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TY - UNPB AU - Neuffer, D.V. AU - Palladino, V.C. ED - Akers, Evelyn (Jefferson Lab), Satogata, Todd Satogata (Jefferson Lab), Schaa, Volker RW Schaa (GSI) TI - The Status of MICE Step IV J2 - Proc. of COOL2015, Newport News, VA, USA, September 28 - October 2, 2015 C1 - Newport News, VA, USA T2 - International Workshop on Beam Cooling and Related Topics T3 - 10 LA - english AB - Muon beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well-characterised neutrino beams of the Neutrino Factory and for lepton-antilepton collisions at energies of up to several TeV at the Muon Collider. The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will demonstrate ionization cooling ' the technique by which it is proposed to reduce the μ-beam phase-space volume. MICE is being constructed in a series of steps. At Step IV, MICE will study the properties of liquid hydrogen and lithium hydride that affect cooling. A solenoidal spectrometer will measure emittance up and downstream of the absorber vessel, where a focusing coil will focus muons. The construction of Step IV at RAL is nearing completion. The status of the project will be described together with a summary of the performance of the principal components. Plans for the commissioning and operation and the Step IV measurement programme will be described. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland ER -