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A Sensitivity Study for a MICE Liquid Hydrogen Absorber

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Recent results from the study of emittance evolution in MICE

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) has measured the evolution of emittance due to ionization energy loss. Muons were focused onto an absorber using a large aperture solenoid. Lithium-hydride and liquid hydrogen- absorbers have…

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Pion contamination in the MICE muon beam

The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a systematic investigation of ionization cooling with muon beams of momentum between 140 and 240\,MeV/c at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory ISIS facility. The…

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The MICE Muon Beam on ISIS and the beam-line instrumentation of the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment

The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE), which is under construction at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), will demonstrate the principle of ionization cooling as a technique for the reduction of the phase-space…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 MICE Collaboration

MICE: The International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment: Phase Space Cooling Measurement

MICE is an experiment with a section of an ionization cooling channel and a muon beam. The muons will be produced by the decay of pions from a target dipping into the ISIS proton beam at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL). The channel…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-14 Terrence Lee Hart

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…

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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

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

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 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

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

Progress Towards Completion of the MICE Demonstration of Muon Ionization Cooling

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory aims to demonstrate $\approx$ 10% ionization cooling of a muon beam by its interaction with low-Z absorber materials followed by restoration of longitudinal…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-12-06 Daniel M. Kaplan

Muon Cooling, Muon Colliders, and 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 2019-08-14 Daniel M. Kaplan

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

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Wedge Absorbers For Muon Cooling With a Test Beam At MICE

Emittance exchange mediated by wedge absorbers is required for longitudinal ionization cooling and for final transverse emittance minimization for a muon collider. A wedge absorber within the MICE beam line could serve as a demonstration of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-12-23 David Neuffer , J. Acosta , D. Summers , T. Mohayai , P. Snopok

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…

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