Conceptual Design Report for a Beta-Beam Facility

The Beta-Beam project is a concept of large scale facility that aims at providing pure electronic neutrino and antrineutrino beams for the measurement of nu_e --> nu_µ oscillations, offering unprecedented sensitivity for detection of the Theta_13 mixing angle and CP violating phase. In the scenario presented in different publications [1-3], a Beta-Beam facility could be advantageously placed at CERN making use of the PS and SPS for accelerating the beta-decaying, neutrino-emitting beams to a Lorentz gamma of 100. Intense beams of 6He and 18Ne would be produced using the so-called “isotope-separation on line” ISOL method in a facility of the scale of EURISOL. The synergy between the two projects was pointed out in [4]. The task 12 of the EURISOL design study aimed at producing a conceptual design report for the accelerator chain of a EURISOL/CERN-baseline Beta-Beam facility. This document summarizes the achievements made during the time of the study and constitutes the final conceptual report of the beta-beam facility.

References
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[2] M.Mezzetto, \"Physics reach of the beta-beam\", J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 29 (2003) 1771–1776
[3] J. Bouchez, M. Lindroos and M. Mezzetto, 5th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories and Superbeams; NuFact 03. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 721, pp. 37-47 (2004).
[4] Letter of Intent: FP6 Design Study for a beta-beam facility , September, 2003