Author: Mezzetto, M.
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THPPP087 Beta Beams for Precision Measurements of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters 3939
 
  • E.H.M. Wildner, E. Benedetto, T. De Melo Mendonca, C. Hansen, T. Stora
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • D. Berkovits
    Soreq NRC, Yavne, Israel
  • A. Brondi, A. Di Nitto, G. La Rana, R. Moro, E. Vardaci
    Naples University Federico II, Napoli, Italy
  • G. Burt
    Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
  • A. Chancé, J. Payet
    CEA/DSM/IRFU, France
  • M. Cinausero, G. De Angelis, F. Gramegna, V. Kravtchouk, T. Marchi, G.P. Prete
    INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD), Italy
  • G. Collazuol
    Univ. degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
  • G. De Rosa, V.C. Palladino
    INFN-Napoli, Napoli, Italy
  • F. Debray, C. Trophime
    GHMFL, Grenoble, France
  • T. Delbar, T. Keutgen, M. Loiselet, S. Mitrofanov
    UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • M. Hass, T. Hirsch
    Weizmann Institute of Science, Physics, Rehovot, Israel
  • I. Izotov, V. Sidorov, V. Skalyga, V. Zorin
    IAP/RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
  • T. Lamy, L. Latrasse, M. Marie-Jeanne, P. Sortais, T. Thuillier
    LPSC, Grenoble, France
  • M. Mezzetto
    INFN- Sez. di Padova, Padova, Italy
  • A. Stahl
    RWTH, Aachen, Germany
 
  Funding: CERN and European Community under the European Commission Framework Programme 7 Design Study: EUROnu, Project Number 212372
Neutrino oscillations have implications for the Standard Model of particle physics. The “CERN Beta Beam” has outstanding capabilities to contribute to precision measurements of the parameters governing neutrino oscillations. The FP7 collaboration “EUROnu” (2008-2012) is a design study that will review three facilities (Super-Beams, Beta Beams and Neutrino Factories) and perform a cost assessment that, coupled with the physics performance, will give means to the European research authorities to make decisions on future European neutrino oscillation facilities. "Beta Beams" produce collimated pure electron (anti)neutrino beams by accelerating beta active ions to high energies and having them decay in a storage ring. Using existing machines and infrastructure is an advantage for the cost evaluation; however, this choice is also constraining the Beta Beams. Recent work to make the Beta Beam facility a solid option will be described: production of Beta Beam isotopes, the 60 GHz pulsed ECR source development, integration into the LHC-upgrades, ensure the high intensity ion beam stability, and optimizations to get high neutrino fluxes. The costing approach will also be described.