Published December 1, 2015
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Journal article
Electron-muon ranger: performance in the MICE muon beam
Creators
- 1. STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, Didcot (United Kingdom)
- 2. Department of Physics, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London (United Kingdom)
- 3. DPNC, Section de Physique, Université de Genève, Geneva (Switzerland)
- 4. Sezione INFN Pavia and Dipartimento di Fisica, Pavia (Italy)
- 5. School of Physics and Astronomy, Kelvin Building, The University of Glasgow, Glasgow (United Kingdom)
- 6. Sezione INFN Milano Bicocca, Dipartimento di Fisica G. Occhialini, Milano (Italy)
- 7. Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Denys Wilkinson Building, Oxford (United Kingdom)
- 8. Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States)
- 9. Department of Atomic Physics, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Sofia (Bulgaria)
- 10. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield (United Kingdom)
- 11. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- 12. Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry (United Kingdom)
Description
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a detailed study of ionization cooling to evaluate the feasibility of the technique. To carry out this program, MICE requires an efficient particle-identification (PID) system to identify muons. The Electron-Muon Ranger (EMR) is a fully-active tracking-calorimeter that forms part of the PID system and tags muons that traverse the cooling channel without decaying. The detector is capable of identifying electrons with an efficiency of 98.6%, providing a purity for the MICE beam that exceeds 99.8%. The EMR also proved to be a powerful tool for the reconstruction of muon momenta in the range 100–280 MeV/c
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/10/12/P12012Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Instrumentation
- Journal Volume
- 10
- Journal Issue
- 12
- Journal Page Range
- p. P12012
- ISSN
- 1748-0221
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 47070294
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; S43: PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CALORIMETERS; COOLING; DECAY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONS; IONIZATION; MEV RANGE 100-1000; MUON BEAMS; MUONS; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION; PERFORMANCE
- Descriptors DEC
- BEAMS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; LEPTON BEAMS; LEPTONS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MEV RANGE; PARTICLE BEAMS