A pulsed surface muon beam/pion beam for the Rutherford appleton laboratory spallation neutron source

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Abstract

The design and estimated performance of a versatile pulsed surface muon/pion beam for the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) are presented. The characteristics of the SNS extracted proton beam are discussed with reference to their implications on the design of the muon beam and the effect on the neutron source itself. The pulsed nature of the muon beam will allow typically up to two orders of magnitude increases in the data-taking rates for μSR experiments compared with those which are normally tolerable at the continuous-current meson factories. The versatile features of the beam are described and comparisons made with existing muon sources. Construction of the muon beam for μSR studies has been proposed at the SNS with first operation expected in late 1984.

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