This is the last Bulletin before you arrive to Nufact05
where you will receive Bulletin III. Registration is still informally open
until hotels will be helping us to accommodate the latecomers.
NuFact05 is the seventh annual Neutrino Factory workshop. This series of
annual meetings is devoted to discussing the full physics potential
of Neutrino Factories, Superbeams and Betabeams as well as the design
and feasibility of the accelerator complex and the various detectors.
The NuFact05 workshop starts on the morning of Tuesday June 21th
and ends at lunch time on Sunday June 26, 2005. In conjunction with
this workshop there will also be a summer school for students and
other young scientist, the 4th International Summer School on
Neutrino Factories and Superbeams, which will take place in Capri,
from the morning of Sunday June 12 to lunch time Monday Jun 20, 2005. Tranfer
of lectures and students to Frascati will take place on that Monday
afternoon. For more information on the School: http://www.nufact05school.na.infn.it
The general scientific
background of NuFact consists of - the recent major discoveries that have proven that different
flavors of neutrinos do oscillate into one another, providing the first
clues of new physics beyond the standard model. They call for a complete
determination of the neutrino mass splittings, of the neutrino mass
hierarchy and of the neutrino mixing matrix (Pontecorvo-Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata
matrix). Its yet-unknown third neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$
will be precisely measured first, the ultimate goal being the measurement
of its the CP violating phase d.
- recent developments of accelerator
technology that are making possible to conceive of superior neutrino
beams, based on the conventional concept of a pion decay tunnel, as well
as on the novel concept of a storage ring for longer lived high energy
neutrino parents, for which the options of muons and radioactive ions
are being investigated. All options rely on emerging technologies
promising high-power proton accelerator beams of multi MegaWatt power
and share the technical challenge of handling and exploiting efficiently
this unprecedented high power. The general purpose of the Workshops is to bring together
yearly the communities that in the different regions of the world work
towards the long term goal of constructing
new superior accelerator-based neutrino facilities.
This year, these communities have prepared a proposal for a one year International
Scoping Study, that will define the baselines options to be brought to a
complete Design Study. We plan to launch it at Nufact05 and present its results
at NuFact06. The last morning of the NuFact05 Workshop, Sun June 26, will
be entirely devoted to this.
Scientific Program
The workshop consists of plenary talks and parallel working group sessions.
The program of the plenary talks is being made available on the
web at http://www.lnf.infn.it/conference/nufact05/
.
Four working group WG sessions are planned at NuFACT05.
Three convenors are assembling the scientific program of each working group
(WG) . To contribute to any of the working group sessions, please contact
one of conveners listed on the WG Web Page.
Workshop Site
The workshop will be held in the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati,
Italy, (www.lnf.infn.it).
Registration and Accommodation
All details of how to register for NuFact05, reserve accommodation and reach
the Workshop Site have been long posted on the NuFact05 web-site (http://www.lnf.infn.it/conference/nufact05/).
A transportation bus will be available for participants to the the 4th International NuFact Summer School to
reach the Workshop site in the afternoon of Monday June 20.
We will board it at the harbour in Napoli and will drive to Frascati. Correspondence
A single PC in each conference room will be used for slideshows. The PC will
be equipped with WINDOWS operating system. Accepted file formats for presentations
are Portable Document Format (pdf) or Microsoft Powerpoint (ppt). Pdf files
are preferred
Speakers are invited to upload their presentation using the apposite web
page before the start of the conference.The upload will be possible also
during the conference, but speakers are requested to bring their presentation
on a USB memory or on a CD ROM.
In addition, each conference room will be equipped with a projector for handmade
slides.
Support Program
Some participants have been selected for financial suppor. Some do not know
yet and will be notified in the coming days.