Detailed studies of neutrino-nucleus scattering with nuSTORM

Abstract

The Neutrinos from Stored Muons (νSTORM) facility, recently proposed to FNAL and CERN, has the potential to produce excellent neutrino cross-section measurements, as well as definitively answering the question of sterile neutrinos and serving as a technology test bed for future muon accelerator projects. The main strength of its cross-section measurements is the ability to produce a beam of νe and νμ (or νe and νμ ) from muon decay, with absolute confidence in the flavour contributions and 1% precision on the neutrino energy and flux. Previous high-statistics neutrino cross-section measurements have been limited by beam precision, and the resulting uncertainties have often constituted the dominant systematic uncertainty in neutrino oscillation experiments. Improved measurements and models would lead to significant increases in the sensitivity of future longbaseline experiments.