Abstract : The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE), which is under construction at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), will demonstrate the principle of ionization cooling as a technique for the reduction of the phase-space volume occupied by a muon beam. Ionization cooling channels are required for the Neutrino Factory and the Muon Collider. MICE will evaluate in detail the performance of a single lattice cell of the Feasibility Study 2 cooling channel. The MICE Muon Beam has been constructed at the ISIS synchrotron at RAL, and in MICE Step I, it has been characterized using the MICE beam-instrumentation system. In this paper, the MICE Muon Beam and beam-line instrumentation are described. The muon rate is presented as a function of the beam loss generated by the MICE target dipping into the ISIS proton beam. For a 1 V signal from the ISIS beam-loss monitors downstream of our target we obtain a 30 KHz instantaneous muon rate, with a neglible pion contamination in the beam.
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M. Bogomilov, Y. Karadzhov, D. Kolev, I. Russinov, R. Tsenov, et al.. The MICE Muon Beam on ISIS and the beam-line instrumentation of the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment. Journal of Instrumentation, IOP Publishing, 2012, 7, pp.P05009. ⟨10.1088/1748-0221/7/05/P05009⟩. ⟨in2p3-00708450⟩