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Abe K, Akhlaq N, Akutsu R, Ali A, Alt C, Andreopoulos C, Anthony L, Antonova M, Aoki S, Ariga A, Arihara T, Asada Y, Ashida Y, Atkin ET, Awataguchi Y, Ban S, Barbi M, Barker GJ, Barr G, Barrow D, Batkiewicz-Kwasniak M, Beloshapkin A, Bench F, Berardi V, Berns L, Bhadra S, Bienstock S, Bolognesi S, Bonus T, Bourguille B, Boyd SB, Bravar A, Bravo Berguno D, Bronner C, Bron S, Bubak A, Avanzini MB, Campbell T, Cao S, Cartwright SL, Catanesi MG, Cervera A, Cherdack D, Chikuma N, Christodoulou G, Cicerchia M, Coleman J, Collazuol G, Cook L, Coplowe D, Cudd A, Dabrowska A, De Rosa G, Dealtry T, Dennis SR, Densham C, Di Lodovico F, Dokania N, Dolan S, Doyle TA, Drapier O, Dumarchez J, Dunne P, Eguchi A, Eklund L, Emery-Schrenk S, Ereditato A, Finch AJ, Fiorillo G, Francois C, Friend M, Fujii Y, Fujita R, Fukuda D, Fukuda R, Fukuda Y, Fusshoeller K, Giganti C, Gonin M, Gorin A, Guigue M, Hadley DR, Haigh JT, Hamacher-Baumann P, Hartz M, Hasegawa T, Hassani S, Hastings NC, Hayato Y, Hiramoto A, Hogan M, Holeczek J, Van NTH, Honjo T, Iacob F, Ichikawa AK, Ikeda M, Ishida T, Ishitsuka M, Iwamoto K, Izmaylov A, Izumi N, Jakkapu M, Jamieson B, Jenkins SJ, Jesus-Valls C, Jiang M, Jonsson P, Jung CK, Junjie X, Jurj PB, Kabirnezhad M, Kaboth AC, Kajita T, Kakuno H, Kameda J, Karlen D, Kasetti SP, Kataoka Y, Katayama Y, Katori T, Kato Y, Kearns E, Khabibullin M, Khotjantsev A, Kikawa T, Kikutani H, Kim H, King S, Kisiel J, Knight A, Kobata T, Kobayashi T, Koch L, Koga T, Konaka A, Kormos LL, Koshio Y, Kostin A, Kowalik K, Kubo H, Kudenko Y, Kukita N, Kuribayashi S, Kurjata R, Kutter T, Kuze M, Labarga L, Lagoda J, Lamoureux M, Last D, Lawe M, Licciardi M, Litchfield RP, Liu SL, Li X, Longhin A, Ludovici L, Lu X, Lux T, Machado LN, Magaletti L, Mahn K, Malek M, Manly S, Maret L, Marino AD, Marti-Magro L, Maruyama T, Matsubara T, Matsushita K, Matveev V, Mauger C, Mavrokoridis K, Mazzucato E, McCauley N, McElwee J, McFarland KS, McGrew C, Mefodiev A, Metelko C, Mezzetto M, Minamino Aet al., 2020, Simultaneous measurement of the muon neutrino charged-current cross section on oxygen and carbon without pions in the final state at T2K, Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol: 101, Pages: 112004 – 1-112004 – 32, ISSN: 1550-2368

This paper reports the first simultaneous measurement of the double differential muon neutrino charged-current cross section on oxygen and carbon without pions in the final state as a function of the outgoing muon kinematics, made at the ND280 off-axis near detector of the T2K experiment. The ratio of the oxygen and carbon cross sections is also provided to help validate various models’ ability to extrapolate between carbon and oxygen nuclear targets, as is required in T2K oscillation analyses. The data are taken using a neutrino beam with an energy spectrum peaked at 0.6 GeV. The extracted measurement is compared with the prediction from different Monte Carlo neutrino-nucleus interaction event generators, showing particular model separation for very forward-going muons. Overall, of the models tested, the result is best described using local Fermi gas descriptions of the nuclear ground state with RPA suppression.

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Abe K, Akhlaq N, Akutsu R, Ali A, Alt C, Andreopoulos C, Anthony L, Antonova M, Aoki S, Ariga A, Arihara T, Asada Y, Ashida Y, Atkin ET, Awataguchi Y, Ban S, Barbi M, Barker GJ, Barr G, Barrow D, Barry C, Batkiewicz-Kwasniak M, Beloshapkin A, Bench F, Berardi V, Berns L, Bhadra S, Bienstock S, Blondel A, Bolognesi S, Bonus T, Bourguille B, Boyd SB, Brailsford D, Bravar A, Bravo Berguno D, Bronner C, Bron S, Bubak A, Avanzini MB, Calcutt J, Campbell T, Cao S, Cartwright SL, Catanesi MG, Cervera A, Chappell A, Checchia C, Cherdack D, Chikuma N, Christodoulou G, Cicerchia M, Coleman J, Collazuol G, Cook L, Coplowe D, Cudd A, Dabrowska A, De Rosa G, Dealtry T, Denner PF, Dennis SR, Densham C, Di Lodovico F, Dokania N, Dolan S, Doyle TA, Drapier O, Dumarchez J, Dunne P, Eguchi A, Eklund L, Emery-Schrenk S, Ereditato A, Fernandez P, Feusels T, Finch AJ, Fiorentini GA, Fiorillo G, Francois C, Friend M, Fujii Y, Fujita R, Fukuda D, Fukuda R, Fukuda Y, Fusshoeller K, Giganti C, Golan T, Gonin M, Gorin A, Guigue M, Hadley DR, Haigh JT, Hamacher-Baumann P, Hartz M, Hasegawa T, Hassani S, Hastings NC, Hayashino T, Hayato Y, Hiramoto A, Hogan M, Holeczek J, Van NTH, Honjo T, Iacob F, Ichikawa AK, Ikeda M, Ishida T, Ishii T, Ishitsuka M, Iwamoto K, Izmaylov A, Izumi N, Jakkapu M, Jamieson B, Jenkins SJ, Jesus-Valls C, Jiang M, Johnson S, Jonsson P, Jung CK, Junjie X, Jurj PB, Kabirnezhad M, Kaboth AC, Kajita T, Kakuno H, Kameda J, Karlen D, Kasetti SP, Kataoka Y, Katayama Y, Katori T, Kato Y, Kearns E, Khabibullin M, Khotjantsev A, Kikawa T, Kikutani H, Kim H, King S, Kisiel J, Knight A, Knox A, Kobata T, Kobayashi T, Koch L, Koga T, Konaka A, Kormos LL, Koshio Y, Kostin A, Kowalik K, Kubo H, Kudenko Y, Kukita N, Kuribayashi S, Kurjata R, Kutter T, Kuze M, Labarga L, Lagoda J, Lamoureux M, Last D, Laveder M, Lawe M, Licciardi M, Lindner T, Litchfield RP, Liu SL, Li X, Longhin A, Ludovici L, Lu X, Lux T, Machado LN, Magaletti L, Mahn K, Malek M, Manly S, Maret L, Marino AD, Marti-et al., 2020, First combined measurement of the muon neutrino and antineutrino charged-current cross section without pions in the final state at T2K, Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol: 101, Pages: 112001 – 1-112001 – 44, ISSN: 1550-2368

This paper presents the first combined measurement of the double-differential muon neutrino and antineutrino charged-current cross sections with no pions in the final state on hydrocarbon at the off-axis near detector of the T2K experiment. The data analyzed in this work comprise 5.8×1020 and 6.3×1020 protons on target in neutrino and antineutrino mode respectively, at a beam energy peak of 0.6 GeV. Using the two measured cross sections, the sum, difference, and asymmetry were calculated with the aim of better understanding the nuclear effects involved in such interactions. The extracted measurements have been compared with the prediction from different Monte Carlo generators and theoretical models showing that the difference between the two cross sections have interesting sensitivity to nuclear effects.

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Abe K, Akutsu R, Ali A, Alt C, Andreopoulos C, Anthony L, Antonova M, Aoki S, Ariga A, Asada Y, Ashida Y, Atkin ET, Awataguchi Y, Ban S, Barbi M, Barker GJ, Barr G, Barrow D, Barry C, Batkiewicz-Kwasniak M, Beloshapkin A, Bench F, Berardi V, Berkman S, Berns L, Bhadra S, Bienstock S, Blondel A, Bolognesi S, Bourguille B, Boyd SB, Brailsford D, Bravar A, Bravo Berguno D, Bronner C, Bubak A, Avanzini MB, Calcutt J, Campbell T, Cao S, Cartwright SL, Catanesi MG, Cervera A, Chappell A, Checchia C, Cherdack D, Chikuma N, Christodoulou G, Coleman J, Collazuol G, Cook L, Coplowe D, Cudd A, Dabrowska A, De Rosa G, Dealtry T, Denner PF, Dennis SR, Densham C, Di Lodovico F, Dokania N, Dolan S, Doyle TA, Drapier O, Dumarchez J, Dunne P, Eklund L, Emery-Schrenk S, Ereditato A, Fernandez P, Feusels T, Finch AJ, Fiorentini GA, Fiorillo G, Francois C, Friend M, Fujii Y, Fujita R, Fukuda D, Fukuda R, Fukuda Y, Fusshoeller K, Gameil K, Giganti C, Golan T, Gonin M, Gorin A, Guigue M, Hadley DR, Haigh JT, Hamacher-Baumann P, Hartz M, Hasegawa T, Hastings NC, Hayashino T, Hayato Y, Hiramoto A, Hogan M, Holeczek J, Van NTH, Iacob F, Ichikawa AK, Ikeda M, Ishida T, Ishii T, Ishitsuka M, Iwamoto K, Izmaylov A, Jakkapu M, Jamieson B, Jenkins SJ, Jesus-Valls C, Jiang M, Johnson S, Jonsson P, Jung CK, Kabirnezhad M, Kaboth AC, Kajita T, Kakuno H, Kameda J, Karlen D, Kasetti SP, Kataoka Y, Katori T, Kato Y, Kearns E, Khabibullin M, Khotjantsev A, Kikawa T, Kim H, Kim J, King S, Kisiel J, Knight A, Knox A, Kobayashi T, Koch L, Koga T, Konaka A, Kormos LL, Koshio Y, Kostin A, Kowalik K, Kubo H, Kudenko Y, Kukita N, Kuribayashi S, Kurjata R, Kutter T, Kuze M, Labarga L, Lagoda J, Lamoureux M, Laveder M, Lawe M, Licciardi M, Lindner T, Litcheld RP, Liu SL, Li X, Longhin A, Ludovici L, Lu X, Lux T, Machado LN, Magaletti L, Mahn K, Malek M, Manly S, Maret L, Marino AD, Marti-Magro L, Martin JF, Maruyama T, Matsubara T, Matsushita K, Matveev V, Mavrokoridis K, Mazzucato E, McCarthy M, McCauley N, Mcet al., 2020, Search for electron antineutrino appearance in a long-baseline muon antineutrino beam, Physical Review Letters, Vol: 124, Pages: 161802-1-161802-8, ISSN: 0031-9007

Electron antineutrino appearance is measured by the T2K experiment in an accelerator-produced antineutrino beam, using additional neutrino beam operation to constrain parameters of the Pontecorvo-Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata (PMNS) mixing matrix. T2K observes 15 candidate electron antineutrino events with a background expectation of 9.3 events. Including information from the kinematic distribution of observed events, the hypothesis of no electron antineutrino appearance is disfavored with a significance of 2.40σ and no discrepancy between data and PMNS predictions is found. A complementary analysis that introduces an additional free parameter which allows non-PMNS values of electron neutrino and antineutrino appearance also finds no discrepancy between data and PMNS predictions.

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Abramishvili R, Adamov G, Akhmetshin RR, Allin A, Angelique JC, Anishchik V, Aoki M, Aznabayev D, Bagaturia I, Ban G, Ban Y, Bauer D, Baygarashev D, Bondar AE, Carloganu C, Carniol B, Chau TT, Chen JK, Chen SJ, Cheung YE, da Silva W, Dauncey PD, Densham C, Devidze G, Dornan P, Drutskoy A, Duginov V, Eguchi Y, Epshteyn LB, Evtoukhovitch P, Fayer S, Fedotovich GV, Finger M, Finger M, Fujii Y, Fukao Y, Gabriel JL, Gay P, Gillies E, Grigoriev DN, Gritsay K, Hai VH, Hamada E, Hashim IH, Hashimoto S, Hayashi O, Hayashi T, Hiasa T, Ibrahim ZA, Igarashi Y, Ignatov FV, Iio M, Ishibashi K, Issadykov A, Itahashi T, Jansen A, Jiang XS, Jonsson P, Kachelhoffer T, Kalinnikov V, Kaneva E, Kapusta F, Katayama H, Kawagoe K, Kawashima R, Kazak N, Kazanin VF, Kemularia O, Khvedelidze A, Koike M, Kormoll T, Kozlov GA, Kozyrev AN, Kravchenko M, Krikler B, Kumsiashvili G, Kuno Y, Kuriyama Y, Kurochkin Y, Kurup A, Lagrange B, Lai J, Lee MJ, Li HB, Litchfield RP, Li WG, Loan T, Lomidze D, Lomidze I, Loveridge P, Macharashvili G, Makida Y, Mao YJ, Markin O, Matsuda Y, Melkadze A, Melnik A, Mibe T, Mihara S, Miyamoto N, Miyazaki Y, Idris FM, Azmi KAMK, Moiseenko A, Moritsu M, Mori Y, Motoishi T, Nakai H, Nakai Y, Nakamoto T, Nakamura Y, Nakatsugawa Y, Nakazawa Y, Nash J, Natori H, Niess V, Nioradze M, Nishiguchi H, Noguchi K, Numao T, O'Dell J, Ogitsu T, Ohta S, Oishi K, Okamoto K, Okamura T, Okinaka K, Omori C, Ota T, Pasternak J, Paulau A, Picters D, Ponariadov V, Quemener G, Ruban AA, Rusinov V, Sabirov B, Sakamoto H, Sarin P, Sasaki K, Sato A, Sato J, Semertzidis YK, Shigyo N, Shoukavy D, Slunecka M, Stoeckinger D, Sugano M, Tachimoto T, Takayanagi T, Tanaka M, Tang J, Tao CV, Teixeira AM, Tevzadze Y, Thanh T, Tojo J, Tolmachev SS, Tomasek M, Tomizawa M, Toriashvili T, Trang H, Trekov I, Tsamalaidze Z, Tsverava N, Uchida T, Uchida Y, Ueno K, Velicheva E, Volkov A, Vrba V, Abdullah WATW, Warin-Charpentier P, Wong ML, Wong TS, Wu C, Xing TY, Yamaguchi H, Yamamoto A, Yamanaka M, Yamane T Yet al., 2020, COMET phase-I technical design report, Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Vol: 2020, ISSN: 2050-3911

The Technical Design for the COMET Phase-I experiment is presented in this paper. COMET is an experiment at J-PARC, Japan, which will search for neutrinoless conversion of muons into electrons in the field of an aluminum nucleus (⁠μ–e conversion, μ−N→e−N⁠); a lepton flavor-violating process. The experimental sensitivity goal for this process in the Phase-I experiment is 3.1×10−15⁠, or 90% upper limit of a branching ratio of 7×10−15⁠, which is a factor of 100 improvement over the existing limit. The expected number of background events is 0.032. To achieve the target sensitivity and background level, the 3.2 kW 8 GeV proton beam from J-PARC will be used. Two types of detectors, CyDet and StrECAL, will be used for detecting the μ–e conversion events, and for measuring the beam-related background events in view of the Phase-II experiment, respectively. Results from simulation on signal and background estimations are also described.

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MICE collaboration, Long KR, 2020, Demonstration of cooling by the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment, Nature, Vol: 578, Pages: 53-59, ISSN: 0028-0836

The use of accelerated beams of electrons, protons or ions has furthered the development of nearly every scientific discipline. However, high-energy muon beams of equivalent quality have not yet been delivered. Muon beams can be created through the decay of pions produced by the interaction of a proton beam with a target. Such 'tertiary' beams have much lower brightness than those created by accelerating electrons, protons or ions. High-brightness muon beams comparable to those produced by state-of-the-art electron, proton and ion accelerators could facilitate the study of lepton-antilepton collisions at extremely high energies and provide well characterized neutrino beams1-6. Such muon beams could be realized using ionization cooling, which has been proposed to increase muon-beam brightness7,8. Here we report the realization of ionization cooling, which was confirmed by the observation of an increased number of low-amplitude muons after passage of the muon beam through an absorber, as well as an increase in the corresponding phase-space density. The simulated performance of the ionization cooling system is consistent with the measured data, validating designs of the ionization cooling channel in which the cooling process is repeated to produce a substantial cooling effect9-11. The results presented here are an important step towards achieving the muon-beam quality required to search for phenomena at energy scales beyond the reach of the Large Hadron Collider at a facility of equivalent or reduced footprint6.

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Kurup A, Pasternak J, Taylor R, Murgatroyd L, Ettlinger O, Shields W, Nevay L, Gruber S, Pozimski J, Lau HT, Long K, Blackmore V, Barber G, Najmudin Z, Yarnold Jet al., 2019, Simulation of a radiobiology facility for the Centre for the Clinical Application of Particles, Physica Medica, Vol: 65, Pages: 21-28, ISSN: 1120-1797

The Centre for the Clinical Application of Particles’ Laser-hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications (LhARA) facility is being studied and requires simulation of novel accelerator components (such as the Gabor lens capture system), detector simulation and simulation of the ion beam interaction with cells. The first stage of LhARA will provide protons up to 15 MeV for in vitro studies. The second stage of LhARA will use a fixed-field accelerator to increase the energy of the particles to allow in vivo studies with protons and in vitro studies with heavier ions.BDSIM, a Geant4 based accelerator simulation tool, has been used to perform particle tracking simulations to verify the beam optics design done by BeamOptics and these show good agreement. Design parameters were defined based on an EPOCH simulation of the laser source and a series of mono-energetic input beams were generated from this by BDSIM. The tracking results show the large angular spread of the input beam (0.2 rad) can be transported with a transmission of almost 100% whilst keeping divergence at the end station very low (<0.1 mrad). The legacy of LhARA will be the demonstration of technologies that could drive a step-change in the provision of proton and light ion therapy (i.e. a laser source coupled to a Gabor lens capture and a fixed-field accelerator), and a system capable of delivering a comprehensive set of experimental data that can be used to enhance the clinical application of proton and light ion therapy.

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Collaboration TMICE, Adams D, Adey D, Asfandiyarov R, Barber G, Bari AD, Bayes R, Bayliss V, Bertoni R, Blackmore V, Blondel A, Boehm J, Bogomilov M, Bonesini M, Booth CN, Bowring D, Boyd S, Bradshaw TW, Bross AD, Brown C, Charnley G, Chatzitheodoridis GT, Chignoli F, Chung M, Cline D, Cobb JH, Colling D, Collomb N, Cooke P, Courthold M, Cremaldi LM, DeMello A, Dick AJ, Dobbs A, Dornan P, Drielsma F, Dumbell K, Ellis M, Filthaut F, Franchini P, Freemire B, Gallagher A, Gamet R, Gardener RBS, Gourlay S, Grant A, Greis JR, Griffiths S, Hanlet P, Hanson GG, Hartnett T, Heidt C, Hodgson P, Hunt C, Ishimoto S, Jokovic D, Jurj PB, Kaplan DM, Karadzhov Y, Klier A, Kuno Y, Kurup A, Kyberd P, Lagrange J-B, Langlands J, Lau W, Li D, Li Z, Liu A, Long K, Lord T, Macwaters C, Maletic D, Martlew B, Martyniak J, Mazza R, Middleton S, Mohayai TA, Moss A, Muir A, Mullacrane I, Nebrensky JJ, Neuffer D, Nichols A, Nugent JC, Oates A, Orestano D, Overton E, Owens P, Palladino V, Palmer M, Pasternak J, Pec V, Pidcott C, Popovic M, Preece R, Prestemon S, Rajaram D, Ricciardi S, Robinson M, Rogers C, Ronald K, Rubinov P, Sakamoto H, Sanders DA, Sato A, Savic M, Snopok P, Smith PJ, Soler FJP, Song Y, Stanley T, Stokes G, Suezaki V, Summers DJ, Sung CK, Tang J, Tarrant J, Taylor I, Tortora L, Torun Y, Tsenov R, Tucker M, Uchida MA, Virostek S, Vankova-Kirilova G, Warburton P, Wilbur S, Wilson A, Witte H, White C, Whyte CG, Yang X, Young AR, Zisman Met al., 2019, First particle-by-particle measurement of emittance in the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment, The European Physical Journal C - Particles and Fields, Vol: 79, Pages: 1-15, ISSN: 1124-1861

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) collaboration seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of ionization cooling, the technique by which it is proposed to cool the muon beam at a future neutrino factory or muon collider. The emittance is measured from an ensemble of muons assembled from those that pass through the experiment. A pure muon ensemble is selected using a particle-identification system that can reject efficiently both pions and electrons. The position and momentum of each muon are measured using a high-precision scintillating-fibre tracker in a 4 T solenoidal magnetic field. This paper presents the techniques used to reconstruct the phase-space distributions in the upstream tracking detector and reports the first particle-by-particle measurement of the emittance of the MICE Muon Beam as a function of muon-beam momentum.

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Lagrange J-B, Appleby RB, Garland JM, Pasternak J, Tygier Set al., 2018, Racetrack FFAG muon decay ring for nuSTORM with triplet focusing, JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION, Vol: 13, ISSN: 1748-0221

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Adey D, Appleby RB, Bayes R, Bogacz A, Bross AD, Lagrange J-B, Liu A, Neuffer D, Pasternak J, Tygier Set al., 2017, Overview of the Neutrinos from Stored Muons Facility - nuSTORM, JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION, Vol: 12, ISSN: 1748-0221

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Bogomilov M, Long KR, The MICE collaboration, 2017, Lattice design and expected performance of the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment demonstration of ionization cooling, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, Vol: 20, ISSN: 2469-9888

Muon beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well-characterized neutrino beams necessary to elucidate the physics of flavor at a neutrino factory and to provide lepton-antilepton collisions at energies of up to several TeV at a muon collider. The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) aims to demonstrate ionization cooling, the technique by which it is proposed to reduce the phase-space volume occupied by the muon beam at such facilities. In an ionization-cooling channel, the muon beam passes through a material in which it loses energy. The energy lost is then replaced using rf cavities. The combined effect of energy loss and reacceleration is to reduce the transverse emittance of the beam (transverse cooling). A major revision of the scope of the project was carried out over the summer of 2014. The revised experiment can deliver a demonstration of ionization cooling. The design of the cooling demonstration experiment will be described together with its predicted cooling performance.

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Lagarange J-B, Pasternak J, Bross A, Liu A, Coloma P, Hart TL, Neuffer D, Appleby RB, Tygier Set al., 2017, Neutrinos from a pion beam line: nuPIL, 27th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino), Publisher: IOP PUBLISHING LTD, ISSN: 1742-6588

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Adams D, Alekou A, Apollonio M, Asfandiyarov R, Barber G, Barclay P, de Bari A, Bayes R, Bayliss V, Bertoni R, Blackmore VJ, Blondel A, Blot S, Bogomilov M, Bonesini M, Booth CN, Bowring D, Boyd S, Brashaw TW, Bravar U, Bross AD, Capponi M, Carlisle T, Cecchet G, Charnley C, Chignoli F, Cline D, Cobb JH, Colling G, Collomb N, Coney L, Cooke P, Courthold M, Cremaldi LM, DeMello A, Dick A, Dobbs A, Dornan P, Drews M, Drielsma F, Filthaut F, Fitzpatrick T, Franchini P, Francis V, Fry L, Gallagher A, Gamet R, Gardener R, Gourlay S, Grant A, Greis JR, Griffiths S, Hanlet P, Hansen OM, Hanson GG, Hart TL, Hartnett T, Hayler T, Heidt C, Hills M, Hodgson P, Hunt C, Iaciofano A, Ishimoto S, Kafka G, Kaplan DM, Karadzhov Y, Kim YK, Kuno Y, Kyberd P, Lagrange J-B, Langlands J, Lau W, Leonova M, Li D, Lintern A, Littlefield M, Long K, Luo T, Macwaters C, Martlew B, Martyniak J, Mazza R, Middleton S, Moretti A, Moss A, Muir A, Mullacrane I, Nebrensky JJ, Neuffer D, Nichols A, Nicholson R, Nugent JC, Oates A, Onel Y, Orestano D, Overton E, Owens P, Palladino V, Pasternak J, Pastore F, Pidcott C, Popovic M, Preece R, Prestemon S, Rajaram D, Ramberger S, Rayner MA, Ricciardi S, Roberts TJ, Robinson M, Rogers C, Ronald K, Rubinov P, Rucinski P, Sakamato H, Sanders DA, Santos E, Savidge T, Smith PJ, Snopok P, Soler FJP, Speirs D, Stanley T, Stokes G, Summers DJ, Tarrant J, Taylor I, Tortora L, Torun Y, Tsenov R, Tunnell CD, Uchida MA, Vankova-Kirilova G, Virostek S, Vretenar M, Warburton P, Watson S, White C, Whyte CG, Wilson A, Winter M, Yang X, Young A, Zisman Met al., 2016, Pion contamination in the MICE muon beam, Journal of Instrumentation, Vol: 11, ISSN: 1748-0221

The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a systematic investigation of ionization cooling with muon beams of momentum between 140 and 240 MeV/c at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory ISIS facility. The measurement of ionization cooling in MICE relies on the selection of a pure sample of muons that traverse the experiment. To make this selection, the MICE Muon Beam is designed to deliver a beam of muons with less than ~1% contamination. To make the final muon selection, MICE employs a particle-identification (PID) system upstream and downstream of the cooling cell. The PID system includes time-of-flight hodoscopes, threshold-Cherenkov counters and calorimetry. The upper limit for the pion contamination measured in this paper is fπ < 1.4% at 90% C.L., including systematic uncertainties. Therefore, the MICE Muon Beam is able to meet the stringent pion-contamination requirements of the study of ionization cooling.

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Adams D, Alekou A, Apollonio M, Asfandiyarov R, Barber G, Barclay P, de Bari A, Bayes R, Bayliss V, Bene P, Bertoni R, Blackmore VJ, Blondel A, Blot S, Bogomilov M, Bonesini M, Booth CN, Bowring D, Boyd S, Bradshaw TW, Bravar U, Bross AD, Cadoux F, Capponi M, Carlisle T, Cecchet G, Charnley C, Chignoli F, Cline D, Cobb JH, Colling G, Collomb N, Coney L, Cooke P, Courthold M, Cremaldi LM, Debieux S, DeMello A, Dick A, Dobbs A, Dornan P, Drielsma F, Filthaut F, Fitzpatrick T, Franchini P, Francis V, Fry L, Gallagher A, Gamet R, Gardener R, Gourlay S, Grant A, Graulich JS, Greis J, Griffiths S, Hanlet P, Hansen OM, Hanson GG, Hart TL, Hartnett T, Hayler T, Heidt C, Hills M, Hodgson P, Hunt C, Husi C, Iaciofano A, Ishimoto S, Kafka G, Kaplan DM, Karadzhov Y, Kim YK, Kuno Y, Kyberd P, Lagrange J-B, Langlands J, Lau W, Leonova M, Li D, Lintern A, Littlefield M, Long K, Luo T, Macwaters C, Martlew B, Martyniak J, Masciocchi F, Mazza R, Middleton S, Moretti A, Moss A, Muir A, Mullacrane I, Nebrensky JJ, Neuffer D, Nichols A, Nicholson R, Nicola L, Messomo EN, Nugent JC, Oates A, Onel Y, Orestano D, Overton E, Owens P, Palladino V, Pasternak J, Pastore F, Pidcott C, Popovic M, Preece R, Prestemon S, Rajaram D, Ramberger S, Rayner MA, Ricciardi S, Roberts TJ, Robinson M, Rogers C, Ronald K, Rothenfusser K, Rubinov P, Rucinski P, Sakamato H, Sanders DA, Sandstrom R, Santos E, Savidge T, Smith PJ, Snopok P, Soler FJP, Speirs D, Stanley T, Stokes G, Summers DJ, Tarrant J, Taylor I, Tortora L, Torun Y, Tsenov R, Tunnell CD, Uchida MA, Vankova-Kirilova G, Virostek S, Vretenar M, Warburton P, Watson S, White C, Whyte CG, Wilson A, Wisting H, Yang X, Young A, Zisman Met al., 2015, Electron-muon ranger: performance in the MICE muon beam, Journal of Instrumentation, Vol: 10, ISSN: 1748-0221

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Bogomilov M, Matev R, Tsenov R, Dracos M, Bonesini M, Palladino V, Tortora L, Mori Y, Planche T, Lagrange JB, Kuno Y, Benedetto E, Efthymiopoulos I, Garoby R, Gilardoini S, Martini M, Wildner E, Prior G, Blondel A, Karadzhow Y, Ellis M, Kyberd P, Bayes R, Laing A, Soler FJP, Alekou A, Apollonio M, Aslaninejad M, Bontoiu C, Jenner LJ, Kurup A, Long K, Pasternak J, Zarrebini A, Poslimski J, Blackmore V, Cobb J, Tunnell C, Andreopoulos C, Bennett JRJ, Brooks S, Caretta O, Davenne T, Densham C, Edgecock TR, Fitton M, Kelliher D, Loveridge P, McFarland A, Machida S, Prior C, Rees G, Rogers C, Rooney M, Thomason J, Wilcox D, Booth C, Skoro G, Back JJ, Harrison P, Berg JS, Fernow R, Gallardo JC, Gupta R, Kirk H, Simos N, Stratakis D, Souchlas N, Witte H, Bross A, Geer S, Johnstone C, Makhov N, Neuffer D, Popovic M, Strait J, Striganov S, Morfin JG, Wands R, Snopok P, Bagacz SA, Morozov V, Roblin Y, Cline D, Ding X, Bromberg C, Hart T, Abrams RJ, Ankenbrandt CM, Beard KB, Cummings MAC, Flanagan G, Johnson RP, Roberts TJ, Yoshikawa CY, Graves VB, McDonald KT, Coney L, Hanson Get al., 2014, Neutrino factory, PHYSICAL REVIEW SPECIAL TOPICS-ACCELERATORS AND BEAMS, Vol: 17, ISSN: 1098-4402

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Stratakis D, Sayed HK, Rogers CT, Alekou A, Pasternak Jet al., 2014, Conceptual design and modeling of particle-matter interaction cooling systems for muon based applications, PHYSICAL REVIEW SPECIAL TOPICS-ACCELERATORS AND BEAMS, Vol: 17, ISSN: 1098-4402

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Adey D, Agarwalla SK, Ankenbrandt CM, Asfandiyarov R, Back JJ, Barker G, Baussan E, Bayes R, Bhadra S, Blackmore V, Blondel A, Bogacz SA, Booth C, Boyd SB, Bramsiepe SG, Bravar A, Brice SJ, Bross AD, Cadoux F, Cease H, Cervera A, Cobb J, Colling D, Coloma P, Coney L, Dobbs A, Dobson J, Donini A, Dornan P, Dracos M, Dufour F, Edgecock R, Geelhoed M, Uchida MA, Ghosh T, Gomez-Cadenas JJ, de Gouvea A, Haesler A, Hanson G, Harrison PF, Hartz M, Hernandez P, Hernando Morata JA, Hodgson P, Huber P, Izmaylov A, Karadzhov Y, Kobilarcik T, Kopp J, Kormos L, Korzenev A, Kuno Y, Kurup A, Kyberd P, Lagrange JB, Laing A, Liu A, Link JM, Long K, Mahn K, Mariani C, Martin C, Martin J, McCauley N, McDonald KT, Mena O, Mishra SR, Mokhov N, Morfin J, Mori Y, Murray W, Neuffer D, Nichol R, Noah E, Palmer MA, Parke S, Pascoli S, Pasternak J, Plunkett R, Popovic M, Ratoff P, Ravonel M, Rayner M, Ricciardi S, Rogers C, Rubinov P, Santos E, Sato A, Sen T, Scantamburlo E, Sedgbeer JK, Smith DR, Smith PJ, Sobczyk JT, Soby L, Soler FJP, Sorel M, Snopok P, Stamoulis P, Stanco L, Striganov S, Tanaka HA, Taylor IJ, Touramanis C, Tunnell CD, Uchida Y, Vassilopoulos N, Wascko MO, Weber A, Wilking MJ, Wildner E, Winter Wet al., 2014, Light sterile neutrino sensitivity at the nuSTORM facility, Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol: 89, ISSN: 1550-7998

A facility that can deliver beams of electron and muon neutrinos from the decay of a stored muon beam has the potential to unambiguously resolve the issue of the evidence for light sterile neutrinos that arises in short-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments and from estimates of the effective number of neutrino flavors from fits to cosmological data. In this paper, we show that the nuSTORM facility, with stored muons of 3.8  GeV/c ± 10%, will be able to carry out a conclusive muon neutrino appearance search for sterile neutrinos and test the LSND and MiniBooNE experimental signals with 10σ sensitivity, even assuming conservative estimates for the systematic uncertainties. This experiment would add greatly to our knowledge of the contribution of light sterile neutrinos to the number of effective neutrino flavors from the abundance of primordial helium production and from constraints on neutrino energy density from the cosmic microwave background. The appearance search is complemented by a simultaneous muon neutrino disappearance analysis that will facilitate tests of various sterile neutrino models.

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Adams D, Collaboration M, Adey D, Alekou A, Apollonio M, Asfandiyarov R, Back J, Barber G, Barclay P, De Bari A, Bayes R, Bayliss V, Bertoni R, Blackmore VJ, Blondel A, Blot S, Bogomilov M, Bonesini M, Booth CN, Bowring D, Boyd S, Bradshaw TW, Bravar U, Bross AD, Capponi M, Carlisle T, Cecchet G, Charnley G, Cobb JH, Colling D, Collomb N, Coney L, Cooke P, Courthold M, Cremaldi LM, DeMello A, Dick AJ, Dobbs A, Dornan P, Fayer S, Filthaut F, Fish A, Fitzpatrick T, Fletcher R, Forrest D, Francis V, Freemire B, Fry L, Gallagher A, Gamet R, Gourlay S, Grant A, Graulich JS, Griffiths S, Hanlet P, Hansen OM, Hanson GG, Harrison P, Hart TL, Hartnett T, Hayler T, Heidt C, Hills M, Hodgson P, Hunt C, Iaciofano A, Ishimoto S, Kafka G, Kaplan DM, Karadzhov Y, Kim YK, Kolev D, Kuno Y, Kyberd P, Lau W, Leaver J, Leonova M, Li D, Lintern A, Littlefield M, Long K, Lucchini G, Luo T, Macwaters C, Martlew B, Martyniak J, Middleton S, Moretti A, Moss A, Muir A, Mullacrane I, Nebrensky JJ, Neuffer D, Nichols A, Nicholson R, Nugent JC, Onel Y, Orestano D, Overton E, Owens P, Palladino V, Palmer RB, Pasternak J, Pastore F, Pidcott C, Popovic M, Preece R, Prestemon S, Rajaram D, Ramberger S, Rayner MA, Ricciardi S, Richards A, Roberts TJ, Robinson M, Rogers C, Ronald K, Rubinov P, Rucinski R, Rusinov I, Sakamoto H, Sanders DA, Santos E, Savidge T, Smith PJ, Snopok P, Soler FJP, Stanley T, Summers DJ, Takahashi M, Tarrant J, Taylor I, Tortora L, Torun Y, Tsenov R, Tunnell CD, Vankova G, Verguilov V, Virostek SP, Vretenar M, Walaron K, Watson S, White C, Whyte CG, Wilson A, Wisting H, Zisman MSet al., 2013, Characterisation of the muon beams for the Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment, EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C, Vol: 73, ISSN: 1434-6044

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Thomason JWG, Garoby R, Gilardoni S, Jenner LJ, Pasternak Jet al., 2013, Proton driver scenarios at CERN and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, PHYSICAL REVIEW SPECIAL TOPICS-ACCELERATORS AND BEAMS, Vol: 16, ISSN: 1098-4402

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Rogers CT, Stratakis D, Prior G, Gilardoni S, Neuffer D, Snopok P, Alekou A, Pasternak Jet al., 2013, Muon front end for the neutrino factory, PHYSICAL REVIEW SPECIAL TOPICS-ACCELERATORS AND BEAMS, Vol: 16, ISSN: 1098-4402

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Peach KJ, Aslaninejad M, Barlow RJ, Beard CD, Bliss N, Cobb JH, Easton MJ, Edgecock TR, Fenning R, Gardner ISK, Hill MA, Owen HL, Johnstone CJ, Jones B, Jones T, Kelliher DJ, Khan A, Machida S, McIntosh PA, Pattalwar S, Pasternak J, Pozimski J, Prior CR, Rochford J, Rogers CT, Seviour R, Sheehy SL, Smith SL, Strachan J, Tygier S, Vojnovic B, Wilson P, Witte H, Yokoi Tet al., 2013, Conceptual design of a nonscaling fixed field alternating gradient accelerator for protons and carbon ions for charged particle therapy, Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams, Vol: 16, Pages: 030101-030101

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Edgecock TR, Caretta O, Davenne T, Densam C, Fitton M, Kelliher D, Loveridge P, Machida S, Prior C, Rogers C, Rooney M, Thomason J, Wilcox D, Wildner E, Efthymiopoulos I, Garoby R, Gilardoni S, Hansen C, Benedetto E, Jensen E, Kosmicki A, Martini M, Osborne J, Prior G, Stora T, Mendonca TM, Vlachoudis V, Waaijer C, Cupial P, Chance A, Longhin A, Payet J, Zito M, Baussan E, Bobeth C, Bouquerel E, Dracos M, Gaudiot G, Lepers B, Osswald F, Poussot P, Vassilopoulos N, Wurtz J, Zeter V, Bielski J, Kozien M, Lacny L, Skoczen B, Szybinski B, Ustrycka A, Wroblewski A, Marie-Jeanne M, Balint P, Fourel C, Giraud J, Jacob J, Lamy T, Latrasse L, Sortais P, Thuillier T, Mitrofanov S, Loiselet M, Keutgen T, Delbar T, Debray F, Trophine C, Veys S, Daversin C, Zorin V, Izotov I, Skalyga V, Burt G, Dexter AC, Kravchuk VL, Marchi T, Cinausero M, Gramegna F, De Angelis G, Prete G, Collazuol G, Laveder M, Mazzocco M, Mezzetto M, Signorini C, Vardaci E, Di Nitto A, Brondi A, La Rana G, Migliozzi P, Moro R, Palladino V, Gelli N, Berkovits D, Hass M, Hirsh TY, Schaumann M, Stahl A, Wehner J, Bross A, Kopp J, Neuffer D, Wands R, Bayes R, Laing A, Soler P, Agarwalla SK, Cervera Villanueva A, Donini A, Ghosh T, Gomez Cadenas JJ, Hernandez P, Martin-Albo J, Mena O, Burguet-Castell J, Agostino L, Buizza-Avanzini M, Marafini M, Patzak T, Tonazzo A, Duchesneau D, Mosca L, Bogomilov M, Karadzhov Y, Matev R, Tsenov R, Akhmedov E, Blennow M, Lindner M, Schwetz T, Fernandez Martinez E, Maltoni M, Menendez J, Giunti C, Gonzalez Garcia MC, Salvado J, Coloma P, Huber P, Li T, Pavon JL, Orme C, Pascoli S, Meloni D, Tang J, Winter W, Ohlsson T, Zhang H, Scotto-Lavina L, Terranova F, Bonesini M, Tortora L, Alekou A, Aslaninejad M, Bontoiu C, Kurup A, Jenner LJ, Long K, Pasternak J, Pozimski J, Back JJ, Harrison P, Beard K, Bogacz A, Berg JS, Stratakis D, Witte H, Snopok P, Bliss N, Cordwell M, Moss A, Pattalwar S, Apollonio Met al., 2013, High intensity neutrino oscillation facilities in Europe, PHYSICAL REVIEW SPECIAL TOPICS-ACCELERATORS AND BEAMS, Vol: 16, ISSN: 1098-4402

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Pasternak J, Aslaninejad M, Holland PRN, Posocco PA, Walton GWet al., 2013, A Novel Solution for FFAG Proton Gantries

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Alekou A, Pasternak J, Rogers C, 2013, Performance study of the Bucked Coils cooling lattice for the Neutrino Factory, 13th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Super beams and Beta beams (NUFACT), Publisher: IOP PUBLISHING LTD, ISSN: 1742-6588

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Pasternak J, 2013, Recent studies on the PRISM FFAG ring, 13th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Super beams and Beta beams (NUFACT), Publisher: IOP PUBLISHING LTD, ISSN: 1742-6588

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Pasternak J, Aslaninejad M, Berg JS, Bliss N, Bontoiu C, Cordwell M, Witte H, Kelliher D, Machida Set al., 2013, Recent developments on the muon Non-Scaling FFAG for the Neutrino Factory and its subsystems, 13th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Super beams and Beta beams (NUFACT), Publisher: IOP PUBLISHING LTD, ISSN: 1742-6588

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Alekou A, Pasternak J, 2012, Bucked Coils lattice: a novel ionisation cooling lattice for the Neutrino Factory, JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION, Vol: 7, ISSN: 1748-0221

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Machida S, Barlow R, Berg JS, Bliss N, Buckley RK, Clarke JA, Craddock MK, D'Arcy R, Edgecock R, Garland JM, Giboudot Y, Goudket P, Griffiths S, Hill C, Hill SF, Hock KM, Holder DJ, Ibison MG, Jackson F, Jamison SP, Johnstone C, Jones JK, Jones LB, Kalinin A, Keil E, Kelliher DJ, Kirkman IW, Koscielniak S, Marinov K, Marks N, Martlew B, McIntosh PA, McKenzie JW, Meot F, Middleman KJ, Moss A, Muratori BD, Orrett J, Owen HL, Pasternak J, Peach KJ, Poole MW, Rao Y-N, Saveliev Y, Scott DJ, Sheehy SL, Shepherd BJA, Smith R, Smith SL, Trbojevic D, Tzenov S, Weston T, Wheelhouse A, Williams PH, Wolski A, Yokoi Tet al., 2012, Acceleration in the linear non-scaling fixed-field alternating-gradient accelerator EMMA, NATURE PHYSICS, Vol: 8, Pages: 243-247, ISSN: 1745-2473

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Bogomilov M, others, 2012, The MICE Muon Beam on ISIS and the beam-line instrumentation of the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment, JINST, Vol: 7, Pages: P05009-P05009

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Kelliher D, Machida S, Aslaninejad M, Pasternak J, Berg JS, Witte Het al., 2011, INJECTION AND EXTRACTION SYSTEMS FOR THE MUON FFAG RING IN THE NEUTRINO FACTORY, International Conference on Fixed Field Alternating Gradient Accelerators (FFAG 09), Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD, Pages: 1775-1784, ISSN: 0217-751X

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Pasternak J, Aslaninejad M, Berg JS, Kelliher DJ, Machida S, Witte Het al., 2011, Injection/Extraction Studies In The Non-scaling FFAG For The Neutrino Factory, 12th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Super-beams and Beta-beams (NUFACT), Publisher: AMER INST PHYSICS, ISSN: 0094-243X

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