European design study on Neutrinofacilities - Euronu within FP7

FP7 Call for DS only Submission deadline 1st Mai Contribution from EU will not exceed 4M€ => A High Intensity Neutrino Oscillation Facility in Europe EURO Coordinator: Rob Edgecock

Proposal abstract …..The construction of such a facility in Europe would reassert Europe’s position as the lead region for high energy particle physics and it would be in line with the strategy for the future of European particle physics, as recommended by the CERN Scientific Policy Committee. The design study will review the three currently accepted methods to realize such a neutrino facility (the so-called neutrino Superbeams, Beta Beams and Neutrino Factories) and do detailed studies of potential show stoppers, it will define the detector options necessary to measure the neutrino oscillation parameters and it will perform a critical physics evaluation 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. Doing this work now will enable Europe to secure the lead in this field.

Participant no.Participant organisation namePart. short nameCountry 1 (Coordinator)STFC Rutherford Appleton LaboratorySTFCUK 2Commissariat à l'Energie AtomiqueCEAFrance 3European Organisation for Nuclear ResearchCERNSwitzerland 4University of GlasgowGLAUK 5Imperial College of Science, Technology and MedicineICLUK 6University of ValenicaIFICSpain 7Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueCNRSFrance 8CracowPoland 9University of DurhamDURUK 10Instituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareINFNItaly 11Neutrino Factory Muon Collider CollaborationNFMCCUS 12MPIGermany 13"The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford" UOXF.DLUK 14Paul Scherrer InstitutPSISwitzerland 15Sofia University St. Kliment OhridskiUniSofiaBulgaria 16University of WarwickUK 17Université Catholique de LouvainUCLBelgium

Work packages Work package No Work package titleType of activity Lead participant No Person- months Start month End month 1Management and Knowledge Dissemination MGT Super-BeamRTD Neutrino FactoryRTD Beta BeamRTD Detector PerformanceRTD Physics ReachRTD TOTAL Approximately a total of 1M€ will be available for each of WP2,3,4 for 3 years

Objectives (WP3) The International Scoping Study of a future Neutrino Factory and Super- Beam facility (the ISS), in which BENE played both seminal and leading roles, established the baseline specification for the various accelerator systems that are required to produce high-intensity, high- energy neutrino beams in the Neutrino Factory. The ISS also established that the remaining crucial issues that must be addressed through the Design Study are: the muon front-end, including the ionisation-cooling channel; the large-aperture, rapid, acceleration systems; and the handling of the high-power proton beam that emerges from the pion-production target. In addition, in order to assess quantitatively the performance of the Neutrino Factory it is essential to develop an end-to-end simulation of the accelerator complex.

Description of work Coordination task: leading the task, with responsibility for ensuring that the specification of the muon front-end and acceleration systems are compatible. It is also responsible for ensuring that an appropriate framework for the end-to-end simulation is available (participant 5) Muon front-end task: The muon front-end task will provide a detailed evaluation of the performance of the muon front-end and determine its cost (participants 1, 3, 5, 13,16) Acceleration task: The acceleration task will develop a detailed definition of the acceleration scheme that is matched to the muon front-end and evaluate both its performance and its cost (participants 1, 3,5,7,13) Decay ring task: The decay ring task will provide a detailed evaluation of the performance of the decay rings and determine its cost (participants 1, 5) Proton-beam handling task: will develop a detailed concept for the handling of the spent proton beam that emerges from the target taking into account health and safety issues and determining a baseline cost. & Pion decay (participants 1, 14, 16) Integration task: The integration task will deliver an appropriate end-to-end simulation of the accelerator complex that will allow the performance of the facility to be determined (participants 1, 3, 5)

Deliverables Completed review of ionisation-cooling and muon acceleration options, 15 months Completed simulation of baseline and alternative ionisation-cooling channel (report). Recommendation of reference design, 30 months Cost and performance for reference muon front end (report), 30 months Completed simulation of baseline and alternative muon acceleration system. Recommendation of reference design. Cost and performance for reference muon acceleration (report), 38 months Completed simulation and cost and performance analyses for decay rings (report), 38 months Completed evaluation (cost and performance) of reference design for spent proton- beam handing system (report), 38 months Completed end-to-end simulation and evaluation of the performance of the Neutrino Factory as input to the comparison, 40 months

Participant no. /short name WP1WP2WP3WP4WP5WP6Total person months 1 STFC CEA CERN Glasgow IC IFIC CNRS Cracow Durham INFN NFMCC MPI UOXF.DL PSI Sofia Warwick UCL Total