Review of the Neutrino Factory Muon Front End

Three major facilities have been proposed for the precision study of neutrino oscillation parameters, the Neutrino Factory, the Betabeam and the Superbeam. Of these the Neutrino Factory offers high precision measurement of oscillations parameters. The Neutrino Factory generates neutrinos by firing protons onto a target in order to produce pions. The pions decay to muons which are captured before being accelerated to 25 GeV and stored in racetrack-shaped rings where they decay to neutrinos. In this note the pion decay channel, longitudinal drift, adiabatic buncher, phase rotation and ionisation cooling system that make up the Neutrino Factory muon front end are reviewed.