This whitepaper reviews design options for the IsoDAR electron antineutrino source. IsoDAR is designed to produce 2.6×1022 electron antineutrinos per year with an average energy of 6.4 MeV, using isotope decay-at-rest. Aspects which must be balanced for cost-effectiveness include: overall cost; rate and energy distribution of the electron antineutrino flux and backgrounds; low technical risk; compactness; simplicity of underground construction and operation; reliability; value to future neutrino physics programs; and value to industry. We show that the baseline design outlined here is the most cost effective.
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@article{arxiv.1210.4454,
title = {Cost-effective Design Options for IsoDAR},
author = {A. Adelmann and J. R. Alonso and W. Barletta and R. Barlow and L. Bartoszek and A. Bungau and L. Calabretta and A. Calanna and D. Campo and J. M. Conrad and Z. Djurcic and Y. Kamyshkov and H. Owen and M. H. Shaevitz and I. Shimizu and T. Smidt and J. Spitz and M. Toups and M. Wascko and L. A. Winslow and J. J. Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.4454},
year = {2012}
}