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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

In order to produce muon beam of high enough quality to be used for a Muon Collider, its large phase space must be cooled several orders of magnitude. This task can be accomplished by ionization cooling. Ionization cooling consists of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2010-09-10 Gennady Romanov , Vladimir Kashikhin

The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) is being built, at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), to demonstrate the feasibility of ionization cooling of muon beams. This is one of the major technological steps needed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-10-08 D. A. Sanders

The feasibility of shielding axial magnetic fields up to 1.4~T, using a Bi-2212 hollow cylinder, is investigated at a temperature of 4.2~K. The residual magnetic flux density along the axis of the tube is measured at external fields of 1~T…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-04-05 Alaa Dbeyssi , Bertold Froelich , Maria Carmen Mora Espi , Frank Maas , Luigi Capozza , Oliver Noll , Yadi Wang , Dexu Lin

The MuCool R&D program is described. The aim of MuCool is to develop all key pieces of hardware required for ionization cooling of a muon beam. This effort will lead to a more detailed understanding of the construction and operating costs…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Daniel M. Kaplan

The KATRIN experiment is a next-generation direct neutrino mass experiment with a sensitivity of 0.2 eV (90% C.L.) to the effective mass of the electron neutrino. It measures the tritium $\beta$-decay spectrum close to its endpoint with a…

The Muon Campus (MC) is able to measure Muon g-2 with high precision and comparing its value to the theoretical prediction. The MC has four 300 KW screw compressors and four liquid helium refrigerators. The centerpiece of the Muon g-2…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 L. Pei , J. Theilacker , A. Klebaner , W. Soyars , R. Bossert

The Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) experiment uses an accelerator-produced neutrino beam to perform precision measurements of the neutrino oscillation parameters in the "atmospheric neutrino" sector associated with muon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-05-12 MINOS Collaboration , D. G. Michael

Neutron spectra in high-energy region between 1 and 100-MeV in the shield configuration of the anti-proton target station and a 120-GeV proton beam at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) were determined using the reaction rate…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-08-27 JASMIN Collaboration

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

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-08-15 Tanaz Angelina Mohayai , Pavel Snopok , David Neuffer , Chris Rogers

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

The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a systematic investigation of ionization cooling of a muon beam. The demonstration is based on a simplified version of a neutrino factory cooling channel. As the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 M. Bonesini

In a partnership with SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) and Jefferson Lab, Fermilab will assemble and test 17 of the 35 total 1.3 GHz cryomodules for the Linac Coherent Light Source II (LCLS-II) Project. These devices will be…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-04-27 M. W. McGee , S. K. Chandrasekaran , A. C. Crawford , E. Harms , J. Leibfritz , G. Wu

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for the charged lepton flavor violating process of neutrino-less $\mu \to e$ coherent conversion in the field of an aluminum nucleus. Mu2e will reach a single event sensitivity of about $2.5\cdot…

PIP-II is the Fermilab's flagship project for providing powerful, high-intensity proton beams to the laboratory's experiments. The heart of PIP-II is an 800-MeV superconducting linac accelerator. It will be located in a new tunnel with new…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-06-18 L. Lari , F. Cerutti , L. S. Esposito , C. Baffes , S. J. Dixon , N. V. Mokhov , I. Rakhno , I. S. Tropin

In 2008, the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) was reconfigured to serve as a test accelerator (CESR-TA) for next generation lepton colliders, in particular for the ILC damping ring. A significant part of this program has been the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. R. Calvey , W. Hartung , Y. Li , J. A. Livezey , J. Makita , M. A. Palmer , D. Rubin

Understanding the thermal behaviour of superconducting accelerator magnets is essential to ensure their stable and reliable operation. This work presents an extension of the Finite Element Quench Simulator (FiQuS) Multipole module to…

A passive magnetic shield was designed and constructed for magnetometer tests for the future neutron electric dipole moment experiment at TRIUMF. The axial shielding factor of the magnetic shield was measured using a magnetometer based on…

We are designing and fabricating two new thermionic sources of magnetized electrons for use in the electron lens project at the Integrable Optics Test Accelerator (IOTA) at Fermilab. These electron sources will be used for cooling of 2.5…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 M. K. Bossard , N. Banerjee , J. Brandt , Y. -K. Kim , M. Krieg , B. Cathey , S. Nagaitsev , G. Stancari

This study explores the feasibility of using scintillation detectors for muon calorimetry through experiments conducted at CERN's T10 beamline. Results from organic scintillators with varying thicknesses and readout methods, as well as a…