NEu2012
Neutrino
beams for
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Deputy
coordinator: tbd |
NEu2012 is a Networking
Activity (WP3) in the framework of the FP7 Integrating Activity EuCARD |
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Jan 6, 2009 EuCARD and NEu2012 will
start officially on April 1 2009 and will last four years. Dec 7, 2008 The last yearly meetings of CARE (CARE08 and BENE08) took place
this week, as well as the EuCARD
kick-off meeting. The steps leading to approval of EuCARD
and NEu2012 can be traced in the BENE
web pages . We will soon have a short summary here. |
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Work package number |
WP3 |
Start date or starting event: |
M1 |
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Work Package title |
NEU2012 |
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Activity type |
COORD |
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Participant id |
INFN |
CERN |
UNIGE |
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Person-months per beneficiary: |
3.6 |
21.6 |
20.6 |
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Objectives: The
“European Strategy for Particle Physics” emphasizes the importance of
accelerator-based neutrino experiments, and sets the milestone for the next
major undertaking in this field in 2012. The
NEU2012 goal is to offer a platform for consolidating the European neutrino
community and enhancing collaborative work and exchanges in view of
delivering at the end of 2012 an agreed
programme of neutrino experiments, based on upgrades of existing
infrastructures and/or on the proposal of a new one. Among the
possibilities the following will be considered and evaluated:
The
NEU2012 network should be the forum where the community will discuss the
results of the CNGS upgrade studies, the solutions proposed by EuroNu for its beam options, the outcome of international
design studies in progress in Japan and USA and of the state of the art
R&D projects in progress or being proposed, in particular, in the
framework of EuCARD. |
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Description of work: Task 1. NEU2012 Coordination and
Communication The
activities of this task are to oversee, co-ordinate the work and do the
financial follow-up for all tasks in NEU2012. It shall ensure the consistency
of the WP work according to the project plan and coordinate the WP technical
and scientific tasks with the tasks carried out by the other work packages
when it is relevant. The coordination duties also include the organization of
WP internal steering meetings, topical workshops, working sessions and
reviews as necessary and contributions to the Annual Meetings. Participants
from inside and outside the consortium will be invited. In
addition to the coordination work, this task will take responsibility for the
production of a final document making the synthesis of the findings of the
two other tasks, proposing an agreed programme of neutrino experiments, based
on upgrades of existing infrastructures and/or on the proposal of a new one. Task 2. Getting the most out of
existing neutrino facilities This task
will scrutinize the performance of operating neutrino facilities, i.e. of the
CNGS in its international context and assess their potential for performance
improvement. The parameters of importance are the neutrino flux, neutrino
spectra, flux monitoring abilities and far detector design and location. The
performance shall be evaluated depending on the evolution of physics needs. A
synthesis on the upgrade option will be prepared, including flexibility and
risk analysis, to clarify the best upgrade paths. Task 3. Road map to the next
European accelerator neutrino facility This task will contribute to a synthesis on the
European and worldwide research performed on possible future new facilities
while surveying the coherence with the physics needs. It will conclude with
recommendation for the choice of the next global accelerator neutrino
facility, taking into accounts the technological risks and possible synergies
with all other programmes worldwide. To fulfil this goal, both the potential
of existing accelerators for a new neutrino facility and the new neutrino
facility options will be evaluated, using all the results available from all
design studies worldwide. The
following Institutes have declared their strong interest in the NEU2012
activities: CEA (F), STFC (UK), CSIC ( |
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Deliverables of tasks |
Description/title |
Nature |
Delivery month |
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3.1.1 |
NEU2012
Website operational |
O |
M6 |
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3.1.2 |
Final
NEU2012 guidelines for an accelerator neutrino experiments programme |
R |
M48 |
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3.2.1 |
Performance analysis and physics potential of
upgrades of existing neutrino facilities |
R |
M40 |
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3.3.1 |
Proposal of the next global accelerator neutrino
facility for |
R |
M40 |
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Mile- stone |
Description/title |
Nature |
Delivery month |
Comment |
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3.1.1.1 |
Calendar of workshops & conferences concerning
NEU2012 |
O |
M6 |
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3.1.2.1 |
Intermediate review of NEU2012 recommendations on
neutrino experiments |
R |
M24 |
Road map for a
programme of neutrino experiments |
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3.1.3.1 |
NEU2012 first annual workshop |
O |
M12 |
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3.1.3.2 |
NEU2012 second annual workshop |
O |
M24 |
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3.1.3.3 |
NEU2012 third annual workshop |
O |
M36 |
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3.1.3.4 |
NEU2012 final annual workshop |
O |
M48 |
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3.2.1.1 |
Intermediate
review of NEU2012 recommendations on existing accelerator neutrino
facilities. |
R |
M24 |
Road Map for
upgrading existing accelerator neutrino facilities |
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3.3.1.1 |
Intermediate
review of NEU2012 recommendations on new accelerator neutrino facilities. |
R |
M24 |
Road Map to new
accelerator neutrino facilities |
VP Last
modified on Jan 6,
2009