Published September 2006
| Version v1
Journal article
The scattering of muons in low-Z materials
Creators
- Attwood, D.1
- Bell, P.1
- Bull, S.1
- McMahon, T.1
- Wilson, J.1
- Fernow, R.2
- Gruber, P.3
- Jamdagni, A.4
- Long, K.4
- McKigney, E.4
- Savage, P.4
- Curtis-Rouse, M.5
- Edgecock, T.R.5
- Ellis, M.5
- Lidbury, J.5
- Murray, W.5
- Norton, P.5
- Peach, K.5
- Ishida, K.6
- Matsuda, Y.6
- Nagamine, K.6
- Nakamura, S.6
- Marshall, G.M.7
- Benveniste, S.8
- Cline, D.8
- Fukui, Y.8
- Lee, K.8
- Pischalnikov, Y.8
- Holmes, S.9
- Bogacz, A.10
- 1. University of Birmingham, Birmingham (United Kingdom)
- 2. Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York (United States)
- 3. CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)
- 4. Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine (United Kingdom)
- 5. CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, PPD, Chilton, DIDCOT OX11 0QX (United Kingdom)
- 6. Riken (Japan)
- 7. TRIUMF (Canada)
- 8. University of California at Los Angeles (United States)
- 9. Oxford University (United Kingdom)
- 10. Jefferson Laboratory (United States)
Description
This paper presents the measurement of the scattering of 172 MeV/c muons in assorted materials, including liquid hydrogen, motivated by the need to understand ionisation cooling for muon acceleration. Data are compared with predictions from the GEANT4 simulation code and this simulation is used to deconvolute detector effects. The scattering distributions obtained are compared with the Moliere theory of multiple scattering and, in the case of liquid hydrogen, with ELMS. With the exception of ELMS, none of the models are found to provide a good description of the data. The results suggest that ionisation cooling will work better than would be predicted by GEANT 4.7.0p01
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.nimb.2006.05.006;
- arXiv
- arXiv:hep-ex/0512005v1;
- PII
- S0168-583X(06)00675-6;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section B, Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
- Journal Volume
- 251
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 41-55
- ISSN
- 0168-583X
- CODEN
- NIMBEU
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 38040708
- Subject category
- S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTION; HYDROGEN; IONIZATION; LIQUIDS; MEV RANGE; MOLIERE THEORY; MULTIPLE SCATTERING; MUONS
- Descriptors DEC
- ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ELEMENTS; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; FLUIDS; LEPTONS; NONMETALS; SCATTERING; SIMULATION
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.