Neutrino Physics with Accelerator Driven Subcritical Reactors

Understand

Accelerator driven system (ADS) subcritical nuclear reactors are under development around the world.

• They will be intense sources of free, 30-50 MeV antimuon decay at rest antimuon neutrinos.
• These ADS reactor neutrinos can provide a robust test of the LSND anomaly and a precise measurement of the leptonic CP-violating phase delta, including sign(cos(delta)).
• The first phase of many ADS programs includes the construction of a low energy, high intensity proton or deuteron accelerator, which can yield competitive bounds on sterile neutrinos.