Wednesday 15 April 2009

Speaker: Alain Blondel   (U Geneva)

Title: MICE, the International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment

Abstract:

Neutrino Factory and Muon Colliders are exciting machines for future precision measurements and
discoveries. Achieving the required performance requires mastering of several new techniques, the
most specific one being ionization cooling. The MICE experiment has been proposed and is being
built at RAL, with the purpose of demonstrating successful construction and operation of a
realistic section of cooling channel. It is carried out by an international collaboration working
on a new muon beam on ISIS.

The presentation will review the physics motivations, the principle and the status of MICE.