2011 Particle Accelerator Conference - List of Authors (Blot, S.D.)

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MOP061	Stability of the MICE Muon Beam Line	223
	S.D. Blot University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
	Funding: University of Chicago The international Muon Ionization and Cooling Exper- iment (MICE) aims to demonstrate transverse beam emit- tance reduction for a muon beam. During the summer of 2010, data was taken using different configurations of the upstream beam line magnets to measure the optical pa- rameters of the muon beam and study the functionality of the beam line itself. Throughout this period of data taking, reference runs were taken with a fixed target configuration, and magnet settings which provide a muon beam with 200 MeV/c momentum and 6π 4D transverse emittance. Time of flight (TOF) detectors were used to measure many of the beam properties including emittance, particle identifi- cation, and profile. Analysis of these reference runs was carried out in order to determine the stability and repro- ducibility of the beam line data. This overall data quality check is essential to ensure the validity of measurements made so that further analysis can be carried out and that the muon beam is suitable for the MICE cooling channel.

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Stability of the MICE Muon Beam Line

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S.D. Blot
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Funding: University of Chicago
The international Muon Ionization and Cooling Exper- iment (MICE) aims to demonstrate transverse beam emit- tance reduction for a muon beam. During the summer of 2010, data was taken using different configurations of the upstream beam line magnets to measure the optical pa- rameters of the muon beam and study the functionality of the beam line itself. Throughout this period of data taking, reference runs were taken with a fixed target configuration, and magnet settings which provide a muon beam with 200 MeV/c momentum and 6π 4D transverse emittance. Time of flight (TOF) detectors were used to measure many of the beam properties including emittance, particle identifi- cation, and profile. Analysis of these reference runs was carried out in order to determine the stability and repro- ducibility of the beam line data. This overall data quality check is essential to ensure the validity of measurements made so that further analysis can be carried out and that the muon beam is suitable for the MICE cooling channel.