""The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE), which is under construction at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), will demonstrate the principle of ionization cooling as a technique for the reduction of the phase-space volume occupied by a muon beam. Ionization cooling channels are required for the Neutrino Factory and the Muon Collider. MICE will evaluate in detail the performance of a single lattice cell of the Feasibility Study 2 cooling channel. The MICE Muon Beam has been constructed at the ISIS synchrotron at RAL, and in MICE Step I, it has been characterized using the MICE beam-instrumentation system. In this paper, the MICE Muon Beam and beam-line instrumentation are described. The muon rate is presented as a function of the beam loss generated by the MICE target dipping into the ISIS proton beam. For a 1 V signal from the ISIS beam-loss monitors downstream of our target we obtain a 30 KHz instantaneous muon rate, with a neglible pion contamination in the beam.""

Bogomilov, M., Karadzhov, Y., Kolev, D., Russinov, I., Tsenov, R., Vankova Kirilova, G., et al. (2012). The MICE Muon Beam on ISIS and the beam-line instrumentation of the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment. JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION, 7(5), 1-37 [10.1088/1748-0221/7/5/P05009].

The MICE Muon Beam on ISIS and the beam-line instrumentation of the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment

PARISI, Mario;ORESTANO, DOMIZIA;
2012-01-01

Abstract

""The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE), which is under construction at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), will demonstrate the principle of ionization cooling as a technique for the reduction of the phase-space volume occupied by a muon beam. Ionization cooling channels are required for the Neutrino Factory and the Muon Collider. MICE will evaluate in detail the performance of a single lattice cell of the Feasibility Study 2 cooling channel. The MICE Muon Beam has been constructed at the ISIS synchrotron at RAL, and in MICE Step I, it has been characterized using the MICE beam-instrumentation system. In this paper, the MICE Muon Beam and beam-line instrumentation are described. The muon rate is presented as a function of the beam loss generated by the MICE target dipping into the ISIS proton beam. For a 1 V signal from the ISIS beam-loss monitors downstream of our target we obtain a 30 KHz instantaneous muon rate, with a neglible pion contamination in the beam.""
2012
Bogomilov, M., Karadzhov, Y., Kolev, D., Russinov, I., Tsenov, R., Vankova Kirilova, G., et al. (2012). The MICE Muon Beam on ISIS and the beam-line instrumentation of the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment. JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION, 7(5), 1-37 [10.1088/1748-0221/7/5/P05009].
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