Alessandro Strumia
(Nat. Inst. of Chem.Phys. & Biophys. (EE))
16/09/2013, 09:00
The naturalness principle motivated the theoretical expectation that light scalars cannot exist unless they come together with new physics that protects their lightness, such as supersymmetry. But LHC run I discovered the Higgs scalar without any sign of new physics. I review and reconsider the issue of naturalness, proposing a possible modification.
Concepcion Gonzalez-Garcia
(State University of New York (US))
16/09/2013, 11:00
I will summarize the status of the present determination of
the leptonic flavour parameters and some of the implications
for theory.
Masashi Yokoyama
(University of Tokyo)
16/09/2013, 11:45
Latest results from neutrino experiments will be summarized.
Frederic Teubert
(CERN)
16/09/2013, 15:45
The lack of evidence for NP in direct searches at the TeV scale, has increased the relevance
of the indirect searches able to test much larger energy scales. In this talk I will review the
status of the indirect searches in Charm and B-mesons decays and briefly discuss
Lepton Flavour Violation decays.
Graciela Gelmini
(UCLA)
16/09/2013, 17:00
I will review recent developments in the theory of particle dark matter, with special attention to the distinction between cold, warm and self-interacting dark matter, the potential signals of ``Light WIMPs" in direct dark matter detection experiments, the significance of some hints of dark matter in indirect detection and
LHC limits on dark matter particles.
Diego Guadagnoli
(LAPTh Annecy)
17/09/2013, 09:00
I present an overview of the (major) progress recently made by experiment on various Bd- and Bs-meson decays, long awaited by theory.
I also provide an outlook after LHC's LS1 and LS2 of the perspectives on these decays, as well as on novel related observables that will become accessible.
Dr
Hernan Pablo Wahlberg
(Universidad Nacional de La Plata (AR))
17/09/2013, 09:00
The Pierre Auger Observatory is a unique instrument that combines a surface array of water cherenkov detectors and fluorescence
telescopes. Both techniques allow to search and discriminate between photons, neutrinos and nuclear elements. Recent measurements and
searches on the different species will be presented.
Edivaldo Moura Santos
(Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
17/09/2013, 09:20
The Pierre Auger Observatory has measured the proton-air cross section for particle production at the CM energy per nucleon of 57 TeV using the extensive air showers produced when ultra-high energy (E > 1018:5 eV) protons smash Nitrogen and Oxygen nuclei at the top of Earth's atmosphere. We describe here the details of this measurement, with special attention to the systematics affecting it. A...
Dr
Takatomi Yano
(Okayama University)
17/09/2013, 09:22
GADZOOKS! is a upgrade project for Super-Kamiokande
with a new neutrino detection method using gadolinium-loaded water.
In this method, events due to anti-neutrino charged-current interactions on protons (i.e., inverse beta decay) are identified by the coincident detection of a prompt positron signal and a delayed gamma-ray signal from neutron capture on gadolinium which is dissolved in the...
Martino Margoni
(Universita e INFN (IT))
17/09/2013, 09:30
We present the observation of Time-reversal asymmetry as well
as a selection of recent results on CP violation effects
in B-meson decays using a data set of about 430 fb-1 collected
at the peak of the Y(4S), with the BABAR detector at SLAC.
They include the measurements of processes sensitive to the angles
of the Unitarity Triangle; studies of direct CP violation, and
...
Francesca Dordei
(Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))
17/09/2013, 10:00
The study of CP violation in Bs oscillations is one of the key goals of the LHCb experiment. Effects are predicted to be very small in the Standard Model but can be significantly enhanced in many models of new physics. We present the world’s best measurement of the CP-violating phase φs using B0s → J/ψφ and B0s → J/ψππ decays, and a first study of mixing-induced CP violation in the decay B0s → φφ.
Livia Ludhova
(INFN Milano)
17/09/2013, 10:06
Borexino is a solar neutrino and geoneutrino detector currently running at the Laboratori del Gran Sasso in Italy.
The first phase of the experiment has been completed in 2010 and, after a successful purification campaign which have brought down the background further, a second phase is now in progress. The talk will report on the Phase I final results and on the first results of the Phase...
Michele Weber
(Universitaet Bern (CH))
17/09/2013, 11:00
n this talk we will present an overview of the searches for Dark Matter performed by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations.
Several models for new physics beyond the Standard Model which are probed at the LHC also include a Dark Matter candidate.
Additionally, searches for direct production of WIMP candidates will be shown, which look for events containing only a single object and large missing...
Thomas Michael Bird
(University of Manchester (GB))
17/09/2013, 11:00
LHCb has recorded large samples of semileptonic B decays. These provide potential to study CP violation effects in the B0 and Bs0 systems. Decay time-integrated or time-dependent asymmetries between charge-conjugate final states probe CP violation in B(s)0 mixing through the measurement of the parameter Afs (sometimes referred to as Asl). These measurements rely on data-driven techniques...
Stefano Casasso
(Universita e INFN (IT))
17/09/2013, 11:00
The measurements of the couplings of the 126 GeV resonance performed by CMS are presented, together with the perspectives at the LHC and future colliders.
Xuai Zhuang
(Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))
17/09/2013, 11:30
The existence of significant amount of dark matter in the Universe is one of the strongest motivations to have new physics beyond the Standard Model. Dark Matter search at LHC with a focus on conventional candidates and techniques (e.g. SUSY) in ATLAS and CMS experiments using data from 2011 and 2012 will be reviewed in the talk.
Stefan Gadatsch
(NIKHEF (NL))
17/09/2013, 11:30
The combined measurements of the coupling properties of the recently discovered Higgs
boson using the ATLAS detector and up to 25 fb-1 of 7 TeV and 8 TeV pp collision data collected in 2011 and 2012 are presented.
Martin Sevior
(University of Melbourne (AU))
17/09/2013, 11:30
After completing data taking in 2010, Belle has entered an intensive data analysis phase to complete the physics program for the experiment. This presentation will report preliminary results for the Branching Ratio and Direct CP violation for B--> pi0 pi0 together with final results for Belle's measurements of Direct and Indirect CP violation for B--> pi+ pi-. Taken together these results...
James Douglas Pearce
(University of Victoria (CA))
17/09/2013, 12:00
The quest to understand the nature of Dark Matter has never been so exciting. Vast improvements in direct detection sensitivity combined with tantalizing hints from astrophysical data have lead some to dub the 2010's as the "Dark Matter Decade". Today collider based experiments, such as ATLAS and CMS, offer a new vantage point in the search for non-gravitational dark matter interactions. If...
Valdir Salustino Guimaraes
(Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro (BR))
17/09/2013, 12:00
The LHCb detector is a forward single arm spectrometer designed primarily for the study of CP-violation and other rare phenomena in the decays of beauty and charm particles. LHCb is very powerful in probing New Physics by performing indirect searches. Nevertheless, a program of direct searches for Higgs and Higgs-like particles also exists. Here we present some recent results and perspectives.
Adlene Hicheur
(CBPF - Brazilian Center for Physics Research (BR))
17/09/2013, 12:00
Decays of B hadrons without charmed particles in the final state offer rich opportunities to test the Standard Model. For example, CP violation in charmless charged two-body and three-body B decays provides ways to measure the CKM angle γ and to search for New Physics. The angular distributions of decays to vector-vector final states provide additional interesting observables. We present the...
Dr
Enrico Bertuzzo
(CEA-Saclay)
17/09/2013, 15:00
After a brief introduction on the physical motivation for Composite Higgs models, I will discuss cosets leading to Composite Two Higgs Doublet Models. I will analyze in detail the problem of tree level custodial symmetry breaking and how this problem can be solved, as well as the specific embedding for fermion fields that allow to avoid Higgs mediated Flavor Changing Neutral Currents.
Dr
Eduardo Medinaceli
(Padova University & INFN)
17/09/2013, 15:00
OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus) was built to prove muon to tau neutrino oscillations in appearance mode, through the direct observation of tau neutrinos coming from a pure muon neutrino beam produced at CERN.
OPERA is a modular hybrid detector with a high target mass, instrumented with electronic sensors to identify the interaction type and position inside the...
Mr
Alexis Dumas
(ANTARES / LPC Clermont-Ferrand)
17/09/2013, 15:00
ANTARES Neutrino Telescope is a 0.1 km3 instrumented volume installed in the french coast of Mediterranean Sea. It consists in 885 photo-multiplier tubes arranged in a 3D-array of 12 lines and oriented for up-going neutrino detection, having a complementary coverage to that of IceCube, with a full coverage of our galaxy centre.
Physics analysis performed in ANTARES collaboration will be...
Benjamin Still
(Queen Mary, University of London)
17/09/2013, 15:22
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...
Alexander Kappes
(Humboldt University / DESY)
17/09/2013, 15:30
The determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy is among the most fundamental questions in particle physics. The recent measurement of a large mixing angle theta_13 and the first observation of atmospheric neutrino oscillations at tens of GeV with neutrino telescopes opens the intriguing new possibility to exploit matter effects in neutrino oscillation to determine the mass hierarchy in the...
Samuel Robert Childress
(Unknown)
17/09/2013, 15:44
Neutrino oscillation is studied in the MINOS experiment with the NuMI beam line by measuring neutrino and anti-neutrino interactions with magnetized near and far detectors. We report on results obtained with our complete beam exposure of 1.56 x 10^21 POT from 2005 to 2012, and also 37.88 kton-years of atmospheric neutrinos. Presented are the most precise measurements to date of mass...
Denis Perevalov
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
17/09/2013, 16:06
NOvA is an off-axis long baseline neutrino experiment searching for $\nu_\mu\to\nu_e$ oscillations using an upgraded NuMI neutrino beam from Fermilab, Batavia, IL.
The main physics goal is a measurement of the CP violation and establishing the neutrino masses hierarchy.
A large 14 kton Far detector, comprised of liquid scintillator contained in extruded PVC cells, will also provide an...
Dr
Carla Biggio
(Università di Genova, Italy)
17/09/2013, 16:20
The scalar particle recently discovered at the LHC has the same gauge quantum
numbers as the neutrino, so that one can ask if they can be one the superpartner of the
other. In this talk I will discuss such a possibility, discussing a model where
this is realised. This model has an interesting phenomenology at the LHC.
Garoe Gonzalez Parra
(IFAE - Barcelona (ES))
17/09/2013, 17:30
Since the discovery of a Higgs-like boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC, the emphasis has shifted towards measurements of its properties and the search for the search in the less sensitive channels in order to determine whether the new particle is the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson. Of particular importance is the direct observation of the coupling of the Higgs boson to...
Denis Derkach
(University of Oxford (GB))
17/09/2013, 17:30
We present the summer 2013 update of the Unitarity Triangle (UT) analysis performed by the UTfit Collaboration within the Standard Model (SM) and beyond. We include as input for our analysis all the measurements available by August 2013. We also present the generalisation of the UT analysis to investigate new physics (NP) effects, updating the constraints on NP contributions to DeltaF = 2...
Pilar Coloma
(Virginia Tech University)
17/09/2013, 17:30
With the large value of $\theta_{13}$ recently discovered, the measurement of the neutrino mass ordering (hierarchy) may be accesible at non-beam experiments. Moreover, the present generation of long baseline experiments is expected to see at least a hint for this parameter, while phase I of the LBNE project is expected to obtain a significance between 3 and 5$\sigma$. However, the neutrino...
Prof.
Hisakazu Minakata
(PUC-Rio)
17/09/2013, 17:52
In precision measurement era the uncertainty of the leptonic CP violating phase \delta will be dominated by error of \theta_23. We argue that the right strategy is to determine \theta_23 and \delta at the same time by using \nu_e appearance channels. We discuss the nature of such measurement including new degeneracy, the \theta_23 intrinsic degeneracy. A detailed simulation with a few...
Dr
Benoit Blossier
(CNRS/Laboratoire de Physique Théorique d'Orsay)
17/09/2013, 18:00
Physics beyond the Standard Model can be tracked from direct measurements
at the electroweak scale, for instance by searching new particles
(Kaluza-Klein modes, supersymmetric particles, ...). Low energy processes
and rare events can also be highly sensitive probes of New Physics:
they are either mediated by virtual loops in which exotic particles can
circulate or they occur at tree...
Manuela Venturi
(Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))
17/09/2013, 18:10
The spin and parity of the recently discovered Higgs boson using the ATLAS detector and up to 25 fb-1 of 7 TeV and 8 TeV pp collision data collected in 2011 and 2012, was probed in the diboson (γγ, WW and ZZ) channels. These results and their combinations are presented.
Christopher Mauger
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
17/09/2013, 18:14
The Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment is a broad scientific program being developed in the United States as an international partnership. LBNE consists of an intense neutrino beam produced at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a highly capable set of neutrino detectors on the Fermilab campus, and a large underground liquid argon time-projection chamber (TPC) at Sanford...
Stefania Ricciardi
(STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))
17/09/2013, 18:30
The angle γ of the CKM unitarity triangle remains the least precisely measured parameter of the CKM mixing matrix. The precision measurement of this parameter is one of the main goals of the LHCb experiment. We present a wide range of measurements of CP violation and partial rates in B→DK decays, as well as the latest LHCb measurement of γ combining all the individual inputs.
Kalanand Mishra
(Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
17/09/2013, 18:50
The spin and parity measurements of the 126 GeV resonance performed by CMS are presented, together with the future perspectives at the LHC and future colliders.
Prof.
Vittorio Palladino
(Universita e INFN (IT))
17/09/2013, 18:58
Multi flavour neutrino beams from a muon storage ring have been established
to be the most far reaching option to measure leptonic CPV and completely
map the PNMS matrix and its unitarity properties. Their intensities and purity
being far superior and better known than those of conventional facilities, that
can not promise instead the ultimate necessary precision.
It is also clear however...
Raymond Volkas
(The University of Melbourne)
19/09/2013, 09:00
After briefly reviewing current LHC bounds on the type II and III see-saw models of neutrino mass, I shall discuss a systematic approach to radiative Majorana neutrino mass models based on effective, gauge-invariant standard model operators that violate lepton number by two units. The exotic particles that occur in these models can be searched for at the LHC.
Michele Frigerio
(Laboratoire Charles Coulomb)
19/09/2013, 09:22
Lepton flavour observables provide precise pieces of information about physics beyond the Standard Model.
I will briefly review our present knowledge of lepton masses and mixing angles,
and investigate to what extent we can explain the data in terms of an underlying flavour symmetry.
I will show that viable flavour models exist, that are sufficiently minimal to provide sharp predictions for...
Daniel Dominguez Vazquez
(Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)
19/09/2013, 09:30
Searches for additional Higgs-like resonances, besides the 126 GeV, performed by CMS are presented, together with the perspectives at the LHC and future colliders.
Mr
David Vanegas Forero
(Instituto Superior Técnico de Lisboa)
19/09/2013, 09:44
The measurement of the non-zero reactor mixing angle has established a new challenge for the theoretical understanding of the lepton mixing. The use of discrete symmetries to successfully explain that mixing is still possible. As an example, we have modified the so called Babu-Ma-Valle model in such a way that we account for the current
neutrino mixing values at 3 sigma. In particular, we...
Ernesto Arganda
(IFLP-CONICET)
19/09/2013, 10:00
The recent discovery of a SM-like Higgs boson at the LHC, with a mass around 125-126 GeV, together with the absence of results in the direct searches for supersymmetry, is pushing the SUSY scale ($m_\text{SUSY}$) into the multi-TeV range. This discouraging situation from a low-energy SUSY point of view has its counterpart in indirect SUSY observables which present a non-decoupling behavior...
Markus Horn
(Yale University)
19/09/2013, 10:00
The LUX (Large Underground Xenon) experiment aims at the direct detection of dark matter particles via their collisions with xenon nuclei. The 350 kg two-phase liquid xenon time projection chamber measures simultaneously the scintillation and ionization from interactions in the target. The ratio of these two signals provides very good discrimination between potential nuclear recoil signals and...
Dr
Maximiliano A. Rivera
(Departamento de Física, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile)
19/09/2013, 10:06
We present an extension of the standard model that naturally generate small neutrino masses and provide a dark matter candidate. The dark matter particle is part of a new scalar doublet field that plays a crucial role in radiatively generating neutrino masses. The symmetry that stabilizes the dark matter also suppresses neutrino masses to appear first at three-loop level. Without the need...
Joachim Brod
(University of Cincinnati)
19/09/2013, 11:00
K and D decays provide important observables which allow for indirect searches for new particles. In this talk, I will review the status of the standard-model predictions and discuss new-physics contributions with a focus on rare decays and CP violation.
Dr
Marco Taoso
(IPhT Saclay Paris)
19/09/2013, 11:00
Annihilations of Dark Matter in the form of WIMPs produce photon fluxes ranging from radio wavelengths to gamma-rays. In particular, low energy emissions are associated with the interactions of the WIMPs annihilation products with the intergalactic medium.
I will present constraints on the WIMPs properties from current radio surveys and I will discuss the prospects for detection with future...
Jorge Morfin
(FNAL)
19/09/2013, 11:00
The interplay of neutrino cross sections on nucleons within a nucleus and the nuclear effects starting with the initial interaction followed by final state interactions are difficult to separate. A survey of recent neutrino nucleus experimental results and models attempting to perform this separation will be presented.
Prof.
Arie Bodek
(University of Rochester (US))
19/09/2013, 11:22
We use quasielastic electron scattering data on nuclear target to update our parametrization of the enhancement to the transverse response functions in nuclear targets. This enhancement has been attributed to meson exchange currents in nuclei. We parametrize both the overall magnitude of the enhancement and the contribution to the width of the quasielastic peak. The model is in good agreement...
Mark Elliot Smith
(University of Manchester (GB))
19/09/2013, 11:30
LHCb has collected the world's largest sample of charmed hadrons. This sample is used to search for direct and indirect CP violation in charm, and to measure D0 mixing parameters. Preliminary measurements from several decay modes are presented, with complementary time-dependent and time-integrated analyses
Dr
Diego Gratieri
(UFPel)
19/09/2013, 11:39
The high parton density present at high energies and large nuclei is expected to modify the lepton- hadron cross section and the associated observables. In this paper we analyse the impact of the
high density effects in the average inelasticity and the neutrino - nucleus cross section at ultra high energies. We compare the predictions associated to the linear DGLAP dynamics with those...
Pedro Podesta Lerma
(Centro Invest. Estudios Avanz. IPN (MX))
19/09/2013, 12:00
Belle II, a next-generation B-factory experiment, will search for new physics effects in a data sample about 50 times larger than the one collected by its predecessor, the Belle experiment. The upgraded accelerator, SuperKEKB, is designed to have the maximum luminosity
of 8 × 10^35 cm^−2s^−1, a factor 40 higher than the current world record.
The status of the collider SuperKEKB and the...
Tatsuya Kikawa
(Kyoto University)
19/09/2013, 12:13
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. The near detector of the T2K experiment is designed to provide a good knowledge of the neutrino beam before the neutrinos oscillate, including measuring the backgrounds and...
Gero Gersdorff
(ICTP-SAIFR)
19/09/2013, 15:00
With the aim of linking natural supersymmetry to flavour physics, a model is proposed based on a family symmetry G × U(1), where G is a discrete nonabelian subgroup of SU(2), with both F-term and (abelian) D-term supersymmetry breaking. A good fit to the fermion masses and mixing is obtained with the same U(1) charges for the left- and right- handed quarks of the first two families and the...
Jose Angel Hernando Morata
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))
19/09/2013, 15:00
Rare decays of beauty and charm hadrons and lepton flavour/number violating decays of tau leptons test the flavour structure of the underlying theory at the level of quantum corrections. They provide information on the couplings and masses of heavy virtual particles appearing as intermediate states. A review of recent results obtained by LHCb on these topics will be presented.
Maddalena Frosini
(Universita & INFN, Firenze-Unknown-Unknown)
19/09/2013, 15:30
The latest years have seen a resurrection of interest in searches for exotic states motivated by tantalising observations by Belle and CDF. Using the data collected at pp collisions at 7 and 8 TeV by the LHCb experiment we present studies of the X(3872) properties as well as preliminary studies and prospects for studies of putative states such as the Z(4430)+
Dr
Gianni Masetti
(Universita e INFN Bologna (IT))
19/09/2013, 15:40
Searches for signatures of beyond-the-standard-model higgs-like processes (eg charged higgs, double Higgs, A->Zh, ttbar, mumu), performed by CMS are presented, together with the perspectives at the LHC and future colliders.
David Moore
(EXO Collaboration)
19/09/2013, 15:41
The Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) is an experimental program searching for neutrinoless double beta decay using Xe-136. Observation of this lepton number violating decay would demonstrate that neutrinos are Majorana particles and allow determination of the absolute neutrino mass scale. The first stage of the experiment, EXO-200, consists of an extremely low background time projection...
Denis Derkach
(University of Oxford (GB))
19/09/2013, 16:00
We present the measurement of the B -> D(*) tau nu decay,
which is sensitive at tree level to New Physics in the form
of a charged Higgs boson.
The measured branching fraction is 3.4 sigma larger than
the SM predictions, and excludes the 2HDM of type 2 at
99.88% confidence for all tan(beta)/mHiggs values.
Additional studies of the momentum transferred to the
lepton system show...
Sergio Di Domizio
(INFN and Universita' di Genova)
19/09/2013, 16:00
CUORE is a 741 kg array of TeO$_2$ bolometers for the search of neurinoless double beta decay in Te-130.
The detector is being constructed at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, where it will start taking data in 2014.
If the target background of 0.01 counts/(keV kg y) will be reached, in five years of data taking CUORE will have an half life sensitivity of about 10$^{26}$...
nasim fatemighomi
(Queen's University)
19/09/2013, 16:19
SNO+ is a multi-purpose neutrino experiment in the final phase of construction at SNOLAB. It is the successor to the SNO experiment that replaces heavy water with liquid scintillator in the detector. Its main scientific goal is to search for neutrinoless double beta decay. In addition, SNO+ will detect and study low energy solar neutrinos, anti-neutrinos from nearby reactors and from the...
Jose Angel Hernando Morata
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))
19/09/2013, 16:38
NEXT is an experimental program to search for neutrino double beta decay events using a High Pressure Gas Xenon Chamber with electroluminescence readout. The first phase of the experiment will use 100 kg of Xenon gas enriched to 91% in the 136Xe isotope. NEXT-100 is currently under construction at Canfranc Underground Laboratory (Spain). The detector is an asymmetric time projection chamber...
Dr
Sylvain Fichet
(IIP, Natal, Brasil)
19/09/2013, 17:30
We review and develop consistent treatments of theoretical uncertainty (TU) in Higgs couplings fits, going beyond the current approximation of uncorrelated Gaussian TU. We emphasize two different conceptual lines in the treatment of TU either as a nuisance or as a bias. These two treatments are considered within both frequentist and Bayesian frameworks. We develop the bias approach in the...
PIERRE SALATI
(LAPTh & Université de Savoie)
19/09/2013, 17:30
The discovery in 2008 of a cosmic ray (CR) lepton anomaly has raised the tremendous hope that WIMPs were not just a fantasy. The astronomical dark matter is believed to be made of these weakly interacting and massive species whose annihilations would produce an excess of positrons in the cosmic radiation. Alas, the dust has now settled down. Local pulsars are suggested as the probable...
Mr
Luis Fernando Gomez Gonzalez
(IFGW-Unicamp / APC)
19/09/2013, 17:30
The Double Chooz experiment is one of the new generation reactor antineutrino disappearance experiments built to measure more precisely the mixing angle Theta 13.
For this, two identical liquid scintillator detectors located at two different baselines of the Chooz Power Plant reactor cores will be installed to make high accuracy measurements of the antineutrino flux and energy.
The value of...
Hyunkwan Seo
(Sungkyunkwan University (KR))
19/09/2013, 17:52
Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillation(RENO) started data-taking from August, 2011 and has observed the disappearance of reactor electron antineutrinos, consistent with neutrino oscillations. The experiment has made unprecedentedly accurate measurement of reactor neutrino flux, and performed a definitive measurement of the smallest neutrino mixing angle theta_13 based on the...
Mrs
Gaëlle Giesen
(IPhT- CEA Saclay)
19/09/2013, 18:00
The current antiproton data from PAMELA imposes constraints on annihilating and decaying DM which are similar to (or even slightly stronger than) the most stringent bounds coming from Fermi gamma rays, for hadronic channels and with fiducial choices for the astrophysical parameters. The implications of the most recent data by AMS-02 will be discussed. In fact, these constraints can be improved...
Qiang Li
(Peking University (CN))
19/09/2013, 18:10
We present studies of multiple boson production in pp collisions at 7 TeV and 8 TeV center-of-mass energy based on data recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC in 2011 and 2012. These include precision cross section measurements and investigation of kinematic distributions. The results are interpreted in terms of constraints on anomalous triple and quartic gauge couplings, together with future...
Dr
J. Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux
(Berkeley)
19/09/2013, 18:14
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment was designed to measure θ13, the smallest mixing angle in the three-neutrino mixing framework, with unprecedented precision. The experiment consists of multiple identical detectors placed underground at different baselines from three pairs of reactors, a unique configuration that minimizes systematic uncertainties and cosmogenic backgrounds. In 2012...
Dr
Christian Farnier
(Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University)
19/09/2013, 18:30
The H.E.S.S. experiment of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACT) operational since 2004, has discovered many new sources of cosmic-ray acceleration and searched for fundamental physics. In September 2012, a fifth and larger telescope was inaugurated, lowering the energy threshold and starting the second phase of the experiment. In the coming years, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA)...
Joao Anjos
(Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas)
19/09/2013, 18:36
We present the status of the simulation of the Angra Neutrino Project.
The project aims at measuring neutrinos from the Angra power plant.
The detector is being built at CBPF and will be installed in Angra later this year.
After a short review of the motivation, design and construction of the apparatus, the simulation is discussed.
The foreseen rates of the neutrino signal and of the major...
Stephen Grahame Cole
(Northern Illinois University (US))
19/09/2013, 18:50
ATLAS measurements of multi-boson production involving combinations of
W, Z and isolated photons are summarized. Measurements using data at 7 TeV as well as new results
using data at 8 TeV are presented. The measurements are performed using leptonic
decay modes, including the invisible decay Z--> nunu, as well as semileptonic channels.
Differential and total visible cross sections are...
Thomas Thuemmler
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
19/09/2013, 18:58
Neutrino properties and especially the determination of the neutrino mass play an important role at the intersections of cosmology, particle physics and astroparticle physics.
The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino experiment (KATRIN) investigates single beta decay electrons close to their kinematic endpoint in order to determine the neutrino mass by a model-independent method.
Applying an...
Oscar M. Vives
(IFIC and U: Valencia)
20/09/2013, 09:00
We review the role of LFV experiments in the search of new physics after the first LHC results. We highlight the importance of charged lepton flavour violation to look for new physics and improve our understanding on the physics of flavour. New sources of LFV are generally present in new physics beyond the Standard Model and because of the high sensitivity of LFV processes, LFV experiments...
Pedro A N Machado
(Universidade de Sao Paulo (BR))
20/09/2013, 09:00
Neutrino oscillations involving eV-scale neutrino mass states are investigated in the context of global neutrino oscillation data including short and long-baseline accelerator, reactor, and radioactive source experiments, as well as atmospheric and solar neutrinos. We consider sterile neutrino mass schemes involving one or two mass-squared differences at the eV^2 scale denoted by 3+1, 3+2, and...
Mateus Carneiro
(Estate University of Campinas)
20/09/2013, 09:22
Mass Varying Neutrinos mechanisms were proposed to link the neutrino mass scale with the dark energy density, addressing the coincidence problem. In some scenarios this mass can present a dependence on the baryonic density felt by neutrinos, creating an effective neutrino mass that depends both on the neutrino and baryonic densities. In this work we study the phenomenological consequence of...
Dr
Simeone Dussoni
(INFN Pisa)
20/09/2013, 09:30
The MEG experiment has been searching for the SM-supressed decay mu->e gamma with unprecedented sensitivity and recently improved down to 5.7*10**-13 the upper limit on the branching ratio of the mu->e gamma decay. This can help in putting severe constraints on proposed SM extensions. Aiming to further improve this limit we are planning an upgrade to reach a sensitivity of 5*10**-14.
Michele Frigerio
(Laboratoire Charles Coulomb)
20/09/2013, 09:30
I will argue that, besides the axion, there are other pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons that are suitable candidates for the dark matter.
Their mass and interactions can be connected to the electroweak scale, and in this case the dark matter properties
are interlaced with the properties of the Higgs boson.
In particular, I will discuss the possibility that both the Higgs and the dark matter are...
Dr
Arman Esmaili
(UNICAMP)
20/09/2013, 09:44
Atmospheric neutrino data collected by huge neutrino detectors, such as IceCube, provide the opportunity to probe new physics unprecedentedly, both due to high statistics and also to the high energy range. In this talk we discuss various new physics scenarios that can be probed by these data including: active-sterile neutrino mixing, non-standard neutrino interactions and violation of...
Dr
Aurore Savoy Navarro
(Sezione di Pisa (IT) and CNRS/IN2P3)
20/09/2013, 10:00
As the heaviest particle of the Standard Model, the top has the largest coupling to the Higgs and is expected to play a special role in the theory of the electroweak breaking. For instance, the forward-backward asymmetry in t-tbar events recently observed at the Tevatron might be a signal of New Physics. A review of the many ways to look for New Physics through high precision measurements of...
Michael Shaevitz
(Columbia University)
20/09/2013, 10:06
The IsoDAR experiment uses a novel isotope decay-at-rest (DAR) source of electron antineutrinos using protons from a 60 MeV cyclotron. Paired with KamLAND, the experiment can observe over 800 thousand inverse beta-decay events in five years and do a decisive test of the current hints for sterile neutrino. Daedalus is a phased program leading to a high-sensitivity search for CP violation. The...
Dr
Claudia Frugiuele
(FNAL)
20/09/2013, 11:00
I will talk about SUSY extension of SM with Dirac gauginos discussing the main advantages respect to the MSSM focusing in particular on R symmetric models.
I will summarise the LHC phenomenology and how to obtain a 125 GeV Higgs in this framework.
Murilo Santana Rangel
(Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro (BR))
20/09/2013, 11:00
We report measurements of electroweak boson production in the forward region, using data collected at the LHCb experiment with a centre of mass energy of √s=7 TeV with an integrated luminosity of up to 1.0 fb–1. W and Z bosons are reconstructed in leptonic decay channels, and their cross-sections determined using data-driven techniques. All results are compared to NNLO predictions.
Prof.
Jan Kisiel
(University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland)
20/09/2013, 11:00
ICARUS-T600 is the first large-scale realization of the Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber detection technology for neutrino physics and nucleon decay searches. It has been running in the underground Gran Sasso laboratory for three years (from May 2010 to June 2013) detecting both neutrinos from the CNGS beam and cosmics. The results obtained so far will be presented with special emphasis...
Jonathan Asaadi
(Syracuse University)
20/09/2013, 11:22
Liquid argon time projection chambers provide an extraordinary level of information about the interactions of neutrinos. The Argon Neutrino Teststand, or ArgoNeuT, experiment deployed a relatively small detector in the NuMI neutrino beamline at Fermilab, and the data collected during that endeavor is now being used to measure neutrino and antineutrino interaction cross-sections. This talk...
Prof.
Arie Bodek
(University of Rochester)
20/09/2013, 11:30
We report on precision measurement of the electroweak mixing angle and an indirect measurement of the W mass extracted from the forward-backward asymmetry of e+e- and mu+mu- Drell-Yan events at CDF.
Prof.
Yuri Shirman
(University of California, Irvine)
20/09/2013, 11:40
After I presenting an analysis of the operators in supersoft SUSY breaking, I will discuss the requirements that must be satisfied by successful UV completions and the modifications of minimal supersoft mechanism needed to avoid negative mass squareds for adjoint scalars.
I will then present a complete model of dynamical supersymmetry breaking resulting in realistic superpartner spectrum with...
Andrzej Szelc
(Yale University)
20/09/2013, 11:44
Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers are quickly becoming one of the most promising detector technologies in neutrino
physics. They offer very good 3D and calorimetric resolution and allow relatively straight forward construction of large mass
detectors making them a great candidate for current and future precision neutrino measurements. A prime example is the
MicroBooNE experiment set to...
Jane Theresa Cummings
(Yale University (US))
20/09/2013, 12:00
Neutral and charged current Drell-Yan processes at the LHC provide unique tool to study various QCD and EW effects. Measurements differential in invariant mass of the lepton
pair and lepton or pair rapidity are sensitive to the parton density functions. Measurements
of the transverse momentum of the Z boson study QCD radiation effects. Lepton forward-backward asymmetry in the NC process...
Christopher Mauger
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
20/09/2013, 12:06
The Cryogenic Apparatus for Precision Tests of Argon Interactions with Neutrinos (CAPTAIN) program is designed to make measurements of scientific importance to long-baseline neutrino physics and physics topics that will be explored by large underground detectors. CAPTAIN began as part of a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project and...
Sylvie Rosier
(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
20/09/2013, 15:00
The AMS-02 detector is a wide acceptance high-energy physics experiment operating since May 2011 onboard of the International Space Station. It consists of six complementary sub-detectors providing measurement on the energy, the mass and the charge leading to an unambiguous identification of the cosmic rays. To date, 40 billion cosmic ray events have been collected. Performance of AMS in...
Gustavo Burdman
(University of Sao Paulo)
20/09/2013, 15:45
I reflect on the need for physics beyond the standard model in light of the
discovery of a Higgs particle that appears to be consistent with the standard model predictions.
Dr
Stephen Parke
(Fermilab)
20/09/2013, 17:00
The future prospects of Neutrino Physics will be discussed.
Gustavo Branco
(Instituto Superior Tecnico)
20/09/2013, 17:45
We review some of the open questions in the Flavour Sector
of the Standard Model and analyse the present and future Search for
New Physics.
Eduardo Pontón
(Columbia University)
21/09/2013, 09:00
Pietro Govoni
(Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
21/09/2013, 09:20
Thomas Schwetz-Mangold
(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (DE))
21/09/2013, 09:45
Cecilia tarantino
(University Roma Tre)
21/09/2013, 11:00
Guy Wilkinson
(University of Oxford (GB))
21/09/2013, 11:20
Heidi Sandaker
(University of Bergen (NO))
21/09/2013, 11:45
Rogerio Rosenfeld
(UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista (BR))
21/09/2013, 12:15
Pamela Ferrari
(NIKHEF (NL))
Working Group 1
talk
The discovery of a Higgs-like boson with a mass of about 125 GeV has prompted the question of whether or not this particle is part of a much larger and more complex Higgs sector than that envisioned in the Standard Model. In this talk, searches for the charged Higgs and additional Higgs bosons in the MSSM and the NMSSM are presented.
Mr
Alexander Quiroga
(PUC-Rio)
Working Group 2
poster
We assume that in the near future, the positive results of three mass observables, namely, non-zero value of sum of neutrino masses from cosmological data, efective masses from neutrinoless double beta decay, and tritium beta decay experiments, will be obtained. We further assume that these results are in conflict with the standard three flavor neutrino framework which implies the presence of...
Sylvie Rosier
(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
Victor Basto-Gonzalez
(IFGW-UNICAMP)
Working Group 2
poster
We consider a model with large extra dimensions where 3 right-hand neutrino can propagate in more than four dimensions, this full space-time is called bulk. These neutrinos have Yukawa couplings to the 3 active neutrinos in the 4-dimensional subspace, called brane. The role of large extra dimensions is provide a small Dirac neutrino mass. This mass is test in the forthcoming experiment KATRIN,...
Mrs
Thamys Abrahão
(PUC-Rio)
Working Group 2
poster
The Angra II nuclear reactor, which has the 4 GW of thermal power, is located in the Angra dos Reis nuclear power plant in the State of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The large fission rate of $\sim 10^{20}$ per second produces about 5000 antineutrino interactions per day in a water Cherenkov detector with only 1 m$^3$ of fiducial volume at
the distance of 25 m from the reactor core. As the flux...
Dr
Roberto Leandro Neves de Oliveria
(Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
Working Group 2
poster
In this work, we apply quantum dissipation to analyze the MINOS data. We perform this analysis considering neutrino and antineutrino beam and the global hypothesis where neutrinos are equivalents to antineutrinos. In the analysis, we use two different quantum dissipation models, where the first take into account only decoherence effects and second considers more general dissipative effects. In...
Ms
Simone Rupp
(Institute of Experimental Nuclear Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Working Group 2
poster
Using high-precision spectroscopy of tritium beta decay electrons close to their kinematic endpoint, the KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino experiment (KATRIN) is targeted to measure the neutrino mass in a model-independent way with a sensitivity of 200 meV/c^2 (90% C.L.).
For this purpose, ~ 10^11 electrons per second are generated in a windowless gaseous tritium source (WGTS) and adiabatically...
Pamela Ferrari
(NIKHEF (NL))
Working Group 1
talk
The discovery of a Higgs-like boson with a mass of about 125 GeV has prompted the question of whether or not this particle is part of a much larger and more complex Higgs sector than that envisioned in the Standard Model. In this talk, the searches for additional Higgs bosons at high mass in the WW and ZZ and interpretations in 2HDM models are presented.
Collaboration Borexino
(LNGS)
Working Group 2
talk
The Borexino is a an excellent and well understood detector for both low energy sub-MeV neutrinos (as proven by the solar neutrino results) and anti-neutrinos.
The European Community has recently approved a project for the construction of a neutrino or an anti-neutrino source which will allow to confirm or unambiguously reject the long standing neutrino anomalies suggested by the LSND...
Marcelo M. Guzzo
(UNICAMP)
Working Group 2
poster
We propose a mechanism which provides an explanation of the Gallium and antineutrino reactor anomalies. Differently from original Pontecorvo's hypothesis, this mechanism is based on the phenomenological assumption in which the admixture of neutrino mass eigenstates in the moments of neutrino creation and detection can assume different configurations around the admixture parametrized by the...
Eduardo Zavanin
(Unicamp)
Working Group 2
poster
Using the phenomenological hypothesis that flavor states are not composed by a single mixing of mass states, we developed a mechanism that supports an possible explanation to the Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly and the Gallium Anomaly. Noticing a possible dependence of the free parameter demanded by the mechanism, we also identified a way to explain the appearance phenomena observed in LSDN and...
Leonardo Tavares
(I)
Working Group 2
poster
We propose a method of inference to resolve the Earth's internal distribution of heat producing elements, known sources of geo-neutrinos. It incorporates experimental information given by multiple detectors around the globe via the Bayes' Theorem and uses a multigrid approach to iteratively reconstruct the Earth. We present some test results of the algorithm and questions we would like to...