EURO? The European Design Study for a high intensity neutrino oscillation facility

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EURO?The European Design Study for a high
intensity neutrino oscillation facility

• (Rob Edgecock, Mats Lindroos, Marcos Dracos)

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What is an EU Design Study?

• The 27 European Union member states is in the
  process of creating a common Research Area with
  common Research Infrastructure
• The EU funding for research is organized as Frame
  Work programmers with different components
• The FP contributes with 5 to the total national
  research funding in Europe
• We are presently working within the 6th FP
• The Design Studies is one component in the FP and
  has as objective to provide first designs for
  possible common research infrastructure
• The ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research
  Infrastructures, European roadmap for research
  infrastructures) committee establishes a priority
  list for new common infrastructure to which the
  EU is willing to contribute
• The Design Studies is the first step in the
  process to qualify for financing from the EU for
  the infrastructure
• For the infrastructure to be constructed a member
  state(s) or an intergovernmental organization
  must bid for it and offer an important part of
  the funding
• International participation is strongly encouraged

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Work Program Capacities
EU call
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Design Studies budget
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Objectives of EURONU DS

• The recent discovery that the neutrino changes
  type (or flavour) as it travels through space, a
  phenomenon referred to as neutrino oscillations
• The implications are far reaching
• Knowledge of the contribution of neutrinos in
  these areas needs precise measurements of the
  parameters governing neutrino oscillations.
• This will require a new high intensity beam-based
  neutrino oscillation facility in which neutrino
  beams are generated using new and highly
  challenging concepts.
• This Design Study will review all three currently
  accepted methods of realizing this facility (the
  so-called neutrino Super-Beams, Beta Beams and
  Neutrino Factories).
• It includes a detailed study of the key technical
  challenges of the accelerator facilities, of the
  detector options necessary to measure the
  neutrino oscillation parameters and a comparison
  of the physics reach of these facilities.
• The design study will also perform a cost
  assessment that, coupled with the physics
  performance, will permit the European research
  authorities to make a timely decision on the
  lay-out and construction of the future European
  neutrino oscillation facility.

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Neutrino Facilities
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SPL Super-Beam
Neutrino Factory
Beta-Beam
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Participants
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Overview
physics
q13
CPV
MSW
(non-acc. ? ?)
facilities
SB
BB
NF
technologies
p-driver
Cerenkov
target
LAr
collector
Emulsions
m front-end
magnetized
m accel.
stor. ring
b beam
detectors
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Work Packages and Deliverables
in order to underline synergies
technologies
p-driver
Super-Beam
Beam instr.
target
Detectors
collector
Near det.
m front-end
Far det.
Neutrino Factory
m accel.
Perform.
Physics
stor. ring
Comparison
Beta-Beam
b beam
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Objectives of the tasks

• Management
• Lead and coordinate the DS
• Comparison of the three facilities
• Super beam
• Design of target and collector
• Beam characteristics for the SPL superbeam
• Specifications for the proton driver
• Neutrino factory
• Design of muon front end
• Design of an acceleration scenario
• Develop a conceptual design for proton beam
  handling after the primary production target
  (proton beam dump)
• End-to-end simulation of the neutrino factory
  complex

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Objectives of the tasks

• Beta-beam
• Review acceleration scenario for high-Q value
  isotopes
• Production of beta-beam isotopes with the
  production ring concept
• Review decay ring design for high-Q value
  isotopes
• Continue RD on bunching
• Detector task
• Study a Magnetized Iron Neutrino Detector
• Study a Cerenkov detector
• Study a near detector
• Physics task
• Study physics performance
• Make optimization of the different possible
  scenarios
• Make a comparison

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Effort in people (120 person years)
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Organization
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Organization
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Money

• Total cost 14.45M
• EC request 4.8M
• Ratio 33

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Time scale

• In short
• We will work for 4 years
• We hope to start beginning 2008
• We will use the last year for the comparison task

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EU decision

• The proposal got a top ranking in the evaluation
  of the proposals
• We have been invited to negotiate for a maximum 4
  MEuro EU financing

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Annual meeting

• Annual meeting to gather the Neutrino physics
  community and report on the progress of the study
• The meeting will be combined with task meeting,
  management meetings and reviews
• November 2008 CERN
• November 2009 USA
• November 2010 RAL (Project review)
• November 2011 Paris
• Your are invited to participate!

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