IPAC2012 - List of Authors (Blondel, A.P.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOEPPB002	The MICE Experiment	76
	A.P. Blondel DPNC, Genève, Switzerland
	Ionization Cooling is the only practical solution to preparing high brilliance muon beams for a neutrino factory or muon collider. The muon ionization cooling experiment (MICE) is under development at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK) by an international collaboration. The muon beam line has been commissioned and first measurements of emittance with particle physics detectors have been performed. The remaining apparatus is currently under construction. First results with a liquid-hydrogen absorber will be produced in 2013; a couple of years later a full cell of a representative ionization cooling channel, including RF re-acceleration, will be in operation. The design offers opportunities for tests with various absorbers and several optics configurations. Results will be compared with detailed simulations of cooling channel performance to ensure full understanding of the cooling process. on behalf of the MICE collaboration

TUPPR078	LEP3: A High Luminosity e⁺e⁻ Collider in the LHC Tunnel to Study the Higgs Boson	2005
	F. Zimmermann, M. Koratzinos CERN, Geneva, Switzerland A.P. Blondel DPNC, Genève, Switzerland M. Zanetti MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
	Recent indications from two LHC experiments suggest that the Higgs boson might be light, within the mass range 115-130 GeV. Such object could be studied at an e⁺e⁻ collider with about 240 GeV centre-of-mass energy. A corresponding Higgs factory – “LEP3” - could be installed in the LHC tunnel, reducing its cost and also allowing for a second life of the two LHC general-purpose detectors. We present preliminary accelerator and beam parameters for LEP3 tailored so as to provide a peak luminosity of 10³⁴/cm²/s at each of two experiments, while respecting a number of constraints including beamstrahlung limits. At this luminosity around 20,000 Higgs events per year per experiment could be obtained for a Standard Model Higgs boson with a mass of 115-130 GeV. For the parameters considered the estimated luminosity lifetime is about 12 minutes, and the synchrotron radiation losses are 50 MW per beam. High operational efficiency requires two rings: a low emittance collider storage ring operating at constant energy, and a separate accelerator to top up the colliding beams every few minutes. The alternative of a larger ring collider installed in a new, bigger tunnel will also be discussed.

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The MICE Experiment

76

A.P. Blondel
DPNC, Genève, Switzerland

Ionization Cooling is the only practical solution to preparing high brilliance muon beams for a neutrino factory or muon collider. The muon ionization cooling experiment (MICE) is under development at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK) by an international collaboration. The muon beam line has been commissioned and first measurements of emittance with particle physics detectors have been performed. The remaining apparatus is currently under construction. First results with a liquid-hydrogen absorber will be produced in 2013; a couple of years later a full cell of a representative ionization cooling channel, including RF re-acceleration, will be in operation. The design offers opportunities for tests with various absorbers and several optics configurations. Results will be compared with detailed simulations of cooling channel performance to ensure full understanding of the cooling process.
on behalf of the MICE collaboration

TUPPR078

LEP3: A High Luminosity e⁺e⁻ Collider in the LHC Tunnel to Study the Higgs Boson

2005

F. Zimmermann, M. Koratzinos
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
A.P. Blondel
DPNC, Genève, Switzerland
M. Zanetti
MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Recent indications from two LHC experiments suggest that the Higgs boson might be light, within the mass range 115-130 GeV. Such object could be studied at an e⁺e⁻ collider with about 240 GeV centre-of-mass energy. A corresponding Higgs factory – “LEP3” - could be installed in the LHC tunnel, reducing its cost and also allowing for a second life of the two LHC general-purpose detectors. We present preliminary accelerator and beam parameters for LEP3 tailored so as to provide a peak luminosity of 10³⁴/cm²/s at each of two experiments, while respecting a number of constraints including beamstrahlung limits. At this luminosity around 20,000 Higgs events per year per experiment could be obtained for a Standard Model Higgs boson with a mass of 115-130 GeV. For the parameters considered the estimated luminosity lifetime is about 12 minutes, and the synchrotron radiation losses are 50 MW per beam. High operational efficiency requires two rings: a low emittance collider storage ring operating at constant energy, and a separate accelerator to top up the colliding beams every few minutes. The alternative of a larger ring collider installed in a new, bigger tunnel will also be discussed.