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A Proposal for a Near Detector Experiment on the Booster Neutrino Beamline: FINeSSE: Fermilab Intense Neutrino Scattering Scintillator Experiment
The FINeSSE Collaboration: S. Brice ; L. Bugel ; J. M. Conrad ; J. Doskow ; D. Finley ; B. T. Fleming ; G. T. Garvey ; C. Green ; C. Horowitz ; R. Imlay ; T. Katori ; J. M. Link ; W. C. Louis ; L. Lu ; G. McGregor ; W. Metcalf ; H. O. Meyer ; P. Ockerse ; V. Papavassiliou ; J. C. Peng ; M. Shaevitz ; R. Stefanski ; M. Sung ; R. Tayloe ; R. Van de Water ; G. Visser ; L. Wang ; M. O. Wascko ; G. P. Zeller ;
Date:	3 Feb 2004
Subject:	hep-ex
Abstract:	Understanding the quark and gluon substructure of the nucleon has been a prime goal of both nuclear and particle physics for more than thirty years and has led to much of the progress in strong interaction physics. Still the flavor dependence of the nucleon’s spin is a significant fundamental question that is not understood. Experiments measuring the spin content of the nucleon have reported conflicting results on the amount of nucleon spin carried by strange quarks. Quasi-elastic neutrino scattering, observed using a novel detection technique, provides a theoretically clean measure of this quantity. The optimum neutrino beam energy needed to measure the strange spin of the nucleon is 1 GeV. This is also an ideal energy to search for neutrino oscillations at high $Delta m^2$ in an astrophysically interesting region. Models of the r-process in supernovae which include high-mass sterile neutrinos may explain the abundance of neutron-rich heavy metals in the universe. These high-mass sterile neutrinos are outside the sensitivity region of any previous neutrino oscillation experiments. The Booster neutrino beamline at Fermilab provides the world’s highest intensity neutrino beam in the 0.5-1.0 GeV energy range, a range ideal for both of these measurements. A small detector located upstream of the MiniBooNE detector, 100 m from the recently commissioned Booster neutrino source, could definitively measure the strange quark contribution to the nucleon spin. This detector, in conjunction with the MiniBooNE detector, could also investigate $ u_{mu}$ disappearance in a currently unexplored, cosmologically interesting region.
Source:	arXiv, hep-ex/0402007
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