Grant: Subatomic Physics Envelope - Research Tools and Instruments

In this proposal, we request a grant to provide common fund contribution of the T2K Canadian group in FY2008. The common fund in FY2008 before beam commissioning will be used for common equipment costs, in particular installation of the spectrometer magnet for the near detector. The common fund contribution for FY2007 was awarded in April 2007. T2K is a long-baseline neutrino experiment that will send a neutrino beam from J-PARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex), currently under construction in Tokai, to the Super-Kamiokande water Cerenkov detector located 295km away in Kamioka. The goal of the project is to determine the neutrino mixing angle theta-13 and to search for a possible non-zero CP-violating phase in the neutrino mixing matrix. A three year construction and operation grant for the Canadian T2K project was funded in April 2006. The Canadian group has taken responsibility for major parts of the experiment, the time projection chambers (TPC) and fine grain detectors (FGD) for the off-axis near detector and the primary proton beam monitor in front of the production target. The neutrino beamline commissioning is scheduled for April 2009. The common fund contribution is US$5000 per PhD author per year. There are 27 PhD authors in the Canadian group.