The deliverables

The main outcome of the project will be a better understanding of neutrino physics. In particular, specific topics of research will be initiated and carried out by joint groups of Indian and UK scientists in the four areas identified above. The solution of the present problems in neutrino physics is of crucial importance for our understanding of the Universe and the basic laws which govern it.

The results obtained will be made available to the community of particle physics first via web and then with articles published in renowned scientific journals, such as Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, Physics Letters B, Nuclear Physics B, JHEP, JCAP, as appropriate. The scientists will also present their findings in international conferences, workshops and meetings with talks, posters, conference proceedings.

According to our contract, each scientific paper should contain the following acknowledgement

15. This document is an output from the UKIERI (UK India Education and Research Initiative) project funded by the British Council, the UK Department for Education and Skills (DfES), Office of Science and Innovation, the FCO , Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, GSK, BP, Shell and BAE for the benefit of the India Higher Education Sector and the UK Higher Education Sector. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the funding bodies.

From the experimental point of view, the simultaneous study of the INO and neutrino factory proposals, at a time when their specifications are being defined and properties studied, will offer the possibility to optimize them and to fully exploit their synergy in the precise measurement of the neutrino oscillation parameters, in the observation of matter effects and in the discovery of the matter-antimatter asymmetry (CP-violation).

We will involve somewhere between 8 to 12 students during the duration of the project who will benefit from long term visits to an Institution in the other country, with possibly the attendance of part of PhD courses there available. A larger number, between 15 and 20, will have the possibility of shorter visits in foreign Institutions as well as of participating to international conferences and workshops. They will also attend the lectures given during the two workshops organized within the project.

On the long term the project will be instrumental in creating fruitful and stable links between the scientific communities in neutrino and particle physics from two countries as well as enriching the research environment of both nations.