Physics with a High Intensity Proton Source at Fermilab: Project X Golden Book

Appel, J. A.; Tschirhart, R.; Gollwitzer, K.; Littenberg, Laurence; Yamin, P.; Schwartz, A. J.; Pordes, S.; Lundberg, B.; Harris, Deborah A.; Mishra, S. R.; Phillips, T. J.; Molzon, W.; Stancari, G.; Hertzog, D. W.; Peters, K.; Carena, Marcela; Oddone, Pier; Finley, D. A.; Conrad, J. M.; Asner, D. M.; Geer, S.; Lande, K.; Kronfeld, A. S.; Miller, James A.; Fisher, P. H.; Christian, D.; Lykken, J.; Yamanaka, T.; Buras, Andrzej J.; Pitts, K.; Roberts, L.; Jaffe, D. E.; Hill, C.; Quigg, Chris; Kim, Young-Kee; Kearns, E.; Lesko, K. T.; Holmes, Stephen D.; Bigi, I. I.; Gouvêa, André de; Mangano, M.; Dukes, C.; Tayloe, R.; Diwan, M. V.; Carosi, R.; Rosner, Jonathan L.; Isidori, Gino; Petti, R.; Fleming, B. T.; Parke, Stephen J.; Siegrist, J.; Bryman, D.; Rameika, R.; Saoulidou, N.; Papadimitriou, V.; Messier, M. D.; Kayser, Boris; Eichten, E.; McGinnis, David

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“…Observation of seven candidate events by E787 and E949 yields B(K + → π + νν) = 1.73 +1.15 −1.05 × 10 −10 when the relative acceptance and measured background are taken into account with a likelihood method [845]. It has been estimated that, assuming the SM decay rate, a stopped K + experiment could accumulate hundreds of K + → π + νν events, using a copious proton source such as Project-X at FNAL [846]. The NA62 experiment at CERN seeks to observe on the order of a hundred K + → π + νν decays using a decay-in-flight technique in an unseparated 75 GeV beam.…”

Section: Experimental Status Of K → π νν and K L → π + −mentioning

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Flavor physics in the quark sector

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In the past decade, one of the major challenges of particle physics has been to gain an in-depth understanding of the role of quark flavor. In this time frame, measurements and the theoretical interpretation of their results have advanced tremendously. A much broader understanding of flavor particles has been achieved; apart from their masses and quantum numbers, there now exist detailed measurements of the characteristics of their interactions allowing stringent tests of Standard Model predictions. Among the most interesting phenomena of flavor physics is the violation of the CP symmetry that has been subtle and difficult to explore. In the past, observations of CP violation were confined to neutral K mesons, but since the early 1990s, a large number of CP-violating processes have been studied in detail in neutral B mesons. In parallel, measurements of the couplings of the heavy quarks and the dynamics for their decays in large samples of K, D, and B mesons have been greatly improved in accuracy and the results are being used as probes in the search for deviations from the Standard Model. In the near future, there will be a transition from the current to a new generation of experiments; thus a review of the status of quark flavor physics is timely. This report is the result of the work of physicists attending the 5th CKM workshop, hosted by the University of Rome "La Sapienza", September 9-13, 2008. It summarizes the results of the current generation of experiments that are about to be completed and it confronts these results with the theoretical understanding of the field which has greatly improved in the past decade. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

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Section: Experimental Status Of K → π νν and K L → π + −mentioning

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“…The initial flux of neutrinos is taken to arrive at the Earth as pure mass states such that the detection probability is taken according to the probability of a neutrino being " e flavor when it reaches the detector. The oscillation parameters were chosen to be sin 2 …”

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“…Several detectors worldwide, both current and planned for the near future, are sensitive to a core collapse burst within the Milky Way or slightly beyond [1]. Future very large supernova-sensitive neutrino detectors, including water Cherenkov detectors of the 100 kton or greater scale (e.g., a water Cherenkov detector in South Dakota [2], Hyper-K [3], and MEMPHYS [4]), and scintillator detectors of the 10 kton or greater scale (e.g., LENA [5] and HanoHano [6]) are planned for the next few decades.…”

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Obtaining supernova directional information using the neutrino matter oscillation pattern

2010

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A nearby core collapse supernova will produce a burst of neutrinos in several detectors worldwide. With reasonably high probability, the Earth will shadow the neutrino flux in one or more detectors. In such a case, for allowed oscillation parameter scenarios, the observed neutrino energy spectrum will bear the signature of oscillations in Earth matter. Because the frequency of the oscillations in energy depends on the path length traveled by the neutrinos in the Earth, an observed spectrum also contains information about the direction to the supernova. We explore here the possibility of constraining the supernova location using matter oscillation patterns observed in a detector. Good energy resolution (typical of scintillator detectors), well-known oscillation parameters, and optimistically large (but conceivable) statistics are required. Pointing by this method can be significantly improved using multiple detectors located around the globe. Although it is not competitive with neutrino-electron elastic scattering-based pointing with water Cherenkov detectors, the technique could still be useful.

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“…At Fermilab, planning is under way to design a high intensity 2.3 MW neutrino beam based on the Project-X high intensity proton source which could be directed to the DUSEL laboratory. Project-X is built around a 8 GeV superconducting linac which would be paired with modified versions of the existing accelerator complex at Fermilab to make high intensity neutrino, kaon and muon beams [18,19].…”

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The physics impact of proton track identification in future megaton-scale water Cherenkov detectors

Fechner

Walter

2009

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E-mail: maximilien.fechner@cea.fr, chris.walter@duke.edu Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the impact in future megaton-scale water Cherenkov detectors of identifying proton Cherenkov rings. We estimate the expected event rates for detected neutral current and charged current quasi-elastic neutrino interactions from atmospheric neutrinos in a megaton-scale Super-Kamiokande-like detector with both 40% and 20% photo-cathode coverage. With this sample we examine the prospects for measuring the neutrino oscillation pattern, and searching for sterile neutrinos. We also determine the size of selected charged current quasi-elastic samples in a 300-kton fiducial volume Super-Kamiokande-like detector from examples of both conventional super-beams and beta-beams proposed in the literature. With these samples, it is shown that full kinematic neutrino reconstruction using the outgoing proton can improve the reconstructed energy resolution, and give good neutrino versus anti-neutrino tagging capabilities, adding important capabilities to water Cherenkov detectors in future projects. We determine the beam parameters necessary to make use of this technique and present distributions of neutrino and anti-neutrino selection efficiencies.

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Physics with a High Intensity Proton Source at Fermilab: Project X Golden Book

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Flavor physics in the quark sector

Flavor physics in the quark sector

Obtaining supernova directional information using the neutrino matter oscillation pattern

The physics impact of proton track identification in future megaton-scale water Cherenkov detectors

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