Acknowledgments vii
Foreword xiii
1 Introduction
11 Neutrino Oscillations
111 Experiments
112 Phenomenology
12 Three-family Oscillations and CP or T Violation
121 How to measure leptonic CP violation
122 The problem of degenerate solutions
13 Experimental Setups
131 Conventional neutrino beams
132 First generation long-baseline experiments
133 Second generation long-baseline experiments
134 Next generation conventional neutrino beams
14 Why Look For New Concepts in Neutrino Beams?
15 New Concepts on Neutrino Beams
151 Neutrino factories
2 Machine Aspects
21 Introduction
22 A Possible Beta-Beam Facility
23 The Beta BeamIsotopes
231 Which isotope to use
232 Isotope production
233 The ISOLmethod
234 Direct production
235 Production ring
236 Production rates
24 Ion Transfer, Ionization and Bunching
25 Acceleration
251 Linear accelerators
252 Some basics about synchrotrons
26 Stacking and Storage
261 Why do we need stacking?
262 Beam-cooling
263 Stacking
264 Annual rate of neutrinos
265 Other limitations
27 Possible Future Development
271 Accumulation at low energy
272 Two isotopes in the ring at the same time
273 Higher gamma
274 Barrier buckets in the decay ring
275 Acceleration of partly stripped ions
3 CERN-Fr′ejus Beta Beam Physics Potential
31 Introduction
32 The CERN-Fr′ejus Configuration
33 Data Analysis
331 Backgrounds
332 Signals
333 Systematic errors
34 Oscillation Analysis
341 θ13 searches
342 Leptonic CP violation searches
343 Searches that cannot be done in this configuration
35 Combined Analyses with the Atmospheric Neutrinos
351 Mass hierarchy
352 Degeneracy breaking
36 Combined Analyses with the SPL Super Beam
37 Comparison with Other Super Beam Experiments
4 Physics Potential of Other Beta Beam Settings
41 Introduction
42 High Energy Beta Beams
43 Monochromatic Neutrino Beams
44 Beta Beams Based on 8B and 8Li Ions
45 High Energy 8B/8LiBeta Beams
46 Comparison with Other Neutrino Facilities and
Green-field Scenarios
47 Conclusions
5 Low Energy Beta Beams
51 Introduction
52 Low Energy Setups
521 Off-axis configurations
53 Nuclear Structure, Neutrino-nucleus,
Nuclear Astrophysics Applications
54 Fundamental Interaction Studies
541 Weinberg angle measurement
542 Conserved vector current hypothesis
543 Neutrino magnetic moment
Bibliography
Index