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Title: High intensity neutrino oscillation facilities in Europe

Journal Article · · Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beams
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  1. STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab., Oxon (United Kingdom)
  2. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)
  3. AGH Univ. of Science and Technology, Krakow (Poland)
  4. Irfu, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
  5. Univ. de Strasbourg, Strasbourg (France)
  6. Cracow Univ. of Technology, Krakow (Poland)
  7. Univ. Joseph Fourier Grenoble, Grenoble (France)
  8. Univ. Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
  9. Univ. Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (France)
  10. Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod (Russia)
  11. Lancaster Univ., Lancaster (United Kingdom)
  12. Lab. Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Italy)
  13. Padova Univ. and INFN, Padova (Italy)
  14. INFN, Napoli (Italy)
  15. INFN, Firenze (Italy)
  16. Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot (Israel); Soreq NRC, Yavne (Israel)
  17. Aachen Univ. (Germany)
  18. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  19. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Max Planck Institut fur Kernphysik, Heidelberg (Germany)
  20. Univ. of Glasgow, Glasgow (United Kingdom)
  21. Univ. de Valencia, Valencia (Spain)
  22. Univ. de Valencia, Valencia (Spain); Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid (Spain)
  23. Univ. de Illes Balears (Spain)
  24. Univ. Paris Diderot, Paris (France)
  25. Univ. de Savoie, Annecy-le-Vieux (France)
  26. Lab. Souterrain de Modane, Modane (France)
  27. St. Kliment Ohridski Univ. of Sofia, Sofia (Bulgaria)
  28. Max Planck Institut fur Kernphysik, Heidelberg (Germany)
  29. Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid (Spain)
  30. INFN, Torino (Italy)
  31. Univ. de Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain); State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY (United States)
  32. Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)
  33. Univ. of Durham, Durham (United Kingdom)
  34. Univ. Wurzburg, Wurzburg (Germany)
  35. AlbaNova Univ. Centre, Stockholm (Sweden)
  36. Univ. of Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland)
  37. Lab. Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Italy)
  38. Sezione Milano Bicocca, Milano (Italy)
  39. INFN, Roma (Italy)
  40. Imperial College, London (United Kingdom)
  41. Imperial College, London (United Kingdom); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  42. Univ. of Warwick, Coventry (United Kingdom)
  43. Muons Inc., Batavia, IL (United States)
  44. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
  45. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  46. Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL (United States)
  47. STFC Daresbury Lab., Daresbury (United Kingdom)
  48. Diamond Light Source, Oxon (United Kingdom)
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The EUROnu project has studied three possible options for future, high intensity neutrino oscillation facilities in Europe. The first is a Super Beam, in which the neutrinos come from the decay of pions created by bombarding targets with a 4 MW proton beam from the CERN High Power Superconducting Proton Linac. The far detector for this facility is the 500 kt MEMPHYS water Cherenkov, located in the Fréjus tunnel. The second facility is the Neutrino Factory, in which the neutrinos come from the decay of μ+ and μ– beams in a storage ring. The far detector in this case is a 100 kt magnetized iron neutrino detector at a baseline of 2000 km. The third option is a Beta Beam, in which the neutrinos come from the decay of beta emitting isotopes, in particular 6He and 18Ne, also stored in a ring. The far detector is also the MEMPHYS detector in the Fréjus tunnel. EUROnu has undertaken conceptual designs of these facilities and studied the performance of the detectors. Based on this, it has determined the physics reach of each facility, in particular for the measurement of CP violation in the lepton sector, and estimated the cost of construction. These have demonstrated that the best facility to build is the Neutrino Factory. Furthermore, if a powerful proton driver is constructed for another purpose or if the MEMPHYS detector is built for astroparticle physics, the Super Beam also becomes very attractive.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1333685
Report Number(s):
arXiv:1305.4067; FERMILAB-PUB-13-656-APC-PPD; PRABFM; 1233867
Journal Information:
Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beams, Vol. 16, Issue 2; ISSN 1098-4402
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 31 works
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The European Spallation Source neutrino Super Beam Design Study journal September 2018
The mass-hierarchy and CP-violation discovery reach of the LBNO long-baseline neutrino experiment text January 2013
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