Title :
High Precision Measurement of Muon Beam Emittance Reduction in Mice
Author :
Rogers, Christ ; Ellis, Malcolm
Author_Institution :
MICE collaboration, Imperial College, London
Abstract :
Muon ionization cooling, an essential ingredient of a Neutrino Factory, will be demonstrated for the first time by the MICE experiment. The central part of MICE consists of a short section of a Neutrino Factory cooling channel. The emittance reduction achieved in this experiment is quite modest, 10% to 15%. In order to extrapolate the performance of a full cooling channel from these values, it is desirable for MICE to achieve an emittance measurement accuracy of 10-3, absolute. So far, beam emittance has never been measured with such precision. We present the resulting constraints on the spectrometers and a method to correct the bias on the emittance due to known measurement errors.
Keywords :
Cooling; Ionization; Measurement errors; Mesons; Mice; Neutrino sources; Optical design; Phase measurement; Production facilities; Spectroscopy;
Conference_Titel :
Particle Accelerator Conference, 2005. PAC 2005. Proceedings of the
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8859-3
DOI :
10.1109/PAC.2005.1590751