Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ankenbrandt, C.
• Bogacz, S. A.
• Bross, A.
• Geer, S.
• Johnstone, C.
• Neuffer, D.
• Popovic, M.

Titel

Low-energy neutrino factory design

Ist Teil von

• Physical review special topics. PRST-AB. Accelerators and beams, 2009-07, Vol.12 (7), p.070101, Article 070101

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Physical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

PROLA - Physical Review Online Archive

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The design of a low-energy (4 GeV) neutrino factory (NF) is described, along with its expected performance. The neutrino factory uses a high-energy proton beam to produce charged pions. The {pi}{sup {+-}} decay to produce muons ({mu}{sup {+-}}), which are collected, accelerated, and stored in a ring with long straight sections. Muons decaying in the straight sections produce neutrino beams. The scheme is based on previous designs for higher energy neutrino factories, but has an improved bunching and phase rotation system, and new acceleration, storage ring, and detector schemes tailored to the needs of the lower energy facility. Our simulations suggest that the NF scheme we describe can produce neutrino beams generated by {approx} 1.4 x 10{sup 21} {mu}{sup +} per year decaying in a long straight section of the storage ring, and a similar number of {mu}{sup -} decays.