DISCRETE 2014: Fourth Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries

Session

Parallel 12: Neutrino Experiments

5 Dec 2014, 16:30

Great Hall and several lecture theatres (King's College London, Strand Campus)

59. SUMMARY OF THE LATEST RESULTS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS FROM THE T2K EXPERIMENT

Dr Yevgeniy Petrov (University of British Columbia, for the T2K collaboration)

05/12/2014, 16:30

The T2K long-baseline experiment is located in Japan and is designed to study oscillations of muon neutrinos. T2K receives a beam of muon neutrinos peaked at 0.6 GeV that are produced at J-PARC accelerator complex by converting a beam of 30-GeV protons hitting a graphite target. Upon travelling 295 km, neutrinos are detected by the Super-Kamiokande water Cherenkov detector. Located at 280 m...

37. Recent results from the OPERA experiment at the CNGS beam

Dr Andrea (on behalf of the OPERA Coll.) Longhin (INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)

05/12/2014, 17:00

The OPERA experiment at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory is searching for nu_mu -> nu_tau oscillations in appearance mode in the CNGS neutrino beam. Four nu_tau candidate events have been found so far, using a sub-sample of data from the 2008-2012 runs. Given the number of analysed events and the low background, nu_mu -> nu_tau oscillations are established with a significance of 4.2...

41. The GERDA Experiment for the Search of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

Manuel Walter (University of Zurich)

05/12/2014, 17:30

{\sc Gerda} is designed to search for the neutrinoless double beta (0$\nu\beta\beta$) decay, a lepton number violating process. It employs bare high-purity germanium diodes enriched to 86\,\% in $^{76}$Ge directly immersed in liquid argon. Phase~I operated till May 2013 with a mean background of 1$\cdot10^{-2}$\,cts/(keV$\cdot$kg$\cdot$yr) near the Q-value. GERDA sets a new lower limit...