8 Appendix I Working Group Charge and Assignments
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date: December 1, 2001
to: S. Aronson, M. Harrison, D. Lowenstein,
R. Palmer, V. Radeka W. Marciano, M. Diwan and W.T. Weng
from: T. Kirk
Associate Laboratory Director,
HENP subject: Neutrino R&D Working Group Charge and Assignments
Attached, please find the Charge to the Neutrino R&D Working Group
that we have discussed. As agreed, Bill Marciano will be the Neutrino
Team Leader, Milind Diwan will be the Physics Goals and Detector Team
Leader and Bill Weng will be the Accelerator and Beam Systems Team
Leader. The recruitment of working participants on the teams will be
the responsibility of the team leaders, aided by the department heads
and myself. The composition of the R&D teams will not be limited to
BNL employees. In fact, the participation of outside physicists in
the study will have obvious benefits for the next stage of the work
which is expected to be the establishment of a formal collaboration
and the creation of a formal proposal to the funding agency or
agencies to build and operate a neutrino beam and detector system and
carry out an experimental neutrino physics program. If the work gets
off to a promising start and the physics prospects appear to be
sufficiently compelling, it is possible that the initiation of the
collaboration and the start of a related proposal may overlap the R&D
study in time. Such an outcome could also have benefits for the
timely advance of neutrino physics.
We are initiating neutrino R&D work without explicit funding for this
purpose. Accordingly, the R&D work should be regarded as part of the
participants research activity, work that is generally supported by
the Laboratory research mission in high energy and nuclear physics. I
expect that the department heads will help and support the teams to
carry out the work within their capabilities. This has already been
discussed and agreed to. If conflicts arise about the allocation of
internal resources and priorities between the needs of the R&D study
and other activities of the departments that cannot be settled between
the team leaders and the department heads, I will establish a forum
for reconciliation of the conflict. I believe we are all aware of the
importance to the Laboratory of a successful outcome for this work and
we will expend our efforts accordingly.
Attachment (1)
Cc: P. Paul
Charge to the BNL Neutrino R&D Working Group
December 1, 2001
BNL intends to initiate an R&D study to refine the technical basis for
a future proposal to employ the BNL AGS as the source of a 1MW (or
possibly greater), ~1GeV neutrino beam for the continuing exploration
of neutrino physics, including CP-violation in the neutrino sector.
We also expect as the second element of this R&D study, to be key
organizers of an experimental physics and detector design effort that
will engage interested physicists in the U.S. and other countries in
the preparation of the conceptual basis for a formal proposal to
design and build a neutrino detector system to exploit the BNL
neutrino beam and to carry out the associated neutrino physics
program.
To this end, the Laboratory will designate three R&D leaders for these
efforts: the Neutrino Team Leader; the Accelerator and Beam Systems
Team Leader; and the Physics Goals and Detector Design Team Leader.
These three leaders will, in turn, be responsible for organizing the
technical work that will enable a good scientific proposal to be
written to the funding agencies that are identified as potential
sponsors of this new U.S. particle physics effort. The three team
leaders will serve until this R&D study is complete and documented in
a written report. It is intended that the written R&D report should
be completed no later than June 1, 2002.
The specific roles of the three Team Leaders comprise:
Neutrino Team Leader: The Neutrino Team Leader (NTL) will have
responsibility for ensuring that the overall goals of a successful
neutrino physics program have been covered by appropriate R&D studies
in each of the important contributing technical systems and that there
is a coherent overall time evolution plan that is consistent with
preparing a compelling proposal that addresses the goals of neutrino
physics in a timely manner. This role should be understood as
primarily a guidance and oversight role rather than a detailed
management role. The balance and completeness of the study is the
primary responsibility of the NTL.
Accelerator and Beam Systems Team Leader: The Accelerator and Beam
Systems Team Leader (ABSTL) is the person primarily responsible for
planning, staffing, carrying out and reporting on the accelerator and
neutrino beam forming systems that are relevant for the preparation of
a credible proposal to construct and operate a 1MW or greater proton
target and associated useful neutrino beam(s) using the AGS (suitably
upgraded) as the proton driver. To accomplish this mission, the ABSTL
will be helped by the relevant BNL department heads to identify
sufficient and appropriate technical staff to carry out the needed
studies. The ABSTL is also expected to create an appropriate
discussion and reporting forum(s) where the ongoing progress in this
R&D effort can be reported and discussed for the general benefit of
interested parties and participants. The ABSTL role is understood to
be the principal management role for accomplishing the desired R&D
studies in the accelerator and beam forming elements of the overall
R&D program.
Physics Goals and Detector Team Leader: The Physics Goals and Detector
Team Leader (PGDTL) is the person primarily responsible for planning,
staffing, carrying out and reporting on the physics goals and detector
strategies that are relevant for the preparation of a credible
proposal to construct and operate a detector array that can exploit
the 1MW or greater neutrino beams from the AGS proton driver. To
accomplish this mission, the PGDTL will be helped by the BNL Physics
Department head and (hopefully) by neutrino community scientists and
engineers in other institutions to find sufficient and appropriate
scientific staff to carry out the needed studies. The PGDTL is also
expected to create appropriate discussion and reporting forums where
the ongoing progress in this R&D effort can be reported and discussed
for the general benefit of interested parties and participants. The
PGDTL role is understood to be the principal management role for
accomplishing the desired R&D physics and detector studies for the
overall neutrino R&D program.