| Title: |
Transverse emittance reduction in muon beams by ionization cooling |
| Authors: |
Heidt, C; Hanson, GG; Coney, LR; Sanders, DA; Cremaldi, LM; Torun, Y; Snopok, P; Rajaram, D; Mohayai, TA; Kaplan, DM; Hanlet, P; Warburton, P; Stokes, G; Owens, P; Oates, A; Mullacrane, I; Muir, A; Moss, A; Martlew, B; Hartnett, T; Griffiths, S; Grant, A; Gallagher, A; Dumbell, K; Collomb, N; Charnley, G; Taylor, I; The MICE Collaboration; Freemire, B; Rubinov, P; Popovic, M; Neuffer, D; Liu, A; Bowring, D; Bross, AD; Adey, D; Witte, H; Palmer, M; Virostek, S; Prestemon, S; Luo, T; Li, D; Lambert, A; Gourlay, S; DeMello, A; Nebrensky, JJ; Kyberd, P; Gardener, RBS; Ellis, M; Wilbur, S; Smith, PJ; Pec, V; Overton, E; Langlands, J; Hodgson, P; Booth, CN; Cobb, JH; Uchida, MA; Pasternak, J; Middleton, S; Martyniak, J; Long, K; Kurup, A; Jurj, PB; Hunt, C; Franchini, P; Dornan, P; Dobbs, A; Colling, D; Blackmore, VJ; Cooke, P; Gamet, R; Young, AR; Whyte, CG; Ronald, K; Dick, AJ; Chatzitheodoridis, GT; Soler, FJP; Nugent, JC; Bayes, R; Wilson, A; Watson, S; Tucker, M; Tarrant, J; Stanley, T; Rogers, C; Ricciardi, S; Preece, R; Nichols, A; Macwaters, C; Lagrange, JB; Hills, M; Hayler, T; Govans, J; Courthold, M; Brown, C; Bradshaw, TW; Boehm, J; Bayliss, V; Adams, D; White, C |
| Publisher Information: |
Springer Nature |
| Publication Year: |
2024 |
| Collection: |
Brunel University London: Brunel University Research Archive (BURA) |
| Subject Terms: |
experimental nuclear physics; experimental particle physics |
| Description: |
Data availability The unprocessed and reconstructed data that support the findings of this study are publicly available on the GridPP computing grid53,54. Source data are provided with this paper. Publications using MICE data must contain the following statement: ‘We gratefully acknowledge the MICE collaboration for allowing us access to their data. Third-party results are not endorsed by the MICE collaboration’. ; Code availability: The MAUS software that was used to reconstruct and analyse the MICE data is available at ref. 55. The analysis presented here used MAUS version 3.3.2. ; Change history: 30 July 2024A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02616-8 . ; A preprint version of the article is available at arXiv:2310.05669v2 [physics.acc-ph], https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05669 [v2] Fri, 13 Oct 2023 10:40:14 UTC (963 KB). Report number: STFC-P-2023-004. It has not been certified by peer review. ; Accelerated muon beams have been considered for the 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 production mechanism of muons through the decay of pions. The phase-space volume of the muon beam can be decreased through ionization cooling. Here we show that ionization cooling leads to a reduction in the transverse emittance of muon beams that traverse lithium hydride or liquid hydrogen absorbers in the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment. Our results represent a substantial advance towards the realization of muon-based facilities that could operate at the energy and intensity frontiers. ; The work described here was made possible by grants from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK); the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation (USA); the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Italy); the European Union under ... |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
1558 - 1563; Print-Electronic |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05669; Nature Physics; https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/32168 |
| DOI: |
10.1038/s41567-024-02547-4 |
| Availability: |
https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/32168; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02547-4 |
| Rights: |
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.en ; The Author(s) |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.3077FBA3 |
| Database: |
BASE |