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... The principal charge to the committee was to independently assess the physics questions that could be addressed with the proposed program, how such a program would impact the stewardship of the research communities involved, and whether there was a need to develop such a program in the United States, given similar science programs elsewhere. The committee also was charged with assessing the potential impact of this facility on research in nonphysics fields and on broader interests such as education and public outreach.
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... Each of the three experiments is the central component of an ongoing scientific program and could result in a breakthrough discovery upon which particle physics, nuclear physics, and astro physics will build. The committee concludes that exceptional opportunities will result from proceeding with plans to build in the United States a world-leading long-baseline neutrino experiment and developing within the United States both one direct dark matter detection experiment on the ton to multiton scale and one neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment on the ton scale for installation at a U.S.
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... The committee concludes that the ability to study these rare events adds great value to the neutrino oscillation experiment but should not be a significant consideration in choosing the neutrino detector technology or siting. The committee found, moreover, that a fourth physics experiment, a nuclear astrophysics study to measure low-energy nuclear cross sections relevant to astrophysical processes, would be scientifically important.
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... The committee concludes that such a facility would be of long term benefit to a substantial portion of the physics community and other scientific communities and that it would guarantee the United States a leadership role in the expanding global field of underground science generally and on the "intensity frontier" of the particle physics community in particular.


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