. (2012) The MICE muon beam on ISIS and the beam-line instrumentation of the muon ionization cooling experiment. Journal of Instrumentation, Vol.7 (No. 5). P05009. ISSN 1748-0221

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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.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Physics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Ionization, Muons, Cooling, Particle beams
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of Instrumentation
Publisher:	Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd.
ISSN:	1748-0221
Date:	2012
Volume:	Vol.7
Number:	No. 5
Page Range:	P05009
Identification Number:	10.1088/1748-0221/7/05/P05009
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access
Funder:	National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF), United States. Dept. of Energy, Istituto nazionale di fisica nucleare (INFN), Science and Technology Facilities Council (Great Britain) (STFC), Seventh Framework Programme (European Commission) (FP7/2007-2013), Nihon Gakujutsu Shinkōkai [Japan Society for the Promotion of Science] (NGS), Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung [Swiss National Science Foundation] (SNSF)
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