an international scoping study of a neutrino factory & super-beam facility

An International Scoping Study of a Neutrino Factory & Super-beam Facility

7 Sep 2005P J Dornan - MICE-UK

A Little History

– NuFact03

– 2004

– April 2005

• Desire for a new World Design Study towards a future Neutrino Factory - to succeed Studies I, II and IIa in the US - failed to get support

• Plan for a proposal to 2nd call in EU FP6 design study programme - 2nd call cancelled

• John Wood – CEO CCLRC(RAL) – requests a ‘Scoping Study’ for a future neutrino factory – and promises support


• May 2005– Meeting in London to start the process (~40

people came at short notice)– Committee – S Geer, Y Kuno, V Palladino, K

Peach charged with setting up the organisation

Physics Accelerator Detector

Programme CommitteeChair

Stakeholders

Chair – PJD

Physics – Yori Nagashima

Accelerator – Mike Zisman

Detector – Alain Blondel

‘Stakeholders’ still to be defined


Aims → Final Report

• A one year study– More details in the document - but primarily

• To review the physics case for an accelerator neutrino complex post-T2K and Nova

• To compare options - and complementarities - including costs– Super-beam + detector– Neutrino Factory + detector

• Final Report - presentation to NuFact06 and a written document Sep 2006

• Result to lay foundations for a full CDR for such a facility by 2009/10• - and to form the basis of a proposal (early 2007) to the EU P7

programme for funding for such a CDR


Why 2009/10 for CDR

– LHC will have produced first results– LHC wlll have been paid for– PEP2 & Tevatron programmes will have ended– so funds should become available for new

projects

• But there will be many calls– Linear Collider, S-LHC….

• The Neutrino Community must have a coherent well-argued plan at that time to obtain support for a major project for second half of next decade– time is short


Support

• The plan was presented to ECFA on June 23 (RECFA) & June 24 (PECFA) and received strong support

• CCLRC & RAL

• US-NFMC, BENE, JNFC, UKNF

• --- Now we need the workers


Structure– Aim to maintain a broad geographical distribution of

responsibilities – a truly international study

• Working Groups– Each has a Convenor who has formed a Council of experts

to direct the effort

• ISS Open Collaboration Meetings– There will be major ISS meetings every 3 months

• CERN Sep 22 – 24, 2005

– Provisionally• Japan Jan 23 – 25, 2006• RAL April 24 – 29, 2006 – to coincide with

April BENE meeting• UC, Irvine August 21, 22 (just before NuFact06)


Accelerator WG• Convenor – Mike Zisman (LBL)• Council

– Richard Fernow (BNL)– Yoshi Mori (Kyoto)– Chris Prior (RAL/Oxford)– Roland Garoby (CERN)– Bob Palmer (BNL)

• Topics– Proton Driver– Target– Phase rotation/Bunching– Cooling– Acceleration– Storage ring


Detector WG

• Convenor - Alain Blondel (Geneva)• Council

– Paolo Strolin (Napoli)– Alan Bross (FNAL)– Kenji Kaneyuki (Tokyo)– Dave Wark (ICL)

• Topics– Water Cerenkov– Magnetized Iron– Liquid Argon– Low Z Scintillator– Hybrid Emulsion– Near Detector


Physics WG

• Convenor Yori Nagashima ( Osaka)• Council

– Manfred Lindner (MTU)– Pilar Hernandez (Valencia)– Debbie Harris (FNAL)– Ken Long (ICL) – Lee Roberts (Boston)– Osamu Yasuda (Tokyo Metropolitan)– Hitoshi Murayama (LBL)

• Topics– Theory– Phenomenology– Experiment


CERN Meeting Sep 22 – 24

• Aims– Map out the programme for the coming year for each of the

groups.– More specific (& realistic) goals– Understand how to combine accelerator & detector

activities (& costing) - for the physics goals– Engage with the community and encourage them to join and

contribute– Great opportunities

• Many developments since previous US Study 2


CERN Meeting Sep 22 – 24

• Prelim Agenda– Thursday Sep 22 (In)formal meetings of the working

groups

– Friday Sep 23 am Welcome, Plenary convenor presentations

pm Joint & Parallel WG sessions

Dinner

– Saturday Sep 24 am Plenary session with summaries from the WGs

pm Jura hike

• Detailed plans in preparation - and will be included on the web site

• Please register soon - important to have a strong turn-out


Web Site

http://hepunx.rl.ac.uk/uknf/wp4/scoping/

Details of working groups

Documents

Mailing List

- please subscribe saying which group(s) you wish to join – or just subscribe to the general list

Registration for the CERN Meeting

- those registering will be automatically included on the mailing lists


To Conclude

• Following this initiative from John Wood the world neutrino community has a golden opportunity to present its plans for future neutrino activities

• - but it requires a very concentrated effort in a very short time

• So please contribute to the working groups to make it a success– Everyone welcome - Contact

• Physics group - Yori Nagashima - [email protected]• Accelerator Group - Mike Zisman - [email protected]• Detector Group - Alain Blondel - [email protected]

– or me• Peter Dornan – [email protected]