Speaker
Prof.
Vittorio Palladino
(Univ. & INFN Napoli, Italy)
Description
The primary aim of the MICE beam line is to provide ~500 muons in a one millisecond long pulse at a rate of about 1Hz for measurements of cooling on a muon-by-muon basis. The beam is obtained by dipping a target in the 800MeV/c ISIS rapid cycling synchrotron at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK). It has been commissioned in 2008-2009 and now routinely produces beams of protons, pions, muons and electrons in the energy range of 100-450 MeV/c which will be also available for neutrino detector developments. Particle identification is provided with two Cherenkov detectors, three time-of-flight hodoscopes with time resolution of <60 ps and and a lead-fiber electron pre-shower.
Particle production rates have been measured. First low intensity muon beams, of the purity requested for the study of ionization cooling, have been generated. A first rough measurement of its emittance was also performed, anticipating the precise measurement with the magnetic trackers in the subsequent steps.
Primary author
Prof.
Vittorio Palladino
(Univ. & INFN Napoli, Italy)
Co-author
MICE The
(Collaboration)
