A university spokesman added that the long-term future of Jodrell Bank will be secured by a further commitment by the STFC to invest in the development of the next generation facility in radio astronomy, the Square Kilometre Array.
Nowadays, it is also the scale exploited in long-baseline experiments and will likely play a leading role in the next generation facilities designed to precisely measure the neutrino mixing matrix and study CP violation in the leptonic sector.
It is designed as a next generation space facility focused on indirect dark matter search, precise cosmic ray spectrum and composition measurements up to the knee energy, and high energy gamma-ray monitoring and survey.
The European roadmap calls for the construction of two next generation facilities: FAIR making use of projectile fragmentation and EURISOL based on the ISOL technique.
In addition, it will provide unprecedented capability to monitor the X-ray variable sky, thus detecting, localizing, and identifying the electromagnetic counterparts to sources of gravitational radiation, which may be routinely detected in the late '20s/early '30s by next generation facilities like aLIGO/ aVirgo, eLISA, KAGRA, and Einstein Telescope.
As a next generation experiment, we plan a neutrino oscillation experiment with baseline length of 295 km using 50 GeV proton synchrotron (PS) in Japan Hadron Facility, which has been approved and is being constructed, and Super-Kamiokande.
The funding agencies plan a suite of next-generation facilities to examine the outstanding questions in astronomy across the electromagnetic spectrum, with most becoming operational in the 2020 timeframe: the Square Kilometre Array in the radio.
The European Spallation Source (ESS), a next-generation neutron-science facility, and MAX IV, a new synchrotron, will receive a total of $95.8 million and $15.3 million respectively over the next 4 years.
