JENNIFER2 — Japan and Europe Network for Neutrino and Intensity Frontier Experimental Research 2

Results in brief

Japan and Europe Network for Neutrino and Intensity Frontier Experimental Research 2

The JENNIFER2 project aims to produce synergy and knowledge sharing among experimental particle physics groups searching for signal of new physics in neutrino and flavour physics, exploiting the discovery potentialities of experimental facilities located in Japan. The Standard Model of elementary particles has been very successful in explaining a wide variety of existing experimental data, but it does not answer several fundamental questions, such as the origin of the dark matter (which we know from the Cosmological Model it is responsible for 90% of the universe mass), the mater-antimatter asymmetry (which can be explained only with a sizeable violation of the so called CP symmetry) and the observed pattern of fermions mass spectrum. For all these reasons physicists are looking for the signals of new particles and interactions which can either be directly produced at the energy frontier of the available particle acceleration technology, either appear as tiny deviations from SM expectations in rare processes at lower energy. JENNIFER2 project is dedicated to this second approach, with two different techniques: the so called “intensity frontier”, where very intense particle accelerators produce an enormous number of events which are recorded and analysed with precision detectors, and the neutrino physics, where large volume underground detectors reconstruct the rare interactions of neutrinos with matter, both accelerator produced and cosmic ones. The first technique is represented by the Belle II experiment working at the SuperKEKB accelerator, while the second one is the T2K experiment and its future development in the HyperK project. JENNIFER2 includes both detector and technology developments for the upgrade and improvement of the experiments in the above stated fields, both the challenging data analyses that will produce stringent limits on new phenomena or evidences for them. Moreover JENNIFER2 puts together the scientist communities working at the intensity frontier and at the neutrino underground experiments, and aims to produce important synergies in several technologic issues. Finally, JENNIFER2 includes a number of outreach activities towards different societal targets, to promote both the general knowledge of the fundamental physics and its implications, and the promotion of the scientific collaboration between Europe and Japan.

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Project objective

JENNIFER2 is the evolution and development of the research and communication activities currently being carried on by the JENNIFER MSCA-RISE project, which will be concluded at the end of march 2019. The new challenges of fundamental physics require to use different complementary approaches and to design experiments able to test different “messengers” of the new physics world. The JENNIFER2 project is actually implementing this requirement, putting together research programs at experimental facilities located in Japan including accelerator produced neutrinos (T2K and HyperK collaborations), cosmic neutrinos detection (HyperK collaboration) and a high luminosity electron-positron collider (Belle II experiment at SUPERKEKB) where very rare processes can be observed. The collaboration of European scientists with the Japanese research community is fostered in all experimental issues, while specific knowledge sharing among different experiments is planned in the field of photon detection, computing, real time and remote controls, data analysis algorithms and theory calculations, aiming to build up real synergies on key technologies and research methodologies, as well as on dissemination and outreach. Such cross-fertilization between different experimental approaches is the crucial step towards an effective multi-messenger approach.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI FISICA NUCLEARE · FrascatiCoordinatorItaly
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · ParisFrance
COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES · ParisFrance
COSTRUZIONI APPARECCHIATURE ELETTRONICHE NUCLEARI CAEN SPA · ViareggioItaly
DEUTSCHES ELEKTRONEN-SYNCHROTRON DESY · HamburgGermany
FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER · TrentoItaly
INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN · LjubljanaSlovenia
INSTITUTO DE FISICA DE ALTAS ENERGIAS · Cerdanyola Del VallesSpain
INTER-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CORPORATION, HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANISATION · TsukubaJapan
KING'S COLLEGE LONDON · LondonUnited Kingdom
MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY · AnkaraTürkiye
NARODOWE CENTRUM BADAN JADROWYCH · OtwockPoland
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO · TOKYOJapan
OESTERREICHISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN · WienAustria
QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON · LONDONUnited Kingdom
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY · Tel AvivIsrael
THE HENRYK NIEWODNICZANSKI INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS, POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES · KRAKOWPoland
UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH AND INNOVATION · SWINDONUnited Kingdom
UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE · GeneveSwitzerland
UNIVERZITA KARLOVA · Praha 1Czechia

JENNIFER2 · Japan and Europe Network for Neutrino and Intensity Frontier Experimental Research 2

Results in brief

Japan and Europe Network for Neutrino and Intensity Frontier Experimental Research 2

Project objective

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