Design and Diagnostics of High-Precision Accelerator Neutrino Beams
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Abstract
Neutrino oscillation physics has entered a new precision era, which poses major challenges to the level of control and diagnostics of the neutrino beams. In this paper, we review the design of high-precision beams, their current limitations, and the latest techniques envisaged to overcome such limits. We put emphasis on “monitored neutrino beams” and advanced diagnostics to determine the flux and flavor of the neutrinos produced at the source at the per-cent level. We also discuss ab-initio measurements of the neutrino energy–i.e., measurements performed without relying on the event reconstruction at the ν detector–to remove any flux induced bias in the determination of the cross sections.
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OpenAlex topics: Neutrino Physics Research · Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena · Particle accelerators and beam dynamics
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European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Department of Physics, University of Padova and INFN, 35121 Padova, Italy
Department of Physics, University of Milano-Bicocca and INFN, 20126 Milano, Italy
Funding
H2020 European Research Council · H2020 Research Infrastructures · Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca
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