Ionization cooling of intense muon beams is a key technology for high-performance Neutrino Factories or Muon Colliders. MICE will test one full cell of a solenoidal cooling channel lattice under various conditions to demonstrate our understanding of the muon cooling process. It permits an evaluation of the component engineering and fabrication requirements and, after detailed comparisons with simulations, provides a validated design tool for future optimization of a Neutrino Factory or Muon Collider. The MICE collaboration was born in 2001 at the NUFACT01 meeting where a steering group was mandated to prepare a proposal. A LOI was submitted to jointly PSI and RAL in Nov01. PSI declined, but offered a used 5m long 12 cm bore 5 T superconducting decay solenoid for the beam line. RAL encouraged the submission of a full proposal, which was done in Jan03. The experiment was scientifically approved by the RAL CEO in October 2003. In the US, after MUTAC recommendations, funding was granted in 2004, and, in UK, following the gateway process, funding was granted for MICE Phase I in April 2005.
MICE STATUS REPORT – DECEMBER 2008
DE BARI, ANTONIO;
2008-01-01
Abstract
Ionization cooling of intense muon beams is a key technology for high-performance Neutrino Factories or Muon Colliders. MICE will test one full cell of a solenoidal cooling channel lattice under various conditions to demonstrate our understanding of the muon cooling process. It permits an evaluation of the component engineering and fabrication requirements and, after detailed comparisons with simulations, provides a validated design tool for future optimization of a Neutrino Factory or Muon Collider. The MICE collaboration was born in 2001 at the NUFACT01 meeting where a steering group was mandated to prepare a proposal. A LOI was submitted to jointly PSI and RAL in Nov01. PSI declined, but offered a used 5m long 12 cm bore 5 T superconducting decay solenoid for the beam line. RAL encouraged the submission of a full proposal, which was done in Jan03. The experiment was scientifically approved by the RAL CEO in October 2003. In the US, after MUTAC recommendations, funding was granted in 2004, and, in UK, following the gateway process, funding was granted for MICE Phase I in April 2005.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
