This note describes how a future Fermilab proton driver [1] based on TESLA superconducting linac modules can perform as both the source of protons to produce the muons and as the accelerator of the muons to be used for a neutrino factory or muon collider. Recent advances in muon cooling [2] have the promise of muon emittances that are compatible with the 1300 MHz accelerating structures that ar...

Muon colliders and neutrino factories are attractive options for achieving the highest lepton-antilepton collision energies and the most precise measurements of the parameters of the neutrino mixing matrix. The performance and cost of these future facilities depends sensitively on how well a beam of muons can be cooled. The recent progress of muon-cooling prototype tests and design studies nour...

Although originally designed by and for the use of the Neutron and X-ray communities, the flexibility of the NeXus data format makes it equally suitable for storing data gathered from µSR experiments. Furthermore, its use should open up the possibility of sharing software beyond the immediate muon community; giving access to the many tools that are already in existence for manipulating NeXus an...

This report describes the conceptual design of a particle detector that could be deployed underground for tracking cosmic-ray muons to enable tomographic reconstruction of the overlying ground and structures. The concept of cosmic-ray muon tomography has been known for a long time but seldom used in practice since the first demonstration. Developments in technology and methods of particle detec...

This report introduces a basic alignment scheme for the GEM muon detector. Optical straightness monitors are described, and their application discussed. Alternative alignment technologies are suggested and techniques are identified that can provide multipoint measurements. The problem of global alignment is posed, and several concepts are presented to attain the required precision. Some Alignme...

In the context of the 2013 APS-DPF Snowmass summer study conducted by the U.S. HEP community, this white paper outlines a roadmap for further development of Micro-pattern Gas Detectors for tracking and muon detection in HEP experiments. We briefly discuss technical requirements and summarize current capabilities of these detectors with a focus of operation in experiments at the energy frontier ...

We investigate here a possibility for test Optical Stochastic Cooling (OSC) method at CESR. Feasible application of OSC and its variants for muon cooling makes this method valuable for further implementation in muon collider.

The muon-proton (μp) collider is an interesting option of the muon collider. Here we discuss the physics potential of the μp collider; especially, leptoquarks and contact interactions. We calculate the sensitivity reach for the second generation leptoquarks and leptogluons, R-parity violating squarks, and μq contact interactions for the μp colliders of various energies and luminosities. INTRODU...

Accurate measurements of the muon component in EAS are particularily important for determination of the primary CR spectrum and composition. Multiparameter analysis possibilities in KASCADE have been recently enhanced by starting the operation of a large area streamer tube muon tracking detector. With its acceptance of about 500 m·sr it identifies EAS muons with energy exceeding 0.8 GeV. The re...

Muon colliders are a possible future tool for the exploration of physics at the TeV scale and beyond. The current status of the developent of the muon collider concept is described in Ref. [1], which includes a description of a 3 TeV center-ofmass (COM) machine. One of the major challenges to realizing a highluminosity muon collider is to cool the diffuse bunches of muons produced in pion decay...