1205.5528 (Adriana Bungau et al.)

Simulations of Pion Production in the DAEδALUS Target    [PDF]

Adriana Bungau, Roger Barlow, Mike Shaevitz, Janet Conrad, Joshua Spitz, Tess Smidt, for the DAEδALUS Collaboration

DAE\delta ALUS, the Decay At-rest Experiment for \delta_{CP} at a Laboratory for Underground Science will look for evidence of CP-violation in the neutrino sector, an ingredient in theories that seek to explain the matter/antimatter asymmetry in our universe. It will make a precision measurement of the oscillations of muon antineutrinos to electron antineutrinos using multiple neutrino sources created by low-cost compact cyclotrons. The experiment utilizes decay-at-rest neutrino beams produced by 800 MeV protons impinging a beam target of graphite and copper. Two well established Monte Carlo codes, MARS and GEANT4, have been used to optimise the design and the performance of the target. A study of the results obtained with these two codes is presented in this paper.

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