2003/03/31 by Cristina Volpe · 7 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Collimated light #Exploit #Neutrino #Neutrino Physics Research #Neutrino detector #Particle accelerators and beam dynamics #Work (physics) #astro-ph #hep-ex #hep-ph #nucl-ex #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0954-3899/30/7/l01
published as J.Phys. G30 (2004) L1-L6 · 4 pages, 1 figure
openalex publication_date 2004/05/19 · arxiv created 2004/05/20 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
A novel method to produce neutrino beams has recently been proposed: the beta beams. This method consists in using the β decay of boosted radioactive nuclei to obtain an intense, collimated and pure neutrino beam. Here we propose to exploit the beta-beam concept to produce neutrino beams of low energy. We discuss the applications of such a facility as well as its importance for different domains of physics. We focus, in particular, on neutrino–nucleus interaction studies of interest for various open issues in astrophysics, nuclear and particle physics. We suggest possible sites for a low-energy beta-beam facility.