Overview of the Neutrinos from Stored Muons Facility - nuSTORM

Adey, D., Appleby, R.B., Bayes, R., Bogacz, A., Bross, A.D., Lagrange, J.-B., Liu, A., Neuffer, D., Pasternak, J. and Tygier, S. (2017) Overview of the Neutrinos from Stored Muons Facility - nuSTORM. Journal of Instrumentation, 12(07), P07020. (doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/12/07/P07020)

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Abstract

Neutrino beams produced from the decay of muons in a racetrack-like decay ring (the so called Neutrino Factory) provide a powerful way to study neutrino oscillation physics and, in addition, provide unique beams for neutrino interaction studies. The Neutrinos from STORed Muons (nuSTORM) facility uses a neutrino factory-like design. Due to the particular nature of nuSTORM, it can also provide an intense, very pure, muon neutrino beam from pion decay. This so-called "Neo-conventional" muon-neutrino beam from nuSTORM makes nuSTORM a hybrid neutrino factory. In this paper we describe the facility and give a detailed description of the neutrino beams that are available and the precision to which they can be characterized. We then show its potential for a neutrino interaction physics program and present sensitivity plots that indicate how well the facility can perform for short-baseline oscillation searches. Finally, we comment on the performance potential of a "Neo-conventional" muon neutrino beam optimized for long-baseline neutrino-oscillation physics.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Bayes, Dr Ryan
Authors: Adey, D., Appleby, R.B., Bayes, R., Bogacz, A., Bross, A.D., Lagrange, J.-B., Liu, A., Neuffer, D., Pasternak, J., and Tygier, S.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
Journal Name:Journal of Instrumentation
Publisher:IOP Publishing
ISSN:1748-0221
ISSN (Online):1748-0221
Published Online:19 July 2017

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