• L. Coney
  UCR, Riverside, California
• A.J. Dobbs
  Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London
• Y. Karadzhov
  Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Faculty of Physics, Sofia

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) is being built at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) to test ionization cooling of a muon beam. Successful demonstration of cooling is a necessary step along the path toward creating future high intensity muon beams in either a Neutrino Factory or Muon Collider. Production of particles in the MICE beamline begins with a titanium target dipping into the ISIS proton beam. The resulting pions are captured, momentum-selected, and fed into a 5T superconducting decay solenoid which contains the pions and their decay muons. Another dipole then selects the final particles for propagation through the rest of the MICE beamline. Within the last year, the MICE target has been redesigned, rebuilt, and has begun operating in ISIS. The decay solenoid has also become operational, dramatically increasing the number of particles in the MICE beamline. In parallel, particle identification detectors have also been installed and commissioned. In this paper, the commissioning of the improved MICE beamline and target will be discussed, including the use of Time-of-Flight detectors to understand the content of the MICE beam between 200 and 444 MeV/c.

• P. Snopok, L. Coney
  UCR, Riverside, California
• A. Jansson
  Fermilab, Batavia
• C.T. Rogers
  STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon

In the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE), muons are cooled by ionization cooling. Muons are passed through material, reducing the total momentum of the beam. This results in a decrease in transverse emittance and a slight increase in longitudinal emittance, but overall reduction of 6D beam emittance. In emittance exchange, a dispersive beam is passed through wedge-shaped absorbers. Muons with higher energy pass through more material, resulting in a reduction in longitudinal and transverse emittance. Emittance exchange is a vital technology for a Muon Collider and may be of use for a Neutrino Factory. Two ways to demonstrate emittance exchange in the straight solenoidal lattice of MICE are discussed. One is to let a muon beam pass through a wedge shaped absorber; the input beam distribution must be carefully selected to accommodate chromatic aberrations in the solenoid lattice. Another approach is to use the input beam for MICE without beam selection. In this case no polynomial weighting is involved; however, a more sophisticated shape of the absorber is required to reduce longitudinal emittance.