The Neutrino Factory is a proposed particle accelerator complex intended to measure in detail the properties of neutrinos, rather ghostly fundamental particles that normally travel in straight lines through normal matter for thousands of kilometres without interacting. Up until the 1990s, neutrinos were assumed to be massless, but inconsistent experimental results from searches for solar neutrinos (those produced in the Sun's core) and others, indicated that they did in fact have masses, just very small ones. ==Function== The Neutrino Factory will create a fairly focussed beam of neutrinos at one site on the Earth and fire it downwards, probably in two beams emitted in different directions from a triangular underground muon storage ring, until the beams resurface at another point. One example could be the complex being in the UK and sending beams to Japan (see Super-Kamiokande) and Italy. The properties of the neutrinos will be examined at the remote sites to determine how neutrinos evolve over time, and this will reveal their mass and quantum relation to the weak nuclear force. The project is currently in the early conceptual design stage, with an international "Scoping Study" to be initiated at the [http://www.lnf.infn.it/conference/2005/nufact05/ NuFact'05 conference]. Many new technologies are being pioneered for this experiment, including the use of liquid metal jets as particle production targets and MICE for reducing the divergence in the muon beam during the intermediate stages. ==Associated Design Efforts== *UK Neutrino Factory [http://hepunx.rl.ac.uk/uknf/ Homepage] [http://stephenbrooks.org/muon1/ MUON1 distributed computing project for design work on the UK device] *US Muon Collider Collaboration A "much more complete" effort from the USA, including the "Feasibility Studies", which are the most detailed engineering studies yet done (as of 2005). The Muon Collider is a project even more ambitious than the Neutrino Factory, using the unstable intermediate particles (muons) that produce neutrinos as the input to a very high-energy collider ring, aiming to reach higher concentrations of energy than even the Large Hadron Collider (operations start 2007) or International Linear Collider (in design phase) experiments. [http://www.cap.bnl.gov/mumu/mu_home_page.html Homepage] *European Neutrino Group CERN did a design study a few years ago, before effort moved onto the Large Hadron Collider. Activities in Europe continue with meetings and involvement in international experiments and collaborations. [http://nfwg.home.cern.ch/nfwg/nufactwg/nufactwg.html Homepage] *Japanese Design It is based on an unusual type of accelerator called an FFAG that combines elements from the cyclotrons of the 1950s with modern advanced magnet design processes, and a cutting-edge acceleration technique using magnetic alloy radiofrequency cavities. The main advantage of these is that the magnetic fields are fixed and do not have to be synchronised to the beam in any way, yet the beam naturally moves into regions of higher field as its energy increases, allowing for very rapid acceleration without the difficulties found in very rapid-cycling synchrotrons. [http://www-prism.kek.jp/nufactj/ Homepage] ==Other Links & Projects== *MICE International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment Particle colliders
Hi everyone. There was nothing on Neutrino Factory in the WIKI that I could find, so I put this up quickly as a start. Where I've written [L] or ->this<- it means I want a link, I'll add them if I get time. *Its been cleaned up. Wanted to make note that the content was generated by Stephen Brooks, who's working with the UK project. User:Cwolfsheep 00:48, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
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The Neutrino Factory is a proposed particle accelerator complex intended to measure in detail the properties of neutrinos, rather ghostly fundamental particles that normally travel in straight lines through normal matter for thousands of kilometres without interacting. Up until the 1990s, neutrinos were assumed to be massless, but inconsistent experimental results from searches for solar neutrinos (those produced in the Sun's core) and others, indicated that they did in fact have masses, just very small ones. ==Function== The Neutrino Factory will create a fairly focussed beam of neutrinos at one site on the Earth and fire it downwards, probably in two beams emitted in different directions from a triangular underground muon storage ring, until the beams resurface at another point. One example could be the complex being in the UK and sending beams to Japan (see Super-Kamiokande) and Italy. The properties of the neutrinos will be examined at the remote sites to determine how neutrinos evolve over time, and this will reveal their mass and quantum relation to the weak nuclear force. The project is currently in the early conceptual design stage, with an international "Scoping Study" to be initiated at the [http://www.lnf.infn.it/conference/2005/nufact05/ NuFact'05 conference]. Many new technologies are being pioneered for this experiment, including the use of liquid metal jets as particle production targets and MICE for reducing the divergence in the muon beam during the intermediate stages. ==Associated Design Efforts== *UK Neutrino Factory [http://hepunx.rl.ac.uk/uknf/ Homepage] [http://stephenbrooks.org/muon1/ MUON1 distributed computing project for design work on the UK device] *US Muon Collider Collaboration A "much more complete" effort from the USA, including the "Feasibility Studies", which are the most detailed engineering studies yet done (as of 2005). The Muon Collider is a project even more ambitious than the Neutrino Factory, using the unstable intermediate particles (muons) that produce neutrinos as the input to a very high-energy collider ring, aiming to reach higher concentrations of energy than even the Large Hadron Collider (operations start 2007) or International Linear Collider (in design phase) experiments. [http://www.cap.bnl.gov/mumu/mu_home_page.html Homepage] *European Neutrino Group CERN did a design study a few years ago, before effort moved onto the Large Hadron Collider. Activities in Europe continue with meetings and involvement in international experiments and collaborations. [http://nfwg.home.cern.ch/nfwg/nufactwg/nufactwg.html Homepage] *Japanese Design It is based on an unusual type of accelerator called an FFAG that combines elements from the cyclotrons of the 1950s with modern advanced magnet design processes, and a cutting-edge acceleration technique using magnetic alloy radiofrequency cavities. The main advantage of these is that the magnetic fields are fixed and do not have to be synchronised to the beam in any way, yet the beam naturally moves into regions of higher field as its energy increases, allowing for very rapid acceleration without the difficulties found in very rapid-cycling synchrotrons. [http://www-prism.kek.jp/nufactj/ Homepage] ==Other Links & Projects== *MICE International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment Particle colliders
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Hi everyone. There was nothing on Neutrino Factory in the WIKI that I could find, so I put this up quickly as a start. Where I've written [L] or ->this<- it means I want a link, I'll add them if I get time. *Its been cleaned up. Wanted to make note that the content was generated by Stephen Brooks, who's working with the UK project. User:Cwolfsheep 00:48, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
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