The Sheffield MICE group
MICE stands for Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment. The experiment is a worlwide collaboration including scientists and engineers from Europe, the US and Japan and will be hosted by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Didcot, using the ISIS beam. MICE aims to demonstrate ionisation cooling, a technique which will be essential for a future neutrino factory.
The Sheffield group's responsibility is to design the target that will dip into the ISIS proton beam halo in order to produce pions, which then decay to give the muon beam. This is a challenging task because MICE runs parasitically on normal ISIS operation, so the target must not disrupt the ISIS proton beam or significantly degrade its performance.
You can find out more about the MICE experiment and The Sheffield groups contribution via the links below.
More information:
- Introduction to the MICE project
- An overview of the concept of a neutrino factory
- Overview of the experimental setup of MICE
- Details of Sheffield activities on MICE
- Photo gallery of Sheffield targetry work
- Talks given by members of the Sheffield group on MICE
- Target Drawings
- Target Analysis Reports
- MICE links
- Recent Target Photos from R78 .zip
- Target Videos
- Target Test Rig
- MiceCam
- Uploads Directory
- Magnetic models of the MICE Hall generated using OPERA
The following Sheffield personnel are involved in MICE:
- Dr. Chris Booth, lecturer
- Dr. Paul Hodgson, research associate
- Mr. Richard Nicholson, engineer
- Dr. Paul J Smith, research associate
- Dr. Matt Robinson, research associate
- Mr. Edward Overton, research student