1999/05/04 by M. Campanelli, A. Bueno, Campanelli, M. +3
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers #Particle accelerators and beam dynamics #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9905240
14 pages, 4 figures
openalex publication_date 1999/05/04 · arxiv created 1999/06/03 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The planned LBL experiments will be able to prove the hypothesis of flavor oscillation between muon and tau neutrinos. We explore the possibility of a second generation long baseline experiment at very long baseline, i.e. L in the range 5000-7000 km. This distance requires intense neutrino beams that could be available from very intense muon beams as those needed for μ colliders. Such baselines allow the study of neutrino oscillations with E/L ≈ 2× 10-3 eV2 with neutrinos of energy Eν≈ 10 GeV, i.e. above tau threshold. Moreover, matter effects inside the Earth could lead to observable effects in νe → νμ oscillations. These effects are interchanged between neutrinos and antineutrinos, and therefore they can be tested by comparing the oscillated spectra obtained running the storage ring with positive and negative muons.