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Title Pion contamination in the MICE muon beam
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M Bogomilov, R Tsenov, G Vankova-Kirilova, R Bertoni, M Bonesini, F Chignoli, R Mazza, V Palladino, S Angelo, A de Bari, G Cecchet, M Capponi, A Iaciofano, D Orestano, F Pastore, L Tortora, Y Kuno, H Sakamoto, S Ishimoto, F Filthaut, OM Hansen, S Ramberger, M Vretenar, R Asfandiyarov, P Bene, A Blondel, F Cadoux, S Debieux, F Drielsma, Y Karadzhov, E Noah Messomo, JS Graulich, C Husi, F Masciocchi, L Nicola, K Rothenfusser, R Sadnstrom, H Wisting, G Charnley, N Collomb (STFC Daresbury Lab.), A Gallagher (STFC Daresbury Lab.), A Grant (STFC Daresbury Lab.), S Griffiths (STFC Daresbury Lab.), T Hartnett (STFC Daresbury Lab.), B Martlew (STFC Daresbury Lab.), A Moss (STFC Daresbury Lab.), A Muir (STFC Daresbury Lab.), I Mullacrane (STFC Daresbury Lab.), A Oates (STFC Daresbury Lab.), P Owens (STFC Daresbury Lab.), G Stokes (STFC Daresbury Lab.), P Warburton (STFC Daresbury Lab.), C White (STFC Daresbury Lab.), D Adams (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), P Barclay (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), V Bayliss (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), TW Bradshaw (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), M Courthold (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), V Francis (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), L Fry (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), T Hayler (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), M Hills (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), A Lintern (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), C Macwaters (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), A Nichols (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), R Preece (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), S Ricciardi (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), C Rogers (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), T Stanley (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), J Tarrant (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), S Watson (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), A Wilson (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), R Bayes, JC Nugent, FJP Soler, P Cooke, R Gamet, A Alekou, M Apollonio, G Barber, D Colling, A Dobbs, P Dornan, C Hunt, JB Lagrange, K Long, J Martyniak, J Pasternak, E Santos, T Savidge, S Middleton, MA Uchida, VJ Blackmore, T Carlisle, JH Cobb, W Lau, MA Rayner, CD Tunnell, CN Booth, P Hodgson, J Langlands, R Nicholson, E Overton, M Robinson, PJ Smith, A Dick, K Ronald, D Speirs, CG Whyte, A Young, S Boyd, P Franchini, J Greis, C Pidcott, I Taylor, R Gardener, P Kyberd, M Littlefield, JJ Nebrensky, AD Bross, T Fitzpatrick, M Leonova, A Moretti, D Neuffer, M Popovic, P Rubinov, R Rucinski, TJ Roberts, D Bowring, A DeMello, S Gourlay, D Li, S Prestemon, S Virostek, M Zisman, P Hanlet, G Kafka, DM Kaplan, D Rajaram, P Snopok, Y Torun, S Blot, YK Kim, U Bravar, Y Onel, LM Cremaldi, TL Hart, T Luo, DA Sanders, DJ Summers, D Cline, X Yang, L Coney, GG Hanson, C Heidt
Abstract The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a systematic investigation of ionization cooling with muon beams of momentum between 140 and 240 MeV/c at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory ISIS facility. The measurement of ionization cooling in MICE relies on the selection of a pure sample of muons that traverse the experiment. To make this selection, the MICE Muon Beam is designed to deliver a beam of muons with less than 1% contamination. To make the final muon selection, MICE employs a particle-identification (PID) system upstream and downstream of the cooling cell. The PID system includes time-of-flight hodoscopes, threshold-Cherenkov counters and calorimetry. The upper limit for the pion contamination measured in this paper is f < 1:4% at 90% C.L., including systematic uncertainties. Therefore, the MICE Muon Beam is able to meet the stringent pion-contamination requirements of the study of ionization cooling.
Organisation PPD , TECH , STFC , MICE
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Related Research Object(s): 25088858
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Language English (EN)
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Preprint JINST 2015. RAL-P-2015-009.pdf 2015