High-$\gamma$ Beta Beams within the LAGUNA design study
Abstract
Within the LAGUNA design study, seven candidate sites are being assessed for their feasibility to host a next-generation, very large neutrino observatory. Such a detector will be expected to feature within a future European accelerator neutrino programme (Superbeam or Beta Beam), and hence the distance from CERN is of critical importance. In this article, the focus is a Ne and He Beta Beam sourced at CERN and directed towards a 50 kton Liquid Argon detector located at the LAGUNA sites: Slanic (L=1570 km) and Pyh\"{a}salmi (L=2300 km). To improve sensitivity to the neutrino mass ordering, these baselines are then combined with a concurrent run with the same flux directed towards a large Water \v{C}erenkov detector located at Canfranc (L=650 km). This degeneracy breaking combination is shown to provide comparable physics reach to the conservative Magic Baseline Beta Beam proposals. For Ne ions boosted to and He ions boosted to , the correct mass ordering can be determined at Slanic for all when in this combination.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1004.0939,
title = {High-$\gamma$ Beta Beams within the LAGUNA design study},
author = {Christopher Orme},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.0939},
year = {2010}
}
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16 pages, 2 figures