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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.

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Cc: P. Paul

Memo