Author: Rayner, M.A.
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MOPZ016 MICE Step I: First Measurement of Emittance with Particle Physics Detectors* 853
 
  • L. Coney
    UCR, Riverside, California, USA
  • M. Popovic
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
  • M.A. Rayner
    DPNC, Genève, Switzerland
  
  The muon ion­iza­tion cool­ing ex­per­i­ment (MICE) is a strate­gic R&D pro­ject in­tend­ing to demon­strate the only prac­ti­cal so­lu­tion to pre­pare high bril­liance beams nec­es­sary for a neu­tri­no fac­to­ry or muon col­lid­ers. MICE is under de­vel­op­ment at the Ruther­ford Ap­ple­ton Lab­o­ra­to­ry (UK). It com­pris­es a ded­i­cat­ed beam line to gen­er­ate a range of input emit­tance and mo­men­tum, with time-of-flight and Cherenkov de­tec­tors to en­sure a pure muon beam. The emit­tance of the in­com­ing beam is mea­sured in the up­stream mag­net­ic spec­trom­e­ter with a sci-fiber track­er. A cool­ing cell will then fol­low, al­ter­nat­ing en­er­gy loss in Li-H ab­sorbers and RF ac­cel­er­a­tion. A sec­ond spec­trom­e­ter iden­ti­cal to the first and a sec­ond muon iden­ti­fi­ca­tion sys­tem mea­sure the out­go­ing emit­tance. In the 2010 run the beam and most de­tec­tors have been fully com­mis­sioned and a first mea­sure­ment of the emit­tance of a beam with par­ti­cle physics (time-of-flight) de­tec­tors has been per­formed. The anal­y­sis of these data should be com­plet­ed by the time of the Con­fer­ence. The next steps of more pre­cise mea­sure­ments, of emit­tance and emit­tance re­duc­tion (cool­ing), that will fol­low in 2011 and later, will also be out­lined.
Abstract is submitted by the MICE Speakers Bureau.
If accepted, most likely Dr. Kaplan will present it.
As a first result in a novel sector, we propose it for an oral presentation