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Beta Beams

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

Beta Beams could address the needs of long term neutrino oscillation experiments. They can produce extremely pure neutrino beams through the decays of relativistic radioactive ions. The baseline scenario is described, together with its physics performances. Using a megaton water Cerenkov detector installed under the Frejus, Beta Beams could improve by a factor 200 the present limits on sin22\thetaot\sin^2{2 \thetaot} and discover leptonic CP violating effects if the CP phase delta would be greater than 30 degree and theta13 greater than 1 degree. These performances can be further improved if a neutrino SuperBeam generated by the SPL 4MW, 2.2 GeV, proton Linac would be fired to the same detector. Innovative ideas on higher and lower energy Beta Beams are also described.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0410083,
  title  = {Beta Beams},
  author = {M. Mezzetto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0410083},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

To appear in the proceedings of 21st International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino 2004), Paris, France, 14-19 Jun 2004