Speaker
Ian Taylor
(Warwick University)
Description
The nuSTORM facility will provide \nu_e and \nu_\mu beams from the
decay of 3.8GeV muons confined within a storage ring. A detector
placed approximately 1500m from the end of the decay straight,
combined with a near detector, can be used to make exquisitely
sensitive searches for sterile neutrinos. The instrumentation of the
ring, combined with the excellent knowledge of muon decay, will make
it possible to determine the neutrino flux at the %-level or better.
The neutrino and anti-neutrino event rates are such that the nuSTORM
facility serving a suite of near detectors will be able to
measure \nu_eN and \nu_\muN cross sections with the %-level precision
required to allow the next generation of long-baseline
neutrino-oscillation experiments to fulfil their potential. The
status of the nuSTORM project will be presented along with the
performance of the facility in terms of sterile-neutrino sensitivity
and precision on measurements of neutrino-nucleus scattering.
Author
Prof.
Kenneth Long
(Imperial College London)
