Virginia TechChristensen, E.Coloma, P.Huber, Patrick2013-12-102013-12-102013-08-08Christensen, E. ; Coloma, P. ; Huber, P., Aug 8, 2013. “Physics Performance of a Low-Luminosity Low Energy Neutrino Factory,” PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 111(6): 061803. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.0618030031-9007http://hdl.handle.net/10919/24487We investigate the minimal performance, in terms of beam luminosity and detector size, of a neutrino factory to achieve a competitive physics reach for the determination of the mass hierarchy and the discovery of leptonic CP violation. We find that a low luminosity of 2 x 10(20) useful muon decays per year and 5 GeV muon energy aimed at a 10 kton magnetized liquid argon detector placed at 1300 km from the source provides a good starting point. This result relies on theta(13) being large and assumes that the so-called platinum channel can be used effectively. We find that such a minimal facility would perform significantly better than phase I of the LBNE project and thus could constitute a reasonable step towards a full neutrino factory.en-USIn CopyrightPhysicsArticle - Refereedhttp://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.061803https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.061803