Related papers: Progress of the MICE experiment

RF system for the MICE demonstration of ionization cooling

Muon accelerators offer an attractive option for a range of future particle physics experiments. They can enable high energy (TeV+) high energy lepton colliders whilst mitigating the difficulty of synchrotron losses, and can provide intense…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-09-18 K. Ronald , C. G. Whyte , A. J. Dick , A. R. Young , D. Li , A. J. DeMello , A. R. Lambert , T. Luo , T. Anderson , D. Bowring , A. Bross , A. Moretti , R. Pasquinelli , D. Peterson , M. Popovic , R. Schultz , J. Volk , Y. Torun , P. Hanlet , B. Freemire , A. Moss , K. Dumbell , A. Grant , C. White , S. Griffiths , T. Stanley , R. Anderson , S. Alsari , K. Long , A. Kurup , D. Summers , P. J. Smith

MICE: The International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment

Muon storage rings have been proposed for use as a source of high-energy neutrino beams (the Neutrino Factory) and as the basis for a high-energy lepton-antilepton collider (the Muon Collider). The Neutrino Factory is widely believed to be…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-07-16 D. M. Kaplan , K. Long

Measurement of Neutral Particle Contamination in the MICE Muon Beam

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) is being built at the ISIS proton synchrotron at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) to measure ionization cooling of a muon beam. During recent data-taking, it was determined that there is a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-05-04 Rob Roy Fletcher , Linda Coney , Gail Hanson

First Demonstration of Ionization Cooling in MICE

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory has studied ionization cooling of muons. Several million individual muon tracks have been recorded passing through a series of focusing magnets and a liquid…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 Tanaz Angelina Mohayai

A Sensitivity Study for a MICE Liquid Hydrogen Absorber

The International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) is devoted to a study of a muon cooling channel capable of giving the desired performance for a Neutrino Factory. One of the goals is achieving an absolute accuracy of measurements…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Errede , I. Rakhno

Characterisation of the muon beams for the Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment

A novel single-particle technique to measure emittance has been developed and used to characterise seventeen different muon beams for the Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment (MICE). The muon beams, whose mean momenta vary from 171 to 281…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-10-14 The MICE Collaboration , D. Adams , D. Adey , A. Alekou , M. Apollonio , R. Asfandiyarov , J. Back , G. Barber , P. Barclay , A. de Bari , R. Bayes , V. Bayliss , R. Bertoni , V. J. Blackmore , A. Blondel , S. Blot , M. Bogomilov , M. Bonesini , C. N. Booth , D. Bowring , S. Boyd , T. W. Bradshaw , U. Bravar , A. D. Bross , M. Capponi , T. Carlisle , G. Cecchet , G. Charnley , J. H. Cobb , D. Colling , N. Collomb , L. Coney , P. Cooke , M. Courthold , L. M. Cremaldi , A. DeMello , A. Dick , A. Dobbs , P. Dornan , S. Fayer , F. Filthaut , A. Fish , T. Fitzpatrick , R. Fletcher , D. Forrest , V. Francis , B. Freemire , L. Fry , A. Gallagher , R. Gamet , S. Gourlay , A. Grant , J. S. Graulich , S. Griffiths , P. Hanlet , O. M. Hansen , G. G. Hanson , P. Harrison , T. L. Hart , T. Hartnett , T. Hayler , C. Heidt , M. Hills , P. Hodgson , A. Iaciofano , S. Ishimoto , G. Kafka , D. M. Kaplan , Y. Karadzhov , Y. K. Kim , D. Kolev , Y. Kuno , P. Kyberd , W. Lau , J. Leaver , M. Leonova , D. Li , A. Lintern , M. Littlefield , K. Long , G. Lucchini , T. Luo , C. Macwaters , B. Martlew , J. Martyniak , A. Moretti , A. Moss , A. Muir , I. Mullacrane , J. J. Nebrensky , D. Neuffer , A. Nichols , R. Nicholson , J. C. Nugent , Y. Onel , D. Orestano , E. Overton , P. Owens , V. Palladino , J. Pasternak , F. Pastore , C. Pidcott , M. Popovic , R. Preece , S. Prestemon , D. Rajaram , S. Ramberger , M. A. Rayner , S. Ricciardi , A. Richards , T. J. Roberts , M. Robinson , C. Rogers , K. Ronald , P. Rubinov , R. Rucinski , I. Rusinov , H. Sakamoto , D. A. Sanders , E. Santos , T. Savidge , P. J. Smith , P. Snopok , F. J. P. Soler , T. Stanley , D. J. Summers , M. Takahashi , J. Tarrant , I. Taylor , L. Tortora , Y. Torun , R. Tsenov , C. D. Tunnell , G. Vankova , V. Verguilov , S. Virostek , M. Vretenar , K. Walaron , S. Watson , C. White , C. G. Whyte , A. Wilson , H. Wisting , M. Zisman

The liquid-hydrogen absorber for MICE

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) has been built at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory to demonstrate the principle of muon beam phase-space reduction via ionization cooling. Muon beam cooling will be required at a future…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 V. Bayliss , J. Boehm , T. Bradshaw , M. Courthold , S. Harrison , M. Hills , P. Hodgson , S. Ishimoto , A. Kurup , W. Lau , K. Long , A. Nichols , D. Summers , M. Tucker , P. Warburton , S. Watson , C. Whyte

A Non-Parametric Density Estimation Approach to Measuring Beam Cooling in MICE

The goal of the international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) is to demonstrate muon beam ionization cooling for the first time. It constitutes a key part of the R&D towards a future neutrino factory or muon collider. The intended…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 Tanaz Angelina Mohayai , Pavel Snopok , David Neuffer

Electron-Muon Ranger: performance in the MICE Muon Beam

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a detailed study of ionization cooling to evaluate the feasibility of the technique. To carry out this program, MICE requires an efficient particle-identification (PID) system to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-20 D. Adams , A. Alekou , M. Apollonio , R. Asfandiyarov , G. Barber , P. Barclay , A. de Bari , R. Bayes , V. Bayliss , P. Bene , R. Bertoni , V. J. Blackmore , A. Blondel , S. Blot , M. Bogomilov , M. Bonesini , C. N. Booth , D. Bowring , S. Boyd , T. W. Bradshaw , U. Bravar , A. D. Bross , F. Cadoux , M. Capponi , T. Carlisle , G. Cecchet , C. Charnley , F. Chignoli , D. Cline , J. H. Cobb , G. Colling , N. Collomb , L. Coney , P. Cooke , M. Courthold , L. M. Cremaldi , S. Debieux , A. DeMello , A. Dick , A. Dobbs , P. Dornan , F. Drielsma , F. Filthaut , T. Fitzpatrick , P. Franchini , V. Francis , L. Fry , A. Gallagher , R. Gamet , R. Gardener , S. Gourlay , A. Grant , J. S. Graulich , J. Greis , S. Griffiths , P. Hanlet , O. M. Hansen , G. G. Hanson , T. L. Hart , T. Hartnett , T. Hayler , C. Heidt , M. Hills , P. Hodgson , C. Hunt , C. Husi , A. Iaciofano , S. Ishimoto , G. Kafka , D. M. Kaplan , Y. Karadzhov , Y. K. Kim , Y. Kuno , P. Kyberd , J-B Lagrange , J. Langlands , W. Lau , M. Leonova , D. Li , A. Lintern , M. Littlefield , K. Long , T. Luo , C. Macwaters , B. Martlew , J. Martyniak , F. Masciocchi , R. Mazza , S. Middleton , A. Moretti , A. Moss , A. Muir , I. Mullacrane , J. J. Nebrensky , D. Neuffer , A. Nichols , R. Nicholson , L. Nicola , E. Noah Messomo , J. C. Nugent , A. Oates , Y. Onel , D. Orestano , E. Overton , P. Owens , V. Palladino , J. Pasternak , F. Pastore , C. Pidcott , M. Popovic , R. Preece , S. Prestemon , D. Rajaram , S. Ramberger , M. A. Rayner , S. Ricciardi , T. J. Roberts , M. Robinson , C. Rogers , K. Ronald , K. Rothenfusser , P. Rubinov , P. Rucinski , H. Sakamato , D. A. Sanders , R. Sandstrom , E. Santos , T. Savidge , P. J. Smith , P. Snopok , F. J. P. Soler , D. Speirs , T. Stanley , G. Stokes , D. J. Summers , J. Tarrant , I. Taylor , L. Tortora , Y. Torun , R. Tsenov , C. D. Tunnell , M. A. Uchida , G. Vankova-Kirilova , S. Virostek , M. Vretenar , P. Warburton , S. Watson , C. White , C. G. Whyte , A. Wilson , H. Wisting , X. Yang , A. Young , M. Zisman

Transverse Emittance Reduction in Muon Beams by Ionization Cooling

Accelerated muon beams have been considered for next-generation studies of high-energy lepton-antilepton collisions and neutrino oscillations. However, high-brightness muon beams have not yet been produced. The main challenge for muon…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-10-16 The MICE Collaboration , M. Bogomilov , R. Tsenov , G. Vankova-Kirilova , Y. P. Song , J. Y. Tang , Z. H. Li , R. Bertoni , M. Bonesini , F. Chignoli , R. Mazza , A. de Bari , D. Orestano , L. Tortora , Y. Kuno , H. Sakamoto , A. Sato , S. Ishimoto , M. Chung , C. K. Sung , F. Filthaut , M. Fedorov , D. Jokovic , D. Maletic , M. Savic , N. Jovancevic , J. Nikolov , M. Vretenar , S. Ramberger , R. Asfandiyarov , A. Blondel , F. Drielsma , Y. Karadzhov , S. Boyd , J. R. Greis , T. Lord , C. Pidcott , I. Taylor , G. Charnley , N. Collomb , K. Dumbell , A. Gallagher , A. Grant , S. Griffiths , T. Hartnett , B. Martlew , A. Moss , A. Muir , I. Mullacrane , A. Oates , P. Owens , G. Stokes , P. Warburton , C. White , D. Adams , V. Bayliss , J. Boehm , T. W. Bradshaw , C. Brown , M. Courthold , J. Govans , T. Hayler , M. Hills , J. B. Lagrange , C. Macwaters , A. Nichols , R. Preece , S. Ricciardi , C. Rogers , T. Stanley , J. Tarrant , M. Tucker , S. Watson , A. Wilson , R. Bayes , J. C. Nugent , F. J. P. Soler , G. T. Chatzitheodoridis , A. J. Dick , K. Ronald , C. G. Whyte , A. R. Young , R. Gamet , P. Cooke , V. J. Blackmore , D. Colling , A. Dobbs , P. Dornan , P. Franchini , C. Hunt , P. B. Jurj , A. Kurup , K. Long , J. Martyniak , S. Middleton , J. Pasternak , M. A. Uchida , J. H. Cobb , C. N. Booth , P. Hodgson , J. Langlands , E. Overton , V. Pec , P. J. Smith , S. Wilbur , M. Ellis , R. B. S. Gardener , P. Kyberd , J. J. Nebrensky , A. DeMello , S. Gourlay , A. Lambert , D. Li , T. Luo , S. Prestemon , S. Virostek , M. Palmer , H. Witte , D. Adey , A. D. Bross , D. Bowring , A. Liu , D. Neuffer , M. Popovic , P. Rubinov , B. Freemire , P. Hanlet , D. M. Kaplan , T. A. Mohayai , D. Rajaram , P. Snopok , Y. Torun , L. M. Cremaldi , D. A. Sanders , L. R. Coney , G. G. Hanson , C. Heidt

Beam-based detector alignment in the MICE muon beam line

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a detailed study of ionization cooling to evaluate the feasibility of the technique. To carry out this program, MICE requires all of its detectors to reconstruct space points in a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-05-18 F. Drielsma

MICE: The International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment

Ionization cooling of a muon beam is a key technique for a Neutrino Factory or Muon Collider. An international collaboration is mounting an experiment to demonstrate muon ionization cooling at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. We aim to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Daniel M. Kaplan

The reconstruction software for the MICE scintillating fibre trackers

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will demonstrate the principle of muon beam phase-space reduction via ionization cooling. Muon beam cooling will be required for the proposed Neutrino Factory or Muon Collider. The phase-space…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-21 A. Dobbs , C. Hunt , K. Long , E. Santos , M. A. Uchida , P. Kyberd , C. Heidt , S. Blot , E. Overton

The design, construction and performance of the MICE scintillating fibre trackers

Charged-particle tracking in the international Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment (MICE) will be performed using two solenoidal spectrometers, each instrumented with a tracking detector based on 350 {\mu}m diameter scintillating fibres. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Ellis , P. R. Hobson , P. Kyberd , J. J. Nebrensky , A. Bross , J. Fagan , T. Fitzpatrick , R. Flores , R. Kubinski , J. Krider , R. Rucinski , P. Rubinov , C. Tolian , T. L. Hart , D. M. Kaplan , W. Luebke , B. Freemire , M. Wojcik , G. Barber , D. Clark , I. Clark , P. J. Dornan , A. Fish , S. Greenwood , R. Hare , A. Jamdagni , V. Kasey , M. Khaleeq , J. Leaver , K. R. Long , E. McKigney , T. Matsushita , C. Rogers , T. Sashalmi , P. Savage , M. Takahashi , A. Tapper , K. Yoshimura , P. Cooke , R. Gamet , H. Sakamoto , Y. Kuno , A. Sato , T. Yano , M. Yoshida , C. MacWaters , L. Coney , G. Hanson , A. Klier , D. Cline , X. Yang , D. Adey

A Wedge Test in MICE

Emittance exchange mediated by wedge absorbers can be used for longitudinal ionization cooling and for final transverse emittance minimization for a muon collider. A wedge absorber within the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) could…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 Tanaz Angelina Mohayai , Pavel Snopok , David Neuffer , Don Summers

Muon Colliders, Neutrino Factories, and Results from the MICE Experiment

Muon colliders and neutrino factories are attractive options for future facilities aimed at achieving the highest lepton-antilepton collision energies and precision measurements of parameters of the Higgs boson and the neutrino mixing…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Daniel M. Kaplan

First demonstration of ionization cooling by the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment

High-brightness muon beams of energy comparable to those produced by state-of-the-art electron, proton and ion accelerators have yet to be realised. Such beams have the potential to carry the search for new phenomena in lepton-antilepton…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-07-22 M. Bogomilov , R. Tsenov , G. Vankova-Kirilova , Y. P. Song , J. Y. Tang , Z. H. Li , R. Bertoni , M. Bonesini , F. Chignoli , R. Mazza , V. Palladino , A. de Bari , D. Orestano , L. Tortora , Y. Kuno , H. Sakamoto , A. Sato , S. Ishimoto , M. Chung , C. K. Sung , F. Filthaut , D. Jokovic , D. Maletic , M. Savic , N. Jovancevic , J. Nikolov , M. Vretenar , S. Ramberger , R. Asfandiyarov , A. Blondel , F. Drielsma , Y. Karadzhov , G. Charnley , N. Collomb , K. Dumbell , A. Gallagher , A. Grant , S. Griffiths , T. Hartnett , B. Martlew , A. Moss , A. Muir , I. Mullacrane , A. Oates , P. Owens , G. Stokes , P. Warburton , C. White , D. Adams , V. Bayliss , J. Boehm , T. W. Bradshaw , C. Brown , M. Courthold , J. Govans , M. Hills , J. -B. Lagrange , C. Macwaters , A. Nichols , R. Preece , S. Ricciardi , C. Rogers , T. Stanley , J. Tarrant , M. Tucker , S. Watson , A. Wilson , R. Bayes , J. C. Nugent , F. J. P. Soler , R. Gamet , P. Cooke , V. J. Blackmore , D. Colling , A. Dobbs , P. Dornan , P. Franchini , C. Hunt , P. B. Jurj , A. Kurup , K. Long , J. Martyniak , S. Middleton , J. Pasternak , M. A. Uchida , J. H. Cobb , C. N. Booth , P. Hodgson , J. Langlands , E. Overton , V. Pec , P. J. Smith , S. Wilbur , G. T. Chatzitheodoridis , A. J. Dick , K. Ronald , C. G. Whyte , A. R. Young , S. Boyd , J. R. Greis , T. Lord , C. Pidcott , I. Taylor , M. Ellis , R. B. S. Gardener , P. Kyberd , J. J. Nebrensky , M. Palmer , H. Witte , D. Adey , A. D. Bross , D. Bowring , P. Hanlet , A. Liu , D. Neuffer , M. Popovic , P. Rubinov , A. DeMello , S. Gourlay , A. Lambert , D. Li , T. Luo , S. Prestemon , S. Virostek , B. Freemire , D. M. Kaplan , T. A. Mohayai , P. Snopok , Y. Torun , L. M. Cremaldi , D. A. Sanders , D. J. Summers , L. R. Coney , G. G. Hanson , C. Heidt

Unconventional Ideas for Ionization Cooling of Muons

Small muon beams increase the luminosity of a muon collider. Reducing the momentum and position spreads of muons reduces emittance and leads to small, cool beams. Ionization cooling has been observed at the Muon Ionization Cooling…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 T. L. Hart , J. G. Acosta , L. M. Cremaldi , D. V. Neuffer , S. J. Oliveros , D. Stratakis , D. J. Summers , K. Yonehara

The design and construction of the MICE Electron-Muon Ranger

The Electron-Muon Ranger (EMR) is a fully-active tracking-calorimeter installed in the beam line of the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE). The experiment will demonstrate ionization cooling, an essential technology needed for the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-23 R. Asfandiyarov , P. Bene , A. Blondel , D. Bolognini , F. Cadoux , S. Debieux , F. Drielsma , G. Giannini , J. S. Graulich , C. Husi , Y. Karadzhov , D. Lietti , F. Masciocchi , L. Nicola , E. Noah Messomo , M. Prest , K. Rothenfusser , R. Sandstrom , E. Vallazza , V. Verguilov , H. Wisting

MAUS: The MICE Analysis User Software

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) collaboration has developed the MICE Analysis User Software (MAUS) to simulate and analyze experimental data. It serves as the primary codebase for the experiment, providing for offline batch…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 R. Asfandiyarov , R. Bayes , V. Blackmore , M. Bogomilov , D. Colling , A. J. Dobbs , F. Drielsma , M. Drews , M. Ellis , M. Fedorov , P. Franchini , R. Gardener , J. R. Greis , P. M. Hanlet , C. Heidt , C. Hunt , G. Kafka , Y. Karadzhov , A. Kurup , P. Kyberd , M. Littlefield , A. Liu , K. Long , D. Maletic , J. Martyniak , S. Middleton , T. Mohayai , J. J. Nebrensky , J. C. Nugent , E. Overton , V. Pec , C. E. Pidcott , D. Rajaram , M. Rayner , I. D. Reid , C. T. Rogers , E. Santos , M. Savic , I. Taylor , Y. Torun , C. D. Tunnell , M. A. Uchida , V. Verguilov , K. Walaron , M. Winter , S. Wilbur