Author: Skalyga, V.
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WEPS024 Beta Beams: An Accelerator-based Facility to Explore Neutrino Oscillation Physics 2535
 
  • E.H.M. Wildner, E. Benedetto, T. De Melo Mendonca, C. Hansen, T. Stora
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • D. Berkovits
    Soreq NRC, Yavne, Israel
  • G. Burt, A.C. Dexter
    Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
  • A. Chancé, J. Payet
    CEA/DSM/IRFU, France
  • M. Cinausero, G. De Angelis, F. Gramegna, T. Marchi, G.P. Prete
    INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD), Italy
  • G. Collazuol
    Univ. degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
  • F. Debray, C. Trophime
    GHMFL, Grenoble, France
  • T. Delbar, T. Keutgen, M. Loiselet, S. Mitrofanov
    UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • G. Di Rosa
    INFN-Napoli, Napoli, Italy
  • M. Hass, T. Hirsch
    Weizmann Institute of Science, Physics, Rehovot, Israel
  • I. Izotov, S. Razin, V. Skalyga, V. Zorin
    IAP/RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
  • L.V. Kravchuk
    RAS/INR, Moscow, Russia
  • T. Lamy, L. Latrasse, M. Marie-Jeanne, T. Thuillier
    LPSC, Grenoble Cedex, France
  • M. Mezzetto
    INFN- Sez. di Padova, Padova, Italy
  • A.V. Sidorov
    BINP SB RAS, Protvino, Moscow Region, Russia
  • P. Sortais
    ISN, Grenoble, France
  • A. Stahl
    RWTH, Aachen, Germany
  
  Funding: This contribution is a project funded by European Community under the European Commission Framework Programme 7 Design Study: EUROnu, Project Number 212372.
The re­cent dis­cov­ery of neu­tri­no os­cil­la­tions, has im­pli­ca­tions for the Stan­dard Model of par­ti­cle physics (SM). Know­ing the con­tri­bu­tion of neu­tri­nos to the SM, needs pre­cise mea­sure­ments of the pa­ram­e­ters gov­ern­ing the neu­tri­no os­cil­la­tions. The EUROν De­sign Study will re­view three fa­cil­i­ties (the so-called Su­per-Beams, Beta Beams and Neu­tri­no Fac­to­ries) and per­form a cost as­sess­ment that, cou­pled with the physics per­for­mance, will give means to the Eu­ro­pean re­search au­thor­i­ties to make a de­ci­sion on fu­ture Eu­ro­pean neu­tri­no os­cil­la­tion fa­cil­i­ty. "Beta Beams" pro­duce col­li­mat­ed pure elec­tron (anti-)neu­tri­no by ac­cel­er­at­ing beta ac­tive ions to high en­er­gies and hav­ing them decay in a stor­age ring. EUROν Beta Beams are based on CERN’s in­fras­truc­ture and ex­ist­ing ma­chines. Using ex­ist­ing ma­chines is an ad­van­tage for the cost eval­u­a­tion, how­ev­er, this choice is also con­strain­ing the Beta Beams. Re­cent work to make the Beta Beam fa­cil­i­ty a solid op­tion will be de­scribed: pro­duc­tion of Beta Beam iso­topes, the 60 GHz pulsed ECR source de­vel­op­ment, in­te­gra­tion into the LHC-up­grades, en­sure the high in­ten­si­ty ion beam sta­bil­i­ty, and op­ti­miza­tions to get high neu­tri­no flux­es.