Fermilab Long Range Planning Committee
4th Draft
June
25, 2003
Draft Neutrino Group Working Plan
Membership
Leslie Camilleri
Gary Feldman (chair)
Steve Geer
Maury Goodman
Debbie Harris
Boris Kayser
Kevin McFarland
Peter Myers
Sergei Nagaitsev
Angela Olinto
Adam Para
Steve Parke
Overall Goal
Plan a Fermilab neutrino program
that is capable of providing definitive measurements of
the currently unmeasured neutrino
oscillation parameters, q13, sign(Dm132), and d.
Specific Questions
(1)
What
is the capability of the NuMI beam line with increased proton intensity on the proposed
off-axis detector at a Minnesota or Canadian site?
(2)
What
additional capability would be added by a second off-axis detector sited to
study the second oscillation maximum?
(3)
What
is the optimum division between funds spent on increasing the proton intensity and
funds spent on building new detectors?
(4)
If
MiniBooNE has a positive signal, what additional experiments or facilities
should Fermilab consider?
(5)
What
are the capabilities of long-baseline experiments using a beam from the present
booster or a new booster?
(6)
What
would be the capability of a new Fermilab conventional neutrino beamline to a longer
baseline detector? Should such a detector be sited on- or off-axis?
(7)
Under
what conditions should Fermilab consider a muon-ring neutrino factory? What would be its parameters and
capabilities?
(8)
What
non-oscillation physics could be done at these facilites?
Note
(1) The overall goal assumes that a
program that is sufficiently powerful enough to measure the currently
unmeasured neutrino oscillation parameters will also provide a wealth of other
oscillation and non-oscillation physics. The word “capability” in the above
questions should be interpreted to include this.
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