ESSnuSB

Funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union

  • ESSνSB proton accelerator Power (5MW):
    Image by Pete Linforth on Pixabay
    5.5 times the power of the most powerful road-going car Bugatti Veyron Super.
  • It will take the ESSνSB Super Beam proton pulse 1.8 ms=0.0018 seconds to reach the far detector if located at 540 km distance from ESS (Garpenberg mine) or 1.2ms=0.0012 seconds if located at 360km (Zinkgruvan mine).
    Image by Pete Linforth on Pixabay
  • ESSνSB Far Detector will be built 1km underground which is at a depth of about 3 times the height of the Eiffel Tower.
    Picture by Gerd Altmann on Pixabay
  • The ESS Linear Accelerator (Linac) is 490m long which represents around 4.7 times the length of a soccer field.
    Picture by Garik Barseghyan on Pixabay
  • ESSνSB Far Detector will contain 1 000 000 000 litters of water which represents a volume equal to that of a cube 100 m high and with a 100 m x 100 m bottom surface and is twice the volume that can be carried by the world largest super-tanker (TI Europe)
    Picture by Kai Kalhh on Pixabay
  • ESSνSB is the world's most intense neutrino beam project.
    Picture by Media Design and Media Publishing on Pixabay
  • What are neutrinos?
    Picture by Gerd Altmann on Pixabay
    The lightest fundamental particle.
  • Neutrinos are elusive and difficult to detect.
    Picture by Gerd Altmann on Pixabay
  • Neutrinos are plentiful: they come from everywhere, from the sun, from the earth, from supernovae and from the Big Bang.
    Image by Barbara A. Lane on Pixabay
  • Neutrinos travel as fast as light (almost!)
    Picture by Public Domain Pictures on Pixabay
  • Neutrinos have three different flavours: Electron, Muon, Tau.
    Picture by Gerd Altmann on Pixabay
  • Without the asymmetry between Matter and Antimatter we would not exist. How this symmetry was broken is an outstanding question?
    Picture by Gerd Altmann of Pixabay
    ESSνSB will study this question.
  • The years of major neutrino discoveries and years when those discoveries were awarded the Nobel Prizes:
    Picture by Gerd Altmann on Pixabay
    Pauli 1930/1945 : Prediction of neutrino
    Cowan & Reines 1956/1995: Discovery of neutrino.
    Davis & Koshiba 1987/2002: Solar & cosmic neutrinos.
    Kajita & McDonald 1998/2001/2015: Neutrino oscillations.
  • ESSνSB Timeline and funding obtained (till 2017) or required (as of 2022):
    Picture by Gerd Altmann on Pixabay
    2015: Concept (2M€)
    2019: Initial Design (5M€)
    2022: Final Design (10M€)
    2025: Construction of Detector (550M€)
    2028: Construction of Neutrino Source (650M€)
    2035-2085: Operational phase
    2012: First ideas
  • There were equal quantities of Matter and Antimatter created in the Big Bang.
    Image by Douglas James on Pixabay
    But there is no antimatter in the Universe now. Why?
  • Advantages of ESSνSB Project:
    Image by Douglas James on Pixabay
    - Hightest production intensity (5MW proton driver);
    - Largest detector (1 million tonnes of water);
    - Greatest sensitivity (measures at the 2nd neutrino oscillation maximum).
  • Picture by Wikilmages on Pixabay
    In ESSνSB project, a single beam pulse has the same energy as a 7.2kg bullet traveling at 1100 km/hour or, differently expressed, has the same kinetic energy as a 1000 kg car traveling at nearly 100 km/hour or the same heat energy it takes to melt 1000 kg of ice.
  • Picture by Wikilmages on Pixabay
    In the ESSνSB project, the duration of a super beam pulse will be 3 ms which means that there will be a distance of 900km (distance between Roma in Italy and Geneva in Switzerland) between the first and the last proton of the beam pulse.
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NEWS

Nufact 2019, the 21st International Workshop on Neutrinos from Accelerators, Daegu, Korea

On the 29th  of August 2019, ESSnuSB Post-Dotorates presented the project during parallel sessions.

Ben Folsom made a talk titled:”ESSnuSB Linac Design and Beam Dynamics”

Ye Zou presented “The ESSnuSB Accumulator Design”.

And Loris D’Alessi presented  “The current status of the ESSnuSB Target Station Design”.

On the 30th of August, during a plenary session, Marcos Dracos made a talk about ‘The ESSnuSB project”.

LP 2019 Symposium, 29th International Symposium on Lepton Photon Interactions at High Energies, Toronto, Canada

On the 8th of August, Marcos Dracos, presented a poster titled:”Neutrino CP Violation with the European Spallation Source Neutrino Super Beam Project”.

DPF 2019, Meeting of the Division of Particles & Fields of the American Physical Society, Boston, USA

On the 31th of July, Marcos Dracos presented at talk titled:” Neutrino CP Violation with the ESSnuSB Project” at the Meeting of the Division of Particles & Fields of the American Physical Society. 

JNR-ISU Baikal Summer School, in the neighbourhood of Irkoutsk, Russia

The event was organised from 12-19 July 2019. Marcos Dracos was invited to explain the ESSnuSB project.

3 NEXT MONTHS' EVENTS

  • ESSnuSB – 6th WP5 meeting (in the afternoon but time to be confirmed) on 30/09/2019 14:00
  • ESSnuSB 2nd Annual Meeting on 21/10/2019

PAST EVENTS

ESSnuSB Software Workshop, Pag, Croatia (10th to 14th of July 2019)

The aim of the workshop  was to progress on the development of the software framework which will be used for the simulation of the Near and Far Detectors.

Zingruvan mine visits by Tord Ekelöf, Scientific Leader (March 2019)

ESSnuSB Special Seminar, Hedemora, Sweden (13th of February 2019)

ESSnuSB annual meeting in conjunction with EuroNuNet Management Committee, Strasbourg, France (7-9 of November 2018)

Group picture of the ESSnuSB yearly meeting

ESSnuSB kick-off meeting, Lund, Sweden (15 Januray 2018)

Group picture of kick-off meeting - ESSnuSB
  • The ESSnuSB Grant Agreement has been signed (Nov. 2017)
  • ESSnuSB Design Study approved by EU (Aug. 2017)
  • Press Release for the ESSnuSB kick-off meeting (Jan. 2018)

European Unions’ Horizon 2020 : ESSnuSB has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 777419.The webpage reflects only the author’s view. The Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

Working Groups

  • ○ WP1 – Management
  • ○ WP2 – Linac upgrade
  • ○ WP3 – Accumulator
  • ○ WP4 – Target Station
  • ○ WP5 – Detector performance
  • ○ WP6 – Physics Reach
  • IPN
  • CNRS
  • AGH
  • Lunds Universitet
  • CB
  • cukurova university
  • KTH
  • ESS
  • IPHC
  • UPPSALA UNIVERSITET
  • Université de genève
  • RB
  • CERN
  • DEMOKRITOS
  • INFN
  • UAM Universidad

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  • Neutrino Conferences
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