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arXiv · 1901.04346

Research and Development for Near Detector Systems Towards Long Term Evolution of Ultra-precise Long-baseline Neutrino Experiments

Aysel Kayis Topaksu·Edward Blucher·Bernard Andrieu·Jianming Bian·Byron Roe·Glenn Horton-Smith·Yoshinari Hayato·Juan Antonio Caballero·James Sinclair·Yury Kudenko·Laura Patrizi·Luca Stanco·Matteo Tenti·Guilermo Daniel Megias·Natalie Jachowicz·Omar Benhar·Giulia Ricciardi·Stefan Roth·Steven Manly·Mario Stipcevi·Davide Meloni·Ignacio Ruiz·Jan Sobczyk·Luis Alvarez-Ruso·Marco Martini·Marco Pallavicini·Maria Benedetta Barbaro·Mark Hartz·Sanjib Mishra·Teppei Katori·Tord Ekelof·Ulrich Mosel·Vishvas Pandey·Alain Blondel·Maurizio Bonesini·Volker Buescher·Gabriella Catanesi·Gianmaria Collazuol·Albert De Roeck·Francesca Di Lodovico·Milind Vaman Diwan·Marcos Dracos·Tord Johan Carl Ekelof·Antonio Ereditato·Paola Sala·Maria Pilar Hernandez Gamazo·Milos Lokajicek·Kenneth Richard Long·Jane Nachtman·Marzio Nessi·Yasar Onel·Vittorio Palladino·Laura Patrizii·Aldo Penzo·Roberto Petti·Boris Popov·Maxim Potekhin·Emilio Radicioni·Federico Sanchez·Paul Soler Jermyn·Antonio Surdo·Francesco Terranova·Mark Andrew Thomson·Christos Touramanis·Roumen Tsenov·Alfons Weber·Mehmet Zeyrek·Marco Zito·Nectarios Benekos·Etam Noah Messomo·Chang Kee Jung·Gianfranca De Rosa·Paolo Bernardini·Thorsten Lux·Lucia Masetti·Sergio Bertolucci·Frank Richard Simon·Philippe Mermod·Vipin Bhatnagar·Andrea Longhin·Umut Kose·Timothy Alan Bolton·Vittorio Paolone·Giuseppe Salamanna·Sara Bolognesi·Andrey Arbuzov·Masashi Yokoyama·Jose Carvalho Maneira·Yoshikazu Nagai·Constantinos Andreopoulos·Stefania Bordoni·Takuya Hasegawa·Alan David Bross·Jonathan Asaadi·Burak Bilki·Claudio Giganti·Leigh Howard Whitehead·Georgios Christodoulou·Diego Gonzalez Diaz·Nicoletta Mauri

Abstract

With the discovery of non-zero value of $\theta_{13}$ mixing angle, the next generation of long-baseline neutrino (LBN) experiments offers the possibility of obtaining statistically significant samples of muon and electron neutrinos and anti-neutrinos with large oscillation effects. In this document we intend to highlight the importance of Near Detector facilities in LBN experiments to both constrain the systematic uncertainties affecting oscillation analyses but also to perform, thanks to their close location, measurements of broad benefit for LBN physics goals. A strong European contribution to these efforts is possible.

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Aysel Kayis Topaksu, Edward Blucher, Bernard Andrieu, Jianming Bian, Byron Roe, Glenn Horton-Smith, Yoshinari Hayato, Juan Antonio Caballero, James Sinclair, Yury Kudenko, Laura Patrizi, Luca Stanco, Matteo Tenti, Guilermo Daniel Megias, Natalie Jachowicz, Omar Benhar, Giulia Ricciardi, Stefan Roth, Steven Manly, Mario Stipcevi, Davide Meloni, Ignacio Ruiz, Jan Sobczyk, Luis Alvarez-Ruso, Marco Martini, Marco Pallavicini, Maria Benedetta Barbaro, Mark Hartz, Sanjib Mishra, Teppei Katori, Tord Ekelof, Ulrich Mosel, Vishvas Pandey, Alain Blondel, Maurizio Bonesini, Volker Buescher, Gabriella Catanesi, Gianmaria Collazuol, Albert De Roeck, Francesca Di Lodovico, Milind Vaman Diwan, Marcos Dracos, Tord Johan Carl Ekelof, Antonio Ereditato, Paola Sala, Maria Pilar Hernandez Gamazo, Milos Lokajicek, Kenneth Richard Long, Jane Nachtman, Marzio Nessi, Yasar Onel, Vittorio Palladino, Laura Patrizii, Aldo Penzo, Roberto Petti, Boris Popov, Maxim Potekhin, Emilio Radicioni, Federico Sanchez, Paul Soler Jermyn, Antonio Surdo, Francesco Terranova, Mark Andrew Thomson, Christos Touramanis, Roumen Tsenov, Alfons Weber, Mehmet Zeyrek, Marco Zito, Nectarios Benekos, Etam Noah Messomo, Chang Kee Jung, Gianfranca De Rosa, Paolo Bernardini, Thorsten Lux, Lucia Masetti, Sergio Bertolucci, Frank Richard Simon, Philippe Mermod, Vipin Bhatnagar, Andrea Longhin, Umut Kose, Timothy Alan Bolton, Vittorio Paolone, Giuseppe Salamanna, Sara Bolognesi, Andrey Arbuzov, Masashi Yokoyama, Jose Carvalho Maneira, Yoshikazu Nagai, Constantinos Andreopoulos, Stefania Bordoni, Takuya Hasegawa, Alan David Bross, Jonathan Asaadi, Burak Bilki, Claudio Giganti, Leigh Howard Whitehead, Georgios Christodoulou, Diego Gonzalez Diaz, Nicoletta Mauri. 2019-01-14. Research and Development for Near Detector Systems Towards Long Term Evolution of Ultra-precise Long-baseline Neutrino Experiments. https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04346

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