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Physics Reach of Electron-Capture Neutrino Beams

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

To complete the picture of neutrino oscillations two fundamental parameters need to be measured, theta13 and delta. The next generation of long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments -superbeams, betabeams and neutrino factories- indeed take aim at measuring them. Here we explore the physics reach of a new candidate: an electron-capture neutrino beam. Emphasis is made on its feasibility thanks to the recent discovery of nuclei that decay fast through electron capture, and on the interplay with a betabeam (its closest relative).

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0510278,
  title  = {Physics Reach of Electron-Capture Neutrino Beams},
  author = {J. Bernabeu and J. Burguet-Castell and C. Espinoza and M. Lindroos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0510278},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 png figures. Talk given at the 7th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories and Superbeams (NuFact 05), Frascati, Italy, June 2005