Conveners
Detector for Neutrinos
- Mitchell Soderberg (Syracuse University)
- Antonio Ereditato (Laboratorium für Hochenergie Physik (LHEP) - University of Bern)
Detector for Neutrinos
- Mitchell Soderberg (Syracuse University)
- Antonio Ereditato (Laboratorium für Hochenergie Physik (LHEP) - University of Bern)
Detector for Neutrinos
- Antonio Ereditato (Laboratorium für Hochenergie Physik (LHEP) - University of Bern)
- Mitchell Soderberg (Syracuse University)
Detector for Neutrinos
- Antonio Ereditato (Laboratorium für Hochenergie Physik (LHEP) - University of Bern)
- Mitchell Soderberg (Syracuse University)
Detector for Neutrinos
- Mitchell Soderberg (Syracuse University)
- Antonio Ereditato (Laboratorium für Hochenergie Physik (LHEP) - University of Bern)
Detector for Neutrinos
- Mitchell Soderberg (Syracuse University)
- Antonio Ereditato (Laboratorium für Hochenergie Physik (LHEP) - University of Bern)
Detector for Neutrinos
- Mitchell Soderberg (Syracuse University)
- Antonio Ereditato (Laboratorium für Hochenergie Physik (LHEP) - University of Bern)
Detector for Neutrinos
- Antonio Ereditato (Laboratorium für Hochenergie Physik (LHEP) - University of Bern)
- Mitchell Soderberg (Syracuse University)
Prof.
Norm Buchanan
(Colorado State University)
09/06/2011, 14:00
Experimental Detector Systems
Oral Presentation
The T2K (Tokai-to-Kamioka) experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment located in Japan that utilizes an intense off-axis beam of muon neutrinos incident on the Super-Kamiokande detector. A near detector located 280 m from the beam origin characterizes the beam energy and composition before the neutrinos travel the 295 km to Super-Kamiokande. One of the subdetectors...
Mathew Muether
(Fermilab)
09/06/2011, 14:20
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
NOνA, the NuMI Off-Axis ν<Subscript>e</Subscript> Appearance experiment will study ν<Subscript>μ</Subscript>→ν<Subscript>e</Subscript> oscillations, characterized by the mixing angle Θ<Subscript>13</Subscript>. Provided Θ<Subscript>13</Subscript> is large enough, NOνA will ultimately determine the ordering of the neutrino masses and measure CP violation in neutrino oscillations. A...
Mr
Fumitaka Sato
(Tokyo Metropolitan University)
09/06/2011, 14:40
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
Double Chooz experiment is a reactor neutrino experiment to measure the undetected mixing angle theta_13 , which is one of the most demanded parameters in neutrino physics. We will place two identical detectors to accomplish the systematic-free measurement of the neutrino disappearance.
Each detector has 468 PMTs which will detect scintillation light
generated by neutrino or background...
Dr
Henry Band
(University of Wisconsin)
09/06/2011, 15:00
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
The Daya Bay antineutrino detectors are formed from large, 3 and 4 meter, cylindrical acrylic vessels surrounded by phototubes and an outer stainless steel containment vessel. When filled with liquids the inner detector components are completely inaccessible. The shipping and handling of these fragile, large acrylic vessels has been challenging, as has the establishment of common quality...
Dr
Chiara Vignoli
(INFN-LNGS), Dr
Nicola Canci
(INFN-LNGS)
09/06/2011, 16:00
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
ICARUS (Imaging Cosmic And Rare Underground Signals) is the the largest Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr-TPC) in the world (containing ~600 tons of LAr) addressed to the study of "rare events" and, among these, neutrino interactions.
Installed in the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (INFN-LNGS, Italy), ICARUS started working gradually since May 27th of the last year, collecting data...
Marcello Messina
(University of Bern)
09/06/2011, 16:20
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
A comprehensive R&D program on LAr Time Projection Chambers (LAr TPC) is presently being carried on at the University of Bern. Many aspects of the technology are under investigation: HV, purity, calibration, readout, etc.
Furthermore, multi-photon interaction of UV-laser beams with LAr has been successfully addressed bringing to new results.
Possible applications of the LAr TPC technology...
stephen pordes
(Fermilab)
09/06/2011, 16:40
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
Liquid argon is an attractive target medium for both dark matter and neutrino detectors. The work done at Fermilab to understand and address the issues of producing and maintaining Argon with the purity needed for long electron drift-lifetime will be described.
W. Jaskierny, C. Kendziora, S.Pordes, R.L. Schmitt, E. Skup, T. Tope:
Fermilab
Dr
Bo Yu
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
09/06/2011, 17:00
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
Liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) is a unique technology well suited for large scale detectors of neutrinos and other rare processes. Its combination of millimeter scale 3D precision particle tracking and calorimetry with good dE/dx resolution provide excellent efficiency of particle identification and background rejection.
MicroBooNE is a LArTPC about to enter its final...
Mr
Russell Rucinski
(Fermilab)
09/06/2011, 17:20
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
Membrane cryostat technology is commonly used for Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) ships and storage vessels. It it a robust, economical design with a proven service record. The Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment is proposing to use a membrane cryostat design for two 20 kton liquid argon (LAr) time projection chamber (TPC) neutrino detectors. The membrane technology and prototyping program will...
Dr
Hucheng Chen
(Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)-Unknown-Unknown)
09/06/2011, 17:40
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
The MicroBooNE experiment is to build a ~100 ton Liquid Argon (LAr) Time Projection Chamber (TPC) detector that will observe interactions of neutrinos from the on-axis Booster Neutrino Beam and the off-axis NuMI Beam at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The experiment will address the low energy excess observed by the MiniBooNE experiment, measure low energy neutrino cross sections, and...
Fabrice Retiere
(TRIUMF)
10/06/2011, 14:00
Experimental Detector Systems
Oral Presentation
The main purpose of the near neutrino detector (ND280) of the long baseline experiment T2K designed for a sensitive search of the muon neutrino into electron neutrino transition is to measure the parameters of the non-oscillated neutrino beam close to the production target. The near detector complex, located in J-PARC at 280 meters from the target, consists of the on-axis INGRID...
Prof.
Masashi Yokoyama
(University of Tokyo)
10/06/2011, 14:30
Experimental Detector Systems
Oral Presentation
The Hyper-Kamiokande detector, a water Cherenkov detector with one megaton total mass, is a next-generation detector for nucleon decay and neutrino studies.
Main goals are a search for the nucleon decay with ten times better sensitivity than current lifetime limits set by Super-Kamiokande, precise measurement of the neutrino mixing matrix (in particular the CP-violating Dirac phase) with...
Dr
Patrick Allison
(Ohio State University)
10/06/2011, 15:00
Experimental Detector Systems
Oral Presentation
The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is an ultrahigh energy radio neutrino detector currently in the prototype and development phase. A testbed to examine the RF environment was deployed in the 2010-2011 polar season and is currently operating. A prototype ARA station is due to be deployed in 2011-2012. The testbed consisted of custom digitization and triggering for 8 antennas, digitized at 1 and 2...
Dr
Yoshihisa Obayashi
(Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)
11/06/2011, 08:30
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
The Super-Kamiokande detector is a large imaging water Cherenkov
detector with 50 kilotons of pure water viewed by 11,129 20-inch PMT.
Since the observation start in April 1996, Super-Kamiokande has
accumulated atmospheric and solar neutrino data to study
neutrino oscillations and to search for proton decay and neutrinos
from supernovae. Super-Kamiokande has been also used as a far...
Matthew Wetstein
(Argonne National Laboratory)
11/06/2011, 08:50
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
We present Monte Carlo studies of the impact of enhanced coverage, improved spatial and time-resolutions, and quantum efficiency on track reconstruction and particle identification in water Cherenkov counters. We discuss some of the reconstruction challenges and potential directions for an experimental water cherenkov program built around MCP-based photodetectors.
Dr
Serge Ouedraogo
(LLNL)
11/06/2011, 09:10
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
An instrument to measure the attenuation length of near UV
light propagating in ultra-pure water has been constructed at
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The
instrument is an 8-meter long horizontal polypropylene pipe
capable of measuring the absolute attenuation length of
ultra pure water to within 5%. The instrument was designed
to measure the effect of LBNE detector...
Mr
Hongyue Duyang
(University of South Carolina)
11/06/2011, 09:30
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
Water Cherenkov (WC) and Liquid Argon (LAr) are two options under
consideration for the far detector (FD) of the LBNE experiment. To make a choice, one of the issues is the FD's sensitivity to the NuE-appearance which involves the detection efficiency of the signal, NuE-CC, and the background, NC events. The proposed WC sensitivity is largely based upon the Super-Kaminokande (SK) experience....
Dr
Umberto Emanuele
(IFIC)
11/06/2011, 09:50
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
The ANTARES deep-sea neutrino telescope comprises a three-dimensional array of photomultipliers to detect the Cherenkov light induced by upgoing relativistic charged particles originating from neutrino interactions in the vicinity of the detector. It was completed in May 2008 and is taking data smoothly since then. The large scattering length of light in the deep sea allows for an angular...
Dr
Robert Lahmann
(Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics)
11/06/2011, 10:10
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
KM3NeT is a future deep-sea research infrastructure in the
Mediterranean Sea that will hold a multi-cubic-kilometer neutrino
telescope. Located in the Northern Hemisphere, KM3NeT will be able to
observe point-like sources of cosmic neutrinos in a region of the sky
that includes the Galactic Center.
KM3NeT will employ a number of innovative technologies that are the
main subject of the...
Prof.
Darren Grant
(University of Alberta)
11/06/2011, 11:00
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is the world's largest high-energy neutrino telescope, utilizing the deep Antarctic ice as the Cherenkov detector medium. In December 2010 the last of the observatory's 86 strings of optical detectors was deployed, completing the approximate cubic-kilometer array. The DeepCore detector, the low-energy extension to the IceCube, uses high-quantum efficiency...
Cristiano Bozza
(Univ. + INFN)
11/06/2011, 11:30
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
The OPERA neutrino detector in the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory is designed to detect muon-neutrino to tau-neutrino oscillations in direct appearance mode. The hybrid apparatus, consisting of an emulsion/lead target complemented by electronic detectors, is placed in the long-baseline CERN to Gran Sasso neutrino beam (CNGS), 730 km away from the muon-neutrino source, and is taking data...
Prof.
Karsten Heeger
(University of Wisconsin)
11/06/2011, 12:00
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
The Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment is designed to measure the last unknown
neutrino mixing angle theta_13 with a sensitivity of sin^22theta_13<0.01. The experiment will use eight identical liquid scintillator detectors with 20-ton target mass installed at three underground sites to measure the flux and spectrum of reactor antineutrinos from the Daya Bay nuclear power plant and search...
Dr
Sarah Phan-Budd
(Argonne National Laboratory)
11/06/2011, 14:00
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
NOvA, or NuMI Off-Axis ve Appearance experiment, is a long baseline neutrino experiment using an off-axis beam produced by the main injector (NuMI) neutrino beamline at Fermilab. The experiment is designed to study muon neutrino to electron neutrino oscillations. It consists of two PVC and liquid scintillator detectors and a beamline upgrade. The large far detector weighs 15 kTon and will be...
Dr
Alex Smith
(University of Minnesota)
11/06/2011, 14:20
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment that will use the Fermilab NuMI beam and new near and far detectors located at Fermilab and Ash River, Minnesota.
The 15 kiloton far detector consists of 12,028 16m x 1m x 7cm liquid scintillator-filled modules, laminated into 16 m x 16 m blocks. These modules are constructed from PVC plastic extrusions to produce a structure of 32...
Mr
thomas wise
(university of Wisconsin)
11/06/2011, 14:40
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
The Daya Bay neutrino experiment utilizes the high anti-electron neutrino flux from the Guondong nuclear power complex in mainland China to perform a measurement of theta_13. The experiment uses a near-far detector technique to minimize systematic errors from reactor power fluctuations and fuel cycles. The method requires at least two “identical” near and far detectors, and for Dayabay...
Dr
Yuri Oksuzian
(University of Virginia)
11/06/2011, 15:00
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
The proposed Mu2e experiment aims to search for neutrinoless muon to electron conversion with a sensitivity four orders of magnitude better than previous experiments. To achieve this goal, Mu2e needs to obtain a cosmic ray veto efficiency of better than 99.9%. Here we report the preliminary results of recent R&D efforts for a three-layer plastic scintillator veto system. The results are...
Dr
David Nygren
(LBNL)
11/06/2011, 16:00
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
A high-pressure xenon gas (HPXe) TPC offers attractive possibilities in the search for neutrino-less double-beta decay in 136Xe. In the gas phase, near-intrinsic energy resolution is available from the ionization signal only, in contrast to the liquid phase which displays anomalously large fluctuations in the partition of energy between scintillation and ionization. In addition, events in the...
Russell Neilson
(Stanford University)
11/06/2011, 16:20
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
The Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) is an experimental program designed to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay (0nbb) of Xe-136. Observation of 0nbb would determine an absolute mass scale for neutrinos, prove that neutrinos are massive Majorana particles (indistinguishable from their own antiparticles), and constitute physics beyond the Standard Model. The current phase of the...
Karl Twelker
(Stanford University)
11/06/2011, 16:40
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
The next generation neutrino-less double beta decay experiments aim to probe Majorana neutrino masses at or below 10 meV. To reach this sensitivity ton-scale detectors are needed with even lower residual radioactive backgrounds than the best ones operating today or planned for the near future. The Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) collaboration is developing a novel strategy for a virtually...
Samuele Sangiorgio
(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
11/06/2011, 17:00
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
Coherent scattering of neutrinos on nuclei is a well-known prediction of the Standard Model that has so far eluded all experimental attempts to detect it. Aside from validating core elements of the Standard Model, the detection of coherent neutrino scattering has other interesting applications as a flavor-blind monitor of neutrino flux for neutrino oscillation experiments, supernova explosions...
Ms
Christina Ignarra
(MIT)
11/06/2011, 17:20
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
Liquid Argon (LAr) Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) are a developing technology that are becoming a popular choice for neutrino and dark matter experiments due to the low cost of the LAr as a target material and the high signal efficiency and background rejection that these detectors can achieve. When excited by a passing charged particle created in a neutrino interaction, argon produces...
Craig Thorn
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
11/06/2011, 17:40
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
The LBNE Project is developing a design for 20 kiloton liquid argon (LAr) time projection chambers to be used as the far detector for the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment. An essential component of this design is a complete electronic readout system designed to operate in LAr (at 87 K). This system is being implemented in mainstream commercial CMOS technology that will provide low-noise...
Dr
Howard Budd
(University of Rochester)
13/06/2011, 14:00
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
MINERvA is a few-GeV neutrino-nucleus scattering experiment,
stationed in the high intensity NuMI beam line at Fermilab. It has been
taking data since the fall of 2009. MINERvA aims to make precise
measurements of low energy neutrino interactions, both in support of
neutrino oscillation experiments and as a pure weak probe of the nuclear
medium. The experiment employs a fine-grained, high...
Michael DuVernois
(University of Wisconsin)
13/06/2011, 14:20
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
The ARA (Askaryan Radio Array) experiment at the South Pole utilizes a variety of technologies new to neutrino physics. Development efforts in broadband antennas, low-noise amplifiers, RF over fiber, pattern recognition triggers, low-power digitizers, and low-temperature capable electronics are ongoing. We report on the direct science impacts of the hardware developments.
Dr
Nickolas Solomey
(Wichita State University)
13/06/2011, 14:40
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
The Hanohano neutrino detector is a deep sea module that can be submerged to the ocean floor far away from surface radiation. Its Physics goals are the study of geo-neutrino to probe the isotope source of the 45 TW of heat driving all of geodynamic process in the earth, enhanced studies of neutrino oscillation from reactors through variable distance observations, and as an observatory for...
Ke Han
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, US)
13/06/2011, 15:00
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
(For the CUORE Collaboration) A bolometer measures the energy deposition through a corresponding temperature rise. The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is a ton scale bolometric experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta decay in 130Te. In CUORE, a single bolometer module consists of a 5X5X5 cm3 tellurium oxide crystal, a silicon heater, and one or two Neutron...
Benton Pahlka
(The University of Texas at Austin)
13/06/2011, 15:20
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
The NEMO-3 (Neutrino Ettore Majorana Observatory) experiment, located in the Modane Underground Laboratory, searches for neutrinoless double beta decay. The experiment has been taking data since 2003 with seven double beta isotopes and completed data acquisition in late 2010. Two neutrino double beta decay results for the main isotopes (7 kg of 100Mo and 1 kg of 82Se), new results for 150Nd...
Thomas Kutter
(LSU)
13/06/2011, 15:40
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
CdZnTe crystals contain 9 double beta decay isotopes and can serve as a source and detector at the same time in a search for neutrino-less double beta decay. In particular, 116Cd and 130Te are suitable isotopes in such a search due to their high Q-values. The endpoint of the beta spectra resulting from double-beta decay of these isotopes is well above natural gamma lines which constitute...
Dr
Andrew Renshaw
(UCI)
13/06/2011, 16:00
Detectors for neutrino physics
Oral Presentation
The proposed introduction of a soluble gadolinium [Gd] compound into water Cherenkov detectors can result in a high efficiency for the detection of free neutrons capturing on the Gd. The delayed 8 MeV gamma cascades produced by these captures in coincidence with a prompt positron signal serve to uniquely identify electron anti-neutrinos interacting via inverse beta decay. Such coincidence...
