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Lattice design and expected performance of the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment demonstration of ionization cooling
Muon beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well-characterized neutrino beams necessary to elucidate the physics of flavor at a neutrino factory and to provide lepton-antilepton collisions at energies of up to several TeV at a muon collider. The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) aims to demonstrate ionization cooling, the technique by which it is proposed to reduce the phase-space volume occupied by the muon beam at such facilities. In an ionization-cooling channel, the muon beam passes through a material in which it loses energy. The energy lost is then replaced using rf cavities. The combined effect of energy loss and reacceleration is to reduce the transverse emittance of the beam (transverse cooling). A major revision of the scope of the project was carried out over the summer of 2014. The revised experiment can deliver a demonstration of ionization cooling. The design of the cooling demonstration experiment will be described together with its predicted cooling performance.The work described here was made possible by grants
from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK),
the Department of Energy and National Science
Foundation (USA), the Instituto Nazionale di Fisica
Nucleare (Italy), the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the
Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Dutch National Science
Foundation, the Ministry of Education, Science and
Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia,
the European Community under the European Commission
Framework Programme 7 (AIDA project, Grant Agreement
No. 262025, TIARA project, Grant Agreement
No. 261905, and EuCARD), the Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science and the Swiss National Science
Foundation in the framework of the SCOPES programme.
We gratefully acknowledge all sources of support. We are
grateful to the support given to us by the staff of the STFC
Rutherford Appleton and Daresbury Laboratories