FNAL-P-1053()
LAr1-ND: Testing Neutrino Anomalies with Multiple LAr TPC Detectors at Fermilab
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- Proposed: Dec 31, 2013,
- Still Running
This Proposal seeks to continue the development of the short-baseline neutrino oscillation program at Fermilab with the construction of the Liquid Argon Near Detector, or LAr1-ND, to be located in an existing experimental enclosure 100 m from the Booster Neutrino Beam target. The physics program will contribute, in conjunction with MicroBooNE, to the in- terpretation of the MiniBooNE neutrino-mode anomaly and will enable additional tests of high-∆ m 2 neutrino oscillations through both disappearance and appearance searches. Leveraging the advanced design work performed for LBNE and the very recent experience of the MicroBooNE detector construction, the LAr1-ND project has the potential to move forward quickly. Due to the high event rate at the near location, significant physics output can be achieved with a relatively short run. Beyond this near-term program, LAr1-ND could also serve as the near detector in a three LAr TPC experiment capable of definitively addressing the existing anomalies also in antineutrinos and making precision measurements of high-∆ m 2 neutrino oscillations. In addition to the physics program, LAr1-ND, following the MicroBooNE model, will have a development program serving as an engineering prototype for LAr TPCs for long baseline CP-violation searches in the future (e.g.: LBNE).
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