The Low-Energy Neutrino Factory

• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2012.09.161
• Publication Date: 2012-11-21T22:11:14Z
• Authors: Tracey Li
• Keywords: 0103 physical sciences; 01 natural sciences; 7. Clean energy

Abstract The low-energy neutrino factory uses muons with energies of around 5 GeV and a corresponding single baseline of the order of 1000 km. It has been found that when combined with a magnetised 20 kton totally active scintillating detector or a magnetised 100 kton liquid argon detector, this setup has sensitivity to the oscillation parameters θ 13 , δ and the mass hierarchy comparable to that of the high-energy neutrino factory if sin 2 2 θ 13 ≳ 10 − 3 . Additionally, the low-energy neutrino factory has sensitivity to the non-standard interaction parameters e e μ and e e τ down to ∼ 10 − 2 .