nuSTORM: Neutrinos from STORed Muons
Abstract
The results of LSND and MiniBooNE, along with the recent papers on a possible reactor neutrino flux anomaly give tantalizing hints of new physics. Models beyond the neutrino-SM have been developed to explain these results and involve one or more additional neutrinos that are non-interacting or "sterile." Neutrino beams produced from the decay of muons in a racetrack-like decay ring provide a powerful way to study this potential new physics. In this Letter of Intent, we describe a facility, nuSTORM, "Neutrinos from STORed Muons," and an appropriate far detector for neutrino oscillation searches at short baseline. We present sensitivity plots that indicated that this experimental approach can provide over 10 sigma confirmation or rejection of the LSND/MinBooNE results. In addition we indicate how the facility can be used to make precision neutrino interaction cross section measurements important to the next generation of long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1206.0294,
title = {nuSTORM: Neutrinos from STORed Muons},
author = {P. Kyberd and D. R. Smith and L. Coney and S. Pascoli and C. Ankenbrandt and S. J. Brice and A. D. Bross and H. Cease and J. Kopp and N. Mokhov and J. Morfin and D. Neuffer and M. Popovic and P. Rubinov and S. Striganov and A. Blondel and A. Bravar and E. Noah and R. Bayes and F. J. P. Soler and A. Dobbs and K. Long and J. Pasternak and E. Santos and M. O. Wascko and S. K. Agarwalla and S. A. Bogacz and Y. Mori and J. B. Lagrange and A. de Gouvêa and Y. Kuno and A. Sato and V. Blackmore and J. Cobb and C. D. Tunnell and J. M. Link and P. Huber and W. Winter},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.0294},
year = {2012}
}