Message-ID: <424FA205.5020206@neutrino.kek.jp> Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 16:57:57 +0900 From: koichiro Nishikawa <nishikaw@neutrino.kek.jp> Subject: [Fwd: March 2005 long-baseline neutrino news] -------- Original Message -------- Subject: March 2005 long-baseline neutrino news Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 17:34:08 -0600 From: Maury Goodman at Argonne <mcg@hep.anl.gov> To: LONGBNEWS@FNAL.GOV CC: MCG@hep.anl.gov Long-Baseline Neutrino News March 2005 *** Neutrino Dedication U.S. speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, together with Minnesota congressman Jim Oberstar, pushed a button and neutrinos went on their way from Hastert's district in Illinois towards Oberstar's at the Soudan mine. Director of the Office of Science Orbach used the occasion to say that Fermilab was the premier HEP lab in the U.S., and he would do what he could to keep it that way. 1000 used the occasion for a big party. Streaming video: http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/Events/050304NuMIMINOS/index.htm *** Neutrino events from Fermilab in the MINOS far detector On the last day of a MINOS meeting in mid-March, the first events at the far detector in conjunction with the beam started to show up. The first find was a neutrino induced muon entering the detector. http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/~thomson/RockMuon.gif http://www.virginiamn.com/placed/index.php?story_id=196616 *** Neutrino Pause In its first full month, MINOS has run near its anticipated intensity and near its design repetition rate. However, a cooling water leak has been identified in the graphite target, so the experiment will be down while it is fixed. *** Neutrino Scientific Advisory Group Charge DOE-Nuclear Physics, DOE High Energy and the NSF have asked HEPAP and NSAC to establish NuSAG (Neutrino Scientific Assessment Group) for 2 years to address 1.) U.S. participation in a reactor neutrino experiment; 2.) phased sensitive searches for 0nu double beta decay; and 3.) accelerator experiments for theta-13. Mentioned were Diablo Canyon, Braidwood, Double Chooz, Daya Bay, Majorana, EXO, Cuorcino, Moon, T2K and NOvA. Alluded to were KASKA and FLARE. A report is requested by June 2005. *** Neutrino poll The citizens of San Louis Obispo California were asked by the local newspaper if neutrino research should be allowed at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power plant. By a margin about 9 to 1, they said yes. This week's question is not about neutrinos. http://www.newtimes-slo.com/ *** Neutrino mass hierarchy determination Roughly speaking, MINOS will measure delta msquared 32 and Double Chooz will measure delta msquared 31. If they could measure them better, a determination of the mass hierarchy is possible, as shown in Nunokawa et al., hep-ph/0503283. Also hep-ph/0503079. *** Neutrinos Main Injector Off-Axis nu Appearance (NOvA) A new version of the NOvA proposal was submitted to Fermilab. http://www-nova.fnal.gov/NOvA_Proposal/Revised_NOvA_Proposal.html high resolution, or hep-ex/0503053. It calls for a 30 kiloton detector at 810 km along the NuMI beam. It would be 16m x 16m x 132m, or 1984 planes of extruded plastic & liquid scintillator. *** Neutrino fest A NeutrinoFest will bring together scientists and science writers to talk about neutrinos on April 18, 2005, at the APS Tampa meeting. http://www.nevis.columbia.edu/~neutrinofest/ *** Neutrino comment from new Argonne Director Rosner Neutrino enthusiast Bob Rosner has just been appointed the new director of Argonne. At his welcoming reception, he told long-baseline news he thought that things looked good for a reactor experiment and for Fermilab's proton driver. For two weeks MINOS will be featured at http://www.anl.gov/, then http://www.anl.gov/Media_Center/News/2005/HEP050401.html *** MICE funded The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment at Rutherford, a step on the way to a neutrino factory, has been funded almost 10 million pounds. http://www.interactions.org/cms/?pid=1018903 *** DUSEL proposals - Underground Lab progress Site proposals for a Deep Underground Science and Engineering Lab are being submitted by Cascades-Icicle Creek, WA; Henderson Mine, Empire, CO; Homestake Mine, Lead, SD; Kimballton Mine, Giles Co., VA; San Jacinto, CA; Soudan Mine, Soudan, MN; SNOLAB, Sudbury, ONT; WIPP, Carlsbad, NM. Some can be found at www.dusel.org. *** Neutrinos and Terry Schiavo http://www.spookcrew.com/ Apparently monopoles could be used to measure her brain waves. But some of it is classified. *** Notable New References (- web page at bottom for links) <-> SNO, "391-Day Salt Phase Data", nucl-ex/0502021 <-> Raychaudhuri & Shalgar, "Matter effects on Majorana neutrino phases." hep-ph/0503010. 5 sigma in 5 years from beta beam? <-> Burguet-Castell et al., "Optimal beta beam at the CERN-SPS", hep-ph/0503021. Gamma=150-250 optimized for Frejus <-> Koranga et al., "Do two flavor oscillations explain KamLAND & solar data?" hep-ph/0503092. Theta-13 is thirteen degrees! <-> J. Field, "...Neutrino Oscillations reconsidered" hep-ph/0503034. long-baseline is called long line-base. I Object! <-> Xing & Zhang, "Reconstruction of the Neutrino Mixing Matrix and Leptonic Unitarity Triangles from Long-baseline neutrino oscillations", hep-ph/0503118. They got long-baseline right! <-> Ando et al., "Detection of neutrinos from supernovae in nearby galaxies" astro-ph/0503321. It takes 2 to coincide. <-> Sato, "Monoenergetic Nu Beam for Long-Baseline Experiments", hep-ph/0503144. Electron capture. <-> Xing, "Nontrivial Correlation CKM & MNS...", hep-ph/0503200 <-> Strumia & Vissani, "Implications nu data 2005", hep-ph/0503246 <-> Mohanty, "Contributions of Ue3 to geo-neutrino flux" hep-ph/0502241. Could be 12%. <-> Bahcall et al., "..Neon Abundance of the Sun" astro-ph/0502563 <-> MACRO "Lorentz invariance...MACRO data" hep-ex/0503015 <-> Datta et al., "Cabibbo Haze in Lepton Mixing", hep-ph/0503222 <-> Tegmark, "Cosmological nu for non-cosmologists" hep-ph/0503257 ****************************************************************** http://www.hep.anl.gov/ndk/longbnews/ maury.goodman@anl.gov
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