EURO?

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EURO?
A High Intensity Neutrino Oscillation Facility in
Europe

• History
• Current status
• Plans

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Ancient History

• Original plan DS proposal to EC FP6 - cancelled
• New plan DS to EC FP7
• A High Intensity Neutrino Oscillation Facility
  in Europe
• Includes CERN to Frejus SB, NF and BB
• Main objectives
• CDRs for each facility
• Physics and cost comparison
• Provide information for next step
• Project coordinator RE

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History
Date Partners Total cost (M) EC Contribution (M)
March 07 17 19.2 9.5
April 07 15 14.5 5.2
May 07 15 14.4 4.8
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History

• Proposal submitted 2nd May 2007
• Review complete
• marked 14.5/15.0
• ranked 1st out of the 51 DS proposals
• invited to negotiate with EC for 4MEUR
  contribution cf LAGUNA 4.5MEUR ? 1.3MEUR
  EUROCRAB 3.5MEUR ? 0
• 14 of DS total

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History
Activity Number of Proposals Funding requested (M) Call Budget (M) Oversubscription factor
ICT based e-infrastructures 68 228 42 5.4
Design studies 51 136 31 4.4
CNI-Preparatory phase 34 205 147 1.4
Support to Policy development 8 12 8
Total 159 580.9 228 2.5
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Negotiations
Date Partners Total cost (M) EC Contribution (M)
March 07 17 19.2 9.5
April 07 15 14.5 5.2
May 07 15 14.4 4.8
October 07 15 13.71132695 4.02541700
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Partners
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Resources
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Work Packages
Work packageNo Work package title Type of activity Lead participantNo Person-months Startmonth Endmonth
1 Management and Knowledge Dissemination MGT 1 92 1 48
2 Super-Beam RTD 2 333 1 48
3 Neutrino Factory RTD 5 282 1 48
4 Beta Beam RTD 3 295 1 48
5 Detector Performance RTD 4 178 1 48
6 Physics Reach RTD 6 206 1 48
TOTAL 1386
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Work Packages
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Work Packages - Objectives
WP1
Description of work Coordination task coordination of the contractual, financial and administrative aspects of the Design Study, including delivery of annual reports and control of the funds (participant 1). Oversight task oversight of the technical and scientific aspects of the Design Study, including the monitoring of milestones and ensuring that deliverables are produced on time (participants 1, 3 7). Knowledge task management of the knowledge generated by the Design Study, including its protection, use and dissemination (participant 1, 3 7). Comparison task comparison between the three facilities, based on their physics reach and cost, taking into account the knowledge of the neutrino oscillation parameters available at that time. Determination of the criteria to be used. Production of a priority list, based on this comparison (participants 1, 3 7).
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Work Packages - Objectives
WP2
Description of work Coordination task responsibility for the WP, including the objectives, milestones and deliverables, and for the overall coherence of the Super-Beam design (participant 2) Review task review of the baseline design for the proton driver, the target and the hadron collector (participants 2, 1 7) Proton Driver assessing special requirements for the SPL for neutrino beams and modifying the design appropriately (participants 2 7) Target determining the preferred solutions for Super-Beam and Neutrino Factory (participant 1) Cross sections determining the rate of hadron production in the interactions between the protons and the target (participant 1) Collection system The design of a hadron collection system will be done taking into account the severe operation conditions (participant 7) Hadron collector pulsing system A study of possible options for the collector pulsing system will be done and a baseline design will be identified (participant 7) Neutrino Beam characteristics a state-of-the-art simulation of the whole system from the target and collector to the neutrino beam (flux, spectrum, etc) will be provided and used to assess the physics performance of the facility (participant 2) Target/Collector integration A study of the integration of the target into the collector and both into the target station for both a Super-Beam and a Neutrino Factory (participants 1 8)
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Work Packages - Objectives
WP3
Description of work Coordination task leading the task, with responsibility for ensuring that the specification of the muon front-end and acceleration systems are compatible. It is also responsible for ensuring that an appropriate framework for the end-to-end simulation is available (participant 5) Muon front-end task The muon front-end task will provide a detailed evaluation of the performance of the muon front-end and determine its cost (participants 1, 3, 5, 12 14) Acceleration task The acceleration task will develop a detailed definition of the acceleration scheme that is matched to the muon front-end and evaluate both its performance and its cost (participants 1, 5, 7 12) Proton-beam handling task will develop a detailed concept for the handling of the spent proton beam that emerges from the target and determine a baseline cost (participant 14) Integration task The integration task will deliver an appropriate end-to-end simulation of the accelerator complex that will allow the performance of the facility to be determined (participants 1, 3 5)
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Work Packages - Objectives
WP4
Description of work Coordination task leading the Beta Beam WP, with responsibility for the parameter list and for the overall coherence of the baseline scenario. The work will start with a review of the base line design for the new isotopes 8B and 8Li including the use of a future accelerator at CERN (participants 3 2) Production ring task Production ring layout and lattice, simulations (6D) and technical aspects e.g. vacuum, RF etc. (participant 3). ECR task continuation of work with a 60 GHz ECR source for bunching studies of 6He and 18Ne started within EURISOL DS with the objective of reaching the high efficiencies needed for the beta-beam. Furthermore, a study and first tests will be done of necessary modifications to bunch 8Li and 8B. The design of the advanced magnetic structures to be used in ECR ion source technology will also be done (participant 7) Collection device task A prototype of the collection device will be built and tested on-line The extraction efficiency for 8Li will be measured. Techniques to extract 8B from the collection device will be studied. The release efficiencies and the possible production channels will be studied theoretically and, if required, experimentally (participants 10 15) Decay ring task The decay ring lattice has to be reviewed for the new isotopes. A study of a possible layout for superconducting dipoles for the beta-beam is required. The work on beam collimation and magnet protection started within EURISOL DS will be adapted for 8Li and 8B (participants 3 2)
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Work Packages - Objectives
WP5
Description of work Coordination task leading the task, with responsibility for the coordination of the work of the different participants (participant 4) MIND task Simulation of the magnetic iron neutrino detector (MIND), which is the baseline for a Neutrino Factory, including implementation of a toroidal field, optimisation of the geometry, event selection, efficiency as a function of threshold, background evaluation and cost estimate (participants 4 6) Water Cherenkov task Define performance of water Cherenkov detectors for Super-Beam and Beta Beams, including efficiency as a function of threshold and background evaluation, and cost estimate (participant 7). Near detector task Design for the near detector in order to measure the absolute flux normalisation, differential neutrino cross sections, backgrounds to the far detector, and cost estimate (participants 4 13).
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Work Packages - Objectives
WP6
Description of work Coordination task leads the task and is responsible for the coordination of the work of the different participants (participant 6) Evaluation of physics performance task the physics potential of different facilities will be evaluated in a coordinated manner (participants 6, 9, 10 11). Optimization task the distance to the detector and the neutrino energy need to be optimized for all facilities taking into account the constraints from the accelerator WP. Similarly the synergies of the combination of two or more experimental setups at the same facility need to be quantified (participants 6, 9, 10 11). Evaluation of systematic uncertainties task a fair comparison of physics potential requires including all systematic uncertainties, some related to the experimental setup (to be quantified by WP 5) and some related to theoretical unknowns. WP 6 will include all these uncertainties in the physics analysis in a unified fashion (participants 6, 10 11). Comparison task the different facilities will eventually be compared in terms of their physics performance (participants 6, 3, 9 10).
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Staff months
Participant no./short name WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 WP6 Total person months
1 STFC 68 137 78 0 0 0 283
2 CEA 0 46 0 34 0 0 80
3 CERN 12 0 74 80 0 1 167
4 Glasgow 0 0 0 0 36 0 36
5 Imperial 0 0 84 0 0 0 84
6 CSIC 0 0 0 0 47 60 107
7 CNRS 12 102 12 78 44 0 248
8 CUT 0 48 0 0 0 0 48
9 UDUR 0 0 0 0 0 32 32
10 INFN 0 0 0 18 0 56 74
11 MPG 0 0 0 0 0 57 57
12 UOXF.DL 0 0 6 0 0 0 6
13 UniSofia 0 0 0 0 51 0 51
14 Warwick 0 0 28 0 0 0 28
15 UCL 0 0 0 85 0 0 85
Total 92 333 282 295 178 206 1386
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Management
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Management
Project Coordinator Super-Beam Neutrino Factory Beta Beam
Management Board Edgecock Dracos Long Lindroos
WP Coordinator Deputy
1 Edgecock (STFC) nya
2 Zito (CEA) Densham (STFC)
3 Pozimski (ICL) Meddahi (CERN)
4 Benedikt (CERN) Fabich (CERN)
5 Soler (Glasgow) Cervera (Valencia)
6 Hernandez (Valencia) Donini (Madrid)
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Plans

• Negotiations on-going
• Planned start date 1st February 2008
• Duration 4 years
• First governing board meeting 5th February -
  good to have senior people present - will
  appoint other bodies in design study - get
  everything started
• Annual meetings proposal (coincident with
  IDS) November 2008 CERN November 2009
  USA November 2010 RAL (Project
  review) November 2011 Paris
• Website development soon (similar to EURISOL)