Future neutrino facilities: the neutrino factory

by Gersende Prior (University of Geneva and CERN EN/MEF)

Thursday 19 Jan 2012, 14:15 → 15:15 Europe/Zurich

IT Auditorium (CERN)

The neutrino factory is one of the proposed design for a future intense neutrino beam facility. In its current layout, a high-power proton beam impinges on a Hg jet target producing pions, decaying in turn into muons. In order to reduce the particle beam emittance, the muon transverse momentum is reduced through ionization cooling by a technically demanding setup made of closely packed RF cavities alternated with absorbers. In this talk I will present the motivation for building an intense neutrino beam and some of the proposed neutrino facilities design. I will discuss the challenges inherent to the cooling of muons, possible optimization of the current baseline and the on-going R&D.

Slides 20120119_ATS_SEMINAR_GP.pdf