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The beta-beam proposal for the iteration of electron neutrino beams used to be first proposed via Piero Zucchelli in 2002. the assumption created fairly a stir, demanding the concept extreme neutrino beams merely might be made out of the decay of pions or muons in classical neutrino beams amenities or in destiny neutrino factories. the concept that at the beginning struggled to make an impression however the exertions through many computing device physicists, phenomenologists and theoreticians over the past 5 years has gained the beta-beam a well-earned place as one of many frontrunners for a potential destiny international laboratory for prime depth neutrino oscillation physics. this can be the 1st whole monograph at the beta-beam notion. The publication describes either technical facets and experimental elements of the beta-beam, delivering: scholars and scientists with an perception into the probabilities provided via beta-beams; facility designers with a kick off point for destiny reviews; and, coverage makers with a entire photo of the boundaries and probabilities provided via a beta-beam.
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It should anyway be noted that the absence of νµ events in the close detector means that there is no way to measure signal (νµ ) cross sections in the close detector. This could represent the major source of systematic errors in a beta-beam experiment. 1 Neutrino factories In a neutrino factory the neutrinos originate from the decay of muons which are created via pions by protons impinging on a target. The muons have Introduction 25 to be captured, cooled, accelerated and put into a decay ring with straight sections pointing towards the detectors.
This renders the synchrotron much less efficient than a linac for the production of high power beams. g. element misalignments. In a synchrotron, the beam performs oscillations in time (and distance) about a closed orbit near the center of the beam pipe. These oscillations will 44 Accelerated Generated Neutrino Beams: Beta Beams be determined by the focusing (and defocusing) elements in the ring, and the setting of all the magnetic elements, which is usually called the “lattice” of the machine. The lattice determines the shape of the beam envelope around the ring, and determines the number of oscillations performed by the beam as it moves along the closed orbit.
The NOMAD experiment did not have a close detector but had the unprecedented capability of measuring Introduction 23 with large statistics and good precision all four neutrino flavors (νµ , ν µ , νe , ν e ) in a νµ beam, a ν µ beam and a neutrino beam without any horn focusing. The νµ , ν µ , ν e measurements in such conditions were basically enough to constrain the MC predictions of most secondary mesons in the neutrino beam line (π − , π + , k − , k + , k ◦ ), reducing most of the systematic errors in the νe prediction.