The design, construction and performance of the MICE scintillating fibre trackers

Charged-particle tracking in the international Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment (MICE) will be performed using two solenoidal spectrometers, each instrumented with a tracking detector based on 350 mu m diameter scintillating fibres. The design and construction of the trackers is described along with the quality-assurance procedures, photon-detection system, readout electronics, reconstruction and simulation softwareand the data-acquisition system. Finally, the performance of the MICE tracker, determined using cosmic rays, is presented. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.