GLAS-PPE/2008-17

Detector R & D for future neutrino oscillations facilities

F.J.P Soler(1)

(1) University of Glasgow, Kelvin Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland.

This article describes the detector requirements for future neutrino oscillation facilities, the development of the software and the analysis tools needed to establish the detector parameters and the detector R & D needed to establish the future generation of neutrino experiments. A summary of the conclusions from the Detector Working Group from the International Scoping Study (ISS) for Future Neutrino Oscillation Facilities will be given. Special emphasis shall be made on recent developments in the description of a future 50 kton Magnetised Iron Neutrino Detector (MIND) and Totally Active Scintillator Detectors (TASD), which are the main candidate detectors to measure the wrong-sign muon golden channel at a Neutrino Factory. The Emulsion Cloud Chamber (ECC) is considered as the most promising detector to measure the $\tau$ appearance silver channel at a neutrino factory, which would allow to disentangle some of the degeneracies associated with the analysis of the neutrino oscillation signal. For a Super-beam or Beta-beam facility, a large scale ~0.5 Mton water Cherenkov detector is considered as the baseline detector, with other advanced detector concepts such as a Liquid Argon also under study. The article concludes with a roadmap for defining the design of future neutrino oscillation facilities by 2012, in order to be able to construct such a facility by the second half of the next decade.

10th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Super beams and Beta beams,
30 June - 5 July 2008, Valencia, Spain

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