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

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“…Following the DS, muons are momentum selected and transported to the cooling channel with a dipole (D2) and quad triplets (Q4-6 & Q7-9). Results of the characterization of the MICE muon beamline can be found in [9,10].…”

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Progress Towards Completion of the MICE Demonstration of Sustainable Muon Ionization Cooling

Hanlet

2015

Proceedings of 16th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories and Future Neutrino Beam Facilities — PoS(NUFACT2014)

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The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory aims at demonstrating a ∼ 5% ionization cooling effect on a muon beam by its interaction with low-Z absorber materials followed by restoration of longitudinal momentum in RF cavities. The final configuration of MICE will add to the Step IV hardware a second Focus Coil module and two 201.25 MHz RF cavities to provide a 10.3 MV/m accelerating gradient. This requires an RF drive system and distribution network to deliver ∼2MW of power in 1 ms pulses at 1 Hz repetition rate to each cavity with correct RF phasing and diagnostics to determine the gradient and the muon transit phase. Progress towards the completion of the final configuration is described.

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“…The ToF system is also used as the trigger for the experiment. The beamline and detectors were characterized in the first stage of MICE which was completed in 2011; further details can be found in [10,11].…”

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Progress Towards Completion of the MICE Demonstration of Sustainable Muon Ionization Cooling

Hanlet

2015

Proceedings of 16th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories and Future Neutrino Beam Facilities — PoS(NUFACT2014)

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“…Electrons are identified using a time-of-flight (TOF) system [17] and an Electron-Muon Range (EMR) detector [18,19] after the cooling channel. Pions in the beam are also identified by the TOF system, two aerogel Cherenkov detectors [20], a preshower calorimeter (Kloe-Light or KL) [21] and the EMR. In order to achieve 0.1% accuracy in the emittance measurement, it is essential that the muon sample selected in the beam has a pion contamination below ∼1%.…”

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“…The particle identification should achieve a pion rejection factor -1 - between 10 and 100, so a pion contamination in the beam of ∼1% should reduce the misidentified pion contamination in the muon sample to less than 0.1%, required to achieve the physics goals. The pion contamination of the MICE Muon Beam was measured in dedicated data-taking runs in order to qualify the muon beam and to ensure that MICE can achieve its stated physics goals [21,22]. The paper is organised as follows: a brief description of the MICE experiment is included in section 2, the MICE Muon Beam is described briefly in section 3, the analysis method is described in section 4 and the results and systematic errors are given in section 5, followed by a brief conclusion (section 6).…”

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Pion contamination in the MICE muon beam

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A: The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a systematic investigation of ionization cooling with muon beams of momentum between 140 and 240 MeV/c at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory ISIS facility. The measurement of ionization cooling in MICE relies on the selection of a pure sample of muons that traverse the experiment. To make this selection, the MICE Muon Beam is designed to deliver a beam of muons with less than ∼1% contamination. To make the final muon selection, MICE employs a particle-identification (PID) system upstream and downstream of the cooling cell. The PID system includes time-of-flight hodoscopes, threshold-Cherenkov counters and calorimetry. The upper limit for the pion contamination measured in this paper is f π < 1.4% at 90% C.L., including systematic uncertainties. Therefore, the MICE Muon Beam is able to meet the stringent pion-contamination requirements of the study of ionization cooling.

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“…The international Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment (MICE) [1,2], which is being constructed at the ISIS synchrotron at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), UK, is designed to demonstrate the principle of muon ionisation cooling for the first time. In the MICE Cooling Channel, muons will pass through a series of absorbers (e.g.…”

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MICE data handling on the Grid

Martyniak¹

2014

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

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Abstract. The international Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment (MICE) is designed todemonstrate the principle of muon ionisation cooling for the first time, for application to a future Neutrino factory or Muon Collider. The experiment is currently under construction at the ISIS synchrotron at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), UK. In this paper we present a system -the Raw Data Mover, which allows us to store and distribute MICE raw data -and a framework for offline reconstruction and data management. The aim of the Raw Data Mover is to upload raw data files onto a safe tape storage as soon as the data have been written out by the DAQ system and marked as ready to be uploaded. Internal integrity of the files is verified and they are uploaded to the RAL Tier-1 Castor Storage Element (SE) and placed on two tapes for redundancy. We also make another copy at a separate disk-based SE at this stage to make it easier for users to access data quickly. Both copies are check-summed and the replicas are registered with an instance of the LCG File Catalog (LFC). On success a record with basic file properties is added to the MICE Metadata DB. The reconstruction process is triggered by new raw data records filled in by the mover system described above. Off-line reconstruction jobs for new raw files are submitted to RAL Tier-1 and the output is stored on tape. Batch reprocessing is done at multiple MICE enabled Grid sites and output files are shipped to central tape or disk storage at RAL using a custom File Transfer Controller.

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

Cited by 66 publications

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Progress Towards Completion of the MICE Demonstration of Sustainable Muon Ionization Cooling

Progress Towards Completion of the MICE Demonstration of Sustainable Muon Ionization Cooling

Pion contamination in the MICE muon beam

MICE data handling on the Grid

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