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INTENSE: particle physics experiments at the high intensity frontier, from new physics to spin-offs. A cooperative Europe - United States - Japan effort INTENSE promotes the collaboration among European, US and Japanese researchers involved in the most important particle physics research projects at the high intensity frontier. The observation of neutrino oscillations established a picture consistent with the mixing of three neutrino flavors with three mass eigenstates and small mass differences. Various key parameters of this oscillation measurements provide, if measured with high precision, new physics observables. Experimental anomalies point to the presence of sterile neutrino states participating in the mixing and not coupling to fermions. Lepton mixings and massive neutrinos offer a gateway to deviations from the Standard Model in the lepton sector including Charged Lepton Flavor Violation (CLFV). A new generation of modern and large neutrino detectors open new frontiers in the search for proton decay and understanding of the dynamics of super novae explosions. INTENSE also promotes multidisciplinary collaboration through “muography” which uses cosmic-ray muons to image the interior of large targets, including volcanoes, glaciers and archaeological sites. |
Coordinator: University of Pisa, Italy Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project:2.1 M€ EU funding: 2.1 M€ EU funding for CERN: 83 k€ 1 January 2019 - 31 December 2022 |