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

作者：M. Bogomilov, Y. Karadzhov, D. Kolev, I. Russinov, R. Tsenov, G. Vankova-Kirilova, L. Wang, Feng Xu, Shulei Zheng, R. Bertoni, M. Bonesini, F. Ferri, G. Lucchini, R. Mazza, F. Paleari, F. Strati, V. Palladino, G. Cecchet, A. de Bari, M. Capponi, Andrea Cirillo, A. Iaciofano, A. Manfredini, M. Parisi, D. Orestano, F. Pastore, A. Tonazzo, L. Tortora, Y. Mori, Y. Kuno, H. Sakamoto, Akira Sato, T. Yano, M. Yoshida, S. Ishimoto, S. Suzuki, K. Yoshimura, F. Filthaut, R. Garoby, S. Gilardoni, Peter M. Gruber, K. Hanke, H. Haseroth, P. Janot, A. Lombardi, S. Ramberger, M. Vretenar, P. Béné, A. Blondel, F. Cadoux, J.S. Graulich, V. Grichine, E Gschwendtner, F. Masciocchi, R. Sandström, V. Verguilov, H. Wisting, C. Petitjean, Rebecca Seviour, J Alexander, G. Charnley, N. Collomb, S. Griffiths, B. Martlew, A. Moss, I. Mullacrane, A. Oates, P. Owens, Christopher J. White, Stephen York, D. Adams, R. Apsimon, Paul E. Barclay, D.E. Baynham, T. Bradshaw, M. Courthold, P.V. Drumm, T.R. Edgecock, T. Hayler, M. Hills, Y. Ivaniouchenkov, A. Jones, A.L. Lintern, C. Macwaters, C. Nelson, A. Nichols, R. Preece, S. Ricciardi, J. Rochford, Chris Rogers, W. Spensley, J. Tarrant, K. Tilley, S. Watson, A. Wilson, David Forrest, F J P Soler, K. Walaron, P. Cooke, R. Gamet, A. Alekou, M. Apollonio, G. Barber, R. Beuselinck, Daniel E. Clark, Ian Clark, D. Colling, A. Dobbs, P.J. Dornan, Simon Fayer, A. Fish, Robert Hare, S. Greenwood, A. Jamdagni, V. Kasey, M. Khaleeq, J. Leaver, K. Long, Edward A. McKigney, T. Matsushita, J. Pasternak, T. Sashalmi, T. Savidge, M. Takahashi, V. Blackmore, T. Carlisle, J.H. Cobb, W. Lau, M. Rayner, C. Tunnell, Holger Witte, S. Yang, C.N. Booth, P. Hodgson, L. Howlett, R. J. Nicholson, Edward B. Overton, M. Robinson, Peter J. Smith, D. Adey, J. J. Back, S. Boyd, P. F. Harrison, M. Ellis, P. Kyberd, M. Littlefield, JJ Nebrensky, A. Bross, S. Geer, David Neuffer, A. Moretti, M. Popovic, M.A.C. Cummings, Thomas J. Roberts, A. DeMello, M. A. Green, D. Li, Steve Virostek, Michael S. Zisman, Ben Freemire, P. Hanlet, Y. Huang, G. Kafka, Daniel M. Kaplan, P. Snopok, Y. Torun, Summer Blot, Y. K. Kim, U. Bravar, Y. Onel, D. Cline, Y. Fukui, K. Lee, Xinzheng Yang, Robert Rimmer, L. Cremaldi, Guillaume Grégoire, T. Hart, David Sanders, D. J. Summers, L. Coney, R. R. M. Fletcher, G. Hanson, C. Heidt, J. Gallardo, S. Kahn, H. Kirk, R.B. Palmer · 发表于：Journal of Instrumentation · 年份：2012 · DOI：10.1088/1748-0221/7/05/p05009 · 被引用次数：71 · 研究领域：Muon and positron interactions and applications、Neutrino Physics Research、Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies

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.