MICE: the International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment

Author

Torun, Y.

Author_Institution

Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2003

fDate

12-16 May 2003

Firstpage

1795

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2003. PAC 2003. Proceedings of the

ISSN

1063-3928

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7738-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2003.1288673

Filename

1288673