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TY - CONF AU - Drielsma, F. AU - Maletic, D. M. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Marx, Michaela ED - Tilmont, Manuel TI - Measurement of Phase Space Density Evolution in MICE J2 - Proc. of COOL2017, Bonn, Germany, 18-22 September 2017 C1 - Bonn, Germany T2 - Workshop on Beam Cooling and Related Topics T3 - 11 LA - english AB - The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) collaboration will demonstrate the feasibility of ionization cooling, the technique proposed for a future muon storage ring or collider. The muon beam parameters are measured particle-by-particle, before and after a cooling cell, using high precision scintillating-fibre trackers in a solenoidal field. The position and momentum reconstruction of individual muons in MICE allows for the development of several alternative figures of merit in addition to beam emittance. Contraction of the phase-space volume occupied by the sample, or equivalently the increase in phase-space density at its core, is an unequivocal cooling signature. Single-particle amplitude, defined as a weighted distance to the sample centroid, can be used to probe the change in the density in the core of the beam. Alternatively, non-parametric statistics provides reliable methods to estimate the entire phase-space density distribution and reconstruct probability contours. The aforementioned techniques are robust to transmission losses and sample non-linearities, making them ideal candidates to perform a cooling measurement in MICE. Preliminary results are presented here. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 6 EP - 10 KW - ion KW - emittance KW - simulation KW - collider KW - solenoid DA - 2018/01 PY - 2018 SN - 978-3-95450-198-4 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-COOL2017-MOA13 UR - http://jacow.org/cool2017/papers/moa13.pdf ER -