An International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) is an important milestone towards a Neutrino Factory. The neutrino factory is a completely new type of accelerator and offers many new challenges. Probably the largest novelty from the point of view of accelerator physics is ionization cooling. MICE is proposed to carry out at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) near Oxford in the United Kingdom.

The MICE collaboration have designed an experiment in which a section of an ionization cooling channel is exposed to a muon beam. The main goal of the MICE:

• To show that it is possible to design, engineer and build a section of cooling channel capable of giving the desired performance for Neutrino Factory.
• To place the cooling channel in a muon beam and measure its performance in various modes of operation and beam conditions, thereby inverstigating the limits and practicality of cooling.

 

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Press release announcement of UK Funding for MICE

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