The Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment

by Dr Jim Strait (Fermi National Laboratory)

Monday Feb 4, 2013, 3:00 PM → 4:00 PM Pacific/Honolulu

417 A (Watanabe Hall)

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.