Speaker
Vittorio Palladino
(INFN Napoli)
Description
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) at RAL has collected extensive data to study the ionization cooling of muons. This is a decisive demonstration towards new neutrino sources based on muon storage rings.
Several million individual muon tracks have been recorded passing through a series of focusing magnets in a number of different configurations and a liquid hydrogen or lithium hydride absorber. Measurement of the tracks upstream and downstream of the absorber has shown the expected effects of the 4D emittance reduction.
Further studies are providing now more and deeper insight.
Collaboration name
Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE)
Primary author
Vittorio Palladino
(INFN Napoli)
