Status of the T2K 280m Near Detector
  The Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) long-baseline neutrino-oscillation experiment is being prepared for start of operations in Fall 2009. The purpose of T2K is to measure the oscillation parameters from an intense muon neutrino beam. In order to make precision measurements of muon neutrino disappearence a new detector complex (ND280) will be used to identify the profile and composition of the neutrino beam near its production site. ND280 will also be used to study important background processes in the measurement of an electron neutrino appearance signal at Super-K. We will describe the physics goals and technology choices of ND280. 
Thomas Lindner (for the T2K-ND280 Group)