Cost-effective Design Options for IsoDAR

Abstract

This whitepaper reviews design options for the IsoDAR electron antineutrino source. IsoDAR is designed to produce $2.6\times 10^{22}$ electron antineutrinos per year with an average energy of 6.4 MeV, using isotope decay-at-rest. Aspects which must be balanced for cost-effectiveness include: overall cost; rate and energy distribution of the electron antineutrino flux and backgrounds; low technical risk; compactness; simplicity of underground construction and operation; reliability; value to future neutrino physics programs; and value to industry. We show that the baseline design outlined here is the most cost effective.

33 pages, 11 figures

References in corpus (5)

• Observation of electron-antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay
• Expression of Interest for a Novel Search for CP Violation in the Neutrino Sector: DAEdALUS
• Beam Dynamics Simulation for the High Intensity DAEδALUS Cyclotrons
• Measurement of neutron yield by 62 MeV proton beam on a thick Beryllium target
• Relevance of IsoDAR and DAEdALUS to Medical Radioisotope Production

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