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Suggested Citation:"FRONT MATTER." National Research Council. 1995. Neutrino Astrophysics: A Research Briefing. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9185.
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Neutrino Astrophysics: A Research Briefing

Panel on Neutrino Astrophysics

Board on Physics and Astronomy

Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications

National Research Council

National Academy Press
Washington, D.C.
1995

Suggested Citation:"FRONT MATTER." National Research Council. 1995. Neutrino Astrophysics: A Research Briefing. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9185.
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NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance.

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Suggested Citation:"FRONT MATTER." National Research Council. 1995. Neutrino Astrophysics: A Research Briefing. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9185.
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PANEL ON NEUTRINO ASTROPHYSICS

JOHN N. BAHCALL,

Institute for Advanced Study,

Chair

KENNETH LANDE,

University of Pennsylvania

ROBERT E. LANOU, JR.,

Brown University

JOHN LEARNED,

University of Hawaii

R.G. HAMISH ROBERTSON,

Los Alamos National Laboratory

LINCOLN WOLFENSTEIN,

Carnegie Mellon University

ROBERT L. RIEMER,

Senior Program Officer

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BOARD ON PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

DAVID N. SCHRAMM,

University of Chicago,

Chair

ROBERT C. DYNES,

University of California, San Diego,

Vice-Chair

LLOYD ARMSTRONG, JR.,

University of Southern California

DAVID H. AUSTON,

Rice University

DAVID E. BALDWIN,

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

PRAVEEN CHAUDHARI, IBM T.J.

Watson Research Center

FRANK DRAKE,

University of California, Santa Cruz

HANS FRAUENFELDER,

Los Alamos National Laboratory

JEROME I. FRIEDMAN,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MARGARET GELLER,

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

MARTHA P. HAYNES,

Cornell University

WILLIAM KLEMPERER,

Harvard University

ALBERT NARATH,

Sandia National Laboratories

JOSEPH M. PROUD,

GTE Corporation (retired)

ROBERT C. RICHARDSON,

Cornell University

JOHANNA STACHEL,

State University of New York at Stony Brook

DAVID WILKINSON,

Princeton University

SIDNEY WOLFF,

National Optical Astronomy Observatories

DONALD C. SHAPERO,

Director

ROBERT L. RIEMER,

Associate Director

DANIEL F. MORGAN,

Senior Program Officer

NATASHA A. CASEY,

Program Assistant

STEPHANIE Y. SMITH,

Project Assistant

Suggested Citation:"FRONT MATTER." National Research Council. 1995. Neutrino Astrophysics: A Research Briefing. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9185.
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COMMISSION ON PHYSICAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICS, AND APPLICATIONS

RICHARD N. ZARE,

Stanford University,

Chair

RICHARD S. NICHOLSON,

American Association for the Advancement of Science,

Vice Chair

STEPHEN L. ADLER,

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

SYLVIA T. CEYER,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

SUSAN L. GRAHAM,

University of California, Berkeley

ROBERT J. HERMANN,

United Technologies Corporation

RHONDA J. HUGHES,

Bryn Mawr College

SHIRLEY A. JACKSON,

Rutgers University

KENNETH I. KELLERMAN,

National Radio Astronomy Observatory

HANS MARK,

University of Texas at Austin

THOMAS A. PRINCE,

California Institute of Technology

JEROME SACKS,

National Institute of Statistical Sciences

L.E. SCRIVEN,

University of Minnesota

A. RICHARD SEEBASS III,

University of Colorado

LEON T. SILVER,

California Institute of Technology

CHARLES P. SLICHTER,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ALVIN W. TRIVELPIECE,

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

SHMUEL WINOGRAD,

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

CHARLES A. ZRAKET,

MITRE Corporation (retired)

NORMAN METZGER,

Executive Director

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Preface

The Board on Physics and Astronomy (BPA) is reassessing the areas of physics that were examined by the Physics Survey Committee in their report, Physics Through the 1990s (National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1986). One of the eight volumes of the report, Gravitation, Cosmology, and Cosmic-Ray Physics, was the subject of a National Research Council program initiation meeting that I chaired in 1992. At that meeting, the need for reassessments in the areas of cosmology, neutrino astrophysics, and cosmic-ray physics was identified.

The Panel on Neutrino Astrophysics, along with the Committee on Cosmic-Ray Physics and the Panel on Cosmology, is part of this updating effort. Because of the connection to astrophysics and astronomy, the BPA has coordinated with the Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics in the conduct of this study. The panel is chaired by John Bahcall, who also chaired the Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee, whose report The Decade of Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics (National Academy Press, 1991) issued priorities for that field.

The research briefing format is intended to provide advice to program managers and policy makers on the opportunities for scientific advances in a frontier field. As one can see, the field of neutrino astrophysics offers several promising avenues for fundamental discoveries.

David Schramm

Chair

Board on Physics and Astronomy

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