Report of the Solar and Atmospheric Neutrino Experiments Working Group of the APS Multidivisional Neutrino Study

Abstract

Both the first evidence and the first discoveries of neutrino flavor transformation have come from experiments which use neutrino beams provided by Nature. These discoveries were remarkable not only because they were unexpected--they were discoveries in the purest sense--but that they were made initially by experiments whose primary goals were aimed at other physics. Future solar and atmospheric neutrino experiments will also be sensitive to a broad range of physics and thus to new and unexpected phenomena. We discuss here the physics which can be done by new solar and atmospheric neutrino experiments and what we believe to be the highest priorities for the next generation of detectors.