Status of the nuSTORM Facility and a Possible Extension for Long-Baseline $$\nu$$ Oscillation Experiments

Conference · Tue Nov 03 04:00:00 EST 2015 · PoS

OSTI ID:1250492

Bross, Alan D. ^[1]; Liu, Ao ^[1]; Lagrange, Jean-Baptiste ^[2]; Pasternak, Jaroslaw ^[2]

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1. Fermilab
2. Imperial Coll., London

Neutrino beams produced from the decay of muons in a racetrack-like decay ring (the so called Neutrino Factory) provide a powerful way to study neutrino oscillation physics and, in addition, provide unique beams for neutrino interaction studies. The Neutrinos from STORed Muons (nuSTORM) facility uses a neutrino factory-like design. Due to the particular nature of nuSTORM, it can also provide an intense, very pure, muon neutrino beam from pion decay. This so-called “Neo-conventional" muon neutrino beam from nuSTORM makes nuSTORM a hybrid neutrino factory. In this paper we describe the facility and give a detailed description of the neutrino beam fluxes that are available and the precision to which these fluxes can be determined. We then present sensitivity plots that indicated how well the facility can perform for short-baseline oscillation searches and show its potential for a neutrino interaction physics program. Finally, we comment on the performance potential of the "Neo-conventional" muon neutrino beam optimized for long- baseline neutrino-oscillation physics.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1250492
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-CONF-15-475-APC; 1402553
• Conference Information: Journal Name: PoS Journal Volume: EPS-HEP2015
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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