Francois Vannucci
(Lab. Phys. Nucl. Hautes Energies (LPNHE)-Universites de Paris VI)
11/05/2009, 14:00
SPS Rare K-decays and CNGS
The search for 'sterile' neutrinos has been done in the past looking for decays of heavy states in a neutrino beam (PS191 experiment)
With much higher luminosities available at future machines, the search could be repeated both at the PS (to improve the present limits for masses up to the K mass) and at the SPS (where masses up to the B can be investigated)
The recent nuMSM model which tries...
Augusto Ceccucci
(CERN)
11/05/2009, 14:10
SPS Rare K-decays and CNGS
There are currently three main directions in elementary particle physics. On the one hand experiments at the highest possible energies are searching for the origin of electroweak breaking and direct evidence of New Physics (NP); a second line of attack aims to study the properties of neutrinos, both of accelerator and cosmic origin, and of other astro-particle messengers. The third strategy is...
Carlo Rubbia
(CERN & INFN)
11/05/2009, 14:25
SPS Rare K-decays and CNGS
The development of the Liquid Argon Imaging TPC has been actively pursued by the ICARUS Collaboration during the last two decades. The technology has reached its fully mature level and a first underground experiment with some 600 tons of sensitive mass, the ICARUS T600 detector is now in its final phase of installation underground at the LNGS. First of its kind, it will become fully...
Alberto Guglielmi
(Istituto Nazionale de Fisica Nucleare (INFN))
11/05/2009, 14:40
SPS Rare K-decays and CNGS
The present ICARUS with its 600 tons now in the CNGS beam, represents the real core of the experimental LAr neutrino physics and a necessary prerequisite for reaching many kton masses either at CERN (to LNGS), at Fermilab, or perhaps elsewhere. It is the result of about two decades of unique R&D developments in which the ICARUS team has had a dominant role.
Our next step, called MODULAr has...
Andre Rubbia
(ETH Zurich)
11/05/2009, 14:50
SPS Rare K-decays and CNGS
The current focus of the CERN program is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), however, CERN is engaged in long baseline neutrino physics with the CNGS project and supports T2K as recognized CERN RE13, and for good reasons: a number of observed phenomena in high-energy physics and cosmology lack their resolution within the Standard Model of particle physics; these puzzles include the origin of...
