Oscillations and Cross Sections at the SNS with a Large Cerenkov Detector
Abstract
MiniBooNE at FermiLab should be able to confirm or refute the LSND Decay-in-Flight oscillation signal within a few years. The primary evidence of neutrino oscillations from the LSND was in the anti-neutrino channel channel, which may not be accessible at MiniBooNE for many years. The rates of signal and background are presented for a MiniBooNE style detector with a 250 ton mineral oil fiducial mass (300m fiducial volume) placed 60 meters from the Oak Ridge SNS beam stop. Several hundred events could be measured in one beam year, even at the conservative end of the combined analysis of LSND and KARMEN. The same detector could easily measure neutrino-nucleus cross sections if filled with any interesting transparent fluid, several of which are suggested here. The rate and backgrounds for a methylene iodide filled detector are also presented as an example.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/0309014,
title = {Oscillations and Cross Sections at the SNS with a Large Cerenkov Detector},
author = {Gordon J. VanDalen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/0309014},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
28 pages, 12 figures. Based on a talk given at Neutrino Studies at the Spallation Neutron Source Workshop, August 28-29, 2003, Oak Ridge, TN