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High-$\gamma$ Beta Beams within the LAGUNA design study

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-04-07 v1

Abstract

Within the LAGUNA design study, seven candidate sites are being assessed for their feasibility to host a next-generation, very large neutrino observatory. Such a detector will be expected to feature within a future European accelerator neutrino programme (Superbeam or Beta Beam), and hence the distance from CERN is of critical importance. In this article, the focus is a 18^{18}Ne and 6^{6}He Beta Beam sourced at CERN and directed towards a 50 kton Liquid Argon detector located at the LAGUNA sites: Slanic (L=1570 km) and Pyh\"{a}salmi (L=2300 km). To improve sensitivity to the neutrino mass ordering, these baselines are then combined with a concurrent run with the same flux directed towards a large Water \v{C}erenkov detector located at Canfranc (L=650 km). This degeneracy breaking combination is shown to provide comparable physics reach to the conservative Magic Baseline Beta Beam proposals. For 18^{18}Ne ions boosted to γ=570\gamma=570 and 6^{6}He ions boosted to γ=350\gamma=350, the correct mass ordering can be determined at Slanic for all δ\delta when sin22θ13>4103\sin^{2}2\theta_{13}>4\cdot 10^{-3} in this combination.

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@article{arxiv.1004.0939,
  title  = {High-$\gamma$ Beta Beams within the LAGUNA design study},
  author = {Christopher Orme},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.0939},
  year   = {2010}
}

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16 pages, 2 figures

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