Simulations of neutrino oscillations for a wide band beam from CERN to LENA

TL;DR

This paper simulates neutrino oscillations for a CERN to LENA experiment, demonstrating promising performance and identifying optimal baseline configurations for future long baseline neutrino research.

Contribution

It provides a detailed simulation study of a CERN-LENA neutrino experiment, proposing it as a viable and realistic alternative for future long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments.

Findings

Performance is very promising for the proposed setup.

Different baselines and factors were compared, identifying near-optimal configurations.

The setup is feasible and close to a realistic experimental design.

Abstract

Neutrino oscillations from a wide band beam of 1-6 GeV at CERN to LENA, a 50 kton liquid scintillator, at Pyhasalmi mine 2288 km apart are simulated. The performance is very promising and this can be considered as a realistic alternative for the next long baseline experiment. Different performance factors and baselines are compared and the studied setup is found to be sufficiently close to a realistic optimum.