Optimization of Neutrino Rates from the EURISOL Beta-beam Acclerator Complex

The beta beam concept for the production of intense (anti-)neutrino beams is now well established. A baseline design has recently been published for a beta-beam facility at CERN. It has the virtue of respecting the known limitations of the CERN PS and SPS synchrotrons, but falls short of delivering the requestedannual rate of neutrinos. We report on a first analysis to increase the rate using the baseline ions of 6He and18 Ne. A powerful method to understand the functional dependence of the many parameters that influencethe figure of merit for a given facility is available with modern analytical calculation software. The methodrequires that a symbolic analytical description is produced of the full accelerator chain. Such a descriptionhas been made using Mathematica for the proposed beta beam facility at CERN. The direct access fromMathematica to an ORACLE database for reading basic design parameters and re-injecting derivedparameters for completion of the parameter list is both convenient and efficient.We acknowledge the financial support of the European Community under the FP6 “Research Infrastructure Action - Structuring the European Research Area” EURISOL DS Project Contract no. 515768 RIDS.