Neutrinos from Stored Muons nuSTORM: Expression of Interest
Abstract
The nuSTORM facility has been designed to deliver beams of electron and muon neutrinos from the decay of a stored muon beam with a central momentum of 3.8 GeV/c and a momentum spread of 10%. The facility is unique in that it will: serve the future long- and short-baseline neutrino-oscillation programmes by providing definitive measurements of electron-neutrino- and muon-neutrino-nucleus cross sections with percent-level precision; allow searches for sterile neutrinos of exquisite sensitivity to be carried out; and constitute the essential first step in the incremental development of muon accelerators as a powerful new technique for particle physics. Of the world's proton-accelerator laboratories, only CERN and FNAL have the infrastructure required to mount nuSTORM. Since no siting decision has yet been taken, the purpose of this Expression of Interest (EoI) is to request the resources required to: investigate in detail how nuSTORM could be implemented at CERN; and develop options for decisive European contributions to the nuSTORM facility and experimental programme wherever the facility is sited. The EoI defines a two-year programme culminating in the delivery of a Technical Design Report.
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@article{arxiv.1305.1419,
title = {Neutrinos from Stored Muons nuSTORM: Expression of Interest},
author = {D. Adey and S. K. Agarwalla and C. M. Ankenbrandt and R. Asfandiyarov and J. J. Back and G. Barker and E. Baussan and R. Bayes and S. Bhadra and V. Blackmore and A. Blondel and S. A. Bogacz and C. Booth and S. B. Boyd and A. Bravar and S. J. Brice and A. D. Bross and F. Cadoux and H. Cease and A. Cervera and J. Cobb and D. Colling and L. Coney and A. Dobbs and J. Dobson and A. Donini and P. J. Dornan and M. Dracos and F. Dufour and R. Edgecock and J. Evans and M. A. George and T. Ghosh and A. deGouvea and J. J. Gomez-Cadenas and A. Haesler and G. Hanson and M. Geelhoed and P. F. Harrison and M. Hartz and P. Hernandez and J. A. Hernando-Morata and P. J. Hodgson and P. Huber and A. Izmaylov and Y. Karadhzov and T. Kobilarcik and J. Kopp and L. Kormos and A. Korzenev and A. Kurup and Y. Kuno and P. Kyberd and J. P. Lagrange and A. M. Laing and J. Link and A. Liu and K. R. Long and N. McCauley and K. T. McDonald and K. Mahn and C. Martin and J. Martin and O. Mena and S. R. Mishra and N. Mokhov and J. Morfin and Y. Mori and W. Murray and D. Neuffer and R. Nichol and E. Noah and M. A. Palmer and S. Parke and S. Pascoli and J. Pasternak and M. Popovic and P. Ratoff and M. Ravonel and M. Rayner and S. Ricciardi and C. Rogers and P. Rubinov and E. Santos and A. Sato and E. Scantamburlo and J. K. Sedgbeer and D. R. Smith and P. J. Smith and J. T. Sobczyk and S. Soldner-Rembold and F. J. P. Soler and M. Sorel and A. Stahl and L. Stanco and P. Stamoulis and S. Striganov and H. Tanaka and I. J. Taylor and C. Touramanis and C. D. Tunnel and Y. Uchida and N. Vassilopoulos and M. O. Wascko and A. Weber and E. Wildner and M. J. Wilking and W. Winter and U. K. Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.1419},
year = {2013}
}
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59 pages; 24 figures; 5 tables