U.S.-Taiwan Cooperative Research: A Pilot Experiment on Neutrino Oscillation

小行星9618452 这是由乔治C.C.博士提议的为期12个月的奖励。Chang和Chung Yun Chang，马里兰州大学，与P.K.博士合作。邓和李世昌，中央研究院在台湾，和其他十六名研究人员从台湾国立清华大学，台湾大学，南京大学（中国），高能物理研究所的中国科学院。 乔治博士C.C.张和钟润章申请旅费和通讯费，以利用台湾核电厂产生的反中微子粒子进行中微子振荡的先导实验。 中微子是粒子物理和天体物理中的基本粒子之一。中微子振荡可以为物理学中的许多基本问题提供信息，例如中微子是否具有有限质量或不同中微子味跃迁的质量不同。 这项研究解决了物理学中一个非常重要的基本问题。 台湾国科会理事会将提供第一年的二十万美元，如果初步实验证明有希望，未来四年每年一百万美元。 这是一个具有潜在重大科学回报的探索性项目。 实验室和研究费用的大部分将由台湾国家科学理事会和台湾电力公司提供。 如果成功的话，实验结果可能会回答中微子的基本性质和宇宙学难题，如太阳中微子的赤字和暗物质的性质。 该项目由台湾国家科学理事会和国家科学基金会共同支持。 ***

9618452 Chang This is a 12 month award proposed by Drs. George C.C. Chang and Chung Yun Chang, the University of Maryland, collaborating with Drs. P.K. Deng and Shih-Chang Lee, Academia Sinica in Taiwan, and sixteen other researchers from the Taiwan National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan University, Nanjing University (China), Institute of High Energy Physics of Chinese Academy of Science. Drs.George C.C. Chang and Chung Yun Chang request funds for travel and communication to carry out the pilot experiment on neutrino oscillation using anti-neutrino particles generated by the Taiwan nuclear power plants. neutrino is one of the elementary particles in particle and astro-physics. Neutrino oscillation may provide the information for many fundamental questions in physics, such as whether neutrinos have finite masses or different masses for different neutrino flavor transitions. This study addresses a very important fundamental question in physics. The Taiwan National Science Council will provide $200,000 for the first year of this experiment and one million dollars per year for next four years if the initial experiment proves to be promising. It is an exploratory project with potential major scientific payoff. The majority of the laboratory and research cost will be provided by the Taiwan National Science Council and the Taiwan Power Company. If successful, experimental results may lead to answers to questions on fundamental properties of neutrinos and to cosmological puzzles such as the deficit of solar neutrinos and the properties of dark matter. The project is jointly supported by the Taiwan National Science Council and the NSF. ***