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Article
Title	A Compact 6D Muon Cooling Ring
Author(s)	Kirk, Harold G ; Cline, David B ; Garren, Albert A ; Kahn, Stephen A ; Mills, Frederick E
Affiliation	(BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York) ; (Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois) ; (UCLA, Los Angeles, California)
Publication	2005
In:	21st IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference, Knoxville, TN, USA, 16 - 20 May 2005, pp.3025
Subject category	Accelerators and Storage Rings
Abstract	We discuss a conceptual design for a compact muon cooling system based on a weak-focusing ring loaded with high-pressure Hydrogen gas. We demonstrate that such a ring will be capable of cooling a circulating muon beam in each of the three spatial dimensions so that 6d cooling of the muon beam phase space is achieved.