IPAC2012 - List of Authors (Hedin, D.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOPPC037	Muon Collider Detector Backgrounds	211
	M.A.C. Cummings, S.A. Kahn Muons, Inc, Batavia, USA D. Hedin Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA J.F. Kozminski Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois, USA
	Funding: Supported in part by SBIR Grant 4738 · 10SC05447 Technological innovations in recent years have revived interest in muon colliders as the next generation energy frontier machine. Advances in muon cooling technology will make the focussing and acceleration of muons to TeV energies possible. The biggest challenge for muon colliders is that muons decay, but it is possible to build a large muon collider as a circular machine, even at multi-TeV energies, due to the greatly reduced synchrotron radiation expected from muons compared to electrons. The challenge for the detectors in such machines is overcoming the large backgrounds from muon decays in the colliding ring lattice that will inundate the interaction region (IR) and will make triggering and data reconstruction a challenge. Developing simulation tools that can reliably model the environment of the muon collider IR will be critical to physics analyses. We will need to expand the capabilities of current programs and use them to benchmark and verify results against each other. In this paper we will discuss these processes and calculate the resulting particle fluxes into the detector volume.

MOPPC038	Bethe-Heitler Muon Background at a Muon Collider	214
	S.A. Kahn, M.A.C. Cummings, T.J. Roberts Muons, Inc, Batavia, USA D. Hedin, A.O. Morris Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA J.F. Kozminski Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois, USA
	Multi-TeV muon colliders are an important option for a future energy frontier lepton collider since synchrotron radiation in a circular machine is significantly less than that in an electron collider. For a muon collider with 750 GeV μ+μ− with 2×10¹² μ per bunch we would expect 8.6×10⁵ muon decays per meter for the two beams. Muon decays are the source of beam induced backgrounds that can affect the physics. These backgrounds include electrons from muon decays, synchrotron radiation from the decay electrons, hadrons produced by photo-nuclear interactions, coherent and incoherent beam-beam pair production and Bethe-Heitler muon production. This paper will describe a simulation of the B-H muon pair production in a muon collider. These muons can penetrate the collider ring magnets and shielding and possibly enter into the detector regions. The simulation tracks B-H muons produced from electromagnetic shower interactions in collider ring material in the range of ±200 m from the interaction point.

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Muon Collider Detector Backgrounds

211

M.A.C. Cummings, S.A. Kahn
Muons, Inc, Batavia, USA
D. Hedin
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
J.F. Kozminski
Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois, USA

Funding: Supported in part by SBIR Grant 4738 · 10SC05447
Technological innovations in recent years have revived interest in muon colliders as the next generation energy frontier machine. Advances in muon cooling technology will make the focussing and acceleration of muons to TeV energies possible. The biggest challenge for muon colliders is that muons decay, but it is possible to build a large muon collider as a circular machine, even at multi-TeV energies, due to the greatly reduced synchrotron radiation expected from muons compared to electrons. The challenge for the detectors in such machines is overcoming the large backgrounds from muon decays in the colliding ring lattice that will inundate the interaction region (IR) and will make triggering and data reconstruction a challenge. Developing simulation tools that can reliably model the environment of the muon collider IR will be critical to physics analyses. We will need to expand the capabilities of current programs and use them to benchmark and verify results against each other. In this paper we will discuss these processes and calculate the resulting particle fluxes into the detector volume.

MOPPC038

Bethe-Heitler Muon Background at a Muon Collider

214

S.A. Kahn, M.A.C. Cummings, T.J. Roberts
Muons, Inc, Batavia, USA
D. Hedin, A.O. Morris
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
J.F. Kozminski
Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois, USA

Multi-TeV muon colliders are an important option for a future energy frontier lepton collider since synchrotron radiation in a circular machine is significantly less than that in an electron collider. For a muon collider with 750 GeV μ+μ− with 2×10¹² μ per bunch we would expect 8.6×10⁵ muon decays per meter for the two beams. Muon decays are the source of beam induced backgrounds that can affect the physics. These backgrounds include electrons from muon decays, synchrotron radiation from the decay electrons, hadrons produced by photo-nuclear interactions, coherent and incoherent beam-beam pair production and Bethe-Heitler muon production. This paper will describe a simulation of the B-H muon pair production in a muon collider. These muons can penetrate the collider ring magnets and shielding and possibly enter into the detector regions. The simulation tracks B-H muons produced from electromagnetic shower interactions in collider ring material in the range of ±200 m from the interaction point.