Neutrino Beams from Muon Storage Rings: Characteristics and Physics Potential

S. Geer

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Neutrino Beams from Muon Storage Rings: Characteristics and Physics Potential

S. Geer

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 7 Dec 1997 · 22 references

Pith's verdict: The founding quantitative paper for the neutrino factory: the decay-spectrum physics and the beam-systematics argument hold up, while the muon-supply numbers are flagged design targets and one baseline figure looks wrong.

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The one thing to know: this is the founding quantitative paper for the neutrino factory, and the core argument is right. Geer takes the Michel spectrum, notes that a stored μ+ gives 50% muon antineutrinos and 50% electron neutrinos with the composition fixed by the muon charge, and shows the resulting flux is calculable rather than modeled from hadron production. That beam-systematics point is the durable contribution, and it does not depend on any particular muon source being built. The rate tables for 1 km, 732 km, and 9,900 km are the first of their kind, and the polarization dependence in Eqs. 3–4 is stated correctly. The angular smearing from 1/γ is handled properly, and the claim in abstract:s2 is presented as conditional, which is how it reads in the body. What is good: the arithmetic reproduces. I recomputed the 9,900 km muon-neutrino rate from the paper's own flux and cross-section and got a number somewhat higher than the quoted 610 events per year, so the estimates are conservative rather than inflated. Soft spots, in order of weight. The muon supply, 7.5e20 per year, is load-bearing and every rate scales linearly with it. It rests on two unpublished design documents (Refs. 1 and 7) plus the explicit assumption in Section 3 that losses in accelerating the muons are small. Geer says so plainly, so this is a stated premise, not a hidden one, but all absolute rates should be read as conditional. Second, the 9,900 km figure for Fermilab to Gran Sasso looks too long; that chord is usually quoted nearer 7,300 km. A shorter baseline means more flux, so the direction is again conservative, but the number should be corrected. Third, Section 4.3 applies the deep-inelastic cross-section formula down to lepton energies around 0.5 GeV, where it overestimates; the 1.5 GeV/c near-detector rates are the weakest numbers here. Minor: Ref. [5] is a private communication for the beam divergence. None of this touches the far-site claim. Who should read it: anyone working on beam systematics or future oscillation facilities; it is short and the logic is transparent. Worth a serious referee, since the corrections above are exactly what review is for.

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[§4.1 and Table 1] The mean interacting energy quoted in Table 1, <Eν> = 13 GeV for 20 GeV/c muons, is not consistent with the spectra of Eqs. (1)-(2). For the νe spectrum 12x²(1−x) the cross-section-weighted mean is <x>_int = 2/3, i.e. <E>_int ≈ 7 GeV, and for the νµ/ν̄µ spectrum 2x²(3−2x) it is <x>_int ≈ 0.76, i.e. <E>_int ≈ 8 GeV; the quoted 13 GeV is about 1.7 times larger. The rates in §4.1 and §4.2 are computed as flux × σ × <Eν> × N: I reproduce the quoted 610 ν̄µ and 1×10^3 νe events only by using <Eν> = 13 GeV together with the 0.34 and 0.67 cross-sections, so the rates are correspondingly high by roughly 1.7. The headline claim of hundreds of events survives (≈360 ν̄µ and ≈600 νe), but Table 1's L/<Eν> = 744 km/GeV and the reach shown in Fig. 8 would shift. Please check the definition of <Eν> and the resulting rates, and state the convention explicitly.
[§4.3] The near-detector rates for the 1.5 GeV/c ring are computed with the deep-inelastic cross-section formulae of Eqs. (7)-(8), σ = 0.67×10^-38 E cm², at mean interacting energies of about 0.6 GeV for the charged lepton and 0.3 GeV for the charged antilepton. At these energies the linear DIS form is outside its validity: quasi-elastic and resonance production dominate and the cross-section lies substantially below the linear extrapolation, so the quoted 2.9×10^6 µ+ and 5.1×10^6 e− per kT per year are overestimates. This matters because the short-baseline sin²2θ ~ 10^-7 reach quoted in §5 and drawn in Fig. 8 rests on these rates; please either use a threshold-aware cross-section or state explicitly that the near-detector rates are upper bounds.
[§3] Every rate in §§4-5 scales linearly with the assumed 7.5×10^20 muons of the desired charge injected per operational year, which is assembled from 5×10^13 protons per bunch, 0.2 muons per proton, 5×10^12 muons per bunch after ionization cooling, and 15 Hz, and which rests on the unpublished Refs. [1] and [7] together with the explicit assumption that 'the losses in accelerating the muons to modest energies ... are small.' The authors flag this assumption and I do not dispute the arithmetic (5×10^12 × 15 Hz × 10^7 s = 7.5×10^20), but no systematic uncertainty is attached to this normalization and no scaling is given for a reader who wants to know how the rates degrade if the source performs at, say, 10% of the design. Please state the linear scaling explicitly and give the provenance and status of each factor.

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[Fig. 8 caption] The caption cites the MINOS experiment as Ref. [10] and the MiniBooNE experiment as Ref. [11], but Ref. [10] is Boehm and Vogel and Ref. [11] is the MINOS proposal; the citations should presumably be [11] and [12] respectively.
[§4.1] The 9900 km baseline is described as Fermilab to Gran Sasso, but the chord between those sites is about 7300 km (a dip of about 35°, not 51°); the 51° geometry and 9900 km are self-consistent, so either relabel the baseline as illustrative or adjust the geometry and the L/E entry in Table 1.
[§3] The beam divergence θb ≤ O(10^-4) rests on Ref. [5], a private communication; a published or documented lattice study would strengthen this load-bearing parameter.
[§3] The 25% decay fraction assumes the muons make many turns and essentially all decay in the ring; please state the storage time or number of turns explicitly, since the 150 m ring and the 125 km decay length imply roughly 800 turns.
[Eq. (5)] The numerical factor 0.3 (the conversion from GeV/c and tesla to metres) should be defined explicitly, and the typeset 'p0.3f B' should be clarified.
[§4.3] For the 250 GeV/c, 10 kg case, please state the detector dimensions and the fraction of the beam spot intercepted, since the quoted 8×10^5 and 5×10^5 rates depend on the assumed area.
[Table 1 caption] The caption refers to '7.5×10^20 unpolarized positive muons per year', but the table includes a 10 GeV/c row and the text also discusses negative muons; please clarify which entries correspond to which charge and polarization, and note that for positive muons the 'νµ' entries are ν̄µ.

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A storage ring of decaying muons could produce neutrino beams intense enough to yield hundreds of charged-current events per year in a detector on the far side of the Earth, with fluxes calculable from the decay spectrum rather than modeled

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Conventional neutrino beams come from decaying pions and kaons, so their flux must be modeled from hadron production, they carry a small uncontrolled contamination of the wrong neutrino species, and their normalization is a leading systematic error. This paper argues that if the intense muon source being designed for a future muon collider is used instead, and the muons are circulated in a storage ring with a long straight section aimed at the detector, the resulting beam is 50/50 in exactly two known flavors, chosen by the sign of the stored muons, with absolute normalization fixed by the stored current, momentum, and polarization. The author works through the decay kinematics, the ring geometry, and the charged-current cross sections, and quotes event rates for four configurations: 1 km, 732 km, and 9,900 km baselines, plus a 250 GeV/c ring for deep inelastic scattering. The headline number is that 20 GeV/c unpolarized positive muons give about $2.2 times 10^{10}$ $nu_mu$ and $2.2 times 10^{10}$ $nu_e$ per square metre per year at 9,900 km, which is roughly 610 and $1 times 10^{3}$ charged-current events per year in a 10 kT detector. The reason a reader should care is that a beam whose flavor content and normalization are known by construction turns oscillation searches from counting experiments with large systematic floors into clean appearance measurements, and the paper sketches single-event sensitivities in $Delta m^2$ reaching $3 times 10^{-5}$ eV$^2/c^4$.

What carries the argument

The machinery is the two-body-like muon decay spectrum combined with a racetrack storage ring geometry. In the muon rest frame the neutrino distributions are $d^2N_{nu_mu}/dxdOmega = 2x^2[(3-2x) mp (1-2x)cos theta]/4pi$ and $d^2N_{nu_e}/dxdOmega = 12x^2[(1-x) mp (1-x)cos theta]/4pi$ with $x equiv 2E_nu/m_mu$, so once the stored muon energy, current, and average polarization $P_mu$ are measured the absolute flux and its energy and angular distributions follow without a hadron-production model. The ring supplies two further pieces: a decay fraction fixed by geometry (straight sections equal to arcs, hence 25% of decays point at the experiment) and an arc length $L = pi p / (0.3 f B)$ that sets the ring size, so that a 20 GeV/c ring fits in roughly 150 m and can be tilted to shoot through the Earth. Beam divergence in the straight section, estimated at $theta_b le O(10^{-4})$, is small compared with the decay cone, and beam-direction monitoring via position monitors at the ends of the straight section is estimated at $sigma_theta = 19$ $mu$rad, so the angular systematic on the predicted flux stays below the decay-driven spread.

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Core claim

The claim is that a muon storage ring is a better neutrino factory than a meson decay channel, and that with muon-source parameters already under study the resulting beams are strong enough for physics at baselines spanning a kilometre to most of an Earth diameter. The argument has three steps. First, muon decay $mu^pm to e^pm + nu_e(bar{nu}_e) + bar{nu}_mu(nu_mu)$ gives exactly one neutrino and one antineutrino of different flavors, so a stored $mu^-$ beam is 50% $nu_mu$ plus 50% $bar{nu}_e$ and a stored $mu^+$ beam is 50% $bar{nu}_mu$ plus 50% $nu_e$, with rest-frame distributions given by Eqs. (1) and (2) and their polarization-averaged forms (3) and (4). Second, because 20 GeV/c muons have $gamma c tau = 126$ km, a linear decay channel is useless, so the author uses a racetrack ring with straight sections equal in length to the arcs, giving a 25% decay fraction in the section pointing at the experiment and a circumference of about 150 m at 20 GeV/c for 8 T dipoles and packing fraction 0.7. Third, assuming $7.5 times 10^{20}$ muons of the chosen charge injected per operational year, $2 times 10^{20}$ neutrinos and $2 times 10^{20}$ antineutrinos per year leave the straight section, and folding in the $0.67 times 10^{-38}$ cm$^2$ per GeV and $0.34 times 10^{-38}$ cm$^2$ per GeV cross sections gives the quoted rates: 610 $nu_mu$ and $1 times 10^{3}$ $nu_e$ charged-current events per year in 10 kT at 9,900 km for 20 GeV/c, rising to $1.0 times 10^{4}$ and $1.6 times 10^{4}$ at 50 GeV/c, and $1.1 times 10^{5}$ and $1.8 times 10^{5}$ at 732 km. The author also notes that the electron-flavor flux is strongly polarization-dependent, vanishing as $cos theta to +1$ for $mu^+$ decays, which is presented as an extra handle rather than a liability.

Load-bearing premise

The whole rate table rests on the assumption that $7.5 times 10^{20}$ muons of the desired charge can be injected into the ring per operational year, built from 0.2 muons per proton, $5 times 10^{12}$ muons surviving ionization cooling per bunch, and 15 Hz, together with the stated assumption that losses in accelerating the muons to a few tens of GeV are small.

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Oscillation searches can be run in appearance mode with a known initial flavor: storing $mu^+$ gives a $nu_e$ beam, so a detected $mu^-$ signals $nu_e to nu_mu$ and a detected $tau^-$ (17% branching to $mu^-$) signals $nu_e to nu_tau$, with backgrounds set by how well wrong-sign muons from upstream are suppressed.
The same facility serves three distinct programs: a 1.5 GeV/c ring at 1 km for short-baseline oscillations with millions of charged-current events per year in 1 kT, a 10-50 GeV/c ring at 732 km for long-baseline running, and a 20 GeV/c ring tilted through the Earth to Gran Sasso for very-long-baseline running.
A 250 GeV/c ring with a 10 kg fiducial detector at 1 km would record $8 times 10^{5}$ neutrino and $5 times 10^{5}$ antineutrino interactions per year, making a small, finely instrumented deep inelastic scattering target viable.
Because the flux is calculable from stored muon parameters, the normalization uncertainty that dominates conventional beams is replaced by beam-monitoring uncertainties, which the author estimates at the tens-of-microradian level.
Single-event sensitivity contours in the ($Delta m^2$, $sin^2 2theta$) plane extend to $Delta m^2 sim 3 times 10^{-5}$ eV$^2/c^4$ at maximal mixing for the 9,900 km configuration, and to $sin^2 2theta sim 10^{-7}$ at $Delta m^2 sim 1$ eV$^2/c^4$ for the short-baseline configuration in the absence of backgrounds.

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The paper's rate tables are all linear in one borrowed number, the annual muon supply, so the honest way to read the event yields is as a scaling law: every factor of ten shortfall in delivered muons costs a factor of ten in every entry of Table 1, which turns the physics case into a statement about accelerator performance rather than about neutrino physics.
The polarization dependence of the electron-flavor flux is presented as a nuisance control, but it is also a free knob: a polarized muon beam suppresses or enhances $nu_e$ relative to $bar{nu}_mu$ in a calculable, energy-dependent way, which could be used to separate intrinsic backgrounds from oscillation signals without a second detector.
The proposal's weakest link is not the storage ring, which is a conventional machine at these energies, but the cooling and acceleration chain, so the natural next paper is a cost and loss budget for that chain rather than a refinement of the oscillation contours.
Because the beam is pulsed at the proton driver's 15 Hz, the time structure gives an independent handle on backgrounds and on the muon polarization precession, which the paper mentions but does not exploit quantitatively.

Original abstract

High-intensity high-energy neutrino beams could be produced by exploiting a very intense future muon source, and allowing the muons to decay in a storage ring containing a long straight section. Taking the parameters of muon source designs that are currently under study, the characteristics of the neutrino beams that could be produced are discussed and some examples of their physics potential given. It is shown that the neutrino and antineutrino beam intensities may be sufficient to produce hundreds of charged current interactions per year in a detector on the far side of the Earth.

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High-intensity high-energy neutrino beams could be produced by exploiting a very intense future muon source, and allowing the muons to decay in a storage ring containing a long straight section. Taking the parameters of muon source designs that are currently under study, the characteristics of the neutrino beams that could be produced are discussed and some examples of their physics potential given. It is shown that the neutrino and antineutrino beam intensities may be sufficient to produce hundreds of charged current interactions per year in a detector on the far side of the Earth.

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**Figure 1.** Calculated neutrino and antineutrino fluxes at a far site loc

**Figure 2.** Calculated neutrino and antineutrino differential spectra

**Figure 3.** Calculated neutrino and antineutrino charged current int

**Figure 4.** Calculated lepton and antilepton differential spectra for p

**Figure 5.** Calculated fluxes and spectra in a detector 732 km downst

**Figure 6.** Calculated fluxes and spectra in a detector 1 km downstre

**Figure 7.** Predicted charged lepton energy distributions in a detect

**Figure 8.** Contours of single–event sensitivity for

**Figure 9.** Contours of single–event sensitivity for

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C. Johnstone, private communication

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“ µ+µ− Collider Feasibility Study”, The Muon Collider Collaborat ion, Fermilab-Conf-96/092, July 1996, unpublished

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S. Holmes et al., “A Development Plan for the Fermilab Pro ton Source”, FERMILAB-TM-2021, September 1997, unpublished

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R. Palmer, A. Tollestrup, and A. Sessler, “Status Report of a High Lumi- nosity Muon Collider and Future Research and Development Pl ans”, Proc. of the 1996 DPF / DPB Summer Study on New Directions for High-e nergy Physics (Snowmass 96), Snowmass, CO, 25 June - 12 July 1996

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