DPNC, Genève, Switzerland
Belgrade Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia
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.
Submitted by the MICE speakers bureau. If accepted, a member of the collaboration will be selected to present the contribution
