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Hart, T. L.

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THPAS014 MICE: the International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment: Phase Space Cooling Measurement 3543
 
  • T. L. Hart
    IIT, Chicago, Illinois
 
  Muon storage rings have been proposed for use as sources of intense high-energy neutrino beams and as the basis for multi-TeV lepton-antilepton colliding-beam facilities. Optimizing the performance of such facilities is likely to require the phase-space compression (cooling) of the muon beam prior to acceleration and storage. The short muon lifetime makes traditional beam-cooling techniques ineffective. Ionization cooling, a process in which the muon beam is passed through a series of energy absorbers followed by accelerating RF cavities, is thus the technique of choice. The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) collaboration is constructing the apparatus for a muon ionization-cooling demonstration experiment, to be conducted at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory over the next 3 years. The MICE cooling channel, its instrumentation, and its implementation at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory are described together with the predicted performance of the channel and the measurements that will be made.