Karlsruhe 2011 – scientific programme

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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 20: Neutrinophysik (Theorie)

T 20.7: Talk

Monday, March 28, 2011, 18:15–18:30, 30.23: 3-1

Where is the optimized neutrino factory? — •jian tang — Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Wuerzburg University, 97074 Wuerzburg, Germany

We perform the baseline and energy optimization of the Neutrino Factory including the latest analysis of the magnetized iron detector (MIND). We also consider the impact of τ decays, generated by ν_µ→ ν_τ or ν_e → ν_τ appearance, on the mass hierarchy, CP violation, and θ₁₃ discovery reaches, which we find to be negligible for the considered detector.

Apart from a green-field study of the new detector performance, we discuss specific implementations for the two-baseline Neutrino Factory, where the detector sites considered are taken to be the currently discussed underground laboratories all over the world. We find that reasonable setups can be found for the Neutrino Factory independent of the continent the neutrino source is located at.