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Joint DoE NSF committee recommends switch from colliders to neutrino

Nature: A road-map for high energy physics called P5 advises the department of energy and national science foundation to abandon plans to host the International Linear Collider (ILC) and concentrate on starting construction of NOνA, a programme that would send a neutrino beam from
Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, to detectors in an underground mine in Minnesota. The report endorses also building a more powerful neutrino beam that would travel farther, from Fermilab to the planned Deep Underground Science and Engineering Lab (DUSEL) in the Homestake Mine of South Dakota.

The P5 report maps out four different budget scenarios to pay for the experiments.

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