1997/11/30 by R. N. Mohapatra · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1063/1.56199
published as AIP Conf.Proc.435:358-369,1998 · Some parts of the text changed; major conclusions unchanged
arxiv created 1997/12/19 · arxiv updated 2011/07/19
A muon collider is expected to produce a high intensity neutrino beam which is an admixture of either νμ+νe or νμ +νe which can can be directed to underground detectors far away from the source. It will not only allow a probe of the νe-νμ as well as νμ-ντ oscillations in a range of mixing angle and Δm2 not probed heretofore but it will also provide information about the mixing angle θeτ for a wide range of Δm2νeντ from 10-4 eV2 to 10-1 eV2 which cannot be obtained from any other existing or proposed machine. One can also search for violations of Lorentz invariance and deviations from equivalence principle for neutrinos at a level which is three to four orders of magnitude more sensitive than possible at the moment. This will test for instance some unorthodox suggestions to understand both solar and atmospheric neutrinos using a single mass difference -squared between the νe and νμ. It can also test various proposed models neutrino masses and mixings to understand existing neutrino data.