Bonnie Fleming, Yale University
March 11, 2014
2012 was a banner year for particle physics with both the Higgs discovery and the measurement of θ13, the last of the unknown mixing angles in the PMNS matrix. With a large value of θ13, the neutrino community is poised to measure long baseline neutrino oscillations and look for CP violation in the neutrino sector. At short baselines, puzzles remain with hints from a number of experiments worldwide suggesting new physics. Long and short baseline accelerator neutrino experiments alike are developing precision Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber detectors to do these ve appearance searches. The US neutrino program, envisioned and in progress, to develop this technology and address these questions, will be described.
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