GLAS-PPE/2008-15

Alignment Errors on Emittance Measurements for MICE

David Forrest(1), F.J.P Soler(1)

(1) University of Glasgow, Kelvin Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland.

A first study on the effect of misaligning the downstream spectrometer of the Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment (MICE) upon the measurement of fractional emittance change is presented. This preliminary study has limited statistical accuracy, but already shows that the MICE spectrometer trackers need to satisfy alignment constraints on both trackers of 3 mm in positional and 1 mrad in rotational accuracy to achieve the MICE stated experimental goals of ~1% error on the fractional emittance change due to the cooling channel.

10th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Super beams and Beta beams,
30 June - 5 July 2008, Valencia, Spain

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