Accelerator systems for the International Design Study of the Neutrino Factory

Abstract

The Neutrino Factory produces high-energy neutrino beams with a well-defined flavour content and energy spectrum from the decay of intense, high-energy, stored muon beams. The muon storage rings include long straight sections that are directed toward neutrino detectors that are sited several thousand kilometers away. This paper outlines the status of the accelerator facility described in the Interim Design Report (IDR) recently completed by the International Design Study for a Neutrino Factory (IDS-NF). We give a baseline specification for the accelerator, describe the accelerator subsystems that comprise it and briefly indicate some of the accelerator-physics challenges that such a facility presents.

Neutrino oscillation physics with a Neutrino Factory

“…A schematic of the accelerator facility can be found in Figure 1, and is described in [9] in these proceedings. The detector baseline consists of two Magnetised Iron Neutrino Detectors (MIND).…”