A Proposal for a Three Detector Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Program in the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.01520
• Publication Date: 2015-01-01
• Authors: Acciarri, R.; Adams, C.; An, R.; Andreopoulos, C.; Ankowski, A. M.; Antonello, M.; Asaadi, J.; Badgett, W.; Bagby, L.; Baibussinov, B.; Baller, B.; Barr, G.; Barros, N.; Bass, M.; Bellini, V.; Benetti, P.; Bertolucci, S.; Biery, K.; Bilokon, H.; Bishai, M.; Bitadze, A.; Blake, A.; Boffelli, F.; Bolton, T.; Bonesini, M.; Bremer, J.; Brice, S. J.; Bromberg, C.; Bugel, L.; Calligarich, E.; Camilleri, L.; Caratelli, D.; Carls, B.; Cavanna, F.; Centro, S.; Chen, H.; Chi, C.; Church, E.; Cianci, D.; Cocco, A. G.; Collin, G. H.; Conrad, J. M.; Convery, M.; De Geronimo, G.; Dermenev, A.; Dharmapalan, R.; Dixon, S.; Djurcic, Z.; Dytmam, S.; Eberly, B.; Ereditato, A.; Esquivel, J.; Evans, J.; Falcone, A.; Farnese, C.; Fava, A.; Ferrari, A.; Fleming, B. T.; Foreman, W. M.; Freestone, J.; Gamble, T.; Garvey, G.; Genty, V.; Geynisman, M.; Gibin, D.; Gninenko, S.; Göldi, D.; Gollapinni, S.; Golubev, N.; Graham, M.; Gramellini, E.; Greenlee, H.; Grosso, R.; Guenette, R.; Guglielmi, A.; Hackenburg, A.; Hänni, R.; Hen, O.; Hewes, V; Ho, J.; Horton-Smith, G.; Howell, J.; Ivashkin, A.; James, C.; Jen, C. M.; Johnson, R. A.; Jones, B. J. P.; Joshi, J.; Jostlein, H.; Kaleko, D.; Kalousis, L. N.; Karagiorgi, G.; Ketchum, W.; Kirby, B.; Kirby, M.; Kirsanov, M.; Kisiel, J.; Klein, J.; Klinger, J.; Kobilarcik, T.; Kose, U.; Kreslo, I.; Kudryavtsev, V. A.; Li, Y.; Littlejohn, B.; Lissauer, D.; Livesly, P.; Lockwitz, S.; Louis, W. C.; Lüthi, M.; Lundberg, B.; Mammoliti, F.; Mannocchi, G.; Marchionni, A.; Mariani, C.; Marshall, J.; Mavrokoridis, K.; McCauley, N.; McConkey, N.; McDonald, K.; Meddage, V.; Menegolli, A.; Meng, G.; Mercer, I.; Miao, T.; Miceli, T.; Mills, G. B.; Mladenov, D.; Montanari, C.; Montanari, D.; Moon, J.; Mooney, M.; Moore, C.; Moss, Z.; Moulai, M. H.; Mufson, S.; Murrells, R.; Naples, D.; Nessi, M.; Nicoletto, M.; Nienaber, P.; Norris, B.; Noto, F.; Nowak, J.; Pal, S.; Palamara, O.; Paolone, V.; Papavassiliou, V.; Pate, S.; Pater, J.; Pavlovic, Z.; Perkin, J.; Picchi, P.; Pietropaolo, F.; Płoński, P.; Pordes, S.; Potenza, R.; Pulliam, G.; Qian, X.; Qiuguang, L.; Raaf, J. L.; Radeka, V.; Rameika, R.; Rappoldi, A.; Raselli, G. L.; Ratoff, P. N.; Rebel, B.; Richardson, M.; Rochester, L.; Rossella, M.; Rubbia, C.; von Rohr, C. Rudolf; Russell, B.; Sala, P.; Scaramelli, A.; Schmitz, D. W.; Schukraft, A.; Seligman, W.; Shaevitz, M. H.; Sippach, B.; Snider, E.; Sobczyk, J.; Soderberg, M.; Söldner-Rembold, S.; Spanu, M.; Spitz, J.; Spooner, N.; Stefan, D.; John, J. St.; Strauss, T.; Sulej, R.; Sutera, C. M.; Szelc, A. M.; Tagg, N.; Taylor, C. E.; Terao, K.; Thiesse, M.; Thompson, L.; Thomson, M.; Thorn, C.; Touramanis, C.
• Keywords: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex); Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors; 0103 physical sciences; FOS: Physical sciences; Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); 7. Clean energy; 01 natural sciences; High Energy Physics - Experiment

A Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) physics program of three LAr-TPC detectors located along the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab is presented. This new SBN Program will deliver a rich and compelling physics opportunity, including the ability to resolve a class of experimental anomalies in neutrino physics and to perform the most sensitive search to date for sterile neutrinos at the eV mass-scale through both appearance and disappearance oscillation channels. Using data sets of 6.6e20 protons on target (P.O.T.) in the LAr1-ND and ICARUS T600 detectors plus 13.2e20 P.O.T. in the MicroBooNE detector, we estimate that a search for muon neutrino to electron neutrino appearance can be performed with ~5 sigma sensitivity for the LSND allowed (99% C.L.) parameter region. In this proposal for the SBN Program, we describe the physics analysis, the conceptual design of the LAr1-ND detector, the design and refurbishment of the T600 detector, the necessary infrastructure required to execute the program, and a possible reconfiguration of the BNB target and horn system to improve its performance for oscillation searches.<br/>209 pages, 129 figures<br/>