A combined beta-beam and electron capture neutrino experiment

Understand

The next generation of long baseline neutrino experiments will aim at determining the value of the unknown mixing angle, theta_{13}, the type of neutrino mass hierarchy and the presence of CP-violation in the lepton sector.

• Beta-beams and electron capture experiments have been studied as viable candidates for long baseline experiments.
• They use a very clean electron neutrino beam from the beta-decays or electron capture decays of boosted ions.
• In the present article we consider an hybrid setup which combines a beta-beam with an electron capture beam by using boosted Ytterbium ions.