Adams, D., Alekou, A., Apollonio, M. et al. (151 more authors) (2015) Electron-muon ranger: performance in the MICE muon beam. JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION, 10. ARTN P12012. ISSN 1748-0221
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.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © CERN 2015, published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License by IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation and DOI. |
Keywords: | Particle identification methods; Particle tracking detectors; Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors; Calorimeters |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Physics and Astronomy (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 19 Jul 2016 11:18 |
Last Modified: | 19 Jul 2016 11:20 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/10/12/P12012 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | IOP Publishing |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1088/1748-0221/10/12/P12012 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:102656 |