Cyclotrons as Drivers for Precision Neutrino Measurements
As we enter the age of precision measurement in neutrino physics, improved flux sources are required. These must have a well defined flavor content with energies in ranges where backgrounds are low and cross-section knowledge is high. Very few sources of neutrinos can meet these requirements. Ho...
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| author | A. Adelmann J. Alonso W. A. Barletta J. M. Conrad M. H. Shaevitz J. Spitz M. Toups L. A. Winslow |
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| description | As we enter the age of precision measurement in neutrino
physics, improved flux sources are required. These must have a
well defined flavor content with energies in ranges where
backgrounds are low and cross-section knowledge is
high. Very few sources of neutrinos can meet these requirements. However, pion/muon and isotope decay-at-rest sources qualify. The ideal
drivers for decay-at-rest sources are cyclotron accelerators, which are compact and
relatively inexpensive. This paper describes a scheme to produce decay-at-rest sources driven by such cyclotrons, developed within the
DAEδALUS program. Examples of the value of the high
precision beams for pursuing Beyond Standard Model interactions are reviewed. New
results on a combined DAEδALUS—Hyper-K search for
CP violation that achieve errors on the mixing matrix parameter
of 4° to 12° are presented. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-677d4da5c4e645d29798c03201f2bb822025-02-03T06:44:21ZengWileyAdvances in High Energy Physics1687-73571687-73652014-01-01201410.1155/2014/347097347097Cyclotrons as Drivers for Precision Neutrino MeasurementsA. Adelmann0J. Alonso1W. A. Barletta2J. M. Conrad3M. H. Shaevitz4J. Spitz5M. Toups6L. A. Winslow7Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen, SwitzerlandMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USAMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USAMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USAColumbia University, New York, NY 10027, USAMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USAMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USAUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USAAs we enter the age of precision measurement in neutrino physics, improved flux sources are required. These must have a well defined flavor content with energies in ranges where backgrounds are low and cross-section knowledge is high. Very few sources of neutrinos can meet these requirements. However, pion/muon and isotope decay-at-rest sources qualify. The ideal drivers for decay-at-rest sources are cyclotron accelerators, which are compact and relatively inexpensive. This paper describes a scheme to produce decay-at-rest sources driven by such cyclotrons, developed within the DAEδALUS program. Examples of the value of the high precision beams for pursuing Beyond Standard Model interactions are reviewed. New results on a combined DAEδALUS—Hyper-K search for CP violation that achieve errors on the mixing matrix parameter of 4° to 12° are presented.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/347097 |
| spellingShingle | A. Adelmann J. Alonso W. A. Barletta J. M. Conrad M. H. Shaevitz J. Spitz M. Toups L. A. Winslow Cyclotrons as Drivers for Precision Neutrino Measurements Advances in High Energy Physics |
| title | Cyclotrons as Drivers for Precision Neutrino Measurements |
| title_full | Cyclotrons as Drivers for Precision Neutrino Measurements |
| title_fullStr | Cyclotrons as Drivers for Precision Neutrino Measurements |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cyclotrons as Drivers for Precision Neutrino Measurements |
| title_short | Cyclotrons as Drivers for Precision Neutrino Measurements |
| title_sort | cyclotrons as drivers for precision neutrino measurements |
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