MICE: the muon ionization cooling experiment. step I: first measurement of emittance with particle physics detectors
File(s)
Accepted version
Author(s)
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) is a strategic R&D project intended to demonstrate the only practical solution to providing high brilliance beams necessary for a neutrino factory or muon collider. MICE is under development at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in the United Kingdom. It comprises a dedicated beamline to generate a range of input muon emittances and momenta, with time-of-flight and Cherenkov detectors to ensure a pure muon beam. The emittance of the incoming beam will be measured in the upstream magnetic spectrometer with a scintillating fiber tracker. A cooling cell will then follow, alternating energy loss in Liquid Hydrogen (LH2) absorbers to RF cavity acceleration. A second spectrometer, identical to the first, and a second muon identification system will measure the outgoing emittance. In the 2010 run at RAL the muon beamline and most detectors were fully commissioned and a first measurement of the emittance of the muon beam with particle physics (time-of-flight) detectors was performed. The analysis of these data was recently completed and is discussed in this paper. Future steps for MICE, where beam emittance and emittance reduction (cooling) are to be measured with greater accuracy, are also presented.
Date Issued
2013-07-30
Date Acceptance
2011-08-01
Citation
2013, pp.1-9
Publisher
arXiv
Start Page
1
End Page
9
Copyright Statement
© 2013 The Author(s)
Identifier
https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1813
Source
Proceedings, Meeting of the Division of the American Physical Society, DPF 2011
Subjects
physics.acc-ph
physics.acc-ph
hep-ex
Notes
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Start Date
2011-08-09
Coverage Spatial
USA
Date Publish Online
2013-07-30