Author: Long, K.R.
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WEPFI066 The RF System for the MICE Experiment 2848
 
  • K. Ronald, A.J. Dick, C.G. Whyte
    USTRAT/SUPA, Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • P.A. Corlett
    STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • A.J. DeMello, D. Li, S.P. Virostek
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
  • A.F. Grant, A.J. Moss, C.J. White
    STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • P.M. Hanlet
    IIT, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • C. Hunt, K.R. Long, J. Pasternak
    Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
  • T.H. Luo, D.J. Summers
    UMiss, University, Mississippi, USA
  • A. Moretti, R.J. Pasquinelli, D.W. Peterson, R.P. Schultz, J.T. Volk
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
  • P.J. Smith
    Sheffield University, Sheffield, United Kingdom
  • T. Stanley
    STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
  • Y. Torun
    Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA
  
  The In­ter­na­tional Muon Ion­i­sa­tion Cool­ing Ex­per­i­ment (MICE) is de­signed to demon­strate the ef­fec­tive­ness of ion­i­sa­tion cool­ing to re­duce the phase space foot­print of a muon beam, prin­ci­pally to allow the sub­se­quent ac­cel­er­a­tion of muons for next gen­er­a­tion col­lid­ers and/or neu­trino fac­to­ries. The ex­per­i­ment (and in­deed any sub­se­quent ac­cel­er­a­tor cool­ing chan­nel based on the same prin­ci­ples) poses cer­tain un­usual re­quire­ments on its RF sys­tem, whilst the pre­ci­sion mea­sure­ment of the ion­i­sa­tion cool­ing process de­mands spe­cial di­ag­nos­tics. This paper shall out­line the key fea­tures of the RF sys­tem, in­clud­ing the LLRF con­trol, the power am­pli­fier chain, dis­tri­b­u­tion net­work, cav­i­ties, tuners and cou­plers, all of which must op­er­ate in a high mag­netic field en­vi­ron­ment. The RF di­ag­nos­tics which, in con­junc­tion with the other MICE di­ag­nos­tics, shall allow de­tailed knowl­edge of the am­pli­tude and phase of the ac­cel­er­a­tion field dur­ing the tran­sit of each in­di­vid­ual Muon shall also be out­lined.