Letter of interest for a neutrino beam from Protvino to KM3NeT/ORCA

Akindinov V, Anassontzis EG, Anton G, Ardid M, Aublin J, Baret B, Bertin , Bourret S, Bozza C, Bruchner M, Bruijn R, Brunner J, Chabab M, Chau N, Chepurnov AS, Colomer Molla M, Coyle P, Creusot A, De Wasseige G, Domi A, Donzaud C, Eberl T, Enzenhöfer A, Faifman M, Filipovic MD, Fusco L, Garkusha V, Gál T, Gozzini SR, Graf K, Gregoire T, Grella G, Hallmann S, Heijboer A, Hernandez-Rey JJ, Hofestädt J, Ivanov S, James CW, De Jong M, De Jong P, Kalaczynski P, Kakorin ID, Katz U, Chowdhury NRK, Kirsanov MM, Kouchner A, Kulikovskiy V, Kuzmin KS, Le Breton R, Lebedev OP, Lincetto M, Litvinovich E, Lopez-Coto D, Markou C, Maximov A, Melis KW, Muller R, Naumov VA, Navas S, Nauta L, Nielsen C, Novoskoltsev FN, Fearraigh BO, Organokov M, Papalashvili G, Perrin-Terrin M, Poire C, Pradier T, Quinn L, Samtleben DFE, Sanguineti M, Seneca J, Shanidze R, Shirokov E, Sinopoulou A, Sinyukov RY, Skorokhvatov MD, Sokalski I, Sokolov AA, Spisso B, Stellacci SM, Strandberg B, Taiuti M, Thakore T, Tzamariudaki E, Van Elewyck V, De Wolf E, Zaborov D, Zaitsev AM, Zornoza JD, Zuniga J (2019)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2019

Journal

Book Volume: 79

Journal Issue: 9

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7259-5

Abstract

The Protvino accelerator facility located in the Moscow region, Russia, is in a good position to offer a rich experimental research program in the field of neutrino physics. Of particular interest is the possibility to direct a neutrino beam from Protvino towards the KM3NeT/ORCA detector, which is currently under construction in the Mediterranean Sea 40 km offshore Toulon, France. This proposal is known as P2O. Thanks to its baseline of 2595 km, this experiment would yield an unparalleled sensitivity to matter effects in the Earth, allowing for the determination of the neutrino mass ordering with a high level of certainty after only a few years of running at a modest beam intensity of sensitivity to the leptonic CP-violating Dirac phase can be achieved. A second stage of the experiment, comprising a further intensity upgrade of the accelerator complex and a densified version of the ORCA detector (Super-ORCA), would allow for up to a 6 sigma\documentclass[12pt] resolution on the CP phase after 10 years of running with a 450 kW beam, competitive with other planned experiments. The initial composition and energy spectrum of the neutrino beam would need to be monitored by a near detector, to be constructed several hundred meters downstream from the proton beam target. The same neutrino beam and near detector set-up would also allow for neutrino-nucleus cross section measurements to be performed. A short-baseline sterile neutrino search experiment would also be possible.

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Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) / Объединённый институт ядерных исследований (ОИЯИ) Russian Federation (RU) National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute" / Hациональный исследовательский центр "Курчатовский Институт" Russian Federation (RU) National Institute for Subatomic Physics / Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica (Nikhef) Netherlands (NL) University of València / Universitat de València Spain (ES) Universidad de Granada Spain (ES) National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Greece (GR) Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Georgia (GE) Université de Strasbourg (UDS) France (FR) University of Paris 7 - Denis Diderot / Université Paris VII Denis Diderot France (FR) Aix-Marseille University / Aix-Marseille Université France (FR) Russian Academy of Sciences / Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (RAS) Russian Federation (RU) University of Western Sydney Australia (AU) National Institute for Nuclear Physics / Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Italy (IT) Curtin University Australia (AU) Lomonosov Moscow State University / Московский государственный университет имени М.В.Ломоносова Russian Federation (RU) Università degli Studi di Salerno Italy (IT) National Centre for Scientific Research (NCSR) "Demokritos" Greece (GR) Polytechnic University of Valencia / Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Spain (ES) National Centre for Nuclear Research (früher:Institute of Atomic Energy POLATOM & Andrzej Sołtan Institute for Nuclear Studies) / Narodowe Centrum Badań Jądrowych (NCBJ) Poland (PL) Cadi Ayyad University / جامعة القاضي عياض‎ Morocco (MA)

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APA:

Akindinov, V., Anassontzis, E.G., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aublin, J., Baret, B.,... Zuniga, J. (2019). Letter of interest for a neutrino beam from Protvino to KM3NeT/ORCA. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 79(9). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7259-5

MLA:

Akindinov, V., et al. "Letter of interest for a neutrino beam from Protvino to KM3NeT/ORCA." European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields 79.9 (2019).

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