The Case for Muon-based Neutrino Beams

Understand

For the foreseeable future, high energy physics accelerator capabilities in the US will be deployed to study the physics of the neutrino sector.

• In this context, it is useful to explore the sensitivities and limiting systematic effects of the planned neutrino oscillation program, so that we can evaluate the issues that must be addressed in order to ensure the success of these efforts.
• It is only in this way that we will ultimately be able to elucidate the fundamental physics processes involved.
• We conclude that success can only be guaranteed by, at some point in the future, being able to deploy muon accelerator capabilities.