Michael Wilking
(TRIUMF)
7/19/13, 2:30 PM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
The Tokai to Kamioka (T2K) experiment is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment situated in Japan. A high intensity neutrino beam is produced at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex, in Tokai, Japan. A near detector complex, situated 280 m from the neutrino production target, and the far detector at 295 km, are used to detect the neutrinos from this beam. This talk will...
Alessandra Pastore
(Universita e INFN (IT))
7/19/13, 2:55 PM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
The OPERA experiment built in the underground Gran Sasso laboratory (LNGS) has been designed to detect neutrino oscillations in direct appearance mode in the mu-neutrino to tau-neutrino channel. The apparatus consisting of 150 000 lead/emulsion modular targets complemented by electronic detectors is placed in the long-baseline CERN to Gran Sasso neutrino beam (CNGS) 730 km away from the...
Abbey Waldron
(S)
7/19/13, 3:10 PM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
The NOvA is the new generation long-baseline neutrino oscillation
experiment using a beam of neutrinos sent from Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory (Illinois, US) to 810 km distant far detector
at Ash River (Minnesota, US). Functionally identical near and far
detectors, now under construction, will be used to search for
CP-violating effects in the neutrino sector and to study the...
Dr
Christian Buck
(Max Planck Institute für Kernphysik)
7/19/13, 3:25 PM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
The double Chooz expeirment is one of the few experiements currently measuring the neutrino mixing angle téta 13 , and the only one located in Europe. It gathers 10 European universities and laboratories (Germany,France,Spain) and about 2à form USA,Russia , Japan and Brazil.
The expeirment will update this year its 2012 results, with more statistics. The current data analysis will...
Rupert Leitner
(Charles University (CZ))
7/19/13, 3:45 PM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
In 2012 the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment has observed the disappearance of electron antineutrinos at about 2 km. Within the three-neutrino flavor framework this result can be used for measuring a value of sin2( 2θ13) for the neutrino mixing angle θ13. The latest published result of sin2( 2θ13) = 0.089±0.010(stat.) ±0.005(syst.) from the Daya Bay experiment is to date the most precise...
Dr
Alexander Korzenev
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
7/19/13, 4:00 PM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
New results of NA61/SHINE on determination of charged hadron yields in proton-carbon interactions are presented. They aim to improve predictions of the neutrino flux in the T2K experiment. The data were recorded using a secondary-proton beam of 31 GeV/c momentum from CERN SPS which impinges on a graphite target. To determine the inclusive production cross-section for charged pions, kaons and...
Cheryl Patrick
(N)
7/19/13, 4:15 PM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
MINERvA (Main INjector Experiment for v-A) is a neutrino scattering experiment in Fermilab's NuMI high-intensity neutrino beam. MINERvA was designed to make precision measurements of low energy neutrino and antineutrino cross sections on a variety of materials including plastic scintillator, C, Fe, Pb, He and water. We will focus on our recent results from analyses of quasi-elastic candidates....
Michele Maltoni
(Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC)
7/19/13, 5:00 PM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
The vast majority of solar, atmospheric, reactor and accelerator neutrino data are presently well explained by the hypothesis that neutrinos are massive and that flavor conversion occurs among the three known neutrino flavors. However, a few experiments seem to indicate deviations from this scenario. In this talk I will first present an up-to-date global analysis of neutrino data in the...
Shun Zhou
(KTH)
7/19/13, 5:25 PM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
One of the main goals of the ongoing and forthcoming neutrino oscillation experiments is to determine the leptonic Dirac CP-violating phase, which is one of the fundamental constants in nature. We first examine the radiative corrections to the CP-violating phase, which should be taken into account when one confronts the theoretical prediction at a high-energy scale with the experimental...
Tord Johan Carl Ekelof
(Uppsala University (SE))
7/19/13, 5:40 PM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
The European Spallation Source linac has the potential to become the proton driver of - in addition to the world’s most intense pulsed spallation neutron source - the world’s most intense neutrino beam. The physics performance of this neutrino beam in conjunction with a megaton water Cherenkov neutrino detector installed ca 1000 m down in a mine at a distance of ca 500 km from ESS will be...
Hide-Kazu Tanaka
(ICRR),
Hidekazu TANAKA
(ICRR)
7/19/13, 5:55 PM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
The Hyper-Kamiokande, which we are currently developing, is designed to be the next
decade's flagship experiment for the study of neutrino oscillations, nucleon decays, and astrophysical neutrinos. The detector is the third generation underground water
Cherenkov detector at Kamioka. Holding 1 million ton water target being about 20 times
larger than the Super-Kamiokande, the detector...
Sushant Raut
7/19/13, 6:10 PM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
Recent measurements have shown that the value of $\theta_{13}$ in nature is moderately large. This allows the possibility of measuring the neutrino mass hierarchy, octant of $\theta_{23}$ and CP-violating phase $\delta_{CP}$ at the next generation of neutrino oscillation experiments. Long-baseline experiments have very good energy resolution, and hence are well suited to measure the...
Elizabeth Worcester
7/19/13, 6:25 PM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
LBNE (Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment) is an accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiment. LBNE will produce a muon-neutrino beam using protons from Fermilab's Main Injector and will detect electron-neutrino appearance and muon-neutrino disappearance using a Liquid Argon TPC located at a distance of 1300 km at Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota. The primary physics...
Sankagiri Umasankar
(IIT Bombay)
7/19/13, 6:40 PM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
Recent measurement of a moderately large value of theta13 has opened up exciting possibilities for current and future neutrino oscillation experiments, in particular to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy
and the octant of theta23. Determination of these parameters will
provide us with crucial additional inputs to develop a theory of neutrino masses. Current experiments can determine these...
Carla Maria Cattadori
(INFN)
7/20/13, 9:00 AM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
Since November 2011, GERDA is operating with its novel technique, about 18 kg of enriched Ge detectors searching both for neutrinoless and two neutrino accompanied double beta decay of Ge-76. In this talk first results on neutrinoless decay and the recently published results on two neutrino accompanied decay will be reported, as well as the background interpretation model. The apparatus...
Tamer Tolba
(Bern University)
7/20/13, 9:25 AM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
In the search for the nature of the neutrino, neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) plays a significant role in understanding its properties. By measuring the 0νββ decay rate, it is hoped to verify the nature of the neutrino (Majorana or Dirac particle), lepton number violation and help determine the values for the absolute neutrino masses. The Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) is aiming at...
Pawel Guzowski
(University of Manchester)
7/20/13, 9:45 AM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
The NEMO-3 and SuperNEMO experiments aim to search for neutrinoless double beta decay. If observed, this would show that the neutrino is its own antiparticle, and be the the first evidence of lepton number violation. The unique setup of the experiments, using a tracker-calorimeter technique, is able to measure the full kinematic signature of the decays. This will help in determining the...
Thomas Banks
(UC Berkeley)
7/20/13, 10:00 AM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is an upcoming experiment whose primary goal is to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0nuBB) in Te-130. The detector will consist of 988 TeO2 crystal bolometers arranged into 19 towers and cooled to 10 mK inside a custom-built cryostat at the underground Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS), Italy, which provides the...
Javier Pérez Pérez
(I)
7/20/13, 10:15 AM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
The NEXT-100 time projection chamber, currently under construction, will search for neutrino-less double beta decay (bb0u) using 100-150 kg of high-pressure xenon gas enriched in the 136Xe isotope to +-90%. The detector possesses two important features for bb0u searches: very good energy resolution (better than 1% FWHM at the Q value of 136Xe) and event topological information for the...
Matthew Mottram
(University of Sussex)
7/20/13, 11:00 AM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
One of the most important open questions in neutrino physics is the question of whether neutrinos are Majorana or Dirac particles. Attempts to detect the (possible) Majorana nature of neutrinos focus around the double beta decay process. If neutrinoless double beta decay were observed, it would not only prove that neutrinos are Majorana particles, but it would also provide a measurement of the...
Marco Haag
(KIT)
7/20/13, 11:15 AM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment is the next generation tritium beta decay experiment to make a direct, model independent measurement of the neutrino mass with an unprecedented sensitivity of 0.2 eV at 90% C.L. Presently under construction at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, KATRIN will use a windowless gaseous tritium source, a large magnetic adiabatic...
Steen Hannestad
(Aarhus University)
7/20/13, 11:30 AM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
Cosmology is becoming an increasingly powerful laboratory for neutrino physics, with current observations providing stringent bounds on parameters such as the absolute neutrino mass and the cosmological neutrino energy density. I will outline the status of the field, and present new results, including an analysis of the Planck CMB measurements. I will also briefly discuss the future of the...
david lhuillier
(CEA Saclay)
7/20/13, 11:45 AM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
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Gioacchino Ranucci
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
7/20/13, 12:10 PM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
The first phase of the Borexino experiment, currently running at the Laboratori del Gran Sasso in Italy, has been completed in 2010, and after a successful purification campaign which have further brought down the background levels, a second phase is now in progress. The final results of Phase I will be reported, as well as the first outcomes of Phase II, namely a new measurement of the...
Joao Pulido
(CFTP-IST)
7/20/13, 12:30 PM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
The LMA solution to the solar neutrino problem predicts an upturn in the electron like event spectrum (CC and ES) below a few MeV which is not seen by any solar neutrino experiment. Moreover it seems to be contradicted by SNO which observes a decrease of the CC event rate at electron energies below 5.3 MeV. We find that a model where a light sterile neutrino is added to the standard picture...
Alexander Studenikin
7/20/13, 12:45 PM
Neutrino Physics
Talk presentation
A review on neutrino electromagnetic properties and electromagnetic interactions is presented. The talk is based on two published papers and on one paper being at the final stage of preparation.
References:
1. C.Giunti, A.Studenikin, “Electromagnetic properties of neutrino”, Phys.Atom.Nucl. 73 (2009) 2089-2125, arXiv:0812.3646 v5, 12 Apr 2010.
2. C.Broggini, C.Giunti,...
