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Neutrino Facilities Assessment Committee
Call for Community Input
In response to a request by White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Jack Marburger to National Academy of Sciences President Bruce Alberts, a new National Research Council (NRC) committee--the Neutrino Facilities Assessment Committee (NFAC)--has been created to provide an assessment of the potential future science opportunities of proposed future subterranean neutrino detectors. To help inform the work of the committee, we solicit brief (1-2 page) statements from the community that are relevant to the charge to the committee (see below).
The committee membership and the schedule for meetings and production of the report are also given below. Other relevant information can be found on the NFAC Web site.
Please send all communications to nfac@nas.edu by July 24, 2002. Because of the fast schedule for this study, we may not be able to accept statements received after this date. [When drafting these statements, please remember that the NRC provides policy advice to the government, and is not a funding agency like the NSF or DOE, so this committee is not a peer review panel for proposals to fund projects or individual investigator grants.]
Note that this study is independent of, but will receive important community input from, the NSF-sponsored International Workshop on Neutrinos and Subterranean Science being held in Washington, DC on September 19-21, 2002. For more information on the workshop, see the workshop Web site: www.physics.umd.edu/ness02/.
CHARGE:
The Neutrino Facilities Assessment Committee will review and assess the scientific merit of IceCube and other proposed U.S. neutrino detectors—neutrino detectors associated with deep underground research laboratories and large volume detectors, such as IceCube—in the context of current and planned neutrino research capabilities throughout the world. Specifically, the study will address the unique capabilities of each class of new experiments and any possible redundancy between these two types of facilities. The review will also include: (1) the identification of the major science problems that could be addressed with cubic-kilometer-class neutrino observatories; (2) the identification of the major science problems that could be addressed with a deep underground science laboratory neutrino detector; and, (3) an assessment of the scientific importance of these problems and the extent to which they can be addressed with existing, soon to be completed, or planned facilities around the world.
NFAC MEMBERSHIP:
Barry C. Barish, California Institute of Technology, Chair
Daniel S. Akerib, Case Western Reserve University
Steven R. Elliot, University of Washington (LANL effective 7/8/02)
Patrick D. Gallagher, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Robert E. Lanou, Jr., Brown University
Peter Meszaros, Pennsylvania State University
Hidoshi Murayama, University of California, Berkeley
Angela V. Olinto, University of Chicago
Rene A. Ong, University of California, Los Angeles
R. G. Hamish Robertson, University of Washington
Nicholas P. Samios, Brookhaven National Laboratory
John P. Schiffer, Argonne National Laboratory
Frank J. Sciulli, Columbia University
Michael S. Turner, University of Chicago
NRC Staff
Joel Parriott, Study Director
Don Shapero, BPA Director
MEETINGS & SCHEDULE:
June 24-25, 2002
National Research Council
Washington, DC
Begin data gathering.
July 25-26, 2002
O'Hare Hilton
Chicago, IL
Complete data gathering; begin drafting report.
Oct 3-4, 2002
NAS Beckman Study Center
Irvine, CA
Complete draft report.
October, 2002
November, 2002
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