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    The 2010 Interim Report of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment Collaboration Physics Working Groups
    Collaboration, TLBNE; Akiri, T.; Allspach, D.; Andrews, M.; Arisaka, K.; Arrieta-Diaz, E.; Artuso, M.; Bai, X.; Balantekin, A. B.; Baller, B.; Barletta, W. A.; Barr, G.; Bass, M.; Beck, A.; Becker, B.; Bellini, V.; Benhar, Omar; Berger, B. E.; Bergevin, M.; Berman, E.; Berns, H.; Bernstein, A.; Beroz, F.; Bhatnagar, V.; Bhuyan, B.; Bionta, R.; Bishai, M.; Blake, A.; Blaufuss, E.; Bleakley, B.; Blucher, E.; Blusk, S.; Boehnlein, D.; Bolton, T.; Brack, J.; Bradford, R.; Breedon, R.; Bromberg, C.; Brown, R.; Buchanan, N.; Camilleri, Leslie; Campbell, M.; Carr, Rachel E.; Carminati, G.; Chen, A.; Chen, H.; Cherdack, D.; Chi, C.; Childress, S.; Choudhary, B.; Church, E.; Cline, D.; Coleman, S.; Corey, R.; D'Agostino, M. V.; Davies, G. S.; Dazeley, S.; Jong, J. D.; DeMaat, B.; Demuth, D.; Dighe, A.; Djurcic, Zelimir; Dolph, J.; Drake, G.; Drozhdin, A.; Duan, H.; Duyang, H.; Dye, S.; Dykhuis, T.; Edmunds, D.; Elliott, S.; Enomoto, S.; Escobar, C. O.; Felde, J.; Feyzi, F.; Fleming, B.; Fowler, J.; Fox, W.; Friedland, A.; Fujikawa, B. K.; Gallagher, H.; Garilli, G.; Garvey, G. T.; Gehman, V. M.; Geronimo, G. D.; Gill, R.; Goodman, M.; Goon, J.; Gorbunov, D.; Gran, R.; Guarino, V.; Guarnaccia, E.; Guenette, R.; Gupta, P.; Habig, A.; Hackenburg, R. W.; Hahn, A.; Hahn, R.; Haines, T.; Hans, S.; Harton, J.; Hays, S.; Hazen, E.; He, Q.; Heavey, A.; Heeger, K.; Hellauer, R.; Himmel, A.; Horton-Smith, Glenn A.; Howell, J.; Huber, Patrick; Hurh, P.; Huston, J.; Hylen, J.; Insler, J.; Jaffe, D.; James, C.; Johnson, C.; Johnson, M.; Johnson, R.; Johnson, W.; Johnston, W.; Johnstone, J.; Jones, B.; Jostlein, H.; Junk, T.; Junnarkar, S.; Kadel, R.; Kafka, T.; Kaminski, D.; Karagiorgi, Georgia S.; Karle, A.; Kaspar, J.; Katori, T.; Kayser, B.; Kearns, E.; Kettell, S. H.; Khanam, F.; Klein, J.; Kneller, J.; Koizumi, G.; Kopp, J.; Kopp, S.; Kropp, W.; Kudryavtsev, V. A.; Kumar, A.; Kumar, J.; Kutter, T.; Lackowski, T.; Lande, K.; Lane, C.; Lang, K.; Lanni, F.; Lanza, R.; Latorre, T.; Learned, J.; Lee, D.; Lee, K.; Li, Y.; Linden, S.; Ling, J.; Link, Jonathan M.; Littenberg, L.; Loiacono, L.; Liu, T.; Losecco, J.; Louis, W.; Lucas, P.; Lunardini, C.; Lundberg, B.; Lundin, T.; Makowiecki, D.; Malys, S.; Mandal, S.; Mann, A.; Mantsch, P.; Marciano, W. J.; Mariani, Camillo; Maricic, Jelena; Marino, A.; Marshak, M.; Maruyama, R.; Matthews, J.; Matsuno, S.; Mauger, C.; McCluskey, E.; McDonald, K.; McFarland, K. S.; McKeown, R.; McTaggart, R.; Mehdiyev, R.; Melnitchouk, W.; Meng, Y.; Mercurio, B.; Messier, M.; Metcalf, W.; Milincic, R.; Miller, W.; Mills, G.; Mishra, S.; MoedSher, S.; Mohapatra, D.; Mokhov, N.; Moore, C.; Morfin, J.; Morse, W.; Moss, A.; Mufson, S.; Musser, J.; Naples, D.; Napolitano, J.; Newcomer, M.; Norris, B.; Ouedraogo, S.; Page, B.; Pakvasa, S.; Paley, J.; Paolone, V.; Papadimitriou, V.; Parsa, Z.; Partyka, K.; Pavlovic, Z.; Pearson, C.; Perasso, S.; Petti, R.; Plunkett, R.; Polly, C. C.; Pordes, S.; Potenza, R.; Prakash, A.; Prokofiev, O.; Qian, X.; Raaf, J.; Radeka, V.; Raghavan, R.; Rameika, R.; Rebel, B.; Rescia, S.; Reitzner, D.; Richardson, M.; Riesselmann, K.; Robinson, M.; Rosen, M.; Rosenfeld, C.; Rucinski, R.; Russo, T.; Sahijpal, S.; Salon, S.; Samios, N.; Sanchez, Maria Cristina; Schmitt, R.; Schmitz, D.; Schneps, J.; Scholberg, K.; Seibert, S.; Sergiampietri, F.; Shaevitz, Marjorie Hansen; Shanahan, P.; Shaposhnikov, M.; Sharma, R.; Simos, N.; Singh, V.; Sinnis, G.; Sippach, W.; Skwarnicki, T.; Smy, M.; Sobel, H.; Soderberg, M.; Sondericker, J.; Sondheim, W.; Spitz, Joshua; Spooner, N.; Stancari, M.; Stancu, Ion; Stewart, J.; Stoler, P.; Stone, J.; Stone, S.; Strait, J.; Straszheim, T.; Striganov, S.; Sullivan, G.; Svoboda, R.; Szczerbinska, B.; Szelc, A.; Talaga, R.; Tanaka, H.; Tayloe, R.; Taylor, D.; Thomas, J.; Thompson, L.; Thomson, M.; Thorn, C.; Tian, X.; Toki, W.; Tolich, N.; Tripathi, M.; Trovato, M.; Tseung, H.; Tzanov, M.; Urheim, J.; Usman, S.; Vagins, M. R.; Berg, R. V.; Water, R. V. D.; Varner, G.; Vaziri, K.; Velev, G.; Viren, B.; Wachala, T.; Walter, C.; Wang, H.; Wang, Z.; Warner, D.; Webber, D.; Weber, A.; Wendell, R.; Wendt, C.; Wetstein, M.; White, H.; White, S.; Whitehead, L.; Willis, W.; Wilson, R. J.; Winslow, L.; Ye, J.; Yeh, M.; Yu, B.; Zeller, Geralyn P.; Zhang, C.; Zimmerman, E.; Zwaska, R. (2011-10-27)
    In early 2010, the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) science collaboration initiated a study to investigate the physics potential of the experiment with a broad set of different beam, near- and far-detector configurations. Nine initial topics were identified as scientific areas that motivate construction of a long-baseline neutrino experiment with a very large far detector. We summarize the scientific justification for each topic and the estimated performance for a set of far detector reference configurations. We report also on a study of optimized beam parameters and the physics capability of proposed Near Detector configurations. This document was presented to the collaboration in fall 2010 and updated with minor modifications in early 2011.
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    Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier
    Hewett, J. L.; Weerts, H.; Brock, R.; Butler, J. N.; Casey, B. C. K.; Collar, J.; Gouvea, A. D.; Essig, R.; Grossman, Y.; Haxton, W.; Jaros, J. A.; Jung, C. K.; Lu, Z. T.; Pitts, K.; Ligeti, Z.; Patterson, J. R.; Ramsey-Musolf, M.; Ritchie, J. L.; Roodman, A.; Scholberg, K.; Wagner, C. E. M.; Zeller, Geralyn P.; Aefsky, S.; Afanasev, A.; Agashe, K.; Albright, C. H.; Alonso, J.; Ankenbrandt, C. M.; Aoki, M.; Arguelles, C. A.; Arkani-Hamed, N.; Armendariz, J. R.; Armendariz-Picon, C.; Diaz, E. A.; Asaadi, J.; Asner, D. M.; Babu, K. S.; Bailey, K.; Baker, O.; Balantekin, A. B.; Baller, B.; Bass, M.; Batell, B.; Beacham, J.; Behr, J.; Berger, N.; Bergevin, M.; Berman, E.; Bernstein, R.; Bevan, A. J.; Bishai, M.; Blanke, M.; Blessing, S.; Blondel, A.; Blum, T.; Bock, G.; Bodek, A.; Bonvicini, G.; Bossi, F.; Boyce, J.; Breedon, R.; Breidenbach, M.; Brice, S. J.; Briere, R. A.; Brodsky, S.; Bromberg, C.; Bross, A.; Browder, T. E.; Bryman, D. A.; Buckley, M.; Burnstein, R.; Caden, E.; Campana, P.; Carlini, R.; Carosi, G.; Castromonte, C.; Cenci, R.; Chakaberia, I.; Chen, M. C.; Cheng, C. H.; Choudhary, B.; Christ, N. H.; Christensen, E.; Christy, M. E.; Chupp, T. E.; Church, E.; Cline, D. B.; Coan, T. E.; Coloma, P.; Comfort, J.; Coney, L.; Cooper, J.; Cooper, R. J.; Cowan, R.; Cowen, D. F.; Cronin-Hennessy, D.; Datta, A.; Davies, G. S.; Demarteau, M.; DeMille, D. P.; Denig, A.; Dermisek, R.; Deshpande, A.; Dewey, M. S.; Dharmapalan, R.; Dhooghe, J.; Dietrich, M. R.; Diwan, M.; Djurcic, Zelimir; Dobbs, S.; Duraisamy, M.; Dutta, B.; Duyang, H.; Dwyer, D. A.; Eads, M.; Echenard, B.; Elliott, S. R.; Escobar, C. O.; Fajans, J.; Farooq, S.; Faroughy, C.; Fast, J. E.; Feinberg, B.; Felde, J.; Feldman, G.; Fierlinger, P.; Perez, P. F.; Filippone, B. W.; Fisher, P.; Fleming, B. T.; Flood, K. T.; Forty, R.; Frank, M. J.; Freyberger, A.; Friedland, A.; Gandhi, R.; Ganezer, K. S.; Garcia, A.; Garcia, F. G.; Gardiner, S.; Garrison, L.; Gasparian, A.; Geer, S.; Gehman, V. M.; Gershon, T.; Gilchriese, M.; Ginsberg, C.; Gogoladze, I.; Gonderinger, M.; Goodman, M.; Gould, H.; Graham, M.; Graham, P. W.; Gran, R.; Grange, J.; Gratta, G.; Green, J. P.; Greenlee, H.; Group, R. C.; Guardincerri, E.; Gudkov, V.; Guenette, R.; Haas, A.; Hahn, A.; Han, T.; Handler, T.; Hardy, J. C.; Harnik, R.; Harris, D. A.; Harris, F. A.; Harris, P. G.; Hartnett, J.; He, B.; Heckel, B. R.; Heeger, K. M.; Henderson, S.; Hertzog, D.; Hill, R.; Hinds, E. A.; Hitlin, D. G.; Holt, R. J.; Holtkamp, N.; Horton-Smith, Glenn A.; Huber, Patrick; Huelsnitz, W.; Imber, J.; Irastorza, I.; Jaeckel, J.; Jaegle, I.; James, C.; Jawahery, A.; Jensen, D.; Jessop, C. P.; Jones, B.; Jostlein, H.; Junk, T.; Kagan, A. L.; Kalita, M.; Kamyshkov, Y.; Kaplan, D. M.; Karagiorgi, Georgia S.; Karle, A.; Katori, T.; Kayser, B.; Kephart, R.; Kettell, S. H.; Kim, Y.-K.; Kirby, M.; Kirch, K.; Klein, J.; Kneller, J.; Kobach, A.; Kohl, M.; Kopp, J.; Kordosky, M.; Korsch, W.; Kourbanis, I.; Krisch, A. D.; Križan, P.; Kronfeld, A. S.; Kulkarni, S.; Kumar, K. S.; Kuno, Y.; Kutter, T.; Lachenmaier, Tobias; Lamm, M.; Lancaster, J.; Lancaster, M.; Lane, C.; Lang, K.; Langacker, P.; Lazarevic, S.; Le, T.; Lee, K.; Lesko, K. T.; Li, Y.; Lindgren, M.; Lindner, A.; Link, Jonathan M.; Lissauer, D.; Littenberg, L. S.; Littlejohn, B.; Liu, C. Y.; Loinaz, William; Lorenzon, W.; Louis, W. C.; Lozier, J.; Ludovici, L.; Lueking, L.; Lunardini, C.; MacFarlane, D. B.; Machado, P. A. N.; Mackenzie, P. B.; Maloney, J.; Marciano, W. J.; Marsh, W.; Marshak, M.; Martin, J. W.; Mauger, C.; McFarland, K. S.; McGrew, C.; McLaughlin, G.; McKeen, D.; McKeown, R.; Meadows, B. T.; Mehdiyev, R.; Melconian, D.; Merkel, H.; Messier, M.; Miller, J. P.; Mills, G.; Minamisono, U. K.; Mishra, S. R.; Mocioiu, I.; Sher, S. M.; Mohapatra, R. N.; Monreal, B.; Moore, C. D.; Morfin, J. G.; Mousseau, J.; Moustakas, L. A.; Mueller, G.; Mueller, P.; Muether, M.; Mumm, H. P.; Munger, C.; Murayama, H.; Nath, P.; Naviliat-Cuncin, O.; Nelson, J. K.; Neuffer, D.; Nico, J. S.; Norman, A.; Nygren, D.; Obayashi, Y.; O'Connor, T. P.; Okada, Y.; Olsen, J.; Orozco, L.; Orrell, J. L.; Osta, J.; Pahlka, B.; Paley, J.; Papadimitriou, V.; Papucci, M.; Parke, S.; Parker, R. H.; Parsa, Z.; Partyka, K.; Patch, A.; Pati, J. C.; Patterson, R. B.; Pavlovic, Z.; Paz, G.; Perdue, G. N.; Perevalov, D.; Perez, G.; Petti, R.; Pettus, W.; Piepke, A.; Pivovaroff, M. J.; Plunkett, R.; Polly, C. C.; Pospelov, M.; Povey, R.; Prakash, A.; Purohit, M. V.; Raby, S.; Raaf, J. L.; Rajendran, R.; Rajendran, S.; Rameika, G.; Ramsey, R.; Rashed, A.; Ratcliff, B. N.; Rebel, B.; Redondo, J.; Reimer, P.; Reitzner, D.; Ringer, F.; Ringwald, A.; Riordan, S.; Roberts, B. L.; Roberts, D. A.; Robertson, R.; Robicheaux, F.; Rominsky, M.; Roser, R.; Rosner, J. L.; Rott, C.; Rubin, P.; Saito, N.; Sanchez, Maria Cristina; Sarkar, S.; Schellman, H.; Schmidt, B.; Schmitt, M.; Schmitz, D. W.; Schneps, J.; Schopper, A.; Schuster, P.; Schwartz, A. J.; Schwarz, M.; Seeman, J.; Semertzidis, Y. K.; Seth, K. K.; Shafi, Q.; Shanahan, P.; Sharma, R.; Sharpe, S. R.; Shiozawa, M.; Shiltsev, V.; Sigurdson, K.; Sikivie, P.; Singh, J.; Sivers, D.; Skwarnicki, T.; Smith, N.; Sobczyk, J.; Sobel, H.; Soderberg, M.; Song, Y. H.; Soni, A.; Souder, P. A.; Sousa, A.; Spitz, Joshua; Stancari, M.; Stavenga, G. C.; Steffen, J. H.; Stepanyan, S.; Stoeckinger, D.; Stone, S.; Strait, J.; Strassler, M.; Sulai, I. A.; Sundrum, R.; Svoboda, R.; Szczerbinska, B.; Szelc, A.; Takeuchi, Tatsu; Tanedo, P.; Taneja, S.; Tang, J.; Tanner, D. B.; Tayloe, R.; Taylor, I.; Thomas, J.; Thorn, C.; Tian, X.; Tice, B. G.; Tobar, M.; Tolich, N.; Toro, N.; Towner, I. S.; Tsai, Y.; Tschirhart, R.; Tunnell, C. D.; Tzanov, M.; Upadhye, A.; Urheim, J.; Vahsen, S. E.; Vainshtein, A.; Valencia, E.; Water, R. G. V. D.; Water, RSVD; Velasco, M.; Vogel, J.; Vogel, P.; Vogelsang, W.; Wah, Y W.; Walker, D.; Weiner, N.; Weltman, A.; Wendell, R.; Wester, W.; Wetstein, M.; White, C.; Whitehead, L.; Whitmore, J.; Widmann, E.; Wiedemann, G.; Wilkerson, J.; Wilkinson, G.; Wilson, P.; Wilson, R. J.; Winter, W.; Wise, Milton B.; Wodin, J.; Wojcicki, S.; Wojtsekhowski, B.; Wongjirad, T.; Worcester, E.; Wurtele, J.; Xin, T.; Xu, J.; Yamanaka, T.; Yamazaki, Y.; Yavin, I.; Yeck, J.; Yeh, M.; Yokoyama, M.; Yoo, J.; Young, A.; Zimmerman, E.; Zioutas, K.; Zisman, M.; Zupan, J.; Zwaska, R. (2011)
    The Proceedings of the 2011 workshop on Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier. Science opportunities at the intensity frontier are identified and described in the areas of heavy quarks, charged leptons, neutrinos, proton decay, new light weakly-coupled particles, and nucleons, nuclei, and atoms.
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    Light Sterile Neutrinos: A White Paper
    Abazajian, Kevork N.; Acero, M. A.; Agarwalla, S. K.; Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A.; Albright, C. H.; Antusch, S.; Arguelles, C. A.; Balantekin, A. B.; Barenboim, G.; Barger, V.; Bernardini, P.; Bezrukov, F.; Bjaelde, O. E.; Bogacz, S. A.; Bowden, N. S.; Boyarsky, A.; Bravar, A.; Berguno, D. B.; Brice, S. J.; Bross, A. D.; Caccianiga, B.; Cavanna, F.; Chun, E. J.; Cleveland, B. T.; Collin, A. P.; Coloma, P.; Conrad, Janet M.; Cribier, M.; Cucoanes, A. S.; D'Olivo, J. C.; Das, S.; Gouvea, A. D.; Derbin, A. V.; Dharmapalan, R.; Diaz, J. S.; Ding, X. J.; Djurcic, Zelimir; Donini, A.; Duchesneau, D.; Ejiri, H.; Elliott, S. R.; Ernst, D. J.; Esmaili, A.; Evans, J. J.; Fernandez-Martinez, Enrique; Figueroa-Feliciano, E.; Fleming, B. T.; Formaggio, J. A.; Franco, D.; Gaffiot, J.; Gandhi, R.; Gao, Y.; Garvey, G. T.; Gavrin, V. N.; Ghoshal, P.; Gibin, D.; Giunti, C.; Gninenko, S. N.; Gorbachev, V. V.; Gorbunov, D. S.; Guenette, R.; Guglielmi, A.; Halzen, F.; Hamann, J.; Hannestad, S.; Haxton, W.; Heeger, K. M.; Henning, R.; Hernandez, P.; Huber, Patrick; Huelsnitz, W.; Ianni, A.; Ibragimova, T. V.; Karadzhov, Y.; Karagiorgi, Georgia S.; Keefer, G.; Kim, Y. D.; Kopp, J.; Kornoukhov, V. N.; Kusenko, A.; Kyberd, P.; Langacker, P.; Lasserre, T.; Laveder, M.; Letourneau, A.; Lhuillier, D.; Li, Y. F.; Lindner, M.; Link, Jonathan M.; Littlejohn, B. L.; Lombardi, Paolo; Long, K.; Lopez-Pavon, J.; Louis, W. C.; Ludhova, L.; Lykken, J. D.; Machado, P. A. N.; Maltoni, M.; Mann, W. A.; Marfatia, D.; Mariani, Camillo; Matveev, V. A.; Mavromatos, N. E.; Melchiorri, A.; Meloni, David; Mena, O.; Mention, G.; Merle, A.; Meroni, E.; Mezzetto, M.; Mills, G. B.; Minic, Djordje; Miramonti, L.; Mohapatra, D.; Mohapatra, R. N.; Montanari, C.; Mori, Y.; Mueller, T. A.; Mumm, H. P.; Muratova, V. N.; Nelson, A. E.; Nico, J. S.; Noah, E.; Nowak, J.; Smirnov, O. Y.; Obolensky, M.; Pakvasa, S.; Palamara, O.; Pallavicini, M.; Pascoli, S.; Patrizii, L.; Pavlovic, Z.; Peres, O. L. G.; Pessard, H.; Pietropaolo, F.; Pitt, M. L.; Popovic, M.; Pradler, J.; Ranucci, G.; Ray, H.; Razzaque, S.; Rebel, B.; Robertson, R. G. H.; Rodejohann, W.; Rountree, S. D.; Rubbia, C.; Ruchayskiy, O.; Sala, P. R.; Scholberg, K.; Schwetz, T.; Shaevitz, Marjorie Hansen; Shaposhnikov, M.; Shrock, R.; Simone, S.; Skorokhvatov, Mikhail D.; Sorel, M.; Sousa, A.; Spergel, D. N.; Spitz, Joshua; Stanco, L.; Stancu, Ion; Suzuki, A.; Takeuchi, Tatsu; Tamborra, Irene; Tang, J.; Testera, G.; Tian, X. C.; Tonazzo, A.; Tunnell, C. D.; Water, R. G. V. D.; Verde, L.; Veretenkin, E. P.; Vignoli, C.; Vivier, M.; Vogelaar, R. Bruce; Wascko, M. O.; Wilkerson, J. F.; Winter, W.; Wong, Y. Y. Y.; Yanagida, T. T.; Yasuda, O.; Yeh, M.; Yermia, F.; Yokley, Z. W.; Zeller, Geralyn P.; Zhan, L.; Zhang, H. (2012-04)
    This white paper addresses the hypothesis of light sterile neutrinos based on recent anomalies observed in neutrino experiments and the latest astrophysical data.
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    Neutrinos from Stored Muons nuSTORM: Expression of Interest
    Adey, D.; Agarwalla, S. K.; Ankenbrandt, C. M.; Asfandiyarov, R.; Back, J. J.; Barker, G.; Baussan, E.; Bayes, R.; Bhadra, S.; Blackmore, V.; Blondel, A.; Bogacz, S. A.; Booth, C.; Boyd, S. B.; Bravar, A.; Brice, S. J.; Bross, A. D.; Cadoux, F.; Cease, H.; Cervera, A.; Cobb, J.; Colling, D.; Coney, L.; Dobbs, A.; Dobson, J.; Donini, A.; Dornan, P. J.; Dracos, M.; Dufour, F.; Edgecock, R.; Evans, J.; George, M. A.; Ghosh, T.; deGouvea, A.; Gomez-Cadenas, J. J.; Haesler, A.; Hanson, G.; Geelhoed, M.; Harrison, P. F.; Hartz, M.; Hernandez, P.; Hernando-Morata, J. A.; Hodgson, P. J.; Huber, Patrick; Izmaylov, A.; Karadhzov, Y.; Kobilarcik, T.; Kopp, J.; Kormos, L.; Korzenev, A.; Kurup, A.; Kuno, Y.; Kyberd, P.; Lagrange, J. P.; Laing, A. M.; Link, Jonathan M.; Liu, A.; Long, K. R.; McCauley, N.; McDonald, K. T.; Mahn, K.; Martin, C.; Martin, J.; Mena, O.; Mishra, S. R.; Mokhov, N.; Morfin, J.; Mori, Y.; Murray, W.; Neuffer, D.; Nichol, R.; Noah, E.; Palmer, M. A.; Parke, S.; Pascoli, S.; Pasternak, J.; Popovic, M.; Ratoff, P.; Ravonel, M.; Rayner, M.; Ricciardi, S.; Rogers, C.; Rubinov, P.; Santos, E.; Sato, A.; Scantamburlo, E.; Sedgbeer, J. K.; Smith, D. R.; Smith, P. J.; Sobczyk, J. T.; Söldner-Rembold, S.; Soler, F. J. P.; Sorel, M.; Stahl, A.; Stanco, L.; Stamoulis, P.; Striganov, S.; Tanaka, H.; Taylor, I. J.; Touramanis, C.; Tunnell, C. D.; Uchida, Y.; Vassilopoulos, N.; Wascko, M. O.; Weber, A.; Wildner, E.; Wilking, M. J.; Winter, W.; Yang, U. K. (2013-05)
    The nuSTORM facility has been designed to deliver beams of electron and muon neutrinos from the decay of a stored muon beam with a central momentum of 3.8 GeV/c and a momentum spread of 10%. The facility is unique in that it will: serve the future long- and short-baseline neutrino-oscillation programmes by providing definitive measurements of electron-neutrino- and muon-neutrino-nucleus cross sections with percent-level precision; allow searches for sterile neutrinos of exquisite sensitivity to be carried out; and constitute the essential first step in the incremental development of muon accelerators as a powerful new technique for particle physics. Of the world's proton-accelerator laboratories, only CERN and FNAL have the infrastructure required to mount nuSTORM. Since no siting decision has yet been taken, the purpose of this Expression of Interest (EoI) is to request the resources required to: investigate in detail how nuSTORM could be implemented at CERN; and develop options for decisive European contributions to the nuSTORM facility and experimental programme wherever the facility is sited. The EoI defines a two-year programme culminating in the delivery of a Technical Design Report.
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    Systematic uncertainties in long-baseline neutrino oscillations for large theta(13)
    Coloma, P.; Huber, Patrick; Kopp, J.; Winter, W. (American Physical Society, 2013-02-11)
    We study the physics potential of future long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments at large theta(13), focusing especially on systematic uncertainties. We discuss superbeams, beta beams, and neutrino factories, and for the first time compare these experiments on an equal footing with respect to systematic errors. We explicitly simulate near detectors for all experiments; we use the same implementation of systematic uncertainties for all experiments; and we fully correlate the uncertainties among detectors, oscillation channels, and beam polarizations as appropriate. As our primary performance indicator, we use the achievable precision in the measurement of the CP-violating phase delta. We find that a neutrino factory is the only instrument that can measure delta with a precision similar to that of its quark sector counterpart. All neutrino beams operating at peak energies >= 2 GeV are quite robust with respect to systematic uncertainties, whereas especially beta beams and T2HK suffer from large cross-section uncertainties in the quasielastic regime, combined with their inability to measure the appearance signal cross sections at the near detector. A noteworthy exception is the combination of a gamma = 100 beta beam with an SPL-based superbeam, in which all relevant cross sections can be measured in a self-consistent way. This provides a performance second only to that of the neutrino factory. For other superbeam experiments such as LBNO and the setups studied in the context of the LBNE reconfiguration effort, statistics turns out to be the bottleneck. In almost all cases, the near detector is not critical to control systematics, since the combined fit of appearance and disappearance data already constrains the impact of systematics to be small, provided that the three-active-flavor oscillation framework is valid.