Eur Phys J C (2004) 33: s1056-s1058
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjcd/s2003-03-1506-1

PS15 Accelerator R and D

MICE: The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment

INFN, Bari, Italy

Received: 1 November 2003
Accepted: 11 November 2003
Published online: 2 December 2003

Abstract

The MICE collaboration has designed an experiment made by a section of an ionization cooling channel equipped with particle detectors used as beam diagnostics stations. The channel uses liquid-hydrogen absorbers to provide energy loss and high-gradient RF cavities to re-accelerate the particles; this setup is designed to reduce the beam transverse emittance by >10% for muon momenta in the range 140MeV/c to 240MeV/c. The particle detectors, grouped in two spectrometers before and after the channel, are meant to measure the beam transmittance and emittance reduction with an absolute precision of ± 0.1%.