2013
The Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment
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Pacific/Honolulu
417 A (Watanabe Hall)
417 A
Watanabe Hall
Description
The Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) plans a
comprehensive program that will fully characterize neutrino
oscillation phenomenology using a high intensity 1300 km baseline
accelerator neutrino beam and an advanced liquid argon TPC as the
far detector. The goals for this program are well recognized to be
the determination of leptonic CP violation, the neutrino mass
hierarchy, and underground physics, including the exploration of
proton decay and supernova neutrinos. The collaboration and the
project are well organized and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
has stated their intention to fund this program in a phased manner.
The scope of the initial phase focuses on accelerator neutrino
physics and does not include deep underground placement of the far
detector or the full near detector. LBNE is actively pursuing
non-DOE partners, both foreign and US, to increase the experimental
capabilities before the construction begins several years from now,
with the goal of placing the far detector underground in the first
phase, and including a sophisticated near detector which would not
only improve the accuracy of the long-baseline oscillation
measurements, but have rich physics program in its own right.