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TASK C High Energy Particle Astrophysics MINOS/MIPP, SuperKamiokande, SNAP Current Members Faculty Mark Messier, Stuart Mufson, James Musser Scientists Charles Bower Graduate Students Nicolas Graf, Nicholas Mostek, Brian Rebel Technical Staff Mark Gebhard, Brice Adams, Richard Lebeau MINOS/MIPP MINOS (Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search) is a Fermilab experiment designed to study neutrino oscillations in the ?m2 region in which the SuperK and MACRO experiments have previously reported strong evidence for neutrino mixing. MINOS is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, with a near detector site at Fermilab and far site in the Soudan Laboratory, 735 km from Fermilab. MINOS will be sensitive to neutrino oscillations resulting from mass-squared differences greater than 0.001 eV2. The expected acceptance regions for various oscillation parameters consistent with the SuperK result are shown in Figure 1. MINOS will also provide a determination of the level of participation of each neutrino flavor (for full three flavor mixing) at the level of roughly 2%. In addition to providing the final ‘nail in the coffin’ to neutrino mixing in this ?m2 region, MINOS will allow a measurement (or limit) on the value for the critical U2e3 matrix element which extends the best presently available limits by roughly a factor of 3 to 5, as shown in Figure 2. Details of the MINOS experiment can be found on the web at /ndk/hypertext/numi.html. An important component in Task C’s MINOS-related effort is the central role being played by Task C group member Mark Messier on the MIPP experiment. MIPP will measure hadron-nucleus interactions to directly address uncertainties in the absolute prediction of the MINOS near and far detector energy spectra resulting from uncertainties in hadronic production in the NUMI target. The data from MIPP will also have applications in many fields of physics including neutrino beams, atmospheric neutrinos, nucle