IPAC2019 - List of Authors (Wang, P.C.)

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THPGW039	Moderation of Positive Muons by Helium Gas	3667
	Y. Li, Y. Bao, R. Fan, X. Li, X. Tong IHEP, Beijing, People’s Republic of China C.J. Ning, P.C. Wang IHEP CSNS, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China
	Funding: This work is supported by CAS, National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11875281), and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2019M650845) Efficiently creating beams of spin-polarized positive muons with energies between eV and keV (so-called slow muon beams) is important for further development and application of muon spin rotation, relaxation, and resonance techniques. One existing moderation method involves the use of wide-band-gap materials as moderators such as rare gas solids and solid nitrogen thin films (band-gap energy between 11 eV and 22 eV). Based on this moderation method, we have studied the use of helium gas as a moderator, with the goal of producing the slow muon beam more efficiently. Because of helium’s high (24.6 eV) ionization energy and because the cross section for muonium formation is suppressed in helium gas, we expect the production of slow muons using helium gas to be highly efficient.
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Moderation of Positive Muons by Helium Gas

3667

Y. Li, Y. Bao, R. Fan, X. Li, X. Tong
IHEP, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
C.J. Ning, P.C. Wang
IHEP CSNS, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China

Funding: This work is supported by CAS, National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11875281), and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2019M650845)
Efficiently creating beams of spin-polarized positive muons with energies between eV and keV (so-called slow muon beams) is important for further development and application of muon spin rotation, relaxation, and resonance techniques. One existing moderation method involves the use of wide-band-gap materials as moderators such as rare gas solids and solid nitrogen thin films (band-gap energy between 11 eV and 22 eV). Based on this moderation method, we have studied the use of helium gas as a moderator, with the goal of producing the slow muon beam more efficiently. Because of helium’s high (24.6 eV) ionization energy and because the cross section for muonium formation is suppressed in helium gas, we expect the production of slow muons using helium gas to be highly efficient.

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-THPGW039

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paper received ※ 01 May 2019 paper accepted ※ 23 May 2019 issue date ※ 21 June 2019

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