Speaker
Dr
Jacques Bouchez
(CEA)
Description
I shall describe the benefits for neutrino physics of having at CERN a multimegawatt
proton machine (SPL) and/or high intensity sources of radioactive ions (as
envisioned in the Eurisol project).
The SPL machine would deliver very intense so-called neutrino superbeams of 300 MeV
in energy which could be aimed at a megaton-class underground detector located in
the Frejus tunnel, while radioactive ions (He6, Ne18 or others), after acceleration
by PS and SPS, would be stored in a decay ring and produce so-called neutrino beta-
beams aimed at the same detectors.
Superbeams and betabeams are complementary and would allow to determine the missing
parameters of neutrino mixing with an unprecedented sensitivity.
The SPL is also a perfect proton driver for a future neutrino factory, which would
produce high energy neutrino beams with even better performances.
Primary author
Dr
Jacques Bouchez
(CEA)
