1. Pion contamination in the MICE muon beam
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Adams, D, Alekou, A, Apollonio, M, Asfandiyarov, R, Barber, G, Barclay, P, de Bari, A, Bayes, R, Bayliss, V, Bertoni, R, Blackmore, VJ, Blondel, A, Blot, S, Bogomilov, M, Bonesini, M, Booth, CN, Bowring, D, Boyd, S, Brashaw, TW, Bravar, U, Bross, AD, Capponi, M, Carlisle, T, Cecchet, G, Charnley, C, Chignoli, F, Cline, D, Cobb, JH, Colling, G, Collomb, N, Coney, L, Cooke, P, Courthold, M, Cremaldi, LM, DeMello, A, Dick, A, Dobbs, A, Dornan, P, Drews, M, Drielsma, F, Filthaut, F, Fitzpatrick, T, Franchini, P, Francis, V, Fry, L, Gallagher, A, Gamet, R, Gardener, R, Gourlay, S, Grant, A, Greis, JR, Griffiths, S, Hanlet, P, Hansen, OM, Hanson, GG, Hart, TL, Hartnett, T, Hayler, T, Heidt, C, Hills, M, Hodgson, P, Hunt, C, Iaciofano, A, Ishimoto, S, Kafka, G, Kaplan, DM, Karadzhov, Y, Kim, YK, Kuno, Y, Kyberd, P, Lagrange, J-B, Langlands, J, Lau, W, Leonova, M, Li, D, Lintern, A, Littlefield, M, Long, K, Luo, T, Macwaters, C, Martlew, B, Martyniak, J, Mazza, R, Middleton, S, Moretti, A, Moss, A, Muir, A, Mullacrane, I, Nebrensky, JJ, Neuffer, D, Nichols, A, Nicholson, R, Nugent, JC, Oates, A, Onel, Y, Orestano, D, Overton, E, Owens, P, Palladino, V, and Pasternak, J
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Nuclear and Plasma Physics ,Particle and High Energy Physics ,Synchrotrons and Accelerators ,Physical Sciences ,Instrumentation for particle accelerators and storage rings - low energy ,Beam-line instrumentation (beam position and profile ,monitors ,beam-intensity monitors ,bunch length monitors) ,physics.ins-det ,hep-ex ,Engineering ,Nuclear & Particles Physics ,Physical sciences - 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 fπ < 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.
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- 2016