2004/11/12 by C. Albright, Carl H. Albright, Albright, C. +34
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph) #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle accelerators and beam dynamics #hep-ph #physics.acc-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0411123
115 pages; 71 figures. The Neutrino Factory and Beta Beam Experiments and Development Working Group report to the Joint DNP/DPF/DAP/DPB Study on the Future of Neutrino Physics. A few typos corrected Several new references added in section 4
openalex publication_date 2004/11/12 · arxiv created 2004/11/23 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The long-term prospects for fully exploring three-flavor mixing in the neutrino sector depend upon an ongoing and increased investment in the appropriate accelerator R&D. Two new concepts have been proposed that would revolutionize neutrino experiments, namely the Neutrino Factory and the Beta Beam facility. These new facilities would dramatically improve our ability to test the three-flavor mixing framework, measure CP violation in the lepton sector, and perhaps determine the neutrino mass hierarchy, and, if necessary, probe extremely small values of the mixing angle θ13. The stunning sensitivity that could be achieved with a Neutrino Factory is described, together with our present understanding of the corresponding sensitivity that might be achieved with a Beta Beam facility. In the Beta Beam case, additional study is required to better understand the optimum Beta Beam energy, and the achievable sensitivity. Neither a Neutrino Factory nor a Beta Beam facility could be built without significant R&D. An impressive Neutrino Factory R&D effort has been ongoing in the U.S. and elsewhere over the last few years and significant progress has been made towards optimizing the design, developing and testing the required accelerator components, and significantly reducing the cost. The recent progress is described here.