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https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2015-THPF122
Title The Status of MICE Step IV
Authors
  • D. Rajaram
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
  • V.C. Palladino
    INFN-Napoli, Napoli, Italy
Abstract Muon (μ) beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well-characterised neutrino beams of the Neutrino Factory and for lepton-antilepton collisions at energies of up to several TeV at the Muon Collider. The International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will demonstrate ionization cooling; the technique by which it is proposed to reduce the μ phase-space volume. In a cooling channel, the μ beam traverses a material (the absorber) in which it looses energy, then replaced longitudinally by RF cavities. The net effect is to reduce transverse emittance(transverse cooling). MICE is being constructed in a series of Steps. At Step IV, MICE will study the properties of liquid hydrogen and lithium hydride that affect cooling. A solenoidal spectrometer will measure emittance up and downstream of the absorber vessel, where a focusing coil will focus muons. The construction of Step IV at RAL is well advanced towards scheduled completion early in 2015. Its status will be described together with a summary of the performance of the principal components. Plans for the commissioning and operation and the Step IV measurement programme will be described.
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Funding SFTC, DOE, NSF, INFN, CHIPP and more
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Conference IPAC2015, Richmond, VA, USA
Series International Particle Accelerator Conference (6th)
Proceedings Link to full IPAC2015 Proccedings
Session Thursday Posters
Date 07-May-15   16:00–18:00
Main Classification 4: Hadron Accelerators
Sub Classification A09 - Muon Accelerators and Neutrino Factories
Keywords solenoid, emittance, experiment, detector, collider
Publisher JACoW, Geneva, Switzerland
Editors Stuart Henderson (ANL, Argonne, IL, USA); Evelyn Akers (Jlab, Newport News, VA, USA); Todd Satogata (JLab, Newport News, VA, USA); Volker R.W. Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany)
ISBN 978-3-95450-168-7
Published June 2015
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