Frictional Cooling A.Caldwell MPI f. Physik, Munich MSI-05 Contributors: Raphael Galea, Columbia University Daniel Kollar, Max-Planck-Institut Claudia Büttner, Max-Planck-Institut Stefan Schlenstedt, DESY-Zeuthen Halina Abramowicz, Tel Aviv University + Emily Alden, Christos Georgiou, Daniel Greenwald, Laura Newburgh, Yujin Ning, William Serber, Inna Shpiro (students)

Allen Caldwell#2 Motivation: Muon Collider →compared to electrons: no synchrotron radiation problem P  (E/m) 4  very high energy circular accelerator can be built →compared to protons: colliding point particles rather than complex objects quark antiquark gluon

Allen Caldwell#3 Why a Muon Collider ? Physics →High energy frontier: search for new physics beyond the Standard Model →Higgs Factory →  xx→H  m x 2 → Deep Inelastic Scattering → Oscillation physics from target –  decay from stored  decay →Physics with slow 

Allen Caldwell#4 What is the Problem ? →need a multi MW source large starting cost Muons decay with lifetime 2.2 µs →limited time for cooling, bunching, and accelerating need new techniques →large experimental backgrounds lots of energetic e ± from  decay →limitations due to neutrino induced radiation cannot be shielded

Allen Caldwell#5 COOLING  beam production Drift region for  decay  30 m Proton beam TargetSolenoidal Magnets: few T … 20 T  ’s  ’s beam description using 6D emittance (6D phase space of the beam)  6D,N  1.7  (  m) 3 after drift estimate rms:x,y,z0.05, 0.05, 10 m p x,p y,p z 50, 50, 100 MeV required  6D,N  1.7  (  m) 3

Allen Caldwell#6 Typical muon collider scheme Proton accelerator – 2-16 GeV, few MW (10 22 p/year)  production target  decay channel  accelerators  cooling channel Muon collider →standard techniques too slow →new techniques are being developed energy loses in interactions with matter reaccelerating magnetic focusing

Allen Caldwell#7 Typical muon cooling scheme Ionization cooling muons are maintained at ca. 200 MeV while passed successively through an energy loss medium followed by an acceleration stage with simulations cooling factors ~ 100 reached →not enough for collider →O.K. for factory →still problems to be solved demonstration experiments in preparation e.g. MICE

Allen Caldwell#8 Frictional cooling bring muons to kinetic energy T where dE/dx increases with energy apply constant accelerating E field to muons resulting in equilibrium energy Equilibrium energy big issue – how to maintain efficiency similar idea first studied by Kottmann et al. at PSI Idea

Allen Caldwell#9 Frictional cooling large dT/dx at low T →low average density of stopping medium  gas  + problem – muonium formation dominates over e-stripping except for He Problems/Comments apply E  B to get below the dE/dx peak vBvB E slow  ’s don’t go far before decaying with T in eV →sideward extraction (E  B)  – problem – muon capture at low energies;  not known  keep T as high as possible

Allen Caldwell#10 For , energy lower by M  /M P NeutralizationStripping From Y. Nakai, T. Shirai, T. Tabata and R. Ito, At. Data Nucl. Data Tables 37, 69 (1987)

Allen Caldwell#11 Frictional Cooling: particle trajectory ** Using continuous energy loss

Allen Caldwell#12 Muon collider scheme based on frictional cooling Full MARS simulation of the proton interactions in target (Cu) showed –larger low energy  yield in transverse directions –nearly equal  + and  – yields with T < 100 MeV Not to scale !! –He gas used for  + –H gas for  – –transverse E field 5 MV/m –continuous electronic energy loss –individual nuclear scatters simulated →they result in large angles Simulations performed to this point

Allen Caldwell#13 Target System cool  + &  - at the same time calculated new symmetric magnet with gap for target GeV

Allen Caldwell#14 Full MARS target simulation, optimized for low energy muon yield: 2 GeV protons on Cu with proton beam transverse to solenoids (capture low energy pion cloud).

Allen Caldwell#15 Target & Drift Optimize yield Optimize drift length for  yield Some  ’s lost in Magnet aperture

Allen Caldwell#16 Phase Rotation First attempt simple form Vary t 1,t 2 & E max for maximum low energy yield

Allen Caldwell#17 He gas is used for  +, H 2 for  -. Cooling cell simulation Individual nuclear scatters are simulated – crucial in determining final phase space, survival probability. Incorporate scattering cross sections into the cooling program Include  - capture cross section using calculations of Cohen (Phys. Rev. A. Vol ) Electronic energy loss treated as continuous

Allen Caldwell#18 Scattering Cross Sections Scan impact parameter and calculate  (b), d  /d  from which one can get mean free path Use screened Coulomb Potential (Everhart et. al. Phys. Rev. 99 (1955) 1287) Simulate all scatters  >0.05 rad Simulation accurately reproduces ICRU tables for protons

Allen Caldwell#19 Barkas Effect Difference in  + &  - energy loss rates at dE/dx peak Due to charge exchange for  + parameterized data from Agnello et. al. (Phys. Rev. Lett. 74 (1995) 371) Only used for the electronic part of dE/dx

Allen Caldwell#20 Simulation of the cooling cell  rms. Oscillations around equilibrium define the emittance

Allen Caldwell#21 Resulting emittance and yield Muon beam coming out of 11 m long cooling cell and after initial reacceleration: rms:x,y,z0.015, 0.036, 30 m p x,p y,p z 0.18, 0.18, 4.0 MeV  6D,N  5.7  (  m) 3 →better than required 1.7  (  m) 3 Yield   per 2 GeV proton after cooling cell →need improvement by factor of 5 or more Results for  +, still working on  -

Allen Caldwell#22 Demonstration experiment with protons RARAF →performed at Nevis Labs – 4 MeV Van de Graff Accel. →to demonstrate the principle of frictional cooling has to work for all heavy charged particles  protons beam H2+H2+ T.o.F. experiment

Allen Caldwell#23 Raphael Galea Laura Newburgh

Allen Caldwell#24 Summary of calibration using the time spectrum

Allen Caldwell#25 After background subtraction, see no hint of cooled protons. Also predicted by simulation. Problem – windows too thick, acceptance, particularly for slow protons, too small. Need to repeat the experiment with solenoid, no windows.

Allen Caldwell#26 MPI für Physik Demonstration experiment with protons Repeat the demonstration experiment with improvements: no windows 5 T superconducting solenoid for high acceptance Silicon Drift Detector (SDD) to measure energy directly periment with protons für Physik Cryostat housing 5 T solenoid in the lab at the MPI

Allen Caldwell#27 Daniel Kollar Daniel Greenwald

Allen Caldwell#28 Si Drift Detector He gas Source

Allen Caldwell#29  source Mylar window Where do we get protons ? → use strong  source + thin plastic (Hydrogen rich) foil →  ’s knock out H nuclei effectively at rest

Allen Caldwell#30 What do we expect? 1.0 MV/m.9 MV/m.8 MV/m.7 MV/m.6 MV/m He We are able to vary pressure/density of the gas distance between the source and detector strength of the E field The ultimate question: Can our MC simulation predict equilibrium energies?

Allen Caldwell#31 Status →the accelerating grid is ready →the superconducting magnet commissioned →all support structures are constructed →detectors and electronics are available We hope to solve all problems and start taking data soon

Allen Caldwell#32 Future plans →run the experiment – demonstrate the frictional cooling →muon capture cross section measurement →studies of breakdown in high E  B fields →R&D on thin windows Build a muon collider.