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We discuss the optimal setup for a low energy neutrino factory in order to achieve a 5\sigma-discovery of a nonzero mixing angle \theta_{13}, a nonzero CP phase \delta_{CP}, and the mass hierarchy. We explore parent muon energies in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-08 Amol Dighe , Srubabati Goswami , Shamayita Ray

We present an optimization of the hadron focusing system for a low-energy high-intensity conventional neutrino beam (Super-Beam) proposed on the basis of the HP-SPL at CERN with a beam power of 4 MW and an energy of 4.5 GeV. The far…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Longhin

The goal for future neutrino facilities is the determination of the $[U_{e3}]$ mixing and CP violation in neutrino oscillations. This will require precision experiments with a very intense neutrino source. With this objective the creation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 José Bernabéu , Catalina Espinoza

In the search for a monochromatic peak as the signature of neutrinoless double beta decay an excellent energy resolution and an ultra-low background around the $Q$-value of the decay are essential. The LEGEND-200 experiment performs such a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-02 L. Baudis , G. Benato , E. M. Bond , P. -J. Chiu , S. R. Elliott , R. Massarczyk , S. Meijer , Y. Müller

The Double Chooz experiment presents improved measurements of the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ using the data collected in 467.90 live days from a detector positioned at an average distance of 1050 m from two reactor cores at the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-03-03 Y. Abe , J. C. dos Anjos , J. C. Barriere , E. Baussan , I. Bekman , M. Bergevin , T. J. C. Bezerra , L. Bezrukov , E. Blucher , C. Buck , J. Busenitz , A. Cabrera , E. Caden , L. Camilleri , R. Carr , M. Cerrada , P. -J. Chang , E. Chauveau , P. Chimenti , A. P. Collin , E. Conover , J. M. Conrad , J. I. Crespo-Anadón , K. Crum , A. S. Cucoanes , E. Damon , J. V. Dawson , J. Dhooghe , D. Dietrich , Z. Djurcic , M. Dracos , M. Elnimr , A. Etenko , M. Fallot , F. von Feilitzsch , J. Felde , S. M. Fernandes , V. Fischer , D. Franco , M. Franke , H. Furuta , I. Gil-Botella , L. Giot , M. Göger-Neff , L. F. G. Gonzalez , L. Goodenough , M. C. Goodman , C. Grant , N. Haag , T. Hara , J. Haser , M. Hofmann , G. A. Horton-Smith , A. Hourlier , M. Ishitsuka , J. Jochum , C. Jollet , F. Kaether , L. N. Kalousis , Y. Kamyshkov , D. M. Kaplan , T. Kawasaki , E. Kemp , H. de Kerret , D. Kryn , M. Kuze , T. Lachenmaier , C. E. Lane , T. Lasserre , A. Letourneau , D. Lhuillier , H. P. Lima , M. Lindner , J. M. López-Castaño , J. M. LoSecco , B. Lubsandorzhiev , S. Lucht , J. Maeda , C. Mariani , J. Maricic , J. Martino , T. Matsubara , G. Mention , A. Meregaglia , T. Miletic , R. Milincic , A. Minotti , Y. Nagasaka , Y. Nikitenko , P. Novella , L. Oberauer , M. Obolensky , A. Onillon , A. Osborn , C. Palomares , I. M. Pepe , S. Perasso , P. Pfahler , A. Porta , G. Pronost , J. Reichenbacher , B. Reinhold , M. Röhling , R. Roncin , S. Roth , B. Rybolt , Y. Sakamoto , R. Santorelli , A. C. Schilithz , S. Schönert , S. Schoppmann , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Sharankova , S. Shimojima , D. Shrestha , V. Sibille , V. Sinev , M. Skorokhvatov , E. Smith , J. Spitz , A. Stahl , I. Stancu , L. F. F. Stokes , M. Strait , A. Stüken , F. Suekane , S. Sukhotin , T. Sumiyoshi , Y. Sun , R. Svoboda , K. Terao , A. Tonazzo , H. H. Trinh Thi , G. Valdiviesso , N. Vassilopoulos , C. Veyssiere , M. Vivier , S. Wagner , N. Walsh , H. Watanabe , C. Wiebusch , L. Winslow , M. Wurm , G. Yang , F. Yermia , V. Zimmer

The low energy neutrino factory has been proposed as a very sensitive setup for future searches for CP violation and matter effects. Here we study how its performance is affected when the experimental specifications of the setup are varied.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-12 Enrique Fernandez-Martinez , Tracey Li , Olga Mena , Silvia Pascoli

The possibility of making a low cost, very intense (1MW) high energy proton source at the Brookhaven Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (BNL-AGS) along with the forthcoming new large underground detectors (approaching 1 MT in mass) at the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 BNL Neutrino Working Group , M. Diwan

We show that a source-to-detector distance of 2540 km offers multiple advantages for a low energy neutrino factory with a detector that can identify muon charge. At this baseline, for any neutrino hierarchy, the wrong-sign muon signal is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-28 Amol Dighe , Srubabati Goswami , Shamayita Ray

The Beta Beam CERN design is based on the present LHC injection complex and its physics reach is mainly limited by the maximum rigidity of the SPS. In fact, some of the scenarios for the machine upgrades of the LHC, particularly the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 A. Donini , E. Fernandez-Martinez , P. Migliozzi , S. Rigolin , L. Scotto Lavina , T. Tabarelli de Fatis , F. Terranova

The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has measured the neutrino mixing angle \theta_{13} to world-leading precision. The experiment uses eight antineutrino detectors filled with 20-tons of gadolinium-doped liquid scintillator to detect…

In this letter we present the study of the eightfold degeneracy in the $(\theta_{13},\delta)$ measurement including both appearance and disappearance channels. We analyse, for definiteness, the case of a standard low-$\gamma$ $\beta$-Beam…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 A. Donini , E. Fernandez-Martinez , S. Rigolin

Motivated by recent hints of large {\theta}13 from the T2K, MINOS and Double Chooz experiments, we study the physics reach of a Low Energy Neutrino Factory (LENF) and its dependence on the chosen baseline distance, L, and stored-muon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-20 Peter Ballett , Silvia Pascoli

The Protvino accelerator facility located in the Moscow region, Russia, is in a good position to offer a rich experimental research program in the field of neutrino physics. Of particular interest is the possibility to direct a neutrino…

Background of germanium and xenon detectors due to the elastic scattering of $^{8}B$ solar neutrinos on electrons have been calculated. The background is 4.6 \times $10^{-4}$ counts/(keV$\cdot t\cdot$y) that defines the sensitivity of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander A. Klimenko

We study the sensitivity of a long-base-line (LBL) experiment with neutrino beams from the High Intensity Proton Accelerator (HIPA), that delivers 10^{21} POT per year, and a proposed 1Mt water-Cherenkov detector, Hyper-Kamiokande (HK)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mayumi Aoki , Kaoru Hagiwara , Naotoshi Okamura

Neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) is one of the most sensitive approaches to test particle physics beyond the standard model. During the last years, besides the most restrictive limit on the effective Majorana neutrino mass,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 H. Päs

We present a detailed quantitative discussion of the measurement of the leptonic mixing angle $\sin^2 2 \theta_{13}$ with a future reactor neutrino oscillation experiment consisting of a near and far detector. We perform a thorough analysis…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Huber , M. Lindner , T. Schwetz , W. Winter

The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) is a next-generation accelerator primarily designed to study the internal structure of nucleons through high-precision electron-hadron collisions. In this work, we explore the feasibility of employing a 1 MW…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-06 Nishat Fiza , Mehedi Masud , Kim Siyeon , Guang Yang

This paper describes the performance and sensitivity to neutrino mixing parameters of a Magnetised Iron Neutrino Detector (MIND) at a Neutrino Factory with a neutrino beam created from the decay of 10 GeV muons. Specifically, it is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-10-14 R. Bayes , A. Laing , F. J. P. Soler , A. Cervera Villanueva , J. J. Gómez Cadenas , P. Hernández , J. Martín-Albo , J. Burguet-Castell

Current long-baseline neutrino-oscillation experiments such as NO$\nu$A and T2K are mainly sensitive to physics in the neighbourhood of the first oscillation maximum of the $\nu_\mu \to \nu_e$ oscillation probability. The future Deep…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-04 Jogesh Rout , Sheeba Shafaq , Mary Bishai , Poonam Mehta