Abstracts Brochure - CERN

WEOAPA — Linear Colliders, Lepton Accelerators . . . 28-Jun-06 14:00 - 15:00
MICE Overview - Physics Goals and Prospects
Ionization cooling, a technique in which
muon beam is passed through a series of ab- M. Yoshida (Osaka University)
sorbers and followed by RF-acceleration, is a
proposed method for cooling muon beam, i.e., phase-space reduction. The international Muon Ionisation Cooling
Experiment (MICE), which will construct and operate a realistic cooling channel and measure the beam cooling
performance, is the first essential step towardsrealization of nutrino factories and eventually muon colliders based on
intense muon sources. The MICE have got approved to be constructedin Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) and
the fist beam commissioning is scheduled in 2007. The physics goal and future prospects of the MICE together with
the beamline and the instruments which is now being built will be described.
Chair: P. Burrows (Queen Mary University of London, London) 267
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