The MICE Demonstration of Muon Ionization Cooling

Conference · Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2016-TUPMY004· OSTI ID:1289936

Lagrange, Jean-Baptiste ^[1]; Hunt, Christopher ^[1]; Palladino, Vittorio ^[2]; Pasternak, Jaroslaw ^[1]

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1. Imperial Coll., London
2. INFN, Naples

Muon beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well-characterised neutrino beams necessary to elucidate the physics of flavour at the Neutrino Factory and to provide lepton-antilepton collisions up to several TeV at the Muon Collider. The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will demonstrate muon ionization cooling, the technique proposed to reduce the phase-space volume occupied by the muon beam at such facilities. In an ionization-cooling channel, the muon beam traverses a material (the absorber) loosing energy, which is replaced using RF cavities. The combined effect is to reduce the transverse emittance of the beam (transverse cooling). The configuration of MICE required to deliver the demonstration of ionization cooling is being prepared in parallel to the execution of a programme designed to measure the cooling properties of liquid-hydrogen and lithium hydride. The design of the cooling-demonstration experiment will be presented together with a summary of the performance of each of its components and the cooling performance of the experiment.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1289936
• Report Number(s): IPAC-2016-TUPMY004; FERMILAB-CONF-16-238-AD; 1469951
• Resource Relation: Conference: 7th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Busan, Korea, 05/08-05/13/2016
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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