Aspen Winter Workshop--New Directions in Neutrino Physics
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Aspen Center for Physics
Aspen Center for Physics
700 West Gillespie Street, Aspen, CO 81611
Andre de Gouvea(Northwestern University), Carter Hall(University of Maryland), Cristina Volpe(APC-Astroparticule et Cosmology, Paris), David Saltzberg(Univ. of California Los Angeles), Gail McLaughlin(North Carolina State University), Kate Scholberg(Duke University), Ryan Patterson(Caltech)
Description
Nearly a decade ago, a clear path forward was developed by the neutrino physics community. Exciting new results have recently come out as early steps along that path. The time is now ripe to look at new experimental ideas that have arisen and the performance of current experiments. This conference will take the current status of experiment as its launching point. We will examine new accelerator and reactor oscillation results, prospects for learning about mass hierarchy and leptonic CP violation, and potential for new physics in oscillation experiments. We will also cover the latest developments in neutrino physics, astrophysics and cosmology more broadly, including neutrinoless double beta decay, neutrino interactions, and supernovae. The emphasis of the conference will be on how new experimental techniques and theoretical ideas will impact the future directions of the field.
Neutrino-Nucleus Coherent Scattering as a Probe of Nuclear Neutron Density Distributions
Speaker:
Kelly Patton(North Carolina State University)
Slides
14
Searches for new physics through coherent scattering at pion decay-at-rest neutrino sources
Speaker:
Georgia Karagiogi(Columbia University)
Slides
15
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16
A new way to probe the sterile neutrino: kaon decay-at-rest
Speaker:
Joshua Spitz(MIT)
Slides
17
First Measurement of θ<sub>13</sub> from Delayed Neutron Capture on Hydrogen in Double Chooz
Speaker:
Christopher Grant(UC Davis)
Slides
18
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19
Using Large-Area Fast Photosensors in Future Neutrino Detectors
Speaker:
Mayly Sanchez(Iowa State University / ANL)
Slides
20
New photon detection solutions for future neutrino detectors
Speaker:
Fabrice Retiere(TRIUMF)
Slides
21
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22
"Nonstandard" Neutrino Interactions
Speaker:
Alexander Friedland(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Slides
23
A new method for a sterile neutrino search in a 2-reactor 1-detector configuration
Speaker:
Marc Bergevin(UC Davis)
Slides
24
POSTER SESSION AND COCKTAIL PARTY
--> J. J. Cherry (LANL/UNM-Albuquerque) "The Scattered Neutrino Halo"
--> Konstantin Goulianos (Rockefeller Univ.) "The total cross section and its diffractive components"
--> David Martinez (CBPF) and Deborah Harris (Fermilab) "Inclusive Charged Current Interactions at MINERvA"
--> Shunsaku Horiuchi (UC Irvine) "Supernova Neutrino Detection Prospects at Current and Future Neutrino Detectors"
--> David Kaleko (Columbia) "MicroBooNE and Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers"
--> Ranjan Laha (Ohio State Univ.), "PeV cascades at IceCube: atmospheric prompt or astrophysical neutrinos?"
--> Benjamin Laroque (UC Santa Barbara), "Investigation of an active radio frequency technique for electron spectroscopy"
--> Reina Maruyama (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) "Status of CUORE"
--> Kevin McFarland (U. Rochester) "Quasi-Elastic Scattering at MINERvA"
--> Kate Scholberg (Duke) "SNOwGLoBES: SuperNova Observatories with GLoBES"
--> Taritree Wongjirad (Duke) "Measuring Scintillation Light From Quantum Dot Nanocrystals"
The stepping stones to proton decay: IceCube, PINGU, MICA
A short status about IceCube and DeepCore will be given in order to motivate the next stepping stones towards neutrino mass hierarchy (PINGU) and proton decay (MICA).
Speaker:
Elisa Resconi(TU Munich)
Slides
34
PINGU - Resolving the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy at the South Pole
Speaker:
D. Jason Koskinen(The Pennsylvania State University)
Slides
35
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36
ORCA - measuring the nu mass hierarchy with a sea water based neutrino telescope
Speaker:
Juergen Brunner(CPPM)
Slides
37
The ExaVolt Antenna (EVA)
Speaker:
Amy Connolly(Ohio State University)
Slides
38
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39
Novel detection channels for Solar WIMPs at present and next generation neutrino detectors
Speaker:
Carsten Rott(Ohio State University / CCAPP)
Slides
40
Geoneutrinos: applications, future directions and defining the Earth's engine
Speaker:
William McDonough(University of Maryland)
Slides
41
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42
Neutrino-Nucleus QE Scattering
Speaker:
Gerald Garvey(Los Alamos National Laboratory)