| Title |
The MICE Demonstration of Lonization Cooling |
| Authors |
- J. Pasternak, C. Hunt, J.-B. Lagrange, K.R. Long
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
- V. Blackmore
Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, United Kingdom
- N.A. Collomb
STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
- V.C. Palladino
INFN-Napoli, Napoli, Italy
- R. Preece, J.S. Tarrant
STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
- C.T. Rogers
STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
- P. Snopokpresenter
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
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| Abstract |
Muon beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well-characterised neutrino beams necessary to elucidate the physics of flavour at the Neutrino Factory and to provide 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 phase-space volume occupied by the muon beam at such facilities. In an ionization-cooling channel, the muon beam passes through a material (the absorber) in which it loses energy. The energy lost is then replaced using RF cavities. The combined effect of energy loss and re-acceleration is to reduce the transverse emittance of the beam (transverse cooling). A major revision of the scope of the project was carried out over the summer of 2014. The revised project plan, which has received the formal endorsement of the international MICE Project Board and the international MICE Funding Agency Committee, will deliver a demonstration of ionization cooling by September 2017. In the revised configuration a central lithium-hydride absorber provides the cooling effect. The magnetic lattice is provided by the two superconducting focus coils and acceleration is provided by two 201 MHz single-cavity modules. The phase space of the muons entering and leaving the cooling cell will be measured by two solenoidal spectrometers. All the superconducting magnets for the ionization cooling demonstration are available at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the first single-cavity prototype is under test in the MuCool Test Area at Fermilab. The design of the cooling demonstration experiment will be described together with a summary of the performance of each of its components. The cooling performance of the revised configuration will also be presented.
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| Funding |
SFTC, DOE, NSF, INFN, CHIPP and more |
| Paper |
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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 |
lattice, emittance, acceleration, radiation, cavity |
| 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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