The DAE{\delta}ALUS Project: Rationale and Beam Requirements

Understand

Neutrino physics focuses on huge detectors deep underground.

• The Sanford Lab in South Dakota will build a 300 kiloton water-Cherenkov detector 1500 meters deep for muon neutrino oscillation studies of the mass hierarchy and CP violation.
• This will be used by the Long Baseline experiment (LBNE) detecting few GeV neutrinos from Fermilab, 1300 km away.
• The DAE{\delta}ALUS Collaboration also plans several neutrino-production sites at closer distances up to 20 km from the 300 kT detector, producing muon antineutrinos from stopped pions.