Workshop to finish the APS Neutrino Study

This has been tentatively scheduled to take place June 26-27 in Aspen Colado, preceding a workshop on neutrino physics there, but the dates are not final!
A workshop page at http://interactions.org/ might appear sometime.

Workshop to kick off the APS Neutrino Study
The APS Divisions of Particles and Fields and of Nuclear Physics,
together with the Divisions of Astrophysics and the Physics of
Beams, are sponsoring a year-long Study on the Physics of Neutrinos, beginning in the fall of 2003.
December 13-14, 2003
Argonne National Laboratory

This is a temporary web page for the workshop to kick off the Neutrino Study. The Workshop will be held December 13-14, 2003 (Saturday-Sunday) at Building 362, Argonne National Laboratory

We are pleased to announce a workshop on Neutrino Phyics in the High Energy Physics Division at Argonne National Laboratory from
December 13-14, 2003. After consideration of other sites, the workshop will now be held at Argonne National Laboratory.

Participants will need to register in advance in order to prepare a gate pass. See below.

The aim of the workshop is given below along with the Charge on the APS study.

Workshop Links

Practical Info:

The study organizers will meet Saturday morning.
The open session will start Saturday after lunch (Time to be determined).
The meeting will end at 5:00 pm on Sunday.
Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday the goals of the study will be discussed in a workshop to which the entire neutrino community is invited. Saturday afternoon will be a plenary session. Sunday will be devoted to the initial meetings of the working groups.
All participants should register in advance to get gate passes. US citizens must register by Thursday December 11th. Please use the registration form above. If that does not work, please send your name, institution and citizenship by email to Pam Malhotra and/or Maury Goodman)

Foreign visitors should provide passport information on the registration form well in advance of the workshop obtain clearance.(If the form does not work, send to Pam Malhotra and/or Maury Goodman)

Working Groups:

Solar and atmospheric neutrino experiments
     (J. Bahcall*, J. Klein)
Reactor neutrino experiments
     (G. Barenboim, E. Blucher)
Superbeam experiments and development
     (W. Marciano, D. Michael)
Neutrino factory and beta beam experiments and development
     (S. Geer, M. Zisman)
Neutrinoless double beta decay and direct searches for neutrino mass
     (S. Elliott, P. Vogel)
What cosmology/astrophysics and neutrino physics can teach each other
     (S. Barwick*, J. Beacom)
*Not confirmed

Anyone who cannot attend the kickoff workshop is encouraged to contact a working group leader to participate
during the course of the study.

Study Organizers: Boris Kayser boris@fnal.gov
Stuart Freedman sjfreedman@lbl.gov

Local Organizing Committee:
    B. Kayser (Fermilab)
     M. Goodman (Argonne)
     P. Malhotra (Argonne)
Study Organizing Committee
   Stuart Freedman
   Boris Kayser
   Janet Conrad
   Guido Drexlin
   Belen Gavela
   Takaaki Kajita
   Paul Langacker
   Keith Olive
   Bob Palmer
   Georg Raffelt
   Hamish Robertson
   Stan Wojcicki
   Lincoln Wolfenstein

Useful Documents and Links:

HEP Roadmap (February 2002)
APS Neutrino Study Charge (November 2003)
High-Energy Physics Facilities Recommended For The DOE Office of Science Twenty-Year Roadmap (March 2003)
Report of the Neutrino Facilities Assessment Committee (May 2003)
Facilities for the Future of Science (DOE Office of Science 20 year Facilities Plan) (November 2003)
Neutrino Oscillation Industry web site (with links to most experiments) (timeless)
White Paper for LENS Solar Neutrino Proposal - prepared for this study, (December 10, 2003)

Charge of the Study:

The APS Divisions of Particles and Fields and of Nuclear Physics, together with the APS Divisions of Astrophysics and the Physics of Beams, is organizing a year-long Study on the Physics of Neutrinos, beginning in the fall of 2003. The Study is in response to the remarkable recent series of discoveries in neutrino physics and to the wealth of experimental opportunities on the horizon. It will build on the extensive work done in this area in preparation for the 2002 long range plans developed by NSAC and HEPAP, as well as more recent activities, by identifying the key scientific questions driving the field and analyzing the most promising experimental approaches to answering them. The results of the Study will inform efforts to create a scientific roadmap for neutrino physics.

The Study is being carried out by four APS Divisions because neutrino physics is inherently interdisciplinary in nature. The Study will consider the field in all its richness and diversity. It will examine physics issues, such as neutrino mass and mixing, the number and types of neutrinos, their unique assets as probes of hadron structure, and their roles in astrophysics and cosmology. It will also study a series of experimental approaches, including long and short baseline accelerator experiments, reactor experiments, nuclear beta-decay and double beta-decay experiments, as well as cosmic rays and cosmological and astrophysical observations. In addition, the study will explore theoretical connections between the neutrino sector and physics in extra dimensions or at much higher scales.

The Study will be led by an Organizing Committee and carried out by Working Groups. The Organizing Committee will function as an interdisciplinary team, reporting to the four Divisions, with significant international participation. The Study will be inclusive, with all interested parties and collaborations welcome to participate. The final product of the Study will be a book (or e-book) containing reports from each Working Group, as well as contributed papers by the Working Group participants. The Organizing Committee and Working Group leaders will integrate the findings of the Working Groups into a coherent summary statement about the future. The Working Groups will meet as necessary, with a goal of producing the final report by August 2004.

The overarching purpose of the Study is for a diverse community of scientists to examine the broad sweep of neutrino physics, and if possible, to move towards agreement on the next steps towards answering the questions that drive the field. The Study will lay scientific groundwork for the choices that must be made during the next few years.

Last Updated 27 December 2003

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