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Optimization of the Two-Baseline Beta-Beam

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-05-07 v2 Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

We propose a β\beta-Beam experiment with four source ions and two baselines for the best possible sensitivity to θ13\theta_{13}, CP violation and mass hierarchy. Neutrinos from 18^{18}Ne and 6^6He with Lorentz boost γ=350\gamma=350 are detected in a 500 kton water \chr detector at a distance L=650 km from the source. Neutrinos from 8^8B and 8^8Li are detected in a 50 kton magnetized iron detector at a distance L=7000 km from the source. Since a tilt angle ϑ=34.5\vartheta=34.5^\circ is required to send the beam to the magic baseline, the far end of the ring has a maximum depth of d=2132d=2132 m. We alleviate this problem by proposing to trade reduction of the decay ring with the increase in the boost factor of the 8^8Li and 8^8B ions up to γ8Li=390\gamma_{^8\mathrm{Li}}=390 and γ8Li=650\gamma_{^8\mathrm{Li}}=650, such that the number of events at the detector remains almost the same. We study the sensitivity reach of this two-baseline two-storage ring β\beta-Beam experiment, and compare it with the corresponding reach of the other proposed facilities.

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@article{arxiv.0910.3627,
  title  = {Optimization of the Two-Baseline Beta-Beam},
  author = {Pilar Coloma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.3627},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

5 pages. Based on the talk given at Nufact09, Chicago, July 20-25, 2009. Typos corrected

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