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Oscillations and Cross Sections at the SNS with a Large Cerenkov Detector

Nuclear Experiment 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

MiniBooNE at FermiLab should be able to confirm or refute the LSND Decay-in-Flight νμνe\nu_\mu \to \nu_e oscillation signal within a few years. The primary evidence of neutrino oscillations from the LSND was in the anti-neutrino channel νˉμνˉe\bar{\nu}_\mu \to \bar{\nu}_e 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 (\sim300m3^3 fiducial volume) placed 60 meters from the Oak Ridge SNS beam stop. Several hundred νˉμνˉe\bar{\nu}_\mu \to \bar{\nu}_e 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.

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@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