Simulations of Pion Production in the DAE\delta ALUS Target
  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. 
Adriana Bungau (1), Roger Barlow (1), Mike Shaevitz (2), Janet Conrad   (3), Joshua Spitz (3), Tess Smidt (3) ((1) Universit...
physics.ins-det hep-ex nucl-th