Date: October 20, 2009
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Title: The Neutrino Factory: The Final Frontier in Neutrino Physics
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Calendar: Experimental Particle Physics Seminars
Speaker: Alan Bross
Location: Orange Room
Institution: Fermilab

This talk will present arguments that the Neutrino Factory - an extremely intense source of flavor-tagged neutrinos from muon decays in a storage ring - gives the best physics reach for CP violation, as well as virtually all parameters in the neutrino oscillation parameter space. It will describe the physics capabilities of the baseline Neutrino Factory as compared to other possible future facilities (beta-beam and super-beam facilities), give an overview of the accelerator complex, describe the current international R&D program and present a potential time line for the design and construction of the facility. Although the baseline study focuses on a facility with muon energy of 25 GeV, a concept for a Low-Energy (~ 5 GeV) Neutrino Factory is also being developed and its physics reach will also be discussed. Finally, it will be shown that a facility of this type is unique in that it can present a physics program that can be staged, addressing exciting new physics at each step.