IPAC2011 - List of Authors (Long, K.R.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOPZ012	The International Design Study for the Neutrino Factory	847
	J.K. Pozimski, A. Kurup, K.R. Long Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom J.S. Berg BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
	The International Design Study for the Neutrino Factory (the IDS-NF) has recently completed the Interim Design Report* (IDR) for the facility as a step on the way to the Reference Design Report (RDR). The IDR has two functions: it marks the point in the IDS-NF at which the emphasis turns to the engineering studies required to deliver the RDR and it documents the present baseline design for the facility which will provide 10²¹ muon decays per year from 25 GeV stored muon beams. The facility will serve two neutrino detectors; one situated at source-detector distance of between 3000–5000 km, the second at 7000–8000 km. The conceptual design of the accelerator facility will be described and its performance will be presented. The steps that the IDS-NF collaboration has taken since the IDR was finalized and plans to take to prepare the RDR will also be presented. * IDS-NF-020: https://www.ids-nf.org/wiki/FrontPage/Documentation?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=IDS-NF-020-v1.0.pdf Submitted on behalf of the IDS-NF collaboration

TUPS051	Design and Performance of the MICE Target*	1644
	C.N. Booth, P. Hodgson, E. Overton, M. Robinson, P.J. Smith Sheffield University, Sheffield, United Kingdom G.J. Barber, K.R. Long Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom E.G. Capocci, J.S. Tarrant STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom B.J.A. Shepherd STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
	Funding: UK Science and Technology Facilities Council The MICE experiment uses a beam of low energy muons to study ionisation cooling. This beam is derived parasitically from the ISIS synchrotron at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. A mechanical drive has been developed which rapidly inserts a small titanium target into the beam after acceleration and before extraction, with minimal disturbance to the circulating protons. One mechanism has operated in ISIS for over half a million pulses, and its performance will be summarised. Upgrades to this design have been tested in parallel with MICE operation; the improvements in performance and reliability will be presented, together with a discussion of further future enhancements.

TUPS052	An FPGA Based Controller for the MICE Target	1647
	P.J. Smith, C.N. Booth, P. Hodgson, E. Overton, M. Robinson Sheffield University, Sheffield, United Kingdom J. Leaver, K.R. Long Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
	Funding: UK Science and Technology Facilities Council The MICE experiment uses a beam of low energy muons to test the feasibility of ionization cooling. This beam is derived parasitically from the ISIS accelerator at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. A target mechanism has been developed that rapidly inserts a small titanium target into the circulating proton beam immediately prior to extraction without unduly disturbing the primary ISIS beam. The original control electronics for the MICE target was based upon an 8-bit PIC. Although this system was fully functional it did not provide the necessary IO to permit full integration of the target electronics onto the MICE EPICS system. A three phase program was established to migrate both the target control and DAQ electronics from the original prototype onto a fully integrated FPGA system that is capable of interfacing with EPICS through a local PC. This paper discusses this upgrade program, the motivation behind it and the performance of the upgraded target controller.

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The International Design Study for the Neutrino Factory

847

J.K. Pozimski, A. Kurup, K.R. Long
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
J.S. Berg
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA

The International Design Study for the Neutrino Factory (the IDS-NF) has recently completed the Interim Design Report* (IDR) for the facility as a step on the way to the Reference Design Report (RDR). The IDR has two functions: it marks the point in the IDS-NF at which the emphasis turns to the engineering studies required to deliver the RDR and it documents the present baseline design for the facility which will provide 10²¹ muon decays per year from 25 GeV stored muon beams. The facility will serve two neutrino detectors; one situated at source-detector distance of between 3000–5000 km, the second at 7000–8000 km. The conceptual design of the accelerator facility will be described and its performance will be presented. The steps that the IDS-NF collaboration has taken since the IDR was finalized and plans to take to prepare the RDR will also be presented.
* IDS-NF-020: https://www.ids-nf.org/wiki/FrontPage/Documentation?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=IDS-NF-020-v1.0.pdf
Submitted on behalf of the IDS-NF collaboration

TUPS051

Design and Performance of the MICE Target*

1644

C.N. Booth, P. Hodgson, E. Overton, M. Robinson, P.J. Smith
Sheffield University, Sheffield, United Kingdom
G.J. Barber, K.R. Long
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
E.G. Capocci, J.S. Tarrant
STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
B.J.A. Shepherd
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Funding: UK Science and Technology Facilities Council
The MICE experiment uses a beam of low energy muons to study ionisation cooling. This beam is derived parasitically from the ISIS synchrotron at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. A mechanical drive has been developed which rapidly inserts a small titanium target into the beam after acceleration and before extraction, with minimal disturbance to the circulating protons. One mechanism has operated in ISIS for over half a million pulses, and its performance will be summarised. Upgrades to this design have been tested in parallel with MICE operation; the improvements in performance and reliability will be presented, together with a discussion of further future enhancements.

TUPS052

An FPGA Based Controller for the MICE Target

1647

P.J. Smith, C.N. Booth, P. Hodgson, E. Overton, M. Robinson
Sheffield University, Sheffield, United Kingdom
J. Leaver, K.R. Long
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom

Funding: UK Science and Technology Facilities Council
The MICE experiment uses a beam of low energy muons to test the feasibility of ionization cooling. This beam is derived parasitically from the ISIS accelerator at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. A target mechanism has been developed that rapidly inserts a small titanium target into the circulating proton beam immediately prior to extraction without unduly disturbing the primary ISIS beam. The original control electronics for the MICE target was based upon an 8-bit PIC. Although this system was fully functional it did not provide the necessary IO to permit full integration of the target electronics onto the MICE EPICS system. A three phase program was established to migrate both the target control and DAQ electronics from the original prototype onto a fully integrated FPGA system that is capable of interfacing with EPICS through a local PC. This paper discusses this upgrade program, the motivation behind it and the performance of the upgraded target controller.