The
ISS is a one year study, jointly launched at Nufact05 by the EU
Network BENE, the US Muon Collaboration and the
Japanese NuFact-J Collaboration. It is hosted at RAL
by the UK Neutrino Collaboration.
It
is a decisive preparatory
step in BENE’s strategy towards a full blown
Design Study that will produce the Conceptual Design Report of a new superior accelerator neutrino
facility by 2010 or so.
Its main web page is at http://www.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/iss/ Its Study Plan can be found at http://www.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/iss/iss-notes/ISS_Doc1_v02_13-7-2005.pdf After the ISS, we plan to carry out an International Design Study that, in our European context, will be a EC funded FP7 Design Study. One of the main tasks of BENE, during the Scoping Study and the second part of 2006, will be to organize our Eu neutrino community in a solid continental Collaboration that will propose and hopefully secure a Design Study Contract from EC.