Neutrinos come to Town
Poster for the second meeting on the European Strategy for Neutrino Oscillation Physics (click image to enlarge) Image credit: Neutrino Town Meeting
The second meeting on the European Strategy for Neutrino Oscillation Physics was held the 14-16 May 2012 at CERN, attracting some 150 registrants, from European institutes and beyond.
The goal of the meeting was to collect necessary input from the neutrino oscillation community and prepare a proposal to the Preparatory Group of the European Strategy Group. The consensus of the community should be expressed in this proposal, with a medium- and long-term road map for the accelerator based neutrino oscillation physics facilities in Europe.
The meeting concluded by stressing again the great discovery potential of the physics of massive neutrinos: it raises new questions that have no unique answer in the Standard Model of particle physics, and calls for a high priority programme in Europe. One of the highest prizes, leptonic CP violation, requires accelerator-born neutrino beams. Proposals for a middle and long-term accelerator-based programme were formulated and discussed critically, stressing the importance of a sustained R&D towards the ultimate accelerator and detector facilities, and the synergy with astro-particle physics.
The written proposal for the European Strategy Group will be worked on and presented at the Preparatory Strategy Meeting in Krakow (10-12 September 2012).In addition, Alain Blondel presented Beams for Neutrino Physics: a coherent proposal? in the EuCARD annual meeting. A full report of the Neutrino Town Meeting is available below.
