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A minimal Beta Beam with high-Q ions to address CP violation in the leptonic sector

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In this paper we consider a Beta Beam setup that tries to leverage at most existing European facilities: i.e. a setup that takes advantage of facilities at CERN to boost high-Q ions (8Li and 8B) aiming at a far detector located at L=732 km in the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory. The average neutrino energy for 8Li and 8B ions boosted at γ∼100 is in the range E ν ∈[1,2] GeV, high enough to use a large iron detector of the MINOS type at the far site. We perform, then, a study of the neutrino and antineutrino fluxes needed to measure a CP-violating phase δ in a significant part of the parameter space. In particular, for θ 13≥3°, if an antineutrino flux of 3×1019 useful 8Li decays per year is achievable, we find that δ can be measured in 60% of the parameter space with 3×1018 useful 8B decays per year.

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  1. Dep. Física Teórica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain

    P. Coloma

  2. I.F.T., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/CSIC, 28049, Madrid, Spain

    P. Coloma & A. Donini

  3. I.F.I.C., Universitat de Valencia/CSIC, 46071, Valencia, Spain

    A. Donini

  4. I.N.F.N., Sez. di Napoli, Napoli, Italy

    P. Migliozzi

  5. Physik-Institut, University of Zurich, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland

    L. Scotto Lavina

  6. I.N.F.N., Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Rome), Italy

    F. Terranova

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Coloma, P., Donini, A., Migliozzi, P. et al. A minimal Beta Beam with high-Q ions to address CP violation in the leptonic sector. Eur. Phys. J. C 71, 1674 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1674-6

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