THE PALO-VERDE NEUTRINO OSCILLATION EXPERIMENT

We are building a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment utiliz ing <(nu)over bar>(e) from the Pale Verde Nuclear Generating Station n ear Phoenix, Arizona. Once completed this experiment should reach sens itivities of Delta m(2) similar or equal to 1.5 x 10(-3) eV(2) and sin (2) 2 theta similar or equal to 0.1 exploring mass differences about o ne order of magnitude smaller that the current limits. Our range of se nsitivity will allow us to conclusively ascertain whether the atmosphe ric neutrino anomaly is caused by the nu(e) - nu(x) oscillations. We r eport on the status of the construction describing the main experiment al challenges of the project.