The scattering of muons in low-Z materials

David Attwood; Paul Bell; Stephen Bull; Thomas McMahon; John Wilson

doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2006.05.006

The scattering of muons in low-Z materials

David Attwood, Paul Bell, Stephen Bull, Thomas McMahon, John Wilson

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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. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	41-55
Number of pages	15
Journal	Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section B. Beam Interactions With Materials and Atoms
Volume	251
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2006.05.006
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2006

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ionisation cooling
multiple scattering

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