Goals and Status of MICE
Yagmur Torun for the MICE Collaboration

The International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) has recently
completed a successful commissioning run during which Step I of the
project was executed. The muon beamline was commissioned, operated and
characterized at different settings. The data acquisition system was operational.
Most of the particle identification detectors were in place and could be characterized and calibrated.
We will review the goals of the experiment, its successive steps of implementation, and progress in building and commissioning the
corresponding hardware.

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Notes:

- Beamline will be covered by Marco in a separate talk
- Analysis of Step I data by Mark
- What's left?

+ Recap of goals, layout and timeline (steps, stages)
+ Status of cooling channel hardware
+ Status of detectors
+ Screenshots of controls, online monitoring?
+ Offline code status, G4MICE screenshots?