Muon Accelerator Program (MAP)
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Toward a muon collider and neutrino factory
Scientists around the world are developing the technologies necessary for a muon accelerator. The ultimate goal is to produce high-energy muon beams that can power a neutrino factory or a muon collider.
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Neutrino factory
Muon collider -
Developing a muon source
One of the key challenges for building a muon accelerator is the construction of an intense muon source. Physicists working on the MERIT experiment have successfully tested a muon source concept using a particle beam at CERN.
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Muon cooling
At Rutherford Laboratory in the United Kingdom, an international team of scientists known as the MICE collaboration is testing a technique called ionization cooling to create an intense, focused muon beam.
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Muon beamline
The MuCool facility at Fermilab is developing and testing RF cavities and magnets for a muon beamline. The facility allows scientists to test the equipment with a proton beam.
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The Muon Accelerator Program (MAP) was created in 2010 to unify the DOE supported R&D in the U.S. aimed at developing the concepts and technologies required for Muon Colliders and Neutrino Factories. These muon based facilities have the potential to discover and explore new exciting fundamental physics, but will require the development of demanding technologies and innovative concepts. The MAP aspires to prove the feasibility of a Muon Collider within a few years, and to make significant contributions to the international effort devoted to developing Neutrino Factories. MAP was formally approved on March 18, 2011.
Muon Accelerator Program Links
- JINST Articles:
- Author Instructions
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- MAP 2015 Spring Collaboration Meeting
- Comments on the P5 Report and Where We Are Heading, Letter to MAP from the MAP Director, May 25, 2014
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- Proposals | Reports and Papers | Presentations
- Other Links
Quick Links
- News
- Reviews
- MAP Meetings (Indico)
- Documents Database (docDB)
- JINST Articles:
- Author Instructions
- Draft Submissions Library (login required)
Papers and Reports
- White papers to Accelerator R&D Panel, October 2014
- Revised Completion Plan for the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory ,
MAP-doc-4402, Version with no budgetary information, September 2014 - Enabling Intensity and Energy Frontier Science with a Muon Accelerator Facility in the U.S.: White Paper Submitted to the 2013 U.S. Community Summer Study of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society, August 2013