IPAC2015 - List of Authors (Ding, X.P.)

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MOPJE055	Design of an Intense Muon Source with a Carbon and Mercury Target	423
	D. Stratakis, J.S. Berg BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA X.P. Ding UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA D.V. Neuffer Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
	Funding: Authored by employees of Brookhaven Science Associates LLC under Contract DE-SC0012704 and with Fermi Research Alliance LLC under Contract DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy In high-intensity sources, muons are produced by firing high energy protons onto a target to produce pions. The pions decay to muons which are captured and accelerated. In the present study, we examine the performance of the channel for two different target scenarios: one based on liquid mercury and another one based on a solid carbon target. We produce distributions with the two different target materials and discuss differences in particle spectrum near the sources. We then propagate the distributions through our capture system and compare the full system performance for the two target types.
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WEPJE010	Particle Production of a Graphite Target System for the Intensity Frontier	2692
	X.P. Ding UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA H.G. Kirk BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA K.T. McDonald PU, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
	A solid graphite target system is considered for an intense muon and/or neutrino source in support of physics at the intensity frontier. We previously optimized the geometric parameters of the beam and target to maximize particle production at low energies by incoming protons with kinetic energy of 6.75 GeV and an rms geometric emittance of 5 mm-mrad using the MARS15(2014) code. In this study, we ran MARS15 with ROOT-based geometry and also considered a mercury-jet target as an upgrade operation. The optimization was extended to focused proton beams with transverse emittances from 5 to 50 mm-mrad, showing that the particle production decreases slowly with increasing emittance. We also studied the beam dump configuration to suppress the rate of undesirable higher-energy secondary particles in the beam.
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Design of an Intense Muon Source with a Carbon and Mercury Target

423

D. Stratakis, J.S. Berg
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
X.P. Ding
UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
D.V. Neuffer
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA

Funding: Authored by employees of Brookhaven Science Associates LLC under Contract DE-SC0012704 and with Fermi Research Alliance LLC under Contract DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy
In high-intensity sources, muons are produced by firing high energy protons onto a target to produce pions. The pions decay to muons which are captured and accelerated. In the present study, we examine the performance of the channel for two different target scenarios: one based on liquid mercury and another one based on a solid carbon target. We produce distributions with the two different target materials and discuss differences in particle spectrum near the sources. We then propagate the distributions through our capture system and compare the full system performance for the two target types.

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WEPJE010

Particle Production of a Graphite Target System for the Intensity Frontier

2692

X.P. Ding
UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
H.G. Kirk
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
K.T. McDonald
PU, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

A solid graphite target system is considered for an intense muon and/or neutrino source in support of physics at the intensity frontier. We previously optimized the geometric parameters of the beam and target to maximize particle production at low energies by incoming protons with kinetic energy of 6.75 GeV and an rms geometric emittance of 5 mm-mrad using the MARS15(2014) code. In this study, we ran MARS15 with ROOT-based geometry and also considered a mercury-jet target as an upgrade operation. The optimization was extended to focused proton beams with transverse emittances from 5 to 50 mm-mrad, showing that the particle production decreases slowly with increasing emittance. We also studied the beam dump configuration to suppress the rate of undesirable higher-energy secondary particles in the beam.

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