Electron-Muon Ranger: Performance in the MICE muon beam

MICE Collaboration

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/10/12/P12012

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Electron-Muon Ranger: Performance in the MICE muon beam

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Electron-Muon Ranger: Performance in the MICE muon beam

MICE Collaboration

Journal of instrumentation, Vol.10(12), P12012

12/16/2015

DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/10/12/P12012

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Abstract

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.

Particle Accelerators

INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

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Title: Subtitle: Electron-Muon Ranger: Performance in the MICE muon beam
Creators: MICE Collaboration
Contributors: Y Onel (Contributor) - University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Journal of instrumentation, Vol.10(12), P12012
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/10/12/P12012
ISSN: 1748-0221
eISSN: 1748-0221
Publisher: Institute of Physics (IOP)
Language: English
Date published: 12/16/2015
Academic Unit: Physics and Astronomy
Record Identifier: 9984199781902771

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