Speakers
Description
The neutrinos from STORed Muons (nuSTORM) facility enables precise neutrino physics studies through the use of innovative neutrino beams created by muon decay, which is characterised by well-defined flavour composition and energy spectra of the neutrino beam. Combined with precise muon flux measurements, with a final target of $\%$-level precision in neutrino flux determination, this will facilitate a diverse research program probing fundamental neutrino properties.
The facility uses a race-track-like storage ring to store muons with momenta tunable between 1 and 6 GeV/c, enabling precise measurements of $\nu-A$ scattering for both, $\nu_{\mu}$ and $\nu_{e}$ over energy ranges relevant for long-baseline experiments. It also allows for highly sensitive searches for exotic processes and studies of short-baseline flavour transitions exceeding the reach of already planned experiments. As a technology test-bed for high-brightness muon beams, nuSTORM is on the path towards a multi-TeV muon collider and could be part of a test-facility serving a muon-cooling demonstrator.
This talk will present the current status of nuSTORM and its physics capabilities. It will also include results from a FLUKA-based Bayesian optimization study aimed at enhancing the neutrino flux by improving pion capture through optimized target and horn geometries at different pion momentum settings.
