The experimental muon source on China Spallation Neutron Source(CSNS) is expected to be a high intensity(105μ+/s) surface muon source with a small beam spot of 4-cm diameter.For a practical application of this muon source,we are devoting to develop the first pulsed μSR spectrometer in China.In this paper,the performance of plastic scintillators in the μSR spectrometer is studied by Monte Carlo simulation.The processes such as positron energy deposition,scintillation photons production,light propagation and photon-electron conversion are carefully considered.According to the results,an optimal dimension of the plastic scintillator is proposed using for our future spectrometer,which has a long-strip shape with the dimension variation range of 50–60 mm length,5–8 mm height,and 10–12 mm width.Finally,we can build a spectrometer with a count rate up to 104e+/s by 100–120 forward and backward segmental detectors in total.The simulation could serve as an important guide for spectrometer construction.
This paper presents a conceptual design for the first tentative surface muon source based on the proton beam provided by China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS). We have calculated the optimal parameters of solid muon target, in which the method of Monte Carlo simulation is used to obtain the optimal muon beam parameters, such as beam fluence rate, momentum spread and phase space distribution. A simple muon transport beamline system was also designed, which could transport the muons emitted from the muon target into the experimental area, where positrons from muon decay in a test sample are detected by a spectrometer. The beam optics of this new beam line is also described.
