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Rogers, Chris, 02 August 2016 12:08
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3 | h1. Pion contamination in the MICE muon beam |
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5 | h2. Abstract |
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7 | bq. The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a systematic |
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8 | investigation of ionization cooling with muon beams of momentum between 140 and 240 MeV/c at the |
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9 | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory ISIS facility. The measurement of ionization cooling in MICE |
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10 | relies on the selection of a pure sample of muons that traverse the experiment. To make this |
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11 | selection, the MICE Muon Beam is designed to deliver a beam of muons with less than ~ 1% |
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12 | contamination. To make the final muon selection, MICE employs a particle-identification (PID) system |
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13 | upstream and downstream of the cooling cell. The PID system includes time-of-flight hodoscopes, |
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14 | threshold-Cherenkov counters and calorimetry. The upper limit for the pion contamination measured |
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15 | in this paper is f_{\pi} < 1.4% at 90% C.L., including systematic uncertainties. Therefore, the |
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16 | MICE Muon Beam is able to meet the stringent pion-contamination requirements of the study of |
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17 | ionization cooling. |
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19 | h2. Paper |
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21 | 9 | Rogers, Chris | Published in: JINST 11 (2016) no.03, P03001 |
22 | 1 | Rogers, Chris | arXiv: "1511.00556":http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.00556v2.pdf |
23 | RAL Preprint: RAL-P-2015-009 |
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24 | DOI: Forthcoming |
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26 | 3 | Rogers, Chris | "BibTeX":http://micewww.pp.rl.ac.uk/attachments/5576/pion_contamination.bib |
27 | 6 | Rogers, Chris | "References":http://micewww.pp.rl.ac.uk/attachments/5586/Pion-paper.bbl |
28 | "Source":http://micewww.pp.rl.ac.uk/attachments/5587/1511.00556v2.tar |