The Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment: Exploring Fundamental Symmetries of the Universe

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1307.7335
• Publication Date: 2013-01-01
• Authors: LBNE Collaboration; Corey Adams; David H. Adams; Tarek Akiri; T. Alion; Kris Anderson; C. Andreopoulos; Mike Andrews; Ioana Anghel; João Carlos Costa...; M. Antonello; E. Arrieta-Diaz; M. Artuso; Jonathan Asaadi; X. Bai; B. Baibussinov; M. Baird; Baha Balantekin; B. Baller; Brian J. Baptista; D. Barker; Gary John Barker; William A. Barletta; G. Barr; L. Bartoszek; A. Bashyal; Matt Bass; Vincenzo Bellini; P. Benetti; Bruce E. Berger; M. Bergevin; Eileen Berman; H. Berns; Adam Bernstein; Robert Bernstein; B. Bhandari; V. Bhatnagar; B. Bhuyan; J. M. Bian; M. Bishai; A. Blake; Flor Blaszczyk; E. Blaufuss; Bruce Bleakley; E. Blücher; Steve Blusk; V. Bocean; F. Boffelli; J. Boissevain; Timothy Bolton; M. Bonesini; S. B. Boyd; A. Brandt; R. Breedon; C. Bromberg; Ralph Adams Brown; Giullia Brunetti; N. J. Buchanan; B Bugg; J.K. Busenitz; E. Calligarich; L. Camilleri; Giada Carminati; R. Carr; C. Castromonte; F. Cavanna; S. Centro; Alex Chen; H. Chen; Kai Chen; D. Cherdack; Cheng-Yi Chi; Sam Childress; Brajesh Chandra C...; G. Christodoulou; C. D. Christofferson; E. Church; D. Cline; T. E. Coan; A.G. Cocco; J. A. B. Coelho; Stephen Coleman; J. M. Conrad; Mark Convery; R. Corey; L. A. Corwin; Jack Cranshaw; D. Cronin-Hennessy; A. Curioni; H. da Motta; T. Davenne; G. S. Davies; S. Dazeley; K. De; André de Gouvêa; J. K. de Jong; D. M. DeMuth; Chris Densham; M. Diwan; Zelimir Djurcic; R. Dolfini; J. Dolph; G. Drake; Stephen T. Dye; Hongue Dyuang; Daniel Edmunds; S. R. Elliott; M. Elnimr; S. C. Eno; S. Enomoto; C. O. Escobar; J. J. Evans; A. Falcone; Lisa Falk; A. Farbin; C. Farnese; A. Fava; John Felde; S. Fernandes; F. Ferroni; F. Feyzi; L. Fields; A.J. Finch; Mike Fitton; B. T. Fleming; Jack Fowler; W. Fox; Alex Friedland; Stu Fuess; B. K. Fujikawa; H. Gallagher; Raj Gandhi; G. T. Garvey; Victor M. Gehman; Gianluigi De Gero...; D. Gibin; Ronald G. Gill; R. A. Gomes; Maury Goodman; J. T. M. Goon; N. Graf; M. T. Graham; Rik Gran; C. Grant; Nick Grant; Herbert B. Greenlee; Leland Greenler; S. Grullon; E. Guardincerri; V. Guarino; E. Guarnaccia; G.P. Guedes; R. Guénette; A. Guglielmi; M. M. Guzzo; A. Habig; R. Hackenburg; H. K. Hadavand; A. A. Hahn; Martin Haigh; T. J. Haines; Thomas Handler; S. Hans; J. Hartnell; John L. Harton; Robert Hatcher; Athans Hatzikoutelis; S. Hays; E. Hazen; M. Headley; A. Heavey; K. M. Heeger; J. Heise; Robert Hellauer; V Hewes; A. Himmel; M. Hogan; P. C. de Holanda; A. Holin; G. A. Horton-Smith; J. Howell; P. Hurh; Joey Huston; J. Hylen; Richard Imlay; Jonathan Insler; G. Introzzi; Zeynep Isvan; C. M. Jackson; John V. Jacobsen; D. E. Jaffe; Cat James; Chun-Min Jen; M. Johnson; Randy L. Johnson; Robert A. Johnson; Scott E. Johnson; William Johnston; John Johnstone; Ben Jones; H. Jostlein; T. R. Junk; R.W. Kadel; Karl Kaess; G. Karagiorgi; Jarek Kaspar; T. Katori; Boris Kayser; E. Kearns; P. Keener; E. Kemp; S. Kettell; Mike Kirby; J. Klein; G. Koizumi; S. Köpp; L. L. Kormos; William Kropp; V. A. Kudryavtsev; Ashok Kumar; Jason Kumar; Thomas Kutter; F. La Zia; K. Lande; C. Lane; K. Lang; Francesco Lanni; Richard C. Lanza; T. Latorre; J. G. Learned; David M. Lee; Kevin Lee; Qizhong Li; Shaorui Li; Yichen Li; Z. Li; J. Libo; S. Linden; J. Ling; J. M. Link; L. Littenberg; Hu Liu; Qiuguang Liu; Tiankuan Liu; John LoSecco; W. C. Louis; B. Lundberg; Tracy Lundin; J Lundy; A.A. Machado; Cara Nichole Maesano; S. Magill; G. Mahler; D. Malon; Stephen Malys; F. Mammoliti; S. Mandal; Anthony Mann; P. Mantsch; A. Marchionni; William Marciano; C. Mariani; J. Maricic; A. D. Marino; Marvin L. Marshak; J. Marshall; Shiegenobu Matsuno; C. Mauger; K. Mavrokoridis; Nate Mayer; Neil McCauley; E. McCluskey; Kirk T. McDonald; K. S. McFarland; David McKee; Robert McKeown; Robert McTaggart; R. Mehdiyev; Dongming Mei; A. Menegolli; Guang Wei Meng; Yixiong Meng; David Mertins; M. D. Messier; William W. Metcalf; R. Milinčić; William H. Miller; Geoff Mills; Sanjib Mishra; N. Mokhov; C. Montanari; David Montanari; C. D. Moore; J. G. Morfín; Ben Morgan; W. Morse; Zander Moss; Célio A. Moura; S. L. Mufson; David A. Muller; J. Musser; D. Naples; Jim Napolitano; M. Newcomer; R. J. Nichol; T.C. Nicholls; Evan Niner; Barry Norris; J. Nowak; H. M. O’Keeffe; Roberto Cardoso d...; Travis Olson; Brian Page; Sandip Pakvasa; O. Palamara; Jacques Paley; Vittorio Paolone; Vaia Papadimitriou; Seongtae Park; Z. Parsa; K. Partyka; Bob Paulos; Žarko Pavlović; S. J. M. Peeters; Andy Perch; J. D. Perkin; R. Petti; Andre Petukhov; F. Pietropaolo; R. Plunkett; Chris Polly; S. Pordes; M. Potekhin; R. Potenza; Arati Prakash; O. Prokofiev; X. Qian; J. L. Raaf; V. Radeka; Igor Rakhno; Y. Ramachers; R. Rameika; J. Ramsey; A. Rappoldi; G.L. Raselli; P. N. Ratoff; Shreyas Ravindra; B. Rebel; Juergen Reichenba...; D. Reitzner; S. Rescia; Martin Richardson; Kieth Rielage; Kurt Riesselmann; Matt Robinson; Leon Rochester; M. Ronquest; M. Rosen; M. Rossella; Carlo Rubbia; Russ Rucinski; S. Sahijpal; H. Sahoo; P. Sala; Delia Salmiera; Nicholas Samios; M. C. Sánchez; A. Scaramelli; H. Schellman; R. L. Schmitt; D. Schmitz; Jack Schneps; K. Scholberg; E. Segreto; Stanley Seibert; Liz Sexton-Kennedy; Mike Shaevitz; P. Shanahan; Rahul Sharma; T. Shaw; N. Simos; Venktesh Singh; G. Sinnis; W. Sippach; T. Skwarnicki; Michael Smy; Henry Sobel; M. Söderberg; J. Sondericker; W. Sondheim; A. Sousa; N. J. C. Spooner; Michelle Stancari; I. Stancu; Dorota Stefan; Andy Stefanik; J. Stewart; S. Stone; James Strait; M. Strait; S. Striganov; G.W. Sullivan; Yujing Sun; L. Suter; Andrew Svenson; R. Svoboda; B. Szczerbinska; A. M. Szelc; M. Szydagis; S. Söldner‐Rembold; R. L. Talaga; M. C. Tamsett; S. Tariq; R. Tayloe; C. Taylor; David L. Taylor; A. Teymourian; Harry Themann; M. D. Thiesse; Jenny Thomas; L.F. Thompson; M. Thomson; C. Thorn; Matt Thorpe; Xinchun Tian; Doug Tiedt; Walter Toki; N. Tolich; M. Torti; M. Toups; C. Touramanis; M. Tripathi; I. S. Tropin; Y.-T. Tsai; C. E. Tull; Martin Tzanov; J. Urheim; S. M. Usman; M. R. Vagins; G. A. Valdiviesso; R. Van Berg; Richard van de Water; P. van Gemmeren; F. Varanini; Gary Varner; K. Vaziri; G. Velev; S. Ventura; C. Vignoli; B. Viren; D. Wahl; Abby Waldron; C. W. Walter; Hanguo Wang; Wei Wang; K. Warburton; D. Warner; R. Wasserman; Blake Watson; A. Weber; Wenzhao Wei; Douglas P. Wells; Matthew Wetstein; A. S. White; Hywel White; L. Whitehead; D. Whittington; Joshua Willhite; R. J. Wilson; L. A. Winslow; R. Kevin Wood; E. Worcester; M. Worcester; Tian Xin; Kevin Yarritu; J. Ye; M. Yeh; Bo Yu; Jae Yu; Tianlu Yuan; A. Zani; Geralyn P. Zeller; C. Zhang; C. Zhang; E. D. Zimmerman; R. Zwaska
• Keywords: Fermilab; CP violation; Nuclear astrophysics

The preponderance of matter over antimatter in the early Universe, dynamics supernova bursts that produced heavy elements necessary for life and whether protons eventually decay --- these mysteries at forefront particle physics astrophysics are key to understanding evolution our its current state eventual fate. Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) represents an extensively developed plan a world-class experiment dedicated addressing questions. LBNE is conceived around three central components: (1) new, high-intensity neutrino source generated from megawatt-class proton accelerator Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, (2) near detector just downstream source, (3) massive liquid argon time-projection chamber deployed as far deep underground Sanford Underground Research Facility. This facility, located site former Homestake Mine Lead, South Dakota, approximately 1,300 km Fermilab -- distance (baseline) delivers optimal sensitivity charge-parity symmetry violation mass ordering effects. ambitious yet cost-effective design incorporates scalability flexibility can accommodate variety upgrades contributions. With exceptional combination experimental configuration, technical capabilities, potential transformative discoveries, promises be vital facility field worldwide, providing physicists globe with opportunities collaborate twenty thirty year program exciting science. In this document we provide comprehensive overview LBNE's scientific objectives, place landscape technologies it will incorporate capabilities possess.