Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2008-02-25
JHEP0806:090,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
36 pages. Comparison with a benchmark Beta-beam scenario using water Cerenkov detector and a neutrino factory set-up added. Fi
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2008/06/090
We perform a comprehensive and detailed comparison of the physics reach of Beta-beam neutrino experiments between two pairs of plausible source ions, (8B, 8Li) and (18Ne, 6He). We study the optimal choices for the baseline, boost factor, and luminosity. We take a 50 kton iron calorimeter, a la ICAL@INO, as the far detector. We follow two complementary approaches for our study: (i) Fixing the number of useful ion decays and boost factor of the beam, and optimizing for the sensitivity reach between the two pairs of ions as a function of the baseline. (ii) Matching the shape of the spectrum between the two pairs of ions, and studying the requirements for baseline, boost factor, and luminosity. We find that for each pair of ions there are two baselines with very good sensitivity reaches: a short baseline with $L [km]/ \gamma \simeq 2.6$ (8B+8Li) and $L [km]/\gamma \simeq 0.8$ (18Ne+6He), and a long ``magic'' baseline. For $\gamma \sim 500$, one would optimally use 18Ne and 6He at the short baseline for CP violation, 8B and 8Li at the magic baseline for the mass hierarchy, and either 18Ne and 6He at the short baseline or 8B and 8Li at the magic baseline for the $\sin^22\theta_{13}$ discovery.
Agarwalla Sanjib Kumar
Choubey Sandhya
Raychaudhuri Amitava
Winter Walter
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