The acceleration and storage of radioactive ions for a beta-beam facility
Paper in proceeding, 2004

The term beta-beam has been coined for the production of a pure beam of electron neutrinos or their antiparticles through the decay of radioactive ions circulating in a storage ring. This concept requires radioactive ions to be accelerated to as high Lorentz gamma as 150. The neutrino source itself consists of a storage ring for this energy range, with long straight sections in line with the experiment(s). Such a decay ring does not exist at CERN today, nor does a high-intensity proton source for the production of the radioactive ions. Nevertheless, the existing CERN accelerator infrastructure could be used as this would still represent an important saving for a beta-beam facility.

Author

M. Lindroos

Thomas Nilsson

Nuclear Physics A

0375-9474 (ISSN)

Vol. 746 316C-322C

Subject Categories

Subatomic Physics

Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified

DOI

10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2004.09.112

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10/7/2017