MICE Analysis Group¶

The analysis group is responsible for

• Writing MICE collaboration papers
• Controlling changes to MICE design that can affect physics results
• Specifying settings needed to support the papers

The Analysis group at Step IV comprises 5 subgroups:

• Material Physics - responsible for understanding the effects of materials in MICE
• Magnetics - responsible for understanding the MICE magnetic lattice effects on the beam
• Diagnostics - responsible for understanding the measurement capabilities of the detector system
• Support - responsible for providing supporting infrastructure to analysis (to be specified)
• Future Steps - responsible for monitoring and controlling specification of the next step of MICE

Material Physics¶

Materials group has responsibility for modelling and measuring the materials properties of the cooling channel

• Understand the material budget in the cooling channel, especially the region between the trackers
• Understand and develop as necessary, models for energy loss and scattering through materials in the cooling channel
• Develop measurement of energy loss and scattering techniques
• Understand systematics introduced into other measurements by materials as required

Magnets¶

Magnets group has responsibility for modelling and measuring the MICE magnetic lattice

• Understand the MICE beam optics, both linear and non-linear
• Develop and analyse a procedure for measuring the MICE magnetic lattice properties
  • Through field mapping and alignment
  • Using beam data
• Understand systematics introduced by magnetic alignment procedure and support other measurements as required

The Beamline Integration Physicist is expected to have a strong role in this group.

Diagnostics¶

Diagnostics group has responsibility for understanding the experimental resolution of the MICE beam diagnostics

• Understand MICE diagnostic resolutions
• Understand how these resolutions affect the MICE measurements

The MAUS coordinator is expected to have a strong role in this group.

Support¶

Support group has responsibility to provide tools to the other analysis groups

• Online analysis tool - event display to display beam properties theoretical vs measured
• Offline analysis tool - emittance calculation, beam selection, general purpose routines (e.g. peak finding) where required
• Interface to GRID stuff - Coordinate batch production

Future Steps¶

Future Steps responsible for the Demonstration of Ionisation Cooling step

• Understanding alignment and tolerances
• Any further detailed specification for engineers
• Responding to change requests from the engineers
• Determining run conditions

Step I¶

Victoria Blackmore

Step I group is responsible for closing out any remaining Step I papers

• EMR Paper Alain Blondel, Yordan Karadzhov, Francois Drielsma
• KL Paper Paul Soler, Domizia Orestano, John Nugent
• Maybe quad alignment paper Chris Booth, Ed Overton, Chris Rogers
• Maybe polarisation paper Sophie Middleton, Chris Rogers