Getting the most neutrinos out of IsoDAR

Ciuffoli, Emilio; Mohammed, Hosam; Evslin, Jarah; Zhao, Fengyi; Deliyergiyev, M.

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5439-8

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“…In [5] we studied the optimization of the target station for an IsoDAR experiment: in Fig. 1 (left panel) it is reported the design of the target station we considered.…”

Section: Isodarmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Neutrino Physics at ADS Facilities

Ciuffoli¹

2017

Proceedings of the European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics — PoS(EPS-HEP2017)

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Accelerator Driven System (ADS) subcritical reactors are being developed around the world. The main goals of this kind of facility are to produce energy and, at the same time, to dispose of nuclear waste, which will be used to power nuclear reactors. Since, by itself, used nuclear fuel is not able to sustain a chain reaction, the additional neutrons needed will be supplied by a highintensity accelerator, where a proton beam will be hitting a spallation target. This accelerator will produce, as a by-product, a large quantity of neutrinos: I will discuss the opportunities offered for the study of neutrino physics. In China the C-ADS program is centered on the design and construction of such a facility: a prototype of the accelerator is already operative, during the course of the project the accelerator energy will be gradually increased up to 1.5 GeV. In the first phases of the project, when the beam energy is low,ν e can be produced via Isotope Decay At Rest (IsoDAR): they can be detected with liquid scintillators and used to provide competitive bounds on sterile neutrinos in the disappearance channel. In the next phases, when the beam energy is higher,ν µ will be produced via muon Decay At Rest (µDAR): in this phase it will be possible to measure the CP-violating phase δ CP and to look for experimental signs of the presence of sterile neutrinos in the appearance channel, testing the LSND and MiniBooNE anomalies.

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“…In [5] we studied the optimization of the target station for an IsoDAR experiment: in Fig. 1 (left panel) it is reported the design of the target station we considered.…”

Section: Isodarmentioning

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“…All these experiments can be performed at the ADS facilities [4,5]. The main goals of Accelerator Driven System (ADS) is to recycle used nuclear fuel and, at the same time, to produce energy.…”

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Neutrino Physics at ADS Facilities

Ciuffoli¹

2017

Proceedings of the European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics — PoS(EPS-HEP2017)

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“…A volume of graphite is used to act as a neutron reflector outside the 7 Li converter. Lithium hydroxides (LiOD, LiOD • D 2 O), lithium deuteride (LiD) and FLiBe molten salt [47][48][49][50] have been also proposed in place of metallic lithium. It should be noticed that these IsoDAR proposals demand a complicated target configuration and years of dedicated beam time.…”

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A sterile neutrino search at compact materials irradiation facility

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Ciuffoli³

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Eur. Phys. J. C

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The Compact Material Irradiation Facility (CMIF) in China is a current project that will provide a compact deuteron-beryllium neutron source. The target of this facility will be an intense and compact Isotope Decay-At-Rest (IsoDAR) neutrino source. In this paper, we propose a neutrino experiment using CMIF as the neutrino source and calculate its sensitivity to sterile neutrinos. With a 50 MeV, 10 mA deuteron beam impinging upon a thin beryllium target of a thickness 2 g/cm 2 , the electron antineutrino production rate can be up to 2.0 × 10 19 per day. When paired with an 80 ton liquid scintillator detector to study short baseline electron antineutrino disappearance, the inverse beta decay (IBD) event rate is large enough to investigate the parameter ranges of interest for neutrino anomalies. Our sensitivity analysis shows that a short baseline experiment at this platform will provide a very competitive sterile neutrino search, especially in the high-∆m 2 region (∆m 2 > 10 eV 2 ).

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Getting the most neutrinos out of IsoDAR

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Neutrino Physics at ADS Facilities

Neutrino Physics at ADS Facilities

A sterile neutrino search at compact materials irradiation facility

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