MOMENT: a muon-decay medium-baseline neutrino beam facility

Understand

Neutrino beam with about 300 MeV in energy, high-flux and medium baseline is considered a rational choice for measuring CP violation before the more powerful Neutrino Factory will be built.

• Following this concept, a unique neutrino beam facility based on muon-decayed neutrinos is proposed.
• The facility adopts a continuous-wave proton linac of 1.5 GeV and 10 mA as the proton driver, which can deliver an extremely high beam power of 15 MW.
• Instead of pion-decayed neutrinos, unprecedentedly intense muon-decayed neutrinos are used for better background discrimination.