MICE: The International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment: Phase Space Cooling Measurement

Journal Article · Tue Mar 30 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3399369· OSTI ID:21367132

Hart, T L ^[1]

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1. University of Mississippi-Oxford, University, MS 38677 (United States)

MICE is an experimental demonstration of muon ionization cooling using a section of an ionization cooling channel and a muon beam. The muons are produced by the decay of pions from a target dipping into the ISIS proton beam at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL). The channel includes liquid-hydrogen absorbers providing transverse and longitudinal momentum loss and high-gradient radiofrequency (RF) cavities for longitudinal reacceleration, all packed into a solenoidal magnetic channel. MICE will reduce the beam transverse emittance by about 10% for muon momenta between 140 and 240 MeV/c. Time-of-flight (TOF) counters, threshold Cherenkov counters, and a calorimeter will identify background electrons and pions. Spectrometers before and after the cooling section will measure the beam transmission and input and output emittances with an absolute precision of 0.1%.

• OSTI ID: 21367132
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1222, Issue 1; Conference: NuFact09: 11. international workshop on neutrino factories, superbeams and beta beams, Chicago, IL (United States), 20-25 Jul 2009; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3399369; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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