| Paper | Title | Page |
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| TUPD15 | Particle Identification Devices in MICE | 321 |
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Muon ionization cooling provides the only practical solution to prepare high brilliance beams necessary for a neutrino factory or muon colliders. The muon ionization cooling experiment (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. The measurement of emittance is the subject of another contribution. This talk focuses on the particle identification devices, with three time-of-flight stations, Cherenkov detectors, a preshower device and a full absorption calorimeter. These devices ensure the purity of the muon sample separating off pions in the incoming beam upstream of the cooling cell and muon decay electrons downstream of the cooling cell. By April 2009 it is expected that the beam and first set of detectors will have been commissioned, and operation performance will be reported. |