Design and expected performance of the MICE demonstration of ionization cooling
Abstract
Muon beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well-characterised neutrino beams necessary to elucidate the physics of flavour at a neutrino factory and to provide lepton-antilepton collisions at energies of up to several TeV at a muon collider. The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) aims to 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 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 experiment can deliver a demonstration of ionization cooling. The design of the cooling demonstration experiment will be described together with its predicted cooling performance.
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@article{arxiv.1701.06403,
title = {Design and expected performance of the MICE demonstration of ionization cooling},
author = {MICE Collaboration and M. Bogomilov and R. Tsenov and G. Vankova-Kirilova and Y. Song and J. Tang and Z. Li and R. Bertoni and M. Bonesini and F. Chignoli and R. Mazza and V. Palladino and A. de Bari and G. Cecchet and D. Orestano and L. Tortora and Y. Kuno and S. Ishimoto and F. Filthaut and D. Jokovic and D. Maletic and M. Savic and O. M. Hansen and S. Ramberger and M. Vretenar and R. Asfandiyarov and A. Blondel and F. Drielsma and Y. Karadzhov and G. Charnley and N. Collomb and A. Gallagher and A. Grant and S. Griffiths and T. Hartnett and B. Martlew and A. Moss and A. Muir and I. Mullacrane and A. Oates and P. Owens and G. Stokes and M. Tucker and P. Warburton and C. White and D. Adams and R. J. Anderson and P. Barclay and V. Bayliss and J. Boehm and T. W. Bradshaw and M. Courthold and K. Dumbell and V. Francis and L. Fry and T. Hayler and M. Hills and A. Lintern and C. Macwaters and A. Nichols and R. Preece and S. Ricciardi and C. Rogers and T. Stanley and J. Tarrant and A. Wilson and S. Watson and R. Bayes and J. C. Nugent and F. J. P. Soler and R. Gamet and G. Barber and V. J. Blackmore and D. Colling and A. Dobbs and P. Dornan and C. Hunt and A. Kurup and J-B. Lagrange and K. Long and J. Martyniak and S. Middleton and J. Pasternak and M. A. Uchida and J. H. Cobb and W. Lau and C. N. Booth and P. Hodgson and J. Langlands and E. Overton and M. Robinson and P. J. Smith and S. Wilbur and A. J. Dick and K. Ronald and C. G. Whyte and A. R. Young and S. Boyd and P. Franchini and J. R. Greis and C. Pidcott and I. Taylor and R. B. S. Gardener and P. Kyberd and J. J. Nebrensky and M. Palmer and H. Witte and A. D. Bross and D. Bowring and A. Liu and D. Neuffer and M. Popovic and P. Rubinov and A. DeMello and S. Gourlay and D. Li and S. Prestemon and S. Virostek and B. Freemire and P. Hanlet and D. M. Kaplan and T. A. Mohayai and D. Rajaram and P. Snopok and V. Suezaki and Y. Torun and Y. Onel and L. M. Cremaldi and D. A. Sanders and D. J. Summers and G. G. Hanson and C. Heidt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.06403},
year = {2017}
}
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21 pages, 10 figures