Reactor & Accelerator Thanks to Bob McKeown for many of the slides
June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS Outline Reactor Neutrinos The neutrinos Past experiments What we know and what we want to learn Accelerator Neutrinos The neutrinos Past experiments What we know and what we want to learn
June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS Distance (m) P( e e ) Dominant 12 Oscillation Subdominant 13 Oscillation e Disappearance
June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS 13 90, 95, 99% CL hep-ph/ m 23 2 from SK atmospheric Chooz Solar
June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS Neutrino Oscillation Studies with Nuclear Reactors e from n-rich fission products detection via inverse beta decay ( e +p e + +n) Measure flux and energy spectrum Improve detectors, reduce background Variety of distances L= 10m-250km
June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS Detection Signal Coincidence signal: detect Prompt: e + annihilation E E prompt +E n +0.8 MeV Delayed: n capture 180 s capture time p + e 511keV 2.2 MeV d n
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June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS KamLAND uses the entire Japanese nuclear power industry as a longbaseline source Kashiwazaki Takahama Ohi
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June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS Solar : m 2 = 5.5x10 -5 eV 2 sin 2 2 = G.Fogli et al., PR D66, , (2002) Ratio of Measured and Expected e Flux from Reactor Neutrino Experiments
June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS Measurement of Energy Spectrum
June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS KamLAND best fit : m 2 = 7.9 x eV 2 tan 2 = 0.45 KamLAND fixes mass Solar fixes angle
June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS New Reactor Proposals Braidwood, Il Daya Bay, China Chooz, France ~1.5 km baseline Deeper/bigger Near/Far
June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS Detector Design Studies horizontal cylinder spherical
June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS Oscillation Formulae for Long- Baseline Neutrinos For anti-neutrinos, the J cp terms change sign.
June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS Long Baseline Physics Goals Definitive observation of oscillatory behavior in disappearance mode and precise determination of m 2 23 and 23. Detection of oscillation e in appearance mode and measurement of 13. Observe matter effects, hence sign of m Measure cp
June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS CP violation and matter effects hep-ph/
June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS T2K Phase I 0.75 MW +SK Phase II 4 MW + HyperK
June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS HyperK
June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS NO A Use the NUMI beam line from FermiLab. Far detector uses alternate vertical planes of active scintillator with passive wood absorber.
June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS Off-Axis Beam For pions decaying in flight, most neutrinos are forward directed Neutrino energy is proportional to E Neutrino energy flattens with angle, however. Allowing one to “choose” an energy by choosing the angle.
June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS Far Detector 810 km from target km off axis
June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS LONG baseline km
June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS The LSND Puzzle and MiniBOONE
June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS The Evidence for Neutrino Oscillations
June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS Requires a 3 rd m 2
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June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS Measurement of Oscillation Parameters
June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS Typical Muon-Neutrino Event
June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS Typical Michel Electron Event
June 2005Steve Elliott, NPSS Resources Bob Mckeown APS April 2005 (Tampa) APS neutrino study on reactors and long baseline experiments. BNL, T2K and NO A Letters of Intent Bill Louis Talks