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Conceptual design report for a Beta-Beam facility

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The Beta-Beam is a concept of large-scale facility that aims at providing pure electronic neutrino and antineutrino beams for the measurement of \( \nu_{e}^{}\) \( \rightarrow\) \( \nu_{\mu}^{}\) 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 large \( \gamma\) in a racetrack decay ring. We present here a conceptual design of the accelerator chain of a Beta-Beam based at CERN.

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  1. CERN, CH-1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland

    M. Benedikt, F. Borgnolutti, E. Bouquerel, J. Bruer, P. Delahaye, A. Fabich, S. Hancock, C. Hansen, E. Jensen, M. Lindroos, M. Magistris, M. Silari, T. Stora, S. Trovati, V. Vlachoudis & E. Wildner

  2. Institute of Applied Physics, 60438, Frankfurt, Germany

    A. Bechtold & H. Podlech

  3. GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291, Darmstadt, Germany

    L. Bozyk, M. Kirk, P. Puppel, P. Spiller & J. Stadlmann

  4. Centre de Saclay, CEA, IRFU, SACM, F-91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

    A. Chancé & J. Payet

  5. CEA/DSM-CNRS/IN2P3, GANIL, 14076, Caen, France

    P. Delahaye

  6. Manne Siegbahn Laboratory, S-114 18, Stockholm, Sweden

    A. Källberg & A. Simonsson

  7. Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS-IN2P3 and Université Paris-Sud, BP1, F-91406, Orsay cedex, France

    A. Lachaize, A. C. Mueller & A. Tkatchenko

  8. ESS Scandinavia, Lund University, SE-221 00, Lund, Sweden

    M. Lindroos

  9. Centre de Recherches du Cyclotron, Université catholique de Louvain, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    M. Loiselet & S. Mitrofanov

  10. Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980, Dubna, Russia

    S. Mitrofanov

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Benedikt, M., Bechtold, A., Borgnolutti, F. et al. Conceptual design report for a Beta-Beam facility. Eur. Phys. J. A 47, 24 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2011-11024-5

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