EURO  The European Design Study for a high intensity neutrino oscillation facility

1. EUROThe European Design Study for a high intensity neutrino oscillation facility (Rob Edgecock, Mats Lindroos, Marcos Dracos) M. Dracos

2. What is an EU Design Study? • The 27 European Union member states is in the process of creating a common Research Area with common Research Infrastructure • The EU funding for research is organized as Frame Work programmers with different components • The FP contributes with 5% to the total national research funding in Europe • We are presently working within the 6th FP • The Design Studies is one component in the FP and has as objective to provide first designs for possible common research infrastructure • The ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures, European roadmap for research infrastructures) committee establishes a priority list for new common infrastructure to which the EU is willing to contribute • The Design Studies is the first step in the process to qualify for financing from the EU for the infrastructure • For the infrastructure to be constructed a member state(s) or an intergovernmental organization must bid for it and offer an important part of the funding • International participation is strongly encouraged M. Dracos

3. Work Program: Capacities EU call M. Dracos

4. Design Studies budget M. Dracos

5. Objectives of EURONU DS • The recent discovery that the neutrino changes type (or flavour) as it travels through space, a phenomenon referred to as neutrino oscillations… • The implications are far reaching… • Knowledge of the contribution of neutrinos in these areas needs precise measurements of the parameters governing neutrino oscillations. • This will require a new high intensity beam-based neutrino oscillation facility in which neutrino beams are generated using new and highly challenging concepts. • This Design Study will review all three currently accepted methods of realizing this facility (the so-called neutrino Super-Beams, Beta Beams and Neutrino Factories). • It includes a detailed study of the key technical challenges of the accelerator facilities, of the detector options necessary to measure the neutrino oscillation parameters and a comparison of the physics reach of these facilities. • The design study will also perform a cost assessment that, coupled with the physics performance, will permit the European research authorities to make a timely decision on the lay-out and construction of the future European neutrino oscillation facility. M. Dracos

6. Neutrino Facilities H- linac 2.2 GeV, 4 MW H- linac 2.2 (3.5) GeV, 4 MW Accumulator ring + bunch compressor Accumulator ring + bunch compressor proton driver Magnetic capture Magnetic horn capture (collector) p Target Ionization cooling Target Drift hadrons n, m Phase rotation decay tunnel Linac  2 GeV ~300 MeV nm beam to far detector Recirculating Linacs 2  50 GeV Existing at CERN EURISOL DECAY RING Decay ring – 50 GeV 2000 m circumference Proton driver n beam to far detector Isol target & ion source B = 5T SPS L=6880 m New RFQ n beam to near detector Linac PS PSB p SPL Super-Beam Neutrino Factory Beta-Beam M. Dracos

7. Participants M. Dracos

8. Overview physics q13 CPV MSW … (non-acc.  ?) facilities SB BB NF technologies p-driver Cerenkov target LAr collector Emulsions m front-end magnetized m accel. stor. ring b beam detectors M. Dracos

9. Work Packages and Deliverables in order to underline synergies… technologies p-driver Super-Beam Beam instr. target Detectors collector Near det. m front-end Far det. Neutrino Factory m accel. Perform. Physics stor. ring Comparison Beta-Beam b beam M. Dracos

10. Objectives of the tasks • Management: • Lead and coordinate the DS • Comparison of the three facilities • Super beam: • Design of target and collector • Beam characteristics for the SPL superbeam • Specifications for the proton driver • Neutrino factory • Design of muon front end • Design of an acceleration scenario • Develop a conceptual design for proton beam handling after the primary production target (proton beam dump) • End-to-end simulation of the neutrino factory complex M. Dracos

11. Objectives of the tasks • Beta-beam • Review acceleration scenario for high-Q value isotopes • Production of beta-beam isotopes with the production ring concept • Review decay ring design for high-Q value isotopes • Continue R&D on bunching • Detector task • Study a Magnetized Iron Neutrino Detector • Study a Cerenkov detector • Study a near detector • Physics task • Study physics performance • Make optimization of the different possible scenarios • Make a comparison M. Dracos

12. Effort in people (120 person years) M. Dracos

13. Organization M. Dracos

14. Organization M. Dracos

15. Money • Total cost: 14.45M€ • EC request: 4.8M€ • Ratio: 33% M. Dracos

16. Time scale • In short: • We will work for 4 years • We hope to start beginning 2008 • We will use the last year for the comparison task M. Dracos

17. EU decision • The proposal got a top ranking in the evaluation of the proposals • We have been invited to negotiate for a maximum 4 MEuro EU financing M. Dracos

18. Annual meeting • Annual meeting to gather the Neutrino physics community and report on the progress of the study • The meeting will be combined with task meeting, management meetings and reviews • November 2008: CERN • November 2009: USA • November 2010: RAL (Project review) • November 2011: Paris • Your are invited to participate! M. Dracos

19. Participation CNRS et CEA M. Dracos

20. Participation CNRS et CEA M. Dracos

21. End M. Dracos