Open AccessENUBET: a monitored neutrino beam for the precision era of neutrino physics
Author(s) -
Fabio Iacob,
Fabio Acerbi,
Ioannis A. Angelis,
M. Bonesini,
A. Branca,
C. Brizzolari,
G. Brunetti,
M. Calviani,
S. Capelli,
S. Carturan,
M. G. Catanesi,
S. Cecchini,
N. Charitonidis,
F. Cindolo,
G. Collazuol,
F. Dal Corso,
C. Delogu,
G. De Rosa,
A. Falcone,
B. Goddard,
A. Gola,
C. Jollet,
Verena Kain,
B. Kliček,
Y. Kudenko,
C. Lampoudis,
M. Laveder,
A. Longhin,
L. Ludovici,
Е. В. Луценко,
L. Magaletti,
G. Mandrioli,
A. Margotti,
V. Mascagna,
N. Mauri,
L. Meazza,
A. Meregaglia,
M. Mezzetto,
M. Nessi,
A. Paoloni,
M. Pari,
E. Parozzi,
L. Pasqualini,
G. Paternoster,
L. Patrizii,
M. Pozzato,
M. Prest,
F. Pupilli,
E. Radicioni,
C. Riccio,
A. C. Ruggeri,
D. Sampsonidis,
Carlo Scian,
G. Sirri,
M. Stipčević,
M. Tenti,
F. Terranova,
M. Torti,
S. Tzamarias,
E. Vallazza,
Francesco Velotti,
L. Votano
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/2156/1/012234
Subject(s) - physics , neutrino , nuclear physics , particle physics , measurements of neutrino speed , muon , neutrino oscillation , neutrino detector , lepton , muon neutrino , large hadron collider , event (particle physics) , calorimeter (particle physics) , solar neutrino problem , solar neutrino , detector , electron , optics , quantum mechanics
The ENUBET ERC project, also included in the CERN Neutrino Platform as NP06/ENUBET, is developing a new neutrino beam based on conventional techniques in which the flux and the flavor composition are known with unprecedented precision ( O (1%)). Such a goal is accomplished monitoring the associated charged leptons produced in the decay region of the ENUBET facility. Positrons and muons from kaon decays are measured by a segmented calorimeter instrumenting the walls of the decay tunnel, while muon stations after the hadron dump can be used to monitor the neutrino component from pion decays. Furthermore, the narrow momentum width (<10%) of the beam provides a precise measurement ( O (10%)) of the neutrino energy on an event by event basis, thanks to its correlation with the radial position of the interaction at the neutrino detector. ENUBET is therefore an ideal facility for a high precision neutrino cross-section measurement at the GeV scale, that could enhance the discovery potential of the next-generation of long baseline experiments. It is also a powerful tool for testing the sterile neutrino hypothesis and to investigate possible non-standard interactions.