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The MICE Muon Beam on ISIS and the beam-line
instrumentation of the Muon Ionization Cooling
Experiment
The MICE Collaboration
M. Bogomilov,
a
Y. Karadzhov,
a,1
D. Kolev,
a
I. Russinov,
a
R. Tsenov,
a
G. Vankova-Kirilova,
a
L. Wang,
b
F.Y. Xu,
b
S.X. Zheng,
b
R. Bertoni,
c
M. Bonesini,
c,†
F. Ferri,
c,2
G. Lucchini,
c
R. Mazza,
c
F. Paleari,
c,3
F. Strati,
c
V. Palladino
d
G. Cecchet,
e
A. de Bari,
e
M. Capponi,
f
A. Cirillo,
f
A. Iaciofano,
f
A. Manfredini,
f
M. Parisi,
f
D. Orestano,
f
F. Pastore,
f
A. Tonazzo,
f ,4
L. Tortora,
f
Y. Mori,
g
Y. Kuno,
h
H. Sakamoto,
h
A. Sato,
h
T. Yano,
h
M. Yoshida,
h
S. Ishimoto,
i
S. Suzuki,
i
K. Yoshimura,
i
F. Filthaut,
j,5
R. Garoby,
k
S. Gilardoni,
k
P. Gruber,
k
K. Hanke,
k
H. Haseroth,
k
P. Janot,
k
A. Lombardi,
k
S. Ramberger,
k
M. Vretenar,
k
P. Bene,
l
A. Blondel,
l
F. Cadoux,
l
J.-S. Graulich,
l
V. Grichine,
l,6
E. Gschwendtner,
l,7
F. Masciocchi,
l
R. Sandstrom,
l
V. Verguilov,
l
H. Wisting,
l
C. Petitjean,
m
R. Seviour,
n
J. Alexander,
o
G. Charnley,
o
N. Collomb,
o
S. Griffiths,
o
B. Martlew,
o
A. Moss,
o
I. Mullacrane,
o
A. Oates,
o
P. Owens,
o
C. White,
o
S. York,
o
D. Adams,
p
R. Apsimon,
p
P. Barclay,
p
D.E. Baynham,
p
T.W. Bradshaw,
p
M. Courthold,
p
P. Drumm,
p,8
R. Edgecock,
p
T. Hayler,
p
M. Hills,
p,9
Y. Ivaniouchenkov,
p
A. Jones,
p
A. Lintern,
p
C.MacWaters,
p
C. Nelson,
p
A. Nichols,
p
R. Preece,
p
S. Ricciardi,
p
J.H. Rochford,
p,10
C. Rogers,
p
W. Spensley,
p,11
J. Tarrant,
p
K. Tilley,
p
S. Watson,
p
A. Wilson,
p
1
Now at DPNC, Universit
´
e de Gen
`
eve, Geneva, Switzerland
†
Corresponding author.
2
Present address DSM/IRFU, CEA/Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
3
Now at Quanta Systems, Solbiate Olona, Varese, Italy
4
Present address APC, Universit
`
e Paris Diderot, Paris, France
5
Also at Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
6
Also at Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia
7
Now at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
8
Now at Space Research Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, U.K.
9
Now at Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Dorking, Surrey, U.K.
10
Now at Global Research Centre, General Electric, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
11
Now at MANTEC SYSTEM Ltd., Newcastle Upon Tyne, U.K.
c
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D. Forrest,
q
F.J.P. Soler,
q
K. Walaron,
q,12
P. Cooke,
r
R. Gamet,
r
A. Alekou,
s
M. Apollonio,
s,13
G. Barber,
s
R. Beuselinck,
s
D. Clark,
s
I. Clark,
s
D. Colling,
s
A. Dobbs,
s
P. Dornan,
s
S. Fayer,
s
A. Fish,
s,14
R. Hare,
s
S. Greenwood,
s
A. Jamdagni,
s
V. Kasey,
s
M. Khaleeq,
s
J. Leaver,
s
K. Long,
s
E. McKigney,
s,15
T. Matsushita,
s,16
J. Pasternak,
s
T. Sashalmi,
s
T. Savidge,
s
M. Takahashi,
s,17
V. Blackmore,
t
T. Carlisle,
t
J.H. Cobb,
t
W. Lau,
t
M. Rayner,
t,18
C.D. Tunnell,
t
H. Witte,
t,19
S. Yang,
t
C.N. Booth,
u
P. Hodgson,
u
L. Howlett,
u
R. Nicholson,
u
E. Overton,
u
M. Robinson,
u
P. Smith,
u
D. Adey,
v
J. Back,
v
S. Boyd,
v
P. Harrison,
v
M. Ellis,
w,20
P. Kyberd,
w
M. Littlefield,
w
J.J. Nebrensky
w
A.D. Bross,
x
S. Geer,
x
D. Neuffer,
x
A. Moretti,
x
M. Popovic,
x
M.A.C. Cummings,
y
T.J. Roberts,
y
A. DeMello,
z
M.A. Green,
z
D. Li,
z
S. Virostek,
z
M.S. Zisman
z
B. Freemire,
aa
P. Hanlet,
aa
D. Huang,
aa,21
G. Kafka,
aa
D.M. Kaplan,
aa
P. Snopok,
aa
Y. Torun
aa
S. Blot,
ab
Y.K. Kim,
ab
U. Bravar,
ac
Y. Onel,
ad
D. Cline,
ae
Y. Fukui,
ae
K. Lee,
ae
X. Yang,
ae
R.A. Rimmer,
a f
L.M. Cremaldi,
ag
G. Gregoire,
ag,22
T.L. Hart,
ag
D.A. Sanders,
ag
D.J. Summers,
ag
L. Coney,
ah
R. Fletcher,
ah
G.G. Hanson,
ah
C. Heidt,
ah
J.Gallardo,
ai
S. Kahn,
ai,23
H. Kirk,
ai
R.B. Palmer
ai
a
Department of Atomic Physics, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
b
Institute for Cryogenic and Superconductivity Technology,
Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, PR China
c
Sezione INFN Milano Bicocca, Dipartimento di Fisica G. Occhialini, Milano, Italy
d
Sezione INFN Napoli and Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit
`
a Federico II,
Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo, Napoli, Italy
e
Sezione INFN Pavia and Dipartimento di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica, Pavia, Italy
f
Sezione INFN Roma Tre e Dipartimento di Fisica, Roma, Italy
g
Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute, Osaka, Japan
h
Osaka University, Graduate School of Science, Department of Physics, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan
i
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK),
Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
j
NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
k
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
l
DPNC, section de Physique, Universit
´
e de Gen
`
eve, Geneva, Switzerland
m
Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland
n
The Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury Science and Innovation Centre, Daresbury, Cheshire, U.K.
12
Also at Imperial College London, London, U.K.
13
Now at Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, U.K.
14
BC asset management Ltd., BC House, Poole, Dorset, U.K.
15
Now at Los Alamos Natl. Lab., Los Alamos, U.S.A.
16
Now at Kobe University, Faculty of Science, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe-shi, Japan
17
Now at School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K.
18
Now at DPNC, Universit
´
e de Gen
`
eve, Switzerland
19
Now at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, U.S.A.
20
Now at Westpac Institutional Bank, Sydney, Australia
21
Now at Shangai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shangai, PR China
22
Permanent address Institute of Physics, Universit
´
e Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
23
Now at Muons, Inc., IL, U.S.A.
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STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, Cheshire, U.K.
p
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, U.K.
q
School of Physics and Astronomy, Kelvin Building, The University of Glasgow, Glasgow, U.K.
r
Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K.
s
Department of Physics, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, U.K.
t
Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Denys Wilkinson Building, Oxford, U.K.
u
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K.
v
Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K.
w
Brunel University, Uxbridge, U.K.
x
Fermilab, Batavia, IL, U.S.A.
y
Muons, Inc., Batavia, IL, U.S.A.
z
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
aa
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
ab
Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
ac
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, U.S.A.
ad
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.
ae
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
a f
Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA, U.S.A.
ag
University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, U.S.A.
ah
University of California, Riverside, CA, U.S.A.
ai
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, U.S.A.
E-mail: Maurizio.Bonesini@mib.infn.it
ABSTRACT: The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE), which is under con-
struction at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), will demonstrate the principle of ionization
cooling as a technique for the reduction of the phase-space volume occupied by a muon beam. Ion-
ization cooling channels are required for the Neutrino Factory and the Muon Collider. MICE will
evaluate in detail the performance of a single lattice cell of the Feasibility Study 2 cooling channel.
The MICE Muon Beam has been constructed at the ISIS synchrotron at RAL, and in MICE Step I,
it has been characterized using the MICE beam-instrumentation system. In this paper, the MICE
Muon Beam and beam-line instrumentation are described. The muon rate is presented as a function
of the beam loss generated by the MICE target dipping into the ISIS proton beam. For a 1 V signal
from the ISIS beam-loss monitors downstream of our target we obtain a 30 KHz instantaneous
muon rate, with a neglible pion contamination in the beam.
KEYWORDS: Instrumentation for particle accelerators and storage rings - low energy (linear ac-
celerators, cyclotrons, electrostatic accelerators); Calorimeters; Instrumentation and methods for
time-of-flight (TOF) spectroscopy; Accelerator Applications
