Neutrinos
The Universality of Glasgow's physics group has extensive experience in neutrino physics and has carried out neutrino factory R&D research since 1999. They are members of the UK Neutrino Factory collaboration, and are one of the original proponents of the HARP experiment (including the simulations that determined the experimental layout that resulted in the approval of the experiment by the SPSC). We are also a founding member of the International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE).
HARP had a successful data taking run and is in the process of analysing and publishing its physics results. These include the publication of results on aluminium and beryllium targets, relevant for the K2K and MiniBooNE neutrino oscillation experiments. Further work in HARP includes the large angle analysis on a variety of different targets that could potentially be suitable at a neutrino factory. Further work by Glasgow staff and students include the detailed comparisons of the experimental results with a number of simulations to determine the optimal energy for the proton driver at a neutrino factory and to benchmark the software.
MICE is an experiment that will run at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) to demonstrate muon ionisation cooling, needed to reduce the emittance of the muon beams for a neutrino factory and muon collider. Work carried out by Glasgow staff and students consists on designing the MICE muon beamline for nine configurations. The beamline design is essential to ensure that the number of muons delivered to MICE is sufficient to measure ionisation cooling with the desired accuracy. Glasgow provided instrumentation, detectors and the analysis that was used to measure the particle yields from the target that dips into the ISIS accelerator. This is used to determine the particle composition of the beam and to compare it with simulations.
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