Overview of Accelerator Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments

Abstract

There is renewed interest in performing a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment using accelerator neutrinos because of a discrepancy between the measured and the predicted values of the ratio of electron to muon neutrinos produced in the upper atmosphere by cosmic rays.The approximate range in oscillation parameter space indicated by the Kamiokande atmospheric neutrino results and confirmed by IMB is bounded by $ 10^{-3}~ eV^2 < \dmsq < 10^{-1}~ eV^2 $ and $\s2t > 0.4~$. To reach such small $\dmsq$, using an accelerator as the source of neutrinos where the energy is typically 1 GeV or greater, requires baselines in the range of 10~km to 1000~km. In this talk I will give an overview of the most likely possibilities for such a long baseline accelerator neutrino oscillation experiment.