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