Speaker
Description
The muon collider has been identified as potentially the fastest, cheapest and most sustainable route to push back the energy frontier. One of the key challenges for the muon collider is to deliver a beam having an unprecedented muon beam brightness, so that extremely high luminosity can be reached. Beam brightness has two components; the current of muons that is accelerated, and the size of the muon beam, characterised by beam emittance. In this talk, I will explain how we can generate a large muon beam current, through use of a high power proton beam impinging on a target that is immersed in a very high field solenoid; and I will go on to explain how this beam can be squeezed into a tiny emittance through the use of the ionisation cooling technique. I will describe the experimental verification of the ionisation cooling concept and go on to explain the further technology demonstrations that will yield a full demonstration of a chain of ionisation cooling equipment in order to demonstrate practical execution of the muon collider.
