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Scientific Committee Paper
Report number	CERN-SPSC-2016-036 ; SPSC-EOI-014
Title	Enabling precise measurements of flux in accelerator neutrino beams: the ENUBET project
Project Manager/Technical Coordinator	Longhin, Andrea
Author(s)	Berra, A ; Bonesini, M ; Brizzolari, C ; Calviani, M ; Catanesi, M G ; Cecchini, S ; Cindolo, F ; Collazuol, G ; Conti, E ; Dal Corso, F ; De Rosa, G ; Gola, A ; Intonti, R A ; Jollet, C ; Laveder, M ; Longhin, A ; Loverre, P F ; Ludovici, L ; Magaletti, L ; Mandrioli, G ; Margotti, A ; Mauri, N ; Meregaglia, A ; Mezzetto, M ; Nessi, M ; Paoloni, A ; Pasqualini, L ; Paternoster, G ; Patrizii, L ; Piemonte, C ; Pozzato, M ; Prest, M ; Pupilli, F ; Radicioni, E ; Riccio, C ; Ruggeri, A C ; Sirri, G ; Terranova, F ; Vallazza, E ; Votano, L ; Wildner, E
Corporate author(s)	CERN. Geneva. SPS and PS Experiments Committee ; SPSC
Series	(Expression of Interest)
Submitted by	[email protected] on 05 Oct 2016
Subject category	Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN SPS ; ENUBET
Abstract	The knowledge of the initial flux in conventional neutrino beams represents the main limitation for a precision (1\%) measurement of $\nu_e$ and $\nu_\mu$ cross sections. The progress in fast and radiation--hard detectors offers an unprecedented opportunity to monitor lepton production in the decay tunnel of conventional neutrino beams and, hence, reduce the flux uncertainty by about one order of magnitude. The opportunities and challenges of this novel approach are the focus of the ENUBET project, which has been recently approved by the European Research Council (ERC Consolidator Grants 2015, Grant Agreement 681647). In this Expression of Interest we present the ENUBET physics programme with emphasis on the activities that can be carried out in collaboration with CERN. We discuss the relevance of ENUBET in the framework of the CERN Neutrino Platform and highlight synergies with the CERN programme in particle physics and accelerator science.
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