• L.M. Cremaldi, D.A. Sanders
  UMiss, University, Mississippi

The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) is being built at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), to demonstrate the feasibility of ionization cooling of muon beams. This is one of the major technological steps needed towards the development of a muon collider and a "neutrino factory" based on muon decays in a storage ring. MICE will use particle detectors to measure the cooling effect with high precision, planning to achieve an absolute accuracy on the measurement of emittance of 0.1% or better. The particle i.d. detectors and tracker must work under harsh environmental conditions due to high magnetic fringe fields and RF noise. We will describe the MICE particle i.d. detector systems, and show some current performance measurements of these detectors.