A small target neutrino deep-inelastic scattering experiment at the first muon collider

Abstract

Abstract. Several di erent scenarios for neutrino scattering experiments using a neutrino beam from the muon collider complex are discussed. The physics reach of a neutrino experiment at the front end of a muon collider is shown to extend far beyond that of current neutrino experiments, since the high intensity neutrino beams one would see at the muon collider allow for a large exibility in choosing neutrino targets. Measurements of quark spin, A-dependence of the structure function xF 3 and neutral current c hiral couplings to quarks are outlined.

The Potential for Neutrino Physics at Muon Colliders and Dedicated High Current Muon Storage Rings

“…Raw event rates in such a polarized target could be of order 10 8 events per year, as shown in Table 2. A previous study for νMCs [42] has shown that a 200 kg target of polarized butanol with 10% polarization could measure the strange sea polarization to about 3% in a one year run in a beam downstream of a 250 GeV muon collider with a 10 m straight section.…”

Detectors for neutrino physics at the First Muon Collider

“…This detector would be able to tag the production of charmed particles by observing high momentum final state leptons, and with a sufficiently fine-grained 2) For example, the measurements of α S [4] and sin 2 θ W [5] in the CCFR experiment upstream tracker, charmed final state particles could be tagged via detached vertices [6]. Physics goals of an experiment using this detector are described elsewhere in these proceedings [1].…”

“…upstream tracker, charmed final state particles could be tagged via detached vertices [6]. Physics goals of an experiment using this detector are described elsewhere in these proceedings [1].…”

“…This contribution considers the problem of constructing detectors appropriate for doing short-baseline neutrino physics at the First Muon Collider complex. The physics motivations for these detectors are discussed elsewhere in these proceedings [1]. Since the proposed experiments are short-baseline, the physics being considered is primarily the high-energy physics of neutrino-nucleon deep-inelastic scattering; however, the final section of the paper considers an oscillation experiment possible with the lowest energy neutrino beam.…”

Physics with a millimole of muons

“…The gigantic flux of neutrinos from a millimole of stored muons means that the familiar massive neutrino detectors would be inappropriate devices [35]. Thin targets, instead of extremely massive target calorimeters, become the order of the day.…”