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

Session

Parallel 2: Neutrinos mass and mixing, implications for astroparticle physics, dark matter searches

3 Dec 2014, 14:30

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

26. Predictions for the Dirac Phase in the Neutrino Mixing Matrix

Mr Ivan Girardi (SISSA)

03/12/2014, 14:30

Using the fact that the neutrino mixing matrix $U = U^\dagger_{e}U_{\nu}$, where $U_{e}$ and $U_{\nu}$ result from the diagonalisation of the charged lepton and neutrino mass matrices, and assuming 3-neutrino mixing, we consider a number of forms of $U_{\nu}$ associated with a variety of flavour symmetries: i) tri-bimaximal (TBM) and ii) bimaximal BM) forms , the forms corresponding iii) to...

30. Phenomenology of Light Sterile Neutrinos

Marco Laveder (Dipartimento di Fisica Galileo Galilei)

03/12/2014, 15:00

I review the experimental indications in favor of short-baseline neutrino oscillations. I discuss their interpretation in the framework of neutrino mixing schemes with one or more sterile neutrinos which have masses around the eV scale. Taking into account also cosmological constraints, I present arguments in favor of 3+1 neutrino mixing with one sterile neutrino at the eV scale. I...

109. The NOvA long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment

Matthew Tamsett (University of Sussex)

03/12/2014, 15:30

The recently completed NuMI Off-Axis Nu_e Appearance (NOvA) long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, will use an upgraded NuMI neutrino source at Fermilab in conjunction with a 300-ton near-detector and a 14-kton far-detector to explore the neutrino sector. NOvA uses a fully active, finely segmented detector design that offers superb event identification capability, allowing precision...