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The study of the neutrino is the study of physics beyond the Standard Model.
Now that θ13 has been
measured, the focus of the long-baseline neutrino-oscillation programme is to determine the mass
hierarchy and to search for leptonic CP-invariance violation. In parallel, some anomalies in
shortbaseline
oscillations can be interpreted as hints for sterile neutrinos. I will explain how neutrinos
produced in the decay of stored muon beams have the potential to serve the conventional long-baseline
programme, provide definitive measurements of short-baseline oscillations and be developed
incrementally to deliver the Neutrino Factory, the facility of choice for the study of neutrino
oscillations.
An exciting first step will be provided by the “nuSTORM” facility; an entry level Neutrino Factory
capable
of making definitive measurements of neutrino-nucleus cross sections and exquisitely sensitive searches
for sterile neutrinos. |