallagher, R. Gamet, R. Gardener, S. Gourlay, A. Grant, J.S. Graulich, J. Greis, S. Griffiths, P. Hanlet, O.M. Hansen, G.G. Hanson, T.L. Hart, T. Hartnett, T. Hayler, C. Heidt, M. Hills, P. Hodgson, C. Hunt, C. Husi, A. Iaciofano, S. Ishimoto, G. Kafka, D.M. Kaplan, Y. Karadzhov, Y.K. Kim, Y. Kuno, P. Kyberd, J.-B. Lagrange, J. Langlands, W. Lau, M. Leonova, D. Li, A. Lintern, M. Littlefield, K. Long, T. Luo, C. Macwaters, B. Martlew, J. Martyniak, F. Masciocchi, R. Mazza, S. Middleton, A. Moretti, A. Moss, A. Muir, I. Mullacrane, J.J. Nebrensky, D. Neuffer, A. Nichols, R. Nicholson, L. Nicola, E. Noah Messomo, J.C. Nugent, A. Oates, Y. Onel, D. Orestano, E. Overton, P. Owens, V. Palladino, J. Pasternak, F. Pastore, C. Pidcott, M. Popovic, R. Preece, S. Prestemon, D. Rajaram, S. Ramberger, M.A. Rayner, S. Ricciardi, T.J. Roberts, M. Robinson, C. Rogers, K. Ronald, K. Rothenfusser, P. Rubinov, P. Rucinski, H. Sakamato, D.A. Sanders, R. Sandström, E. Santos, T. Savidge, P.J. Smith, P. Snopok, F.J.P. Soler, D. Speirs, T. Stanley, G. Stokes, D.J. Summers, J. Tarrant, I. Taylor, L. Tortora, Y. Torun, R. Tsenov, C.D. Tunnell, M.A. Uchida, G. Vankova-Kirilova, S. Virostek, M. Vretenar, P. Warburton, S. Watson, C. White, C.G. Whyte, A. Wilson, H. Wisting, X. Yang, A. Young, M. Zisman, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Adams, D., Alekou, A., Apollonio, M., Asfandiyarov, R., Barber, G., Barclay, P., De Bari, A., Bayes, R., Bayliss, V., Bene, P., Bertoni, R., Blackmore, V. J., Blondel, A., Blot, S., Bogomilov, M., Bonesini, M., Booth, C. N., Bowring, D., Boyd, S., Bradshaw, T. W., Bravar, U., Bross, A. D., Cadoux, F., Capponi, M., Carlisle, T., Cecchet, G., Charnley, C., Chignoli, F., Cline, D., Cobb, J. H., Colling, G., Collomb, N., Coney, L., Cooke, P., Courthold, M., Cremaldi, L. M., Debieux, S., Demello, A., Dick, A., Dobbs, A., Dornan, P., Drielsma, F., Filthaut, F., Fitzpatrick, T., Franchini, P., Francis, V., Fry, L., Gallagher, A., Gamet, R., Gardener, R., Gourlay, S., Grant, A., Graulich, J. S., Greis, J., Griffiths, S., Hanlet, P., Hansen, O. M., Hanson, G. G., Hart, T. L., Hartnett, T., Hayler, T., Heidt, C., Hills, M., Hodgson, P., Hunt, C., Husi, C., Iaciofano, A., Ishimoto, S., Kafka, G., Kaplan, D. M., Karadzhov, Y., Kim, Y. K., Kuno, Y., Kyberd, P., Lagrange, J. -B., Langlands, J., Lau, W., Leonova, M., Li, D., Lintern, A., Littlefield, M., Long, K., Luo, T., Macwaters, C., Martlew, B., Martyniak, J., Masciocchi, F., Mazza, R., Middleton, S., Moretti, A., Moss, A., Muir, A., Mullacrane, I., Nebrensky, J. J., Neuffer, D., Nichols, A., Nicholson, R., Nicola, L., Messomo, E. N., Nugent, J. C., Oates, A., Onel, Y., Orestano, D., Overton, E., Owens, P., Palladino, V., Pasternak, J., Pastore, F., Pidcott, C., Popovic, M., Preece, R., Prestemon, S., Rajaram, D., Ramberger, S., Rayner, M. A., Ricciardi, S., Roberts, T. J., Robinson, M., Rogers, C., Ronald, K., Rothenfusser, K., Rubinov, P., Rucinski, P., Sakamato, H., Sanders, D. A., Sandstrom, R., Santos, E., Savidge, T., Smith, P. J., Snopok, P., Soler, F. J. P., Speirs, D., Stanley, T., Stokes, G., Summers, D. J., Tarrant, J., Taylor, I., Tortora, L., Torun, Y., Tsenov, R., Tunnell, C. D., Uchida, M. A., Vankova-Kirilova, G., Virostek, S., Vretenar, M., Warburton, P., Watson, S., White, C., Whyte, C. G., Wilson, A., Wisting, H., Yang, X., Young, A., Zisman, M., and Palladino, Vittorio

Subjects
Technology, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Traverse, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, Electron, Cooling channel, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Particle identification method, Particle identification methods, Calorimeters, DESIGN, Particle tracking detectors, 0103 physical sciences, Ionization cooling, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries), Instrumentation, Instruments & Instrumentation, QC, Mathematical Physics, Physics, Calorimeter, Range (particle radiation), Muon, Science & Technology, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Nuclear & Particles Physics, Particle tracking detector, Experimental High Energy Physics, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors, Beam (structure)
Abstract

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a detailed study of ionization cooling to evaluate the feasibility of the technique. To carry out this program, MICE requires an efficient particle-identification (PID) system to identify muons. The Electron-Muon Ranger (EMR) is a fully-active tracking-calorimeter that forms part of the PID system and tags muons that traverse the cooling channel without decaying. The detector is capable of identifying electrons with an efficiency of 98.6%, providing a purity for the MICE beam that exceeds 99.8%. The EMR also proved to be a powerful tool for the reconstruction of muon momenta in the range 100-280 MeV/$c$., 22 pages, 19 figures

Published
2015

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