Progress on the Design and Fabrication of the MICE Spectrometer Solenoids

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will demonstrate ionization cooling in a short section of a realistic cooling channel using a muon beam at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in the UK. A five-coil, superconducting spectrometer solenoid magnet at each end of the cooling channel will provide a 4 T uniform field region for the scintillating fiber tracker within the magnet bore tubes. The tracker modules are used to measure the muon beam emittance as it enters and exits the cooling channel. The cold mass for the 400 mm warm bore magnet consists of two sections: a three-coil spectrometer magnet and a two-coil matching section that matches the uniform field of the solenoid into the MICE cooling channel. The spectrometer solenoid detailed design and analysis has been completed, and the fabrication of the magnets is well under way. The primary features of the spectrometer solenoid magnet and mechanical designs are presented along with a summary of key fabrication issues and photos of the construction