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ProfessorKennethLong

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Professor of Experimental Particle Physics
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 7812k.long Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Mrs Paula Brown +44 (0)20 7594 7823

 
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Location

 

1105Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Long:2016:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.09.020,
author = {Long, K},
doi = {10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.09.020},
pages = {162--169},
publisher = {Elsevier},
title = {The status of the construction of MICE Step IV},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.09.020},
year = {2016}
}
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Muon beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well-characterised neutrino beams necessary toelucidate the physics of flavour at the Neutrino Factory and to provide lepton-anti-lepton collisions at energies of upto several TeV at the Muon Collider. The International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will demonstrateionization cooling; the technique by which it is proposed to reduce the phase-space volume occupied by the muonbeam at such facilities. In an ionization-cooling channel, the muon beam is caused to pass through a material (theabsorber) in which it looses energy, the energy lost is then replaced using RF cavities. The combined effect of energyloss and re-acceleration is to reduce the transverse emittance of the beam (transverse cooling).MICE is being constructed in a series of Steps. At Step IV, MICE will be able to study the properties of liquidhydrogen and lithium hydride that affect cooling. A solenoidal spectrometer will measure emittance upstream anddownstream of the absorber vessel. The muon beam will be focused at the absorber by a focusing coil. The construc-tion of Step IV at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is well advanced and is scheduled to be complete early in 2015.The status of the construction project will be described together with the performance of the principal components.Once the Step IV programme has been completed, the apparatus will be reconfigured to allow the MICE collaborationto demonstrate ionization cooling. This will require two single-cavity modules to be inserted one upstream and onedownstream of a central absorber. The status of the preparations for the MICE demonstration of ionization coolingwill also be described briefly.
AU  - Long,K
DO  - 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.09.020
EP  - 169
PB  - Elsevier
PY  - 2016///
SN  - 2405-6014
SP  - 162
TI  - The status of the construction of MICE Step IV
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.09.020
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/50065
ER  -
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