The EUROnu Project
Abstract
The EUROnu project has studied three possible options for future, high intensity neutrino oscillation facilities in Europe. The first is a Super Beam, in which the neutrinos come from the decay of pions created by bombarding targets with a 4 MW proton beam from the CERN High Power Superconducting Proton Linac. The far detector for this facility is the 500 kt MEMPHYS water Cherenkov, located in the Fr\'ejus tunnel. The second facility is the Neutrino Factory, in which the neutrinos come from the decay of {\mu}+ and {\mu}- beams in a storage ring. The far detector in this case is a 100 kt Magnetised Iron Neutrino Detector at a baseline of 2000 km. The third option is a Beta Beam, in which the neutrinos come from the decay of beta emitting isotopes, in particular 6He and 18Ne, also stored in a ring. The far detector is also the MEMPHYS detector in the Fr\'ejus tunnel. EUROnu has undertaken conceptual designs of these facilities and studied the performance of the detectors. Based on this, it has determined the physics reach of each facility, in particular for the measurement of CP violation in the lepton sector, and estimated the cost of construction. These have demonstrated that the best facility to build is the Neutrino Factory. However, if a powerful proton driver is constructed for another purpose or if the MEMPHYS detector is built for astroparticle physics, the Super Beam also becomes very attractive.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1305.4067,
title = {The EUROnu Project},
author = {T. R. Edgecock and O. Caretta and T. Davenne and C. Densham and M. Fitton and D. Kelliher and P. Loveridge and S. Machida and C. Prior and C. Rogers and M. Rooney and J. Thomason and D. Wilcox and E. Wildner and I. Efthymiopoulos and R. Garoby and S. Gilardoni and C. Hansen and E. Benedetto and E. Jensen and A. Kosmicki and M. Martini and J. Osborne and G. Prior and T. Stora and T. Melo-Mendonca and V. Vlachoudis and C. Waaijer and P. Cupial and A. Chancé and A. Longhin and J. Payet and M. Zito and E. Baussan and C. Bobeth and E. Bouquerel and M. Dracos and G. Gaudiot and B. Lepers and F. Osswald and P. Poussot and N. Vassilopoulos and J. Wurtz and V. Zeter and J. Bielski and M. Kozien and L. Lacny and B. Skoczen and B. Szybinski and A. Ustrycka and A. Wroblewski and M. Marie-Jeanne and P. Balint and C. Fourel and J. Giraud and J. Jacob and T. Lamy and L. Latrasse and P. Sortais and T. Thuillier and S. Mitrofanov and M. Loiselet and Th. Keutgen and Th. Delbar and F. Debray and C. Trophine and S. Veys and C. Daversin and V. Zorin and I. Izotov and V. Skalyga and G. Burt and A. C. Dexter and V. L. Kravchuk and T. Marchi and M. Cinausero and F. Gramegna and G. De Angelis and G. Prete and G. Collazuol and M. Laveder and M. Mazzocco and M. Mezzetto and C. Signorini and E. Vardaci and A. Di Nitto and A. Brondi and G. La Rana and P. Migliozzi and R. Moro and V. Palladino and N. Gelli and D. Berkovits and M. Hass and T. Y. Hirsh and M. Schaumann and A. Stahl and J. Wehner and A. Bross and J. Kopp and D. Neuffer and R. Wands and R. Bayes and A. Laing and P. Soler and S. K. Agarwalla and A. Cervera Villanueva and A. Donini and T. Ghosh and J. J. Gómez Cadenas and P. Hernández and J. Martín-Albo and O. Mena and J. Burguet-Castell and L. Agostino and M. Buizza-Avanzini and M. Marafini and T. Patzak and A. Tonazzo and D. Duchesneau and L. Mosca and M. Bogomilov and Y. Karadzhov and R. Matev and R. Tsenov and E. Akhmedov and M. Blennow and M. Lindner and T. Schwetz and E. Fernández Martinez and M. Maltoni and J. Menéndez and C. Giunti and M. C. González García and J. Salvado and P. Coloma and P. Huber and T. Li and J. López-Pavón and C. Orme and S. Pascoli and D. Meloni and J. Tang and W. Winter and T. Ohlsson and H. Zhang and L. Scotto-Lavina and F. Terranova and M. Bonesini and L. Tortora and A. Alekou and M. Aslaninejad and C. Bontoiu and A. Kurup and L. J. Jenner and K. Long and J. Pasternak and J. Pozimski and J. J. Back and P. Harrison and K. Beard and A. Bogacz and J. S. Berg and D. Stratakis and H. Witte and P. Snopok and N. Bliss and M. Cordwell and A. Moss and S. Pattalwar and M. Apollonio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.4067},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
Results from the Framework Programme 7 project EUROnu, which studied three possible accelerator facilities for future high intensity neutrino oscillation facilities in Europe