Speaker
Vittorio Palladino
Description
Muon ionization cooling provides the only practical solution to prepare
high brilliance beams necessary for a neutrino factory or muon
colliders. The muon ionization cooling experiment (MICE)* is under
development at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK). It comprises a
dedicated beam line to generate a range of input emittance and
momentum,
with time-of-flight and Cherenkov detectors to ensure a pure muon beam.
A first measurement of emittance is performed in the upstream magnetic
spectrometer with a scintillating fiber tracker. A cooling cell will
then follow, alternating energy loss in liquid hydrogen and RF
acceleration. A second spectrometer identical to the first one and a
particle identification system provide a measurement of the outgoing
emittance.
In September 2009 it is expected that the beam and some detectors will
be in the final commissioning phase and the time of the first
measurement of input beam emittance only months away. The plan of steps
of measurements of emittance and cooling, that will follow in the rest
of 2009 and later, will be reported.
