SNS is a Unique Neutrino Source

• The SNS will produce about 10¹⁵ neutrinos per second from the decay of stopped pions
  • at 60 Hz repetition rate
  • pulse width of about 600 ns
  • a flux of about 3x10⁶/sec/cm² at 50 meters from the SNS target
• The most intense pulsed, intermediate-energy neutrino source in the world!
• The pulse structure
  • drastically reduces cosmic ray background
  • allows separation of muon neutrinos from muon anti-neutrinos and electron neutrinos

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