Status of the International Design Study of the Neutrino Factor

The International Design Study for the Neutrino Factory (the IDS‐NF) has been established by the Neutrino Factory community to deliver the Reference Design Report (RDR) for the facility by 2012. The baseline design for the facility, developed from that defined in the International Scoping Study of a future Neutrino Factory and super‐beam facility (the ISS), will provide $1021$ muon decays per year from 25 GeV stored muon beams. The facility will serve two neutrino detectors; one situated at source‐detector distance of between 3000–5000 km, the second at 7000–8000 km. The baseline design for the facility will be described and the status of the IDS‐NF effort will be summarised.