The Intermediate Neutrino Program

TL;DR

The paper summarizes the discussions and conclusions from the 2015 WINP workshop, exploring opportunities and plans for neutrino physics research in the US over the next five to ten years.

Contribution

It provides an overview of proposed experiments, upgrades, R&D, and theoretical developments in the intermediate-term neutrino physics program.

Findings

Identification of promising neutrino research opportunities

Discussion of US contributions to large-scale experiments

Plans for upgrades and new experiments in neutrino physics

Abstract

The US neutrino community gathered at the Workshop on the Intermediate Neutrino Program (WINP) at Brookhaven National Laboratory February 4-6, 2015 to explore opportunities in neutrino physics over the next five to ten years. Scientists from particle, astroparticle and nuclear physics participated in the workshop. The workshop examined promising opportunities for neutrino physics in the intermediate term, including possible new small to mid-scale experiments, US contributions to large experiments, upgrades to existing experiments, R&D plans and theory. The workshop was organized into two sets of parallel working group sessions, divided by physics topics and technology. Physics working groups covered topics on Sterile Neutrinos, Neutrino Mixing, Neutrino Interactions, Neutrino Properties and Astrophysical Neutrinos. Technology sessions were organized into Theory, Short-Baseline Accelerator Neutrinos, Reactor Neutrinos, Detector R&D and Source, Cyclotron and Meson Decay at Rest sessions.This report summarizes discussion and conclusions from the workshop.