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Prof. Dr. Ken Long, Ionization cooling, MICE and the future of muon accelerators
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Sem. room 4a (DESY Hamburg)
Sem. room 4a
DESY Hamburg
Geb 1b
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Ionization cooling, MICE and the future of muon accelerators
K. Long, Imperial College London and STFC
Muon beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well-characterised neutrino beams of the Neutrino Factory and for lepton-antilepton collisions at very high energies at the Muon Collider. The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will demonstrate ionization cooling, the technique by which it is proposed to reduce the phase-space volume occupied by the muon beam. MICE is being constructed in a series of "Steps". The configuration currently in operation at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is optimised for the study of the properties of liquid hydrogen and lithium hydride that affect cooling. The results that have recently been submitted for publication will be described along with preliminary results from the MICE study of the effect of lithium hydride on the muon beam. The plans for data taking in the present configuration will be described together with a summary of the status of preparation of the final experimental configuration by which MICE will demonstration the principle of ionization cooling. Finally, a vision for the development of a programme of exploitation of muon accelerators and R&D for the future will be presented.
K. Long, Imperial College London and STFC
Muon beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well-characterised neutrino beams of the Neutrino Factory and for lepton-antilepton collisions at very high energies at the Muon Collider. The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will demonstrate ionization cooling, the technique by which it is proposed to reduce the phase-space volume occupied by the muon beam. MICE is being constructed in a series of "Steps". The configuration currently in operation at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is optimised for the study of the properties of liquid hydrogen and lithium hydride that affect cooling. The results that have recently been submitted for publication will be described along with preliminary results from the MICE study of the effect of lithium hydride on the muon beam. The plans for data taking in the present configuration will be described together with a summary of the status of preparation of the final experimental configuration by which MICE will demonstration the principle of ionization cooling. Finally, a vision for the development of a programme of exploitation of muon accelerators and R&D for the future will be presented.
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