Design and expected performance of the MICE demonstration of ionization cooling
2017
Muonbeams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well-characterised neutrino beams necessary to elucidate the physics of flavour at a
neutrino factoryand to provide lepton-antilepton collisions at energies of up to several TeV at a
muon collider. The
international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment(MICE) aims to demonstrate
ionization cooling, the technique by which it is proposed to reduce the phase-space volume occupied by the
muonbeam at such facilities. In an
ionization-coolingchannel, the
muonbeam passes through a material in which it loses energy. The energy lost is then replaced using RF cavities. The combined effect of energy loss and re-acceleration is to reduce the transverse emittance of the beam (transverse cooling). A major revision of the scope of the project was carried out over the summer of 2014. The revised experiment can deliver a demonstration of
ionization cooling. The design of the cooling demonstration experiment will be described together with its predicted cooling performance.
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