MOMENT Overview Jingyu Tang Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS NuFact16, Quy Nhon, Vietnam, Aug. 22-26, 2016

Outline Brief introduction to the MOMENT Recent study progress Physics potential R&D efforts at CSNS/EMuS Summary

Brief introduction to MOMENT

MOMENT study MOMENT: A muon-decay medium baseline neutrino beam facility MOMENT was launched in 2013 as the third phase of neutrino experiments in China, following Daya Bay and JUNO Originally as a dedicated machine to measure CP phase in the future, if there are still the needs then. Physics goals should be modified along with the neutrino physics development. As a driving force to attract researchers from China as well international collaborators to work on neutrino experiments based on accelerators

Features: Using a CW proton linac as the proton driver: 15 MW China-ADS linac development Fluidized target in high-field SC solenoid Muon transport and decay channel (Pure + or - decay, managed beam) Also possible with -decayed beam and Decay-at-Rest neutrinos

Proton driver Design goal: Beam power: 15 MW Beam energy: 1.5 GeV Beam current: 10 mA Using the China-ADS linac or a dedicated linac with large simplification (much less redundancy) 3.2-MeV RFQ (room-temperature) Three sections SC spoke cavities (160 MeV) Two sections SC elliptical cavities (1.5 GeV) In total, 196 SC cavities in 42 cryostats, linac length: ~ 300 m

Estimate of neutrino flux POT (5000 h): 1.125  1024 proton/year Muon yield: 1.62  10-2 /proton Total neutrino yield: 4.8  10-3 /proton (in pair) 5.4  1021 /year (in pair) (NF: 1.1  1021 /year ) Neutrino flux at detector: dependent on the distance 4.7  1011 /m2/year (@150 km)

Recent progress

ADS linac development Parallel efforts at IHEP and IMP on the linac front (RFQ + low- cavities, 10 MeV) Very successful from both teams (different schemes) RFQ CW operation (IMP: 100%, IHEP: 99%) Low- superconducting cavities (10 MeV at IHEP, 5 MeV at IMP, 10 mA, pulsed) Prototypes of different SC cavities (Spoke, HWR, Elliptical) Second ADS phase (CIADS) approved Will be in Huizhou, Guangdong (not far from Daya Bay) 250 MeV -10 mA, CW mode Test-stand at IMP

Target Station Further optimization of the mercury jet target design Vassilopoulos’ talk Further optimization of the mercury jet target design More interests in developing fluidized granular target in collaborating with the C-ADS target team, and also waiting for study result with fluidized tungsten-powder target in Europe

Schematic of a waterfall-like granular target Preliminary study shows good heat transfer and pion capture efficiency Implantation method (such as cutting slots in the inner shielding) is still under development

Charge selection A selection section to select +/+ from -/-, as either + beam or - beam is used for producing the required neutrinos Reverse the fields when changing from + to - Also for removing very energetic pions who still survive Very difficult due to extremely large beam emittance (T/L) Two schemes: based on 3 SC dipoles with strong gradient (or FFAG), and bent SC solenoids Present study shows Dipole+solenoid solution works for smaller emittance, bent solenoid solution works for very large emittance

Spent protons extraction Features Very important to avoid huge heat deposit and radiation in the target station (also meaningful for NF) Spent protons can be reused Very difficult in practice Method Extract only high-energy protons (scattered from target) Collimation and bent solenoids (+dipole field)

Physics potentials

Physics potential in CP Detecting CP-violating phase in the lepton sector Absolute measurement: P(νμ→νe) Relative measurement: P(νμ→νe)-P(νμ→νe) Advantages of MOMENT High intensity neutrino beam : >1021 /year Relative low energy (~300 MeV) and short baseline (~150 km) Minimum interference from matter effect Low π0 background Muon decay neutrinos Measure multiple oscillation channels at the same time Low beam intrinsic background Requirement to the detector e/μ identification Neutrino/antineutrino identification

IBD spectrum in the detector Signal and background Detector options Liquid scintillator Gd-doped water Cherenkov detector Signals (μ+ decay, 5,000kton×year, 100% efficiency) IBD: 435 (easy to be identified with neutron tagging) νe CC: ~1,600 (large contamination of νe without magnetized detector) Oscillation signal of μ- decay is ~1/3 compared to μ+ decay Major background Atmospheric neutrinos Charge mis-identification Another calculation can be found in arXiv:1511.02859 IBD spectrum in the detector

Direction of e+ from IBD Perspective e/μ identification in the liquid scintillator MC studies are ongoing Improve charge identification A large magnetized detector? Reduce atmospheric background Reconstructing neutrino direction Sending neutrino in short bunches (arXiv:1511.02859)? Not realistic in ADS-type accelerator (CW beam) μ+ e+ Scintillation light Cherenkov light Cherenkov ring Direction of e+ from IBD

Another possibility Make use of decay-at-rest neutrinos? DAEδALUS MOMENT-DAR PRL 104, 141802 (2010)

Other physics potentials Search for sterile neutrinos DAR at the two beam dumps: target station and beam dump Neutrino cross-section measurement Both -decay and -decay neutrinos in 0-500 MeV Muon physics Very high intensity DC muon beam

Some related R&D efforts at CSNS

EMuS at CSNS Yuan’s talk We plan to build an experimental muon source (EMuS) at China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS). CSNS is under construction, expected to complete in March 2018, 100 kW at Phase I and 500 kW at Phase II EMuS will use 4% beam power to produce intense muon beams for MOMENT R&D studies and SR multidisciplinary applications. Potentially it may be also used for neutrino cross-section measurements and muon physics. MOMENT R&D studies include muon capture in high-field, charge selection, spent proton extraction etc. Present EMuS study is supported by an NSFC fund for R&D and prototypes

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Summary MOMENT is a driving force to attract Chinese researchers to collaborate on neutrino experiments based on accelerator-based neutrino beams Also participating international projects: LBNF, MICE, … Current studies focus on Suitable detector and physics potential with different neutrino sources Fluidized granular target and spent protons extraction Charge selection methods Some R&D will be done at CSNS/EMuS

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