The Acceleration and Storage of Radioactive Ions for a Beta-Beam
  Facility

Baartman, R A; Benedikt, Michael; Blondel, A; Boine-Frankenheim, O; Bouchez, J; Burguet, J; Butler, P; Chartier, M; Delbar, T; Facco, A; Franzke, B; Garoby, R; Gilardoni, S S; Gómez-Cadenas, J J; Hancock, S; Hernández, P; Höllinger, R; Jansson, A; Köster, U; Laune, B; Lindroos, M; Lindroos, M; Magistris, M; Mezzetto, Mauro; Müller, A; Napoly, O; Nilsson, T; Palladino, V; Payet, J; Pisent, A; Prior, C; Reistad, D; Ryckewaert, G; Sortais, P; Spiller, P J; Steck, Markus; Villari, A C C; Volpe, C; Weick, H; Wenander, F; Zucchelli, P

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The Acceleration and Storage of Radioactive Ions for a Beta-Beam Facility

Authors: R A Baartman
Michael Benedikt
A Blondel
O Boine-Frankenheim
J Bouchez
J Burguet
P Butler
M Chartier
T Delbar
A Facco
B Franzke
R Garoby
S S Gilardoni
J J Gómez-Cadenas
S Hancock
P Hernández
R Höllinger
A Jansson
U Köster
B Laune
M Lindroos
M Lindroos
M Magistris
Mauro Mezzetto
A Müller
O Napoly
T Nilsson
V Palladino
J Payet
A Pisent
C Prior
D Reistad
G Ryckewaert
P Sortais
P J Spiller
Markus Steck
A C C Villari
C Volpe
H Weick
F Wenander
P Zucchelli
Publication date: 7 December 2003
Publisher: 'Elsevier BV'
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Abstract

The term beta-beam has been coined for the production of a pure beam of electron neutrinos or their antiparticles through the decay of radioactive ions circulating in a storage ring. This concept requires radioactive ions to be accelerated to as high Lorentz gamma as 150. The neutrino source itself consists of a storage ring for this energy range, with long straight sections in line with the experiment(s). Such a decay ring does not exist at CERN today, nor does a high-intensity proton source for the production of the radioactive ions. Nevertheless, the existing CERN accelerator infrastructure could be used as this would still represent an important saving for a beta-beam facility.Comment: beta-beam working group website at http://cern.ch/beta-bea