Topics covered in the workshop include: extra-terrestrial and reactor neutrinos; accelerator neutrinos; neutrino mass; neutrino oscillations; and intense neutrino beams. (GHT)

Topics covered in the workshop include: extra-terrestrial and reactor neutrinos; accelerator neutrinos; neutrino mass; neutrino oscillations; and intense neutrino beams. (ERA citation 06:029442)

The neutrino channel of the accelerator of the Institute of High-Energy Physics is described. The general characteristics of the systems for producing the neutrino beam and the properties of the neutrino and antineutrino beams are described. This paper is an introduction to ...

The MINER?A experiment at Fermilab propose a fully-active scintillator based fine grained neutrino detector exposed to the high rate NuMI neutrino beam. Minerva will measure low energy neutrino interaction properties and cross-sections to a new level of precision. These measurements will be critical input to ...

The accelerator neutrino programme in the USA consists primarily of the Fermilab neutrino programme. Currently, Fermilab operates two neutrino beamlines, the Booster neutrino beamline and the NuMI neutrino beamline and is the planning stages for a third ...

This report describes the goals of the next generations of accelerator-based neutrino experiments, and the various strategies that are being considered to achieve those goals. Because these next steps in the field are significantly different from the current or previous steps, novel techniques must be considered for both the detectors and the ...

The problems of the different type neutrino oscillations based on a wide-band and narrow-band neutrino beam from the 600 GeV UNK-1 machine using the Baical Neutrino Telescope (4200 km from a accelerator) are discussed. The main parameters of the neutrino ...

We discuss accelerator production of neutrinos in underground laboratories via the 12C(p, n)12N reaction. Proton beams within the reach of current accelerator design and economic constraints can produce fluxes up to ten times that attributed to the sun. Intense neutrino fluxes in low-background ...

The Neutrino Factory is an important tool in the long-term neutrino physics program. Substantial effort is put internationally into designing this facility in order to achieve desired performance within the allotted budget. This accelerator is a secondary beam machine: neutrinos are produced by ...

The Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) neutrino beam facility began operating at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in 2005. NuMI produces an intense, muon-neutrino beam to a number of experiments. Foremost of these experiments is MINOS--the Mai...

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 a Lorentz ga...

To use accelerated beta active ions to produce collimated high energy neutrino beams was proposed by P. Zuchelli in 2002 and studies of a suitable accelerator complex, based on CERN accelerators, have been supported by research programs within the European Commisison FP6 and FP7 frameworks ...

The International design study (IDS) study showed that a Neutrino Factory [1] seems to be the most promising candidate for the next phase of high precision neutrino oscillation experiments. One part of the increased precision is due to the fact that in a Neutrino Factory the decay of muons produces a neutrino ...

We will start with a brief overview of neutrino oscillation physics with emphasis on the remaining unanswered questions. Next, after mentioning near future reactor and accelerator experiments searching for a non zero {theta}{sub 13}, we will introduce the plans for the next generation of long-baseline accelerator ...

The MINOS long-baseline experiment will use an intense neutrino beam, generated by Fermilab's Main Injector accelerator, and 730 km flight path to search for neutrino oscillations. The 10,000 ton MINOS far detector will utilize toroidally magnetized steel...

It is shown that muon decays in straight sections of muon collider rings will naturally produce highly collimated neutrino beams that can be several orders of magnitude stronger than the beams at existing accelerators. We discuss possible experimental setups and give a very brief overview of the physics potential ...

This paper examines the feasibility of a long baseline neutrino beam facility based on a proposed upgrade to the AGS accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory. It assumes that the AGS is upgraded initially to a 1 MW proton driver and eventually to a 4 MW proton machine. This upgrade would provide a strong incentive for a long ...

This paper examines the feasibility of a long baseline neutrino beam facility based on a proposed upgrade to the AGS accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory. It assumes that the AGS is upgraded initially to a 1 MW proton driver and eventually to a 4...

A conceptual design of a muon acceleration based on recirculating superconducting linacs is proposed. In the presented scenario, acceleration starts after ionization cooling at 210 MeV/c and proceeds to 20 GeV, where the beam is injected into a neutrino f...

The Neutrino Factory has been proposed as a facility to provide an intense source of neutrinos suitable for the measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters and a possible CP violating phase to unprecedented precision. In the Neutrino Factory, neutrinos are produced by the decay of a muon ...

An overview is given of the neutrino physics potential of future muon storage rings that use muon collider technology to produce, accelerate and store large currents of muons. After a general characterization of the neutrino beam and its interactions, some crude quantitative estimates are given for the physics ...

A discussion of design issues for future conventional neutrino beam-lines with proton beam power above a megawatt. There are several conventional neutrino beam-lines currently in operation that are designed to handle proton beam power of a fraction of a mega-watt. By ...

This Technical Memorandum (TM) summarizes the Fermilab accelerator and experiment operations for FY 2006. It is one of a series of annual publications intended to gather information in one place. In this case, the information concerns the FY 2006 Run II at the Tevatron Collider, the MiniBooNE experiments running in the Booster Neutrino ...

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The Neutrino Factory, which produces an extremely intense source of flavor-tagged neutrinos from muon decays in a storage ring, arguably gives the best physics reach for CP violation, as well as virtually all parameters in the neutrino oscillation parameter space. I will briefly describe the physics capabilities of the baseline ...

Introduction The MINOS (Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search) experiment will search for the oscillations of muon neutrinos into tau and/or electron neutrinos in an intense neutrino beam generated by Fermilab's new Main Injector accelerator. The experiment [1] is ...

A number of accelerator-based facilities have been proposed for the creation of neutrino beams: superbeams, neutrino factories, and beta beams. Fixed field alternating gradient accelerators (FFAGs) have potential uses in all of these facilities. Superbeams and ...

A number of accelerator-based facilities have been proposed for the creation of neutrino beams: superbeams, neutrino factories, and beta beams. Fixed field alternating gradient accelerators (FFAGs) have potential uses in all of these facilities. Superbeams and ...

The Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF) consists of a linear accelerator with multiple target systems, where the particle beam is being switched into separate channels to be aimed at discrete terminals to perform a variety of functions. The beam is ...

A measurement of hadron production cross-sections for the simulation of accelerator neutrino beams and a search for muon neutrino to electron neutrino oscillations in the {Delta}m{sup 2} {approx} 1 eV{sup 2} region. This dissertation presents measurements from two different high energy physics ...

Adjustment of the system for transporting the extracted proton beam from the accelerator of the Institute of High-Energy Physics for neutrino experiments is reported. The system for fast extraction and transport of the beam is described. The technical characteristics of the magnetic elements of the channel and ...

experiment, or T2K, included shooting a beam of neutrinos underground from the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex, or J-PARC, on the country's east coast to a detector...

Neutron stars are efficient accelerators for bringing charges up to relativistic energies. We show that if positive ions are accelerated to approximately 1 PeV near the surface of a young neutron star (t(age) less than or nearly 10(5) yr), protons interacting with the star's radiation field produce beamed mu ...

We have developed a concept for acceleration of a large phase-space, pulsed muon beam from 190 MeV to 50 GeV as part of a collaborative study of the feasibility of a neutrino factory based on in-flight decay of muons. The muon beam's initial energy spread...

The MINER?A experiment at Fermilab will use a fully-active scintillator based fine grained neutrino detector and the high rate NuMI neutrino beam. MINER?A will measure low energy neutrino interaction properties and cross sections to a new level of precision. These measurements will be critical input to present and ...

The Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation search (MINOS) uses two detectors separated by 735 km to measure a beam of neutrinos created by the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) facility at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The experiment has recently reported an observation of {nu}{mu} ...

Neutrino physics entered a new era, in which the main task will be to find an appearance evidence, using in most cases artificial neutrino beams. These experiments, designed to answer fundamental questions, like the precise determination of neutrino mixing parameters (mainly ?13 angle) and the search for leptonic ...

There are many applications requiring high power proton accelerators of various kinds. However, each type of proton accelerator can only provide beam with certain characteristics, hence the match of accelerators and their applications need careful evaluation. In this talk, the beam parameters ...

Over the last decade there has been significant progress in developing the concepts and technologies needed to produce, capture and accelerate O(10{sup 21}) muons/year. This prepares the way for a Neutrino Factory (NF) in which high energy muons decay within the straight sections of a storage ring to produce a beam of ...

The recent evidence for neutrino oscillations opens a new and exciting era in neutrino physics. The next generation of accelerator based neutrino oscillation experiments are expected to confirm the nature of the oscillations, and begin to measure some of the associated oscillation parameters. However, these ...

Preliminary experimental data obtained in the neutrino beam at the Serpukhov 70 GeV accelerator are reported. About 15 000 neutrino interactions have been analysed in the search for two-muon events. The upper limit on the muon pair production cross sectio...

A neutral channel at a 20-TeV fixed-target proton accelerator could be used to provide a tagged neutrino beam using K/sub OL/ decays. Muon and electron neutrinos and antineutrinos are identified and energy tagged up to above 2 TeV, allowing excellent syst...

Both a Neutrino Factory and a Muon Collider place stringent demands on the proton beam used to generate the desired beam of muons. Here we discuss the advantages and challenges of muon accelerators and the rationale behind the requirements on proton beam energy, intensity, bunch length, and ...

The magnetic-optics channel which shapes the extracted 70-GeV proton beam of the accelerator of the Institute of High-Energy Physics for neutrino experiments is described. The tolerances on the adjustment and the stability of the electrical power supplies for the magnetic elements of the channel, the influence of the field harmonics on ...

This Technical Memorandum (TM) summarizes the Fermilab accelerator and accelerator experiment operations for FY 2010. It is one of a series of annual publications intended to gather information in one place. In this case, the information concerns the FY 2010 Run II at the Tevatron Collider, the MINOS and MINER?A experiments using the Main Injector ...

This Technical Memorandum (TM) summarizes the Fermilab accelerator and accelerator experiment operations for FY 2009. It is one of a series of annual publications intended to gather information in one place. In this case, the information concerns the FY 2009 Run II at the Tevatron Collider, MINOS using the Main Injector Neutrino ...

This Technical Memorandum (TM) summarizes the Fermilab accelerator and accelerator experiment operations for FY 2008. It is one of a series of annual publications intended to gather information in one place. In this case, the information concerns the FY 2008 Run II at the Tevatron Collider, MINOS using the Main Injector Neutrino ...

This Technical Memorandum (TM) summarizes the Fermilab accelerator and accelerator experiment operations for FY 2007. It is one of a series of annual publications intended to gather information in one place. In this case, the information concerns the FY 2007 Run II at the Tevatron Collider, the MiniBooNE and SciBooNE experiments running in the Booster ...

The Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) experiment uses an accelerator-produced neutrino beam to perform precision measurements of the neutrino oscillation parameters in the 'atmospheric neutrino' sector associated with muon ...

The Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) experiment uses an accelerator-produced neutrino beam to perform precision measurements of the neutrino oscillation parameters in the �atmospheric neutrino� sector associated with muon neutrino ...

Reported here are results, which have been published in [6], from the MINOS experiment from its first year of data-taking with neutrinos from Fermilab's NuMI beam. During this period, 1.27�1020 protons were delivered to the neutrino target. MINOS consists of two detectors, located 1 km and 735 km from the ...

Long-baseline neutrino oscillation physics in the U.S. is centered at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), in particular at the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beamline commissioned in 2004-2005. Already, the MINOS experiment has published its first results confirming the disappearance of ?'s across a 735 km ...

. In this proposal we show the event rates and physics sensitivity for beams from both FNAL (1300 km distant from available for neutrino beams from US accelerator laboratories (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNALMay 26, 2006 PROPOSAL FOR AN EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM IN ...

Conceptual design studies are underway for both muon colliders and high-current non-colliding muon storage rings that have the potential to become the first true neutrino factories. Muon decays in long straight sections of the storage rings would produce uniquely intense and precisely characterized two-component neutrino beams--muon ...

The proposed neutrino factory will produce a defined beam of neutrinos from the decay of muons in a storage ring [1,2,3]. The storage ring will be oriented so that the neutrinos can be detected at one or more detectors several thousand kilometers from the storage ring. This report presents an overview of the ...

The proposed neutrino factory will produce a defined beam of neutrinos from the decay of muons in a storage ring [1,2,3]. The storage ring will be oriented so that the neutrinos can be detected at one or more detectors several thousand kilometers from the storage ring. This report presents an overview of the ...

In this paper I will discuss how an intense beam of high energy neutrinos produced with conventional technology could be used to further our understanding of neutrino masses and mixings. I will describe the possibility of building such a beam at existing US laboratories. Such a project couples naturally to a large ...

The muons in a neutrino factory must be accelerated from the energy of the capture, phase rotation, and cooling systems (around 120 MeV kinetic energy) to the energy of the storage ring (around 25 GeV). This is done with a sequence of accelerators of different types: a linac, one or more recirculating linear ...

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is involved in the development of a 60 MeV superconducting linac. This linac is part of the High Intensity Neutrino Source (HINS) R&D Program. The initial beam acceleration in the front end section of the linac is ach...

There is now substantial evidence that the proper description of neutrino involves two representations related by the 3 x 3 PMNS matrix characterized by either distinct mass or flavor. The parameters of this mixing matrix, three angles and a phase, as well as the mass differences between the three mass eigenstates must be determined experimentally. The Main Injector ...

The MINERvA experiment to run at Fermilab will use a fully active scintillator based fine-grained neutrino detector to exploit the high rate NuMI beam. Minerva will measure low energy neutrino interaction properties and cross sections to a new level of precision. These measurements will be important for the extraction of ...

There have been active efforts in the U.S., Europe, and Japan on the design of a neutrino factory. This type of facility produces intense beams of neutrinos from the decay of muons in a high-energy storage ring. In the U.S., a second detailed feasibility study (FS2) for a neutrino factory was completed in 2001. ...

There have been active efforts in the U.S., Europe, and Japan on the design of a Neutrino Factory. This type of facility produces intense beams of neutrinos from the decay of muons in a high energy storage ring. In the U.S., a second detailed Feasibility Study (FS2) for a Neutrino Factory was completed in 2001. ...

There are three types of future neutrino facilities currently under study, one based on decays of stored beta-unstable ion beams (?Beta Beams?), one based on decays of stored muon beams (?Neutrino Factory?), and one based on the decays of an intense pion beam (?Superbeam?). ...

A conceptual design of a muon acceleration scheme based on recirculating superconducting linacs is proposed. In the presented scenario, acceleration starts after ionization cooling at 245 MeV/c and proceeds to 20 GeV, where the beam is injected into a neutrino factory storage ring. The key technical issues are ...

The Gran Sasso National Laboratory of the INFN has given important contributions to the discovery of the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations with experiments both on electron neutrinos from the Sun and muon neutrinos indirectly produced by cosmic rays interactions in the atmosphere. Other experiments in the laboratory give the best ...

The Gran Sasso National Laboratory of the INFN has given important contributions to the discovery of the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations with experiments both on electron neutrinos from the Sun and muon neutrinos indirectly produced by cosmic rays interactions in the atmosphere. Other experiments in the laboratory give the best ...

The long-term prospects for fully exploring three-flavor mixing in the neutrino sector depend upon an ongoing and increased investment in the appropriate accelerator R&D. Two new concepts have been proposed that would revolutionize neutrino experiments, namely the Neutrino Factory and the Beta ...

The Beta-Beam is a concept of large-scale facility that aims at providing pure electronic neutrino and antineutrino beams for the measurement of ?e^{} ? ?_{?}^{} oscillations. Beta-decaying nuclides are produced in large amounts in a facility of the scale of EURISOL, and are then post-accelerated and stored at ...

There is no unambiguous definition for long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. The term is generally used for accelerator neutrino oscillation experiments which are sensitive to {Delta}m{sup 2} < 1.0 eV{sup 2}, and for which the detector is not on the accelerator site. The Snowmass N2L working group met ...

There is no unambiguous definition for long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. The term is generally used for accelerator neutrino oscillation experiments which are sensitive to Delta sq m less than 1.0 eV2, and for which the detector is not on the accelerator site. The Snowmass N2L working group met to ...

The intensity of proton accelerator has attained to the order to mega-watt, and several MW-class proton accelerators start to operate in the world. J-PARC is a complex of three accelerators, and generates a variety of secondary beams, i.e. muon beam, neutron beam, meson ...

A study is currently under way at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory for a superconducting linear accelerator that will accelerate H- ions to 8?GeV. This Proton Driver beam is intended to be injected, stripped down to protons, into the 120?GeV Main Injector for the mass production of ...

The characteristics of the charged-current neutrino�nuclear interactions are investigated for the first time at E ? = 1-3 GeV using the data obtained with SKAT propane-freon bubble chamber irradiated in the neutrino beam at the Serpukhov accelerator. The E ? dependence of the mean multiplicities of different ...

MINOS is a two-detector experiment to study neutrino oscillations in the NuMI high-intensity neutrino beam at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Results on ?? disappearance, ?e appearance, sterile neutrino mixing (? neutral current �disappearance�), and ? disappearance are ...

We report on the status of the MINOS long baseline neutrino experiment presently under construction at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the Soudan mine. There is growing evidence that the solar neutrino and atmospheric neutrino anomalies [1] are the result of neutrino oscillations. ...

The proposed neutrino factory will produce a defined beam of neutrinos from the decay of muons in a storage ring[1,2,3]. The storage ring will be oriented so that the neutrinos can be detected at one or more detectors several thousand kilometers from the storage ring. This report presents an overview of the ...

The Neutrino Factory is an important tool in the long-term neutrino physics program. Substantial effort is put internationally into designing this facility in order to achieve desired performance within the allotted budget. This accelerator is a secondary beam machine: neutrinos are produced by ...

To date, the 120 GeV Fermilab Main Injector accelerator has accelerated a single batch of protons from the 8 GeV rapid-cycling Booster synchrotron for production of antiprotons for Run II. In the future, the Main Injector must accelerate 6 or more Booster batches simultaneously; the first will be extracted to the antiproton source, ...

After the discovery of neutrino oscillations by SuperKamiokande three years ago the measurements of their masses and flavor mixing are under way using various neutrino sources and energies. High precision data on atmospheric neutrinos show that the dominant mixings occur between active species. They allow for statistically significant ...

The proposed superconducting linear accelerator that accelerates muons from 190 MeV to 2.45 GeV will use superconducting solenoids for focusing the muon beam. The accelerator will use superconducting RF cavities. These cavities are very sensitive to stay magnetic field from the focusing magnets. Superconducting ...

The Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) is a long-baseline accelerator neutrino experiment designed to measure properties of neutrino oscillation. Using a high intensity muon neutrino beam, produced by the Neutrinos at Main Injector (NuMI) ...

Geant4 is a tool kit developed by a collaboration of physicists and computer professionals in the High Energy Physics field for simulation of the passage of particles through matter. The motivation for the development of the Beam Tools is to extend the Geant4 applications to accelerator physics. Although there are many computer programs for ...

We discuss in detail the physics reach of an experimental set-up where electron neutrinos (anti-neutrinos) produced in a beta-beam facility at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) are sent, over a distance of L~1300km, to the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL). A 300kt Water ...

There is an active neutrino program making use of the high-energy (larger than 50 GeV) accelerators both in USA at Fermilab with NuMI and at CERN in Europe with CNGS. In this paper we will review the prospects for high intensity high energy beams in those two locations during the next decade.

The proposed ''neutrino-production'' project [1.2] to be built at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) requires that the neutrino-production target be bombarded by a high intensity proton beam-pulse of {approx} 90 x 10{sup 12} protons of 28 GeV in energy and at a rate of 2.5 Hz, resulting in a 1 ...

An outline is given of the general problems of high-power targets used in particle accelerators with cw and pulsed beams for a variety of uses, such as neutron and radioactive particle production and in particular for pion production in neutrino factories. The question of heat dissipation and thermal shock with pulsed ...

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) is an accelerator and particle physics experiment aimed at demonstrating the technique of ionization cooling on a beam of muons. Ionization cooling is the process by which muons are sent through an absorbing material, thereby losing energy and decreasing their normalized emittance. The muons are then ...

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 a Lorentz gamma of 150 for {sup 6}He and 60 for {sup 18}Ne. The ...

We report a search for muon neutrino disappearance in the {Delta}m{sup 2} region of 0.5--40 eV{sup 2} using data from both Sci-BooNE and MiniBooNE experiments. SciBooNE data provides a constraint on the neutrino flux, so that the sensitivity to {nu}{sub {mu}} disappearance with both detectors is better than with just MiniBooNE alone. The preliminary ...

New low-cost, high-power proton cyclotrons open the opportunity for a novel precision search for CP violation in the light neutrino sector. The accelerators can produce decay-at-rest neutrino beams located at multiple distances from a Gd-doped ultralarge water Cherenkov detector in order to search for CP violation ...

MINER?A (Main INjector Experiment for ?-A) is a neutrino scattering experiment in the 1-10 GeV energy range in the NuMI high-intensity neutrino beam at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. MINER?A is now taking data and it was designed to measure neutrino-nucleus cross sections on a ...

An important radiation field for photomeson neutrino production in blazars is shown to be the radiation field external to the jet. Assuming that protons are accelerated with the same power as electrons and injected with a -2 number spectrum, we predict that km(2) neutrino telescopes will > or similar to 1 ...

This book balances experimental and theoretical reviews of the latest developments in the field, illustrating points of interaction that will prove beneficial to both groups. Reviews critical developments in new accelerator plans, neutrino oscillations, proton decay, and decay schemes of the upsilon. Reflects the flurry of activity generated by recent ...

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Neutrino oscillations were first discovered by experiments looking at neutrinos coming from extra-terrestrial sources, namely the sun and the atmosphere, but we will be depending on earth-based sources to take many of the next steps in this field. This article describes what has been learned so far from accelerator-based ...

A neutrino factory, which can deliver an intense flux of �1021 neutrinos per year from a multi-GeV stored muon beam, is seemingly the ideal tool for studying neutrino oscillations and CP violations for leptons. The front end of this facility plays a critical role in determining the number of muons that can be ...

The possibility of formation of neutrino beams from the 600-GeV UNK-1 accelerator toward Gran Sasso (Italy) and of study neutrino oscillations with the ICARUS detector is demonstrated. The proposed experiment is sensitive to {Delta}m{sup 2} values down to 10{sup -3} eV{sup 2} at maximum ...

We report the first direct observation of muon antineutrinos in the MINOS Far Detector in the current muon-neutrino dominated beam. The magnetic field of the detector is utilized to separate muon neutrinos and antineutrinos event-by-event by identifying the charge sign of the muon created in charged-current interactions. We present ...

MINOS, the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search, is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment based at Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory. The experiment uses a neutrino beam, which is measured 1 km downstream from its origin in the Near detector at Fermilab and then 735 km ...

A conceptual design of a muon acceleration scheme based on recirculating superconducting linacs is proposed. In the presented scenario, acceleration starts after ionization cooling at 210 MeV/c and proceeds to 20 GeV, where the beam is injected into a neutrino factory storage ring. The key technical issues are ...

A conceptual design of a muon acceleration based on recirculating superconducting linacs is proposed. In the presented scenario, acceleration starts after ionization cooling at 210 MeV/c and proceeds to 20 GeV, where the beam is injected into a neutrino factory storage ring. The key technical issues are addressed; ...

A conceptual design of a muon acceleration based on recirculating superconducting linacs is proposed. In the presented scenario, acceleration starts after ionization cooling at 210 MeV/c and proceeds to 20 GeV, where the beam is injected into a neutrino factory storage ring. The key technical issues are addressed; ...

We present simulations of a wide-band low-energy neutrino beam for a future very long baseline neutrino oscillation (VLBNO) program using the proton beam from the Main Injector (MI) proton accelerator at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). The target and horn ...

The author presents the status of the long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment MINOS at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). He also summarizes the status of the detector and beam construction, the expected event rates and sensitivity to physics. He also comments on possible future plans to improve the performance of ...

Fermilab's Main Injector on acceleration cycles to 120 GeV has been running a mixed mode operation delivering beam to both the antiproton source for pbar production and to the NuMI target for neutrino production since 2005. On January 2008 the slip stacki...

The physics potential and the complementarity of the large scale underground European detectors: Water Cherenkov (MEMPHYS), Liquid Argon TPC (GLACIER) and Liquid Scintillator (LENA) is presented with emphasis on the major physics opportunities, namely proton decay, supernova detection and neutrino parameter determination using accelerator ...

There are a number of novel instrumentation issues relating to the generation cooling and acceleration of high power muon beams. Specific issues are monitoring the cooling water in the magnet nearest the target to minimize corrosion, monitoring the behavi...

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The design of a low-energy (4 GeV) neutrino factory (NF) is described, along with its expected performance. The neutrino factory uses a high-energy proton beam to produce charged pions. The {pi}{sup {+-}} decay to produce muons ({mu}{sup {+-}}), which are collected, accelerated, and stored in a ring with long ...

There are a number of novel instrumentation issues relating to the generation cooling and acceleration of high power muon beams. Specific issues are monitoring the cooling water in the magnet nearest the target to minimize corrosion, monitoring the behavior of the target after the impact of the beam, and following the ...

The highest priority of the Solar and Atmospheric Neutrino Experiment Working Group is the development of a real-time, precision experiment that measures the pp solar neutrino flux. A measurement of the pp solar neutrino flux, in comparison with the existing precision measurements of the high energy {sup 8}B ...

This paper attempts to summarize the neutrino oscillation section of the Workshop on Future Directions in Particle and Nuclear Physics at Multi-GeV Hadron Beam Facilities. There were very lively discussions about the merits of the different oscillation channels, experiments, and facilities, but we believe a substantial consensus emerged. First, the next ...

We report the results of a search for ?? disappearance by the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search [D. G. Michael (MINOS), Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 191801 (2006).PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.97.191801]. The experiment uses two detectors separated by 734 km to observe a beam of neutrinos created by the ...

Within the Neutrino Factory Project the muon acceleration process involves a complex chain of accelerators including a (single-pass) linac, two recirculating linacs and an FFAG. The linac consists of RF cavities and iron shielded solenoids for transverse focusing and has been previously designed relying on idealized field models. ...

The NuMI proton beam at Fermilab currently delivers 120 GeV protons to the neutrino production target with design beam power capability to 400 kW. Upgrade capability to 700 kW is being prepared, with planning toward delivering 2.3 MW beam provided by the Project X accelerator upgrade plan. We ...

A conceptual design of a Ring Cooler driven muon acceleration based on recirculating superconducting linacs is proposed. In the presented scenario, acceleration starts after ionization cooling at 250 MeV/c and proceeds to 20 GeV, where the beam is injected into a neutrino factory storage ring. The key technical ...

We propose to build the DSF-MR (Double Super-Ferric Main Ring), 480 GeV, fast-cycling (2 second repetition rate) two-beam proton accelerator in the Main Ring tunnel of Fermilab. This accelerator design is based on the super-ferric magnet technology developed for the VLHC, and extended recently to the proposed LER injector for the LHC ...

Low-energy muon neutrino beams can be produced from pion decays in-flight at high-intensity accelerators, such as the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF), providing a new tool to study the role of the weak interaction in nuclear and particle physics. Employing a pion focusing device can enhance the neutrino ...

An intense muon source can be built in stages to support a uniquely broad program in high energy physics. Starting with a low-energy cooled muon beam, extraordinarily precise lepton flavor violation experiments are possible. Upgrading the facility with acceleration and a muon storage ring, one can build a Neutrino Factory that would ...

This thesis explains the origins of neutrinos and their interactions, and the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations. Experiments for measuring neutrino oscillations are mentioned and the experiment investigated in this thesis, the ''Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search'', and ...

The high flux of neutrinos available at the LAMPF linac beam stop has been used to search for neutrino oscillations and neutrino disappearance. Past and present experiments at the facility are described. (GHT)

"Neutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing" (Haim Harari, 1988) was our general understanding of the field for the ~25 years previous. A new neutrino era was abruptly brought from outer space by a burst of SN1987A neutrinos. The detection of neutrinos from SN1987A gave a new ...

Experimental approaches to neutrino mass include kinematic mass measurements, neutrino oscillation searches at rectors and accelerators, solar neutrinos, atmospheric neutrinos, and single and double beta decay. The solar neutrino results yield fairly stro...

High-power particle production targets are crucial elements of future neutrino and other rare particle beams. Fermilab plans to produce a beam of neutrinos (LBNE) with a 2.3 MW proton beam (Project X). Any solid target is unlikely to survive for an extended period in such an environment - many ...

Neutrinos are present in the natural environment due to terrestrial, solar, and cosmic sources and are also produced at accelerators both incidentally and intentionally as part of physics research programs. Progress in fundamental physics research has led to the creation of beams of neutrinos of ever-increasing ...

MINER?A is a detector designed to precisely study ?-nucleus interactions in the 1-10 GeV energy range in the NuMI high-intensity neutrino beam at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. MINER?A will improve our knowledge of neutrino cross sections at low energy and low Q2, and of the A-dependence in ? ...

The J-PARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex), which consists of LINAC, RCS and MR synchrotron, has successfully produced wide variety of secondary beam (neutrons, muons, pions, kaons, and neutrinos) by steady commissioning since November 2006. There are three experimental facilities, and for nuclear and particle physics, ten ...

Three major areas are covered, progress report, budget report, and proposed research program. The progress report covers the following major topics: electron-positron interactions at PETRA with PLUTO; neutrino-deuterium interactions in the 15 foot bubble chamber; hadron jet physics experiment at Fermilab; status of neutrino-electron and proton-proton ...

long-baseline neutrino-oscillation experiment in Japan. A high-intensity neutrino beam from the J-PARC in Table 2. A bird's eye view illustration of the entire J-PARC is shown in Fig. 1. #3; Talk at International: Summary of the facilities and nicknames related to the T2K experiment. J-PARC Japan Proton Accelerator

Using muons as a source of neutrinos can be traced back to 25 years ago but it is with the recent studies on muon colliders that this idea came back to the front of the stage. It was specifically discussed in a FNAL workshop (1997), a BNL workshop (1998) and a study group dedicated to that topic was set up at CERN in 1998. #Fact99 appears as the conclusion of this preparatory ...

This document describes the design of the accelerator and target systems for the AGS Super Neutrino Beam Facility. Under the direction of the Associate Laboratory Director Tom Kirk, BNL has established a Neutrino Working Group to explore the scientific case and facility requirements for a very long baseline ...

A new high-energy neutrino program is described. The experiment would tag and reconstruct semileptonic decays in an intense K/sub L/ beam. The species and energy of outgoing neutrinos would be identified event-by-event and the neutrino interactions record...

A search for neutrino oscillations was made using the Fermilab narrow-band neutrino beam and the 15 ft. bubble chamber. No positive signal for neutrino oscillations was observed. Limits were obtained for mixing angles and neutrino mass differences for nu/...

A review is given on physical phenomena in neutrino beams and on interactions related to neutrino physics. Neutrino processes in nature and neutrino importance in cosmology are discussed, and it is shown that experiments with high-energy neutrino may play an ...

Proton accelerators producing beam powers of up to 1 MW are presently either operating or under construction and designs for Multi-Megawatt facilities are being developed. High beam power has applications in the production of high intensity secondary beams of neutrons, muons, kaons and ...

Proton accelerators producing beam powers of up to 1 MW are presently either operating or under construction and designs for Multi-Megawatt facilities are being developed. High beam power has applications in the production of high intensity secondary beams of neutrons, muons, kaons and ...

We discuss the design of the muon capture front end of the neutrino factory International Design Study. In the front end, a proton bunch on a target creates secondary pions that drift into a capture transport channel, decaying into muons. A sequence of rf cavities forms the resulting muon beams into strings of bunches of differing energies, aligns the ...

Project X would dramatically increase the intensity of the neutrino beam and provide proton beams for other experiments, too. Read more Neutrinos could be the key to finding the...

The MINOS experiment is designed to study neutrino oscillations. It uses an accelerator generated beam of neutrinos and two detectors, the smaller at a distance of 1km and the larger at 735 km. By comparing the spectrum and flavour composition of the beam at the two detectors precise ...

The characteristics of the charged-current neutrino-nuclear interactions are investigated for the first time at E{sub {nu}}= 1-3 GeV using the data obtained with SKAT propane-freon bubble chamber irradiated in the neutrino beam at the Serpukhov accelerator. The E{sub {nu}}dependence of the mean multiplicities of ...

6-D BEAM DYNAMICS STUDIES IN EMMA FFAG EPAC06 Conference - Poster F. M�eot, DAPNIA & LPSC, Grenoble Abstract We report on beam dynamics studies concerning the EMMA electron model of a muon non-scaling FFAG for the Neutrino Factory. INTRODUCTION EMMA (Electron Model of a Muon Accelerator) [1] is a design of a ...

Long baseline neutrino oscillation physics in the U.S. is centered at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), in particular at the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beamline commissioned in 2004-2005. Already, the MINOS experiment has published its first results confirming the disappearance of {nu}{sub {mu}}'s ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators started a neutrino working group to identify new opportunities in the field of neutrino oscillations and explore how our laboratory facilities can be used to explore this field of research. The memo to the working group and the charge are included in Appendix I. This report is the result of the deliberations ...

The long-term prospects for fully exploring three-flavor mixing in the neutrino sector depend upon an ongoing and increased investment in the appropriate accelerator R&D. Two new concepts have been proposed that would revolutionize neutrino experiments, namely the Neutrino Factory and the Beta ...

We develop a numerical scheme and code for estimating the energy and momentum transfer via neutrino pair annihilation, bearing in mind the application to the collapsar models of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). To calculate the neutrino flux illuminated from the accretion disk, we perform a ray-tracing calculation in the framework of special relativity. Using ...

Neutrino astronomy beyond the Sun was first imagined in the late 1950s; by the 1970s, it was realized that kilometer-scale neutrino detectors were required. The first such instrument, IceCube, is near completion and taking data. The IceCube project transforms a cubic kilometer of deep and ultra-transparent Antarctic ice into a particle detector. A total of ...

Neutrino oscillations have been observed and confirmed at {Delta}m{sup 2} {approx} 10{sup -3} and 10{sup -5} eV{sup 2} with various experiments. While oscillations at other mass splittings are prohibited by the current standard model, the LSND experiment observed an excess of electron antineutrinos in a muon antineutrino beam, indicating a possible ...

Large liquid scintillation detectors have been generally used for low energy neutrino measurements, in the MeV energy region. We describe the potential employment of large detectors (>1 kiloton) for studies of higher energy neutrino interactions, such as cosmic rays and long baseline experiments. When considering the physics potential of new large ...

The concept of a muon storage ring based Neutrino Source (Neutrino Factory) has sparked considerable interest in the High Energy Physics community. Besides providing a first phase of a muon collider facility, it would generate more intense and well collimated neutrino beams than currently available. The BNL-AGS or ...

Neutrinos offer a particularly promising eye on the extreme Universe. Neutrinos are not attenuated by intervening radiation fields such as the Cosmic Microwave Background, and so they are messengers from the very distant and very young phase of the universe. Also, neutrinos are not deflected by cosmic magnetic fields, and so they ...

This paper gives an overview of the work done so far to produce sufficient neutrino fluxes for neutrino oscillation physics using beta beams. The design study on a beta beam scenario, the EURISOL (European Isotope Separation On-Line Radioactive Ion Beam Facility) Design Study, a project funded ...

This paper gives an overview of the work done so far to produce sufficient neutrino fluxes for neutrino oscillation physics using beta beams. The design study on a beta beam scenario, the EURISOL (European Isotope Separation On-Line Radioactive Ion Beam Facility) Design Study, a project funded ...

The accelerator-based particle physics program in the US is entering a period of transition. This is particularly true at Fermilab which for more than two decades has been the home of the Tevatron Proton-Antiproton Collider, the World's highest energy hadron collider. In a few years time the energy frontier will move to the LHC at CERN. Hence, if an ...

High intensity hadron beams of up to 2 MW beam power are a key element of new proposed experimental facilities at Fermilab. Project X, which includes a SCRF 8 GeV H{sup -} linac, will be the centerpiece of future HEP activities in the neutrino sector. After a short overview of this, and other proposed projects, we present the current ...

This note constitutes a Letter of Interest to study the physics capabilities of, and to develop an implementation plan for, a neutrino physics program based on a Low-Energy Neutrino Factory at Fermilab providing a {nu} beam to a detector at the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory. It has been over ten years since the ...

We discuss neutrino fluxes and energy dependent flavor ratios of cosmic accelerators as a function of the size of the acceleration region and the magnetic field, which are the parameters of the Hillas plot. We assume that photohadronic interactions between Fermi accelerated protons and synchrotron photons from ...

At high-intensity high-energy particle accelerators, consequences of a beam-induced radiation impact on machine and detector components, people, environment and complex performance can range from negligible to severe. The specifics, general approach and tools used at such machines for radiation analysis are described. In particular, the world leader ...

MINOS is a long-baseline neutrino oscillations experiment located at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), USA. It makes use of the NuMI neutrino beamline and two functionally identical detectors located at distances of {approx}1km and {approx}735km from the neutrino production target respectively. The Near ...

The design of a very high intensity proton linear accelerator and its associated facilities, that together form a complete meson factory is discussed. The accelerator will deliver a 1 ma (average) primary proton beam at an energy that is variable from 200 to 750 Mev. Polarized protons can also be ...

The US Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment Study was commissioned jointly by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) to investigate the potential for future U.S. based long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments using MW class conventional neutrino ...

The US Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment Study was commissioned jointly by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) to investigate the potential for future U.S. based long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments using MW class conventional neutrino ...

There is a growing interest in very long baseline neutrino oscillation experimentation using an accelerator produced neutrino beam as a machinery to probe the last three unmeasured neutrino oscillation parameters: the mixing angle ?13, the possible CP violating phase ?CP and the mass hierarchy, ...

This paper contains brief synopsis of the following major topics discussed in the neutrino and nonaccelerator parallel sessions: dark matter; neutrino oscillations at accelerators and reactors; gamma-ray astronomy; double beta decay; solar neutrinos; and the possible existence of a 17-KeV ...

We summarize what has been learned about the neutrino mass spectrum and neutrino mixing, identify interesting open questions that can be answered by accelerator neutrino facilities of the future, and discuss the importance and physics of answering them.

Test on masses of neutrinos below the 1 eV level are reviewed, and the limits of present experimental methods used to look for neutrino oscillations are discussed. A tagged neutrino experiment is suggested. The usual neutrino detector is supplemented by a...

Theoretical concepts and motivations for considering neutrinos having finite masses are discussed and the experimental situation on searches for neutrino masses and oscillations is summarized. The solar neutrino problem, reactor, deep mine and accelerator...

A simple, straightforward, and economic experiment utilizing a set of water Cherenkov counters is proposed to search for neutrino oscillations in the AGS neutrino beam. The detector will be movable and will be able to provide reasonable counting rates up to 2 km downstream of the pion decay tunnel. Whereas previous ...

GENIE [1] is a new neutrino event generator for the experimental neutrino physics community. The goal of the project is to develop a �canonical� neutrino interaction physics Monte Carlo whose validity extends to all nuclear targets and neutrino flavors from MeV to PeV energy scales. Currently, emphasis is on ...

We report on a system to ensure cycle-to-cycle synchronization of beam extraction from the Fermilab Booster accelerator to the Main Injector. Such synchronization is necessary for multiple batch operation of the Main Injector for the Run II upgrade of anti-proton production using slip-stacking in the Main Injector, and for the NuMI ...

A sign-selected dichromatic neutrino beam using conventional magnets presently in use at NAL is described. The beam has a solid angle acceptance of ten mu sr and can focus charged hadrons up to a momentum of 170 GeV/c. The beam can be used to select either neutrinos or ...

We discuss energy-dependent flavor and neutrino-antineutrino ratios of neutrinos produced in cosmic accelerators as a function of energy over 20�24 orders of magnitude in R and B, which are the parameters of the Hillas plot. We use a self-consistent model for sources optically thin to neutrons, in which the ...

Energy spectra, intensity and composition of the CERN to Gran Sasso CNGS neutrino beam for ??? search are presented with the first results of the beam commissioning and operations.

This paper presents results of recent experimental studies focusing on the behavior of special materials and composites under irradiation conditions and their potential use as accelerator targets. The paper also discusses the approach and goals of on-going investigations on an expanded material matrix geared toward the neutrino superbeam and muon collider ...

The Main Injector is a new rapid cycling accelerator at Fermilab which is a source of protons to be used in antiproton production to enhance the luminosity of the Tevatron Collider and to provide extracted beams for use in a range of fixed target experiments. We discuss the current status of the accelerator and the physics which it ...

The existence of highly efficient ion acceleration regimes in collective laser-plasma interactions opens up the possibility to develop high-energy-physics (HEP) facilities in conjunction with projects for inertial confined nuclear fusion (ICF) and neutron spallation sources.

The LOREX-{sup 205}Tl solar neutrino experiment is designed to measure the solar neutrino flux integrated over the last few million of years using lorandite (TlAsS{sub 2}) minerals from Allchar mine (Macedonia), by measuring the {sup 205}Pb content resulting from neutrino capture in {sup 205}Tl. The mean depth of the sample has to be ...

The LOREX- 205Tl solar neutrino experiment is designed to measure the solar neutrino flux integrated over the last few million of years using lorandite (TlAsS2) minerals from Allchar mine (Macedonia), by measuring the 205Pb content resulting from neutrino capture in 205Tl. The mean depth of the sample has to be determined by measuring ...

Intense muon sources for the purpose of providing intense high energy neutrino beams ({nu} factory) represents very interesting possibilities. If successful, such efforts would significantly advance the state of muon technology and provides intermediate steps in technologies required for a future high energy muon collider complex. High intensity muon: ...

Employing intense muon sources to carry out forefront low energy research, such as the search for muon - number non-conservation, or for the purpose of providing intense high energy neutrino beams ({nu}factory) represents very interesting possibilities. If successful, such efforts would significantly advance the state of muon technology and provides ...

The neutrino factory program aims to produce well-characterized neutrino fluxes, orders of magnitude larger than those available from conventional beams. An important feature of the machine design is a cooling section for reducing the muon transverse emittance to a level that can be accepted by the downstream ...

Maintaining the excellence of this series, this volume balances experimental and theoretical reviews of the latest developments in the field, illustrating points of interaction that will prove beneficial to both groups. Experimentalists represent critical developments in new accelerator plans, neutrino oscillations, proton decay, and decay schemes of the ...

The phenomenon of diffractive dissociation is experimentally estimated for neutrino interaction with photoemulsion nuclei. The results are based on data obtained in the SCIP experiment performed in a neutrino beam at the U-70 accelerator (Protvino). The data sample subjected to analysis included 670 charged-current ...

The MINOS long-baseline experiment will use an intense neutrino beam, generated by Fermilab`s Main Injector accelerator, and 730 km flight path to search for neutrino oscillations. The 10,000 ton MINOS far detector will utilize toroidally magnetized steel plates interleaved with track chambers to reconstruct event ...

The MINOS long-baseline experiment will use an intense neutrino beam, generatet by Fermilab's Main Injector accelerator, and a 730km flight path to search for neutrino oscillations. The 10000 ton MINOS far detector will utilise toroidally magnetized steel plates interleaved with track chambers to reconstruct event ...

The proposed Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) will explore the interactions and oscillations of a high-intensity neutrino beam sent from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) more than 1,000 kilometers away through the earth to DUSEL at the Homestake mine. DUSEL will be one of the world's deepest ...

This seminar is primarily intended for CERN guides. The formation of sun-like stars, their life cycle, and their final destiny will be explained in simple terms, appropriate for the majority of our visitors. An overview of the nuclear reaction chains in our sun will presented (Standard Solar Model), with special emphasis on the production of neutrinos and their measurement in ...

A study of the mixed antineutrino and neutrino neutral current sample for a visible momenta range from 5 to 150 GeV/c has been made. Details of the experiment and analytical processes are given. The data were obtained by exposing the Fermi National Accelerator hydrogen filled 15' bubble chamber to a wide band antineutrino beam. The ...

One of the major open issues in neutrino physics is the possible existence of CP violation in the neutrino sector. Such an observation would have an important impact in various domains of physics, from high energy physics to cosmology. Its search requires future accelerator neutrino facilities producing intense and ...

A review of the title subject is given. The phenomenology of neutrino oscillations in the framework of the so-called neutrino Standard Model ( \

There is no unambiguous definition for long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. The term is generally used for accelerator neutrino oscillation experiments which are sensitive to (Delta)m(sup 2)

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) at the ISIS accelerator located at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK, will be the first experiment to study muon cooling at high precision. Demonstration of muon ionization cooling is a major technological step towards the construction of a neutrino factory or a muon collider. A muon ...

This contribution to the proceedings of the 2010 NOW Workshop summarises the latest results from the MINOS experiment and talks about the future prospects for the MINER?A and NO?A experiments. Descriptions of the Fermilab NuMI neutrino beam, its performance and future potential as well as that of the associated accelerator complex are ...

A high-intensity proton accelerator complex, J-PARC, is under construction in Japan. By using the high-intensity proton beams at 3 GeV and 50 GeV, various secondary beams of neutron, muons, kaons, pions, neutrino, etc. will be produced in the highest intensities in the world. Nuclear physics programs using the ...

A system of interchangeable targetry on rail transporters has been in use for four years. This design concept allows rapid interchange of radioactive target equipment with a minimum of exposure to operating personnel. Separate maintenance facilities equipped with a variety of remote handling equipment, including a mobile electric master-slave manipulator, are used to construct, ...

We review the current status of experimental knowledge about neutrinos derived from kinematic mass measurements, neutrino oscillation searches at reactors and accelerators, solar neutrinos, atmospheric neutrinos, and single and double beta decay. The solar neutrino results ...

We review the current status of experimental knowledge about neutrinos derived from kinematic mass measurements, neutrino oscillation searches at reactors and accelerators, solar neutrinos, atmospheric neutrinos, and single and double beta decay. The solar neutrino results ...

This report describes the solenoid magnets in the front end (the section between the pion capture solenoid and the linear acceleration section) of the Level 2 study of a neutrino factory. The magnets described in the report start with the decay channel magnets that starts 18 meter downstream from the start of the pion production target. The magnet string ...

To investigate the feasibility of a solar neutrino experiment using 205Tl as a geological detector we have performed a series of measurements at the GSI heavy-ion facility UNILAC studying accelerator mass spectrometry of the heavy radioisotope 205Pb (T1/2 = 14 mio years. We observe a suppression of neighbouring masses to better than 10-16, and an elemental ...

Ways of detecting tau neutrinos emerging from a beam dump are studied. Key signatures are elaborated and contrasted with background arising from muon and electron neutrino interactions. Expected event rates are given for various neutrino spectra. 16 references.