Short-Baseline Electron Neutrino Disappearance at a Neutrino Factory

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We discuss short-baseline and very-short-baseline electron neutrino disappearance at a neutrino factory.

• We take into account geometric effects, such as from averaging over the decay straights, and the uncertainties of the cross sections.
• We follow an approach similar to reactor experiments with two detectors: we use two sets of near detectors at different distances to cancel systematics.
• We demonstrate that such a setup is very robust with respect to systematics, and can have excellent sensitivities to the effective mixing angle and squared-mass splitting.