A Proposal for a Three Detector Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Program in the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam
Abstract
A Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) physics program of three LAr-TPC detectors located along the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab is presented. This new SBN Program will deliver a rich and compelling physics opportunity, including the ability to resolve a class of experimental anomalies in neutrino physics and to perform the most sensitive search to date for sterile neutrinos at the eV mass-scale through both appearance and disappearance oscillation channels. Using data sets of 6.6e20 protons on target (P.O.T.) in the LAr1-ND and ICARUS T600 detectors plus 13.2e20 P.O.T. in the MicroBooNE detector, we estimate that a search for muon neutrino to electron neutrino appearance can be performed with ~5 sigma sensitivity for the LSND allowed (99% C.L.) parameter region. In this proposal for the SBN Program, we describe the physics analysis, the conceptual design of the LAr1-ND detector, the design and refurbishment of the T600 detector, the necessary infrastructure required to execute the program, and a possible reconfiguration of the BNB target and horn system to improve its performance for oscillation searches.
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@article{arxiv.1503.01520,
title = {A Proposal for a Three Detector Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Program in the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam},
author = {R. Acciarri and C. Adams and R. An and C. Andreopoulos and A. M. Ankowski and M. Antonello and J. Asaadi and W. Badgett and L. Bagby and B. Baibussinov and B. Baller and G. Barr and N. Barros and M. Bass and V. Bellini and P. Benetti and S. Bertolucci and K. Biery and H. Bilokon and M. Bishai and A. Bitadze and A. Blake and F. Boffelli and T. Bolton and M. Bonesini and J. Bremer and S. J. Brice and C. Bromberg and L. Bugel and E. Calligarich and L. Camilleri and D. Caratelli and B. Carls and F. Cavanna and S. Centro and H. Chen and C. Chi and E. Church and D. Cianci and A. G. Cocco and G. H. Collin and J. M. Conrad and M. Convery and G. De Geronimo and A. Dermenev and R. Dharmapalan and S. Dixon and Z. Djurcic and S. Dytmam and B. Eberly and A. Ereditato and J. Esquivel and J. Evans and A. Falcone and C. Farnese and A. Fava and A. Ferrari and B. T. Fleming and W. M. Foreman and J. Freestone and T. Gamble and G. Garvey and V. Genty and M. Geynisman and D. Gibin and S. Gninenko and D. Göldi and S. Gollapinni and N. Golubev and M. Graham and E. Gramellini and H. Greenlee and R. Grosso and R. Guenette and A. Guglielmi and A. Hackenburg and R. Hänni and O. Hen and V Hewes and J. Ho and G. Horton-Smith and J. Howell and A. Ivashkin and C. James and C. M. Jen and R. A. Johnson and B. J. P. Jones and J. Joshi and H. Jostlein and D. Kaleko and L. N. Kalousis and G. Karagiorgi and W. Ketchum and B. Kirby and M. Kirby and M. Kirsanov and J. Kisiel and J. Klein and J. Klinger and T. Kobilarcik and U. Kose and I. Kreslo and V. A. Kudryavtsev and Y. Li and B. Littlejohn and D. Lissauer and P. Livesly and S. Lockwitz and W. C. Louis and M. Lüthi and B. Lundberg and F. Mammoliti and G. Mannocchi and A. Marchionni and C. Mariani and J. Marshall and K. Mavrokoridis and N. McCauley and N. McConkey and K. McDonald and V. Meddage and A. Menegolli and G. Meng and I. Mercer and T. Miao and T. Miceli and G. B. Mills and D. Mladenov and C. Montanari and D. Montanari and J. Moon and M. Mooney and C. Moore and Z. Moss and M. H. Moulai and S. Mufson and R. Murrells and D. Naples and M. Nessi and M. Nicoletto and P. Nienaber and B. Norris and F. Noto and J. Nowak and S. Pal and O. Palamara and V. Paolone and V. Papavassiliou and S. Pate and J. Pater and Z. Pavlovic and J. Perkin and P. Picchi and F. Pietropaolo and P. Płoński and S. Pordes and R. Potenza and G. Pulliam and X. Qian and L. Qiuguang and J. L. Raaf and V. Radeka and R. Rameika and A. Rappoldi and G. L. Raselli and P. N. Ratoff and B. Rebel and M. Richardson and L. Rochester and M. Rossella and C. Rubbia and C. Rudolf von Rohr and B. Russell and P. Sala and A. Scaramelli and D. W. Schmitz and A. Schukraft and W. Seligman and M. H. Shaevitz and B. Sippach and E. Snider and J. Sobczyk and M. Soderberg and S. Söldner-Rembold and M. Spanu and J. Spitz and N. Spooner and D. Stefan and J. St. John and T. Strauss and R. Sulej and C. M. Sutera and A. M. Szelc and N. Tagg and C. E. Taylor and K. Terao and M. Thiesse and L. Thompson and M. Thomson and C. Thorn and M. Torti and F. Tortorici and M. Toups and C. Touramanis and Y. Tsai and T. Usher and R. Van de Water and F. Varanini and S. Ventura and C. Vignoli and T. Wachala and M. Weber and D. Whittington and P. Wilson and S. Wolbers and T. Wongjirad and K. Woodruff and M. Xu and T. Yang and B. Yu and A. Zani and G. P. Zeller and J. Zennamo and C. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.01520},
year = {2023}
}
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209 pages, 129 figures