High Intensity Frontier Physics at ESS planning meeting
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At the end of the workshop ‘Intensity Frontier Particle Physics with Compressed Pulses from the ESS Linac’ that we had at Uppsala University 2-3 March 2020 it was decided to organize a High Intensity Frontier at ESS Contact Persons’ web meeting in the end of May which has now been scheduled to take place on Friday 29 May at 15:00-17:00. In addition to the nominated Contact Persons several other interested persons will attend this meeting.
The purpose of the meeting is to identify a few first-stage design-study objectives of the different projects presented at the High Intensity Frontier at ESS workshop, that could be part of a common design study. The resources that can be obtained from the ERC and EU funding schemes are limited. In view of this, for the more extensive and long-term projects like nuSTORM, Neutrino Factory and Muon Collider, the first-stage design-study objectives would have to be limited in some way, like proposing design studies of some initial-stage components that will later, in a second follow-op design project, be complemented by studies of the remaining components. The intension is to formulate after the meeting an application to the ERC Synergy funding scheme and/or the Horizon Europe INFRADEV-1 funding scheme for funding to support such a common design study.
It is worth noting that this project is in accordance with the following statement at the bottom of page 97 in the Briefing Book of the European Strategy for Particle Physics published in January and available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.11775: “ …ESS could be an important test-bed for R&D on new intense neutrino beams along the road towards a Neutrino Factory. Indeed a Neutrino Factory [386], where the neutrinos are produced in the decay of muons in a storage ring, would be the natural next-to-next step for long-baseline experiments beyond DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande. It would be a unique facility to reach a precision of 6◦ on the measurement of δCP.”
The discussion to follow after the presentations on the meeting agenda will aim at a synthesis of all ideas presented that could serve as a basis for an application for resources for a common design study.