English

Perspectives for a neutrino program based on the upgrades of the CERN accelerator complex

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the possibilities offered to neutrino physics by the upgrades of the CERN accelerator complex. Emphasis is on the physics reach of a medium γ\gamma (350-580) β\beta-beam that fully exploits the improvements in the CERN accelerator complex for the luminosity/energy upgrade of the LHC. We show that, this design not only profits of the ongoing efforts for the upgrades of the LHC, but also leverage out the existing infrastructures of the LNGS underground laboratory. Furthermore, given the involved high neutrino energies, above 1 GeV, a non-magnetized iron detector could efficiently exploit the neutrino beam. We show that the performance of this complex for what concerns the discovery of the CP violation in the leptonic sector, in case θ13\theta_{13} is discovered by Phase I experiments, is comparable with the current baseline design based on a gigantic water Cherenkov at Frejus. Furthermore, this complex has also some sensitivity to the neutrino mass hierarchy.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0511134,
  title  = {Perspectives for a neutrino program based on the upgrades of the CERN accelerator complex},
  author = {A. Donini and E. Fernandez and P. Migliozzi and S. Rigolin and L. Scotto Lavina and T. Tabarelli de Fatis and F. Terranova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0511134},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Paper to appear in the Proceedings of the LHC LUMI 2005 Workshop, Arcidosso, Italy, 31 august - 3 september