Title :
MICE: the International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment
Author_Institution :
Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL, USA
Abstract :
The MICE Collaboration has designed an experiment in which a section of an ionization cooling channel is exposed to a muon beam. This channel includes liquid-hydrogen absorbers providing energy loss and high-gradient rf cavities to re-accelerate the particles, all tightly packed in a solenoidal magnetic channel. It reduces the beam transverse emittance by > 10% for muon momenta between 140 and 240 MeV/c. Spectrometers placed before and after the cooling section perform the measurements of beam transmission and emittance reduction with an absolute precision of ± 0.1%.
Keywords :
accelerator cavities; beam handling techniques; energy loss of particles; particle beam diagnostics; solenoids; storage rings; International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment; MICE Collaboration; beam transmission measurements; cooling section; emittance reduction; energy loss; high-gradient rf cavities; ionization cooling channel; liquid-hydrogen absorbers; muon beam; muon momenta; solenoidal magnetic channel; transverse emittance; Collaboration; Cooling; Energy loss; Ionization; Magnetic liquids; Mesons; Mice; Particle beam measurements; Performance evaluation; Spectroscopy;
Conference_Titel :
Particle Accelerator Conference, 2003. PAC 2003. Proceedings of the
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7738-9
DOI :
10.1109/PAC.2003.1288673
