Publications (25)
Light sterile neutrino sensitivity at the nuSTORM facility
D. Adey, S. K. Agarwalla, C. M. Ankenbrandt +109
A facility that can deliver beams of electron and muon neutrinos from the decay of a stored muon beam has the potential to unambiguously resolve the issue of the evidence for light…
nuSTORM: Neutrinos from STORed Muons
P. Kyberd, D. R. Smith, L. Coney +35
The results of LSND and MiniBooNE, along with the recent papers on a possible reactor neutrino flux anomaly give tantalizing hints of new physics. Models beyond the neutrino-SM hav…
Neutrinos from Stored Muons (nuSTORM)
L. Alvarez Ruso, W. Chang, J. Franklin +10
The Neutrinos from Stored Muons, nuSTORM, facility has been designed to deliver a definitive neutrino-nucleus scattering programme using beams of ,νe- and ,νμ- from the decay of…
Design and expected performance of the MICE demonstration of ionization cooling
MICE Collaboration, M. Bogomilov, R. Tsenov +129
Muon beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well-characterised neutrino beams necessary to elucidate the physics of flavour at a neutrino factory and to provide…
Light Sterile Neutrinos: A White Paper
K. N. Abazajian, M. A. Acero, S. K. Agarwalla +184
This white paper addresses the hypothesis of light sterile neutrinos based on recent anomalies observed in neutrino experiments and the latest astrophysical data.
Performance of the MICE diagnostic system
The MICE collaboration, M. Bogomilov, R. Tsenov +135
Muon beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well-characterised neutrino beams of a neutrino factory and for multi-TeV lepton-antilepton collisions at a muon coll…
Neutrinos from Stored Muons (nuSTORM)
L. Alvarez Ruso, T. Alves, S. Boyd +9
The 2020 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP) (see https://cds.cern.ch/record/2720129 ) recommended that muon beam R\&D should be considered a high-priority…
The reconstruction software for the MICE scintillating fibre trackers
A. Dobbs, C. Hunt, K. Long +6
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will demonstrate the principle of muon beam phase-space reduction via ionization cooling. Muon beam cooling will be required for the p…
Characterisation of the muon beams for the Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment
The MICE Collaboration, D. Adams, D. Adey +141
A novel single-particle technique to measure emittance has been developed and used to characterise seventeen different muon beams for the Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment (MICE).…
Radiation hardness qualification of PbWO4 scintillation crystals for the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter
The CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter Group, P. Adzic, N. Almeida +267
Ensuring the radiation hardness of PbWO4 crystals was one of the main priorities during the construction of the electromagnetic calorimeter of the CMS experiment at CERN. The produ…
MICE: the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment. Step I: First Measurement of Emittance with Particle Physics Detectors
U. Bravar, M. Bogomilov, Y. Karadzhov +144
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) is a strategic R&D project intended to demonstrate the only practical solution to providing high brilliance beams necessary for a neut…
Electron-Muon Ranger: performance in the MICE Muon Beam
D. Adams, A. Alekou, M. Apollonio +151
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 requ…
nuSTORM - Neutrinos from STORed Muons: Proposal to the Fermilab PAC
D. Adey, S. K. Agarwalla, C. M. Ankenbrandt +110
The nuSTORM facility has been designed to deliver beams of electron neutrinos and muon neutrinos (and their anti-particles) from the decay of a stored muon beam with a central mome…
Pion contamination in the MICE muon beam
D. Adams, A. Alekou, M. Apollonio +142
The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a systematic investigation of ionization cooling with muon beams of momentum between 140 and 240\,MeV/c at…
Report of the working group on the measurement of triple gauge boson couplings
F. Berends, T. Bowcock, D. Charlton +8
The working group discussed several aspects of triple gauge coupling analysis viewed in the light of experiences with the first high energy data recorded at energies above the W pa…
First particle-by-particle measurement of emittance in the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment
The MICE Collaboration, D. Adams, D. Adey +133
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) collaboration seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of ionization cooling, the technique by which it is proposed to cool the muon beam…
Interim Design Report
R. J. Abrams, S. K. Agarwalla, A. Alekou +133
The International Design Study for the Neutrino Factory (the IDS-NF) was established by the community at the ninth "International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, super-beams, and b…
Multiple Coulomb Scattering of muons in Lithium Hydride
M. Bogomilov, R. Tsenov, G. Vankova-Kirilova +134
Multiple Coulomb Scattering (MCS) is a well known phenomenon occurring when charged particles traverse materials. Measurements of muons traversing low materials made in the MuS…
The Physics of the B Factories
A. J. Bevan, B. Golob, Th. Mannel +2003
This work is on the Physics of the B Factories. Part A of this book contains a brief description of the SLAC and KEK B Factories as well as their detectors, BaBar and Belle, and da…
Transverse Emittance Reduction in Muon Beams by Ionization Cooling
The MICE Collaboration, M. Bogomilov, R. Tsenov +134
Accelerated muon beams have been considered for next-generation studies of high-energy lepton-antilepton collisions and neutrino oscillations. However, high-brightness muon beams h…
The design, construction and performance of the MICE scintillating fibre trackers
M. Ellis, P. R. Hobson, P. Kyberd +49
Charged-particle tracking in the international Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment (MICE) will be performed using two solenoidal spectrometers, each instrumented with a tracking det…
Observation of the rare decay from the combined analysis of CMS and LHCb data
The CMS, LHCb Collaborations, : +2807
A joint measurement is presented of the branching fractions and in proton-proton collisions at the LHC by the CMS and LHCb experiments. The data…
First demonstration of ionization cooling by the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment
M. Bogomilov, R. Tsenov, G. Vankova-Kirilova +132
High-brightness muon beams of energy comparable to those produced by state-of-the-art electron, proton and ion accelerators have yet to be realised. Such beams have the potential t…
Neutrinos from Stored Muons nuSTORM: Expression of Interest
D. Adey, S. K. Agarwalla, C. M. Ankenbrandt +106
The nuSTORM facility has been designed to deliver beams of electron and muon neutrinos from the decay of a stored muon beam with a central momentum of 3.8 GeV/c and a momentum spre…
MAUS: The MICE Analysis User Software
R. Asfandiyarov, R. Bayes, V. Blackmore +43
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) collaboration has developed the MICE Analysis User Software (MAUS) to simulate and analyze experimental data. It serves as the primary…