MICE Particle Identification Systems

TL;DR

The MICE experiment aims to demonstrate muon beam ionization cooling using advanced particle identification detectors capable of high-precision measurements in challenging environments, crucial for future muon collider and neutrino factory development.

Contribution

This paper introduces the particle identification detector systems used in MICE and presents initial performance measurements under operational conditions.

Findings

Detectors achieve high precision in emittance measurement (0.1% or better)

Detectors operate effectively in high magnetic fringe fields and RF noise

Initial performance data shows promising results for particle identification

Abstract

The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) is being built, at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), to demonstrate the feasibility of ionization cooling of muon beams. This is one of the major technological steps needed in the development of a muon collider and a neutrino factory based on muon decays in a storage ring. MICE will use particle detectors to measure the cooling effect with high precision, achieving a precision on the measurement of emittance of 0.1% or better. The particle i.d. detectors and trackers must work in harsh environmental conditions due to high magnetic fringe fields and RF noise. We will briefly describe the MICE particle i.d. detector systems, and show some current performance measurements of these detectors.