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For the future, one wants to establish neutrino oscillations (or constrain small
admixtures of other effects in hybrid scenarios), establish which mixing scenarios
are occurring, and determine the neutrino properties. In particular:
- It is very imporant to actually observe a neutrino oscillation (or at least a dip)
consistent with the characteristic
dependence.
The dedicated MONOLITH experiment [41], or a future
factory should be able
to do this cleanly. Long baseline experiments (K2K [42],
MINOS [43], ICARUS [44,45]) may also
observe oscillation patterns, as may the full (two detector) BOONE [33].
- One wants to determine the number of neutrinos and their nature, e.g., are there
sterile neutrinos, and are the active neutrinos Dirac or Majorana?
Mini-BOONE [33] should be able to confirm or eliminate the LSND results,
clarifying the need for sterile neutrinos.
may help resolve the Dirac/Majorana issue, although only for
some mass/mixing patterns.
- The neutrino mass and mixing spectrum is important for its theoretical implications, for
choosing the solar neutrino solution, and for possible astrophysical implications. It will be
difficult to observe the absolute scale of the spectrum, but some improvement may still be
possible from
and from kinematic (laboratory [46] and,
especially, supernova [47]) observations.
- It may be possible to confirm
that the atmospheric neutrino effects are mainly due to
by
appearance in future long baseline experiments (or possibly in atmospheric
observations), but it will be harder to constrain small admixtures of
.
- Leptonic CP violation is of theoretical interest. This may be observable (depending
on the parameters) at a neutrino factory or possibly a superbeam.
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Paul Langacker
2001-09-27