ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the key elements of the world's most powerful pulsed muon facility, ISIS, and highlights the significant differences between this pulsed muon sources and the principal continuous muon sources at Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland and TRIUMF in Canada. It considers the future prospects for muon spin research (µSR) science in the light of recently proposed major new international muon facilities. Major advances in muon science and its application followed from the first production of pions and muons by particle accelerators in the late 1950s. The chapter provides an overview of the proton production. The momentum of muons required for the experiment is chosen and all magnets in the muon section of the beamline are set to transmit these muons. The purpose of transporting muons from the target station to the beam line is, of course, to implant them in a sample.