The Acceleration and Storage of Radioactive Ions for a Beta-Beam Facility
Accelerator Physics
2016-09-08 v1
Abstract
The term beta-beam has been coined for the production of a pure beam of electron neutrinos or their antiparticles through the decay of radioactive ions circulating in a storage ring. This concept requires radioactive ions to be accelerated to as high Lorentz gamma as 150. The neutrino source itself consists of a storage ring for this energy range, with long straight sections in line with the experiment(s). Such a decay ring does not exist at CERN today, nor does a high-intensity proton source for the production of the radioactive ions. Nevertheless, the existing CERN accelerator infrastructure could be used as this would still represent an important saving for a beta-beam facility.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0312042,
title = {The Acceleration and Storage of Radioactive Ions for a Beta-Beam Facility},
author = {Mats Lindroos and the beta-beam Working Group},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0312042},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
beta-beam working group website at http://cern.ch/beta-beam