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WEP248 Overview of the LBNE Neutrino Beam target, proton, simulation, shielding 1948
 
  • C.D. Moore, Y. He, P. Hurh, J. Hylen, B.G. Lundberg, M.W. McGee, J.R. Misek, N.V. Mokhov, V. Papadimitriou, R.K. Plunkett, R.P. Schultz, G. Velev, K.E. Williams, R.M. Zwaska
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, under contract DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy.
The Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) will utilize a neutrino beamline facility located at Fermilab. The facility will aim a beam of neutrinos toward a detector placed at the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) in South Dakota. The neutrinos are produced in a three step process. First, protons from the Main Injector hit a solid target and produce mesons. Then, the charged mesons are focused by a set of focusing horns into the decay pipe, towards the far detector. Finally, the mesons that enter the decay pipe decay into neutrinos. The parameters of the facility were determined by an amalgam of the physics goals, the Monte Carlo modeling of the facility, and the experience gained by operating the NuMI facility at Fermilab. The initial beam power is expected to be ~700 kW, however some of the parameters were chosen to be able to deal with a beam power of 2.3 MW.