High Purity Pion Beam at TRIUMF
physics.acc-ph
/ Authors
A. Aguilar-Arevalo, M. Blecher, D. A. Bryman, J. Comfort, J. Doornbos, L. Doria, A. Hussein, N. Ito, S. Kettell, L. Kurchaninov
and 7 more authors
C. Malbrunot, G. M. Marshall, T. Numao, R. Poutissou, A. Sher, B. Walker, K. Yamada
/ Abstract
An extension of the TRIUMF M13 low-energy pion channel designed to suppress positrons based on an energy-loss technique is described. A source of beam channel momentum calibration from the decay pi+ --> e+ nu is also described.