Year: 2022
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: In this Snowmass 2021 white paper, we summarise the Conceptual Design of the European Spallation Source neutrino Super Beam (ESSvSB) experiment and its synergies with the possible future muon based facilities, e.g. a Low Energy nuSTORM and the Muon Collider. The ESSvSB will benefit from the high power, 5 MW, of the European Spallation Source (ESS) LINAC in Lund-Sweden to produce the world most intense neutrino beam, enabling measurements to be made at the second oscillation maximum. Assuming a ten-year exposure, physics simulations show that the CP-invariance violation can be established with a significance of 5 sigma over more than 70% of all values of delta CP and with an error in the measurement of the delta CP angle of less than 8 degree for all values of delta CP. However, several technological and physics challenges must be further studied before achieving a final Technical Design. Measuring at the 2nd oscillation maximum necessitates a very intense neutrino beam with the appropriate energy. For this, the ESS proton beam LINAC, which is designed to produce the world's most intense neutron beam, will need to be upgraded to 10 MW power, 2.5 GeV energy and 28 Hz beam pulse repetition rate. An accumulator ring will be required for the compression of the ESS LINAC beam pulse from 2.86 ms to 1.3 mus. A high power target station facility will be needed to produce a well-focused intense (super) mu-neutrino beam. The physics performance of that neutrino Super Beam in conjunction with a megaton underground Water Cherenkov neutrino far detector installed at a distance of either 360 km or 540 km from the ESS, the baseline, has been evaluated.
Authors: Alekou, A., Baussan, E., Kraljevic, N. Blaskovic, Blennow, M., Bogomilov, M., Bouquerel, E., Burgman, A., Carlile, C. J., Cederkall, J., Christiansen, P., Collins, M., Morales, E. Cristaldo, Cupial, P., Alessi, L. D, Danared, H., de Andre, J. P. A. M., Delahaye, J. P., Dracos, M., Efthymiopoulos, I., Ekelof, T., Eshraqi, M., Fanourakis, G., Fernandez-Martinez, E., Folsom, B., Gazis, N., Geralis, Th., Ghosh, M., Gokbulut, G., Halic, L., Topaksu, A. Kayis, Kildetoft, B., Klicek, B., Koziol, M., Krhac, K., Lacny, L., Lindroos, M., Mezzetto, M., Oglakci, M., Ohlsson, T., Olvegard, M., Ota, T., Park, J., Patrzalek, D., Petkov, G., Poussot, P., Johansson, R., Rosauro-Alcaraz, S., Szybinski, B., Snamina, J., Stavropoulos, G., Stipcevic, M., Terranova, F., Thomas, J., Tolba, T., Trachanas, E., Tsenov, R., Vankova-Kirilova, G., Vassilopoulos, N., Wildner, E., Wurtz, J., Zormpa, O., Zou, Y.
Institution: Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien
Language: English
Topic: Neutrino Physics Research
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: G196419191, G2199017045, G2262748287, G282847690, G3480869486, G3681454997, G4042783231, G425668148, G4369200517, G4442677895, G4526231891, Feasibility Study for employing the uniquely powerful ESS linear accelerator to generate an intense neutrino beam for leptonic CP violation discovery and measurement., G5744929738, G6649312515, G7084143925, Leptonische CPVerletzung mit dem ESSνSB: Design und Simulation der 4Horn Target Station, G8684520763
OpenAlex ID: W3045228468