MINOS+: a Proposal to FNAL to run MINOS with the medium energy NuMI beam

Tzanankos, G. ; U., /Athens ; Bishai, M. ; Diwan, M. ; /Brookhaven ; Escobar, C.O. ; Gomes, R.A. ; Gouffon, P. ; U., /Campinas State U. /Goias U. /Sao Paulo ; Blake, A. ; Thomson, M. ; U., /Cambridge ; Patterson, R.B. ; /Caltech ; Adamson, P. ; Childress, S. ; /Fermilab /IIT, Chicago /Los Alamos /Minnesota U. /Minnesota U., Duluth /Bhubaneswar, NISER /Iowa State U.

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

关键词: Neutral Currents;    Dimensions;    Energy Range;    Experiment-Hep;    72 Physics Of Elementary Particles And Fields;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1028838
RP-ID  :  FERMILAB-PROPOSAL-1016
RP-ID  :  AC02-07CH11359
RP-ID  :  1028838

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This is a proposal to continue to expose the two MINOS detectors to the NuMI muon neutrino beam for three years starting in 2013. The medium energy setting of the NuMI beam projected for NO{nu}A will deliver about 18 x 10{sup 20} protons-on-target during the first three years of operation. This will allow the MINOS Far Detector to collect more than 10,000 charged current muon neutrino events in the 4-10 GeV energy range and provide a stringent test for non-standard neutrino interactions, sterile neutrinos, extra dimensions, neutrino time-of-flight, and perhaps more. In addition there will be more than 3,000 neutral current events which will be particularly useful in extending the sterile neutrino search range.