LBNE Reconfiguration

Jim Strait, LBNE Project DirectorFermilab Community Advisory Board

August 23, 2012

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Brinkman’s charge

(March 19, 2012)

Steering Committee +

working groups formed

(April 3, 2012)

Workshop(April 25-26, 2012)

Steering Committee Kickoff meeting(April 9, 2012)

Interim Report(June 5, 2012)

HEPAP meeting

(August 27-28, 2012)

Final Report(August 6, 2012)

Crash Program to Reconfigure LBNE

Community input

Steering Committee

Steering Committee face-to-face meeting

(April 26, 2012)

Steering Committee face-to-face meeting

(May 22-23, 2012)

DPF news letter to solicit community feedback on

the interim report(July 3, 2012)

Brinkman’s letter in response to the interim report

(June 29, 2012)

DPF announcement for workshop and community input

to SC(April 15, 2012)

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community input

12 steering committee teleconference meetingsnumerous working group meetings

Input to the European Strategy

Group(July 30, 2012)

Workshop (April 25-26, 2012)

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More than 200 participants~5 hours devoted to community voice

Open Process

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http://www.fnal.gov/directorate/lbne_reconfiguration

All documentation on this web site

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J.Strait, FRA Visiting Committee Meeting, April 12-13, 2012

Sample with bullet points

• First Bullet• Second Bullet

– More– Yet more– Still more

– Less important» Trivial

New Neutrino Beam at Fermilab…

Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment

Directed towards a distant detector

Precision Near Detector on the Fermilab site

34 kton Liquid Argon TPC Far Detectorat a depth of 4850 feet (4300 mwe)

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Original Design

J.Strait, FRA Visiting Committee Meeting, April 12-13, 2012

Sample with bullet points

• First Bullet• Second Bullet

– More– Yet more– Still more

– Less important» Trivial

New Neutrino Beam at Fermilab…

Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment

Directed towards a distant detector

Precision Near Detector on the Fermilab site

34 kton Liquid Argon TPC Far Detectorat a depth of 4850 feet (4300 mwe)

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10 kton Liquid Argon TPC Far Detectorjust below the surface

First phase of the reconfigured program

We plan to eventually to build a Near Detector at Fermilab and an underground detector in South Dakota, either in a future phase or by obtaining resources from beyond the DOE.

Local Impact of Reconfiguration

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Smaller HillX

No On-Site Detector

LBNE Neutrino Beamline

Hill height: was 70 feetnow 58 feet

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Looking East Northeast from West Side of Kirk Road

Beamline hill now 12’ lower than shown here.

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Looking East Northeast from West Side of Kirk Road

EAST SIDE OF KIRK ROAD LOOKING NORTH EAST

Beamline hill now 12’ lower than shown here.

EAST SIDE OF KIRK ROAD LOOKING NORTH EAST

LBNE Project Life Cycle & Approvals

Spring 2011 2013 2014-15 2020+ 2012

REVISEDMay 2011 2014 2015-16 2021+

Current LBNE Schedule, Aug 2012 Dec 2012 2016 2016-17 2023

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