3โ€“10 Aug 2016
Chicago IL USA
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Session

Neutrino Physics

A
4 Aug 2016, 09:00
Chicago IL USA

Chicago IL USA

Sheraton Grand Chicago 301 East Water Street Chicago IL 60611 USA

Conveners

Neutrino Physics: Solar/Atm/SN

  • Hiroyuki Sekiya (University of Tokyo)

Neutrino Physics: Reactor

  • Seon-Hee Seo (Seoul National University)

Neutrino Physics: VSBL reactor exp + Sterile

  • Seon-Hee Seo (Seoul National University)

Neutrino Physics: Sterile

  • Seon-Hee Seo (Seoul National University)

Neutrino Physics: Neutrino models + collider tests

  • Andre De Gouvea (Northwestern University)

Neutrino Physics: DBD I

  • Francesc Monrabal (University of Texas at Arlington)

Neutrino Physics: DBD II

  • HongJoo Kim (Kyungpook National University)

Neutrino Physics: interaction, x-section

  • William Detmold (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Neutrino Physics: interaction, x-section+astrophysics/cosmology

  • Yvonne Wong (The University of New South Wales)

Neutrino Physics: LBL+R&D

  • Sowjanya Gollapinni (Wayne State University (US))

Neutrino Physics: R&D + pheno@future facilities

  • Werner Rodejohann

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  1. Mr Zepeng Li (Duke University)
    04/08/2016, 09:00
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    The latest results from the Super-Kamiokande on the topic of atmospheric neutrino oscillation will be presented. Atmospheric neutrinos cover a wide energy range, have both electron and muon flavors, and through a 3-flavor analysis are sensitive to the neutrino mass hierarchy and CP-violating phase.
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  2. Yuuki Nakano (Kamioka Observatory)
    04/08/2016, 09:17
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    Super-Kamiokande (SK), a 50 kton water Cherenkov detector in Japan, observes $^{8}$B solar neutrinos with neutrino-electron elastic scattering. SK searches for distortions of the solar neutrino energy spectrum caused by the edge of the MSW resonance in the core of the Sun. It also searches for a day/night solar rate asymmetry induced by the matter in the Earth. A combined analysis of the all...
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  3. Davide D'Angelo (Universita' degli Studi Milano)
    04/08/2016, 09:35
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    The Borexino experiment is running at the โ€œLaboratori del Gran Sassoโ€ in Italy since 2007. Its technical distinctive feature is the unprecedented ultralow background of the inner scintillating core, which is the basis of the outstanding achievements obtained by the experiment. In this talk, after recalling the main features of the detector, the impressive solar and geoneutrino results...
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  4. Orlando L. G. Peres (UNICAMP)
    04/08/2016, 10:05
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    We consider the possibility of solar neutrino decay on their propagation between production and detection. Using current oscillation data, we set a new lower bound to the $\nu_2$ neutrino lifetime at $\tau_2\, /\, m_2 \geq 7.2 \times 10^{-4}\,\,\hbox{s}\,.\,\hbox{eV}^{-1}$ at $99\%\,$C.L.. We show that in neutrino decay scenario induce an non-usual seasonal variation in the solar neutrino data.
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  5. Joshua Hignight (Michigan State University)
    04/08/2016, 10:22
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    Located at the South Pole Station in Antarctica, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is the world's largest neutrino telescope. In the clearest part of the ice sits a more densely instrumented section, DeepCore, that is able to measure neutrinos from 10-60 GeV. Using DeepCore, neutrino oscillations can be observed via $\nu_{\mu}$ disappearance. This talk will go over the latest atmospheric...
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  6. Stephen Parke (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
    04/08/2016, 11:30
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    Both Daya Bay and Reno have performed a combined analysis of sin^2 2 theta_{13} and Delta m^2_ee using reactor anti-neutrinos. In the literature there are various definitions of Delta m^2_ee, in this presentation I will review the properties of these different definitions and argue that "the nu_e average of Delta m^2_{31} and Delta m^2_{32}" is the not only L/E independent but the simplest...
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  7. Dr Jiajie Ling
    04/08/2016, 11:50
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    In the three-flavor neutrino mixing framework, $\theta_{13}$ was the least known mixing angle. The Daya Bay experiment was designed to measure this parameter with unprecedented precison through a relative measurement with eight functionally identical electron anti-neutrino detectors deployed at three experimental halls near three high-power nuclear reactor complexes in south China. In March...
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  8. Dr Jun-Ho Choi (Dongshin University)
    04/08/2016, 12:10
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    The Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillation(RENO) has been taking data since August 2011 using two identical detectors. In 2012 RENO has unambiguously measured the smallest neutrino mixing angle theta13 using 220 days data. In this talk, we report our new results with a larger data set and improved systematics using ~500 days data. They are a more precisely measured value of sin^2...
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  9. Tsunayuki Matsubara (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
    04/08/2016, 12:30
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    Double Chooz is reactor neutrino experiment designed for precise measurement of the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$. The first non-zero indication of the $\theta_{13}$ from a reactor experiment was provided by Double Chooz in 2011. A robust observation of $\theta_{13}$ was followed in 2012 by the Daya Bay and RENO experiments with multiple detectors. The final precision of the...
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  10. Prof. Yuekun Heng (Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing)
    04/08/2016, 12:50
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    The Status of JUNO and RENO-50 Both the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) in China and the RENO-50 in South Korea are multipurpose neutrino experiments designed to determine neutrino mass hierarchy and precisely measure oscillation parameters by detecting reactor neutrinos from nuclear power plants, observe supernova neutrinos, study the atmospheric, solar neutrinos and...
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  11. Dr Ye-Ling Zhou (Durham University)
    04/08/2016, 13:10
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    Current neutrino oscillation data strongly suggests specific flavour structures in the lepton sector which can be explained by underlying flavour symmetries. Discrete flavour symmetries have emerged as a powerful tool to realise the observed mixing patterns in which the values of the parameters are uniquely predicted or specific correlations between parameters are obtained. In many models the...
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  12. Dr Yoomin Oh (Institute for Basic Science)
    04/08/2016, 14:30
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    The existence of sterile neutrinos may explain the discrepancy between the recent calculation and experimental measurements for the reactor anti-neutrino flux. The sterile neutrino can be searched by measuring the distortion of the anti-neutrino energy spectrum at a very short distance from the reactor core. NEOS, Neutrino Experiment for Oscillation at Short Baseline, measured the...
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  13. Michael Mendenhall (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
    04/08/2016, 14:48
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    Comparison of reactor antineutrino flux and spectrum measurements to model predictions have revealed an apparent deficit in the reactor antineutrino interaction rate and an unexpected spectral deviation. PROSPECT is a phased experiment consisting of segmented Li-loaded liquid scintillator antineutrino detectors that will be located near the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at the Oak Ridge...
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  14. Dan Saunders (Bristol)
    04/08/2016, 15:06
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    The disappearance of reactor antineutrino into a new neutral state (called sterile neutrino) has been proposed as a possible explanation for the recent reactor and Gallium anomalies arising from the re-analysis of reactor flux and calibration data of previous neutrino experiments. A way to test this hypothesis is to look for distortions of the anti-neutrino energy caused by oscillation from...
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  15. Birgit Neumair (Technical University of Munich)
    04/08/2016, 15:24
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    The Borexino detector has convincingly shown its outstanding performances in the low energy regime through its accomplishments in the solar and geo neutrinos detection. These performances make it the ideal tool to accomplish a state-of-the-art, source based experiment able to test the long-standing issue of the existence of a sterile neutrino, as suggested by the several anomalous results...
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  16. Dr Jyoti Joshi (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
    04/08/2016, 15:42
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
  17. Xiao Luo (Yale)
    04/08/2016, 16:00
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    MicroBooNE is a short-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment located in the Booster Neutrino Beamline at Fermilab at a distance of 470 m from the target. The detector is a 89 t active volume liquid-argon time projection chamber (LArTPC). The technology of LArTPCs introduced bubble chamber-like image quality with a fully automated triggering, readout and calorimetric information to the...
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  18. Rasmus Sloth Lundkvist (Max-Planck-Institut fรผr Kernphysik)
    04/08/2016, 16:12
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    A number of short baseline neutrino experiments have found anomalous results throughout the past decades. These can be interpreted as oscillations between the active neutrinos and a sterile neutrino with a mass around $1$eV. The individual anomalies are not very significant themselves, but taken together they provide an interesting hint for a new particle beyond the Standard Model. However,...
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  19. Dr Carlos Argรผelles (MIT)
    04/08/2016, 17:00
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    The IceCube neutrino telescope at the South Pole has measured the atmospheric muon neutrino spectrum as a function of zenith angle and energy. We have performed a search for eV-scale sterile neutrinos by looking at distortion in those distributions. Such a sterile neutrino, motivated by the anomalies in short-baseline experiments, is expected to have a significant signature in the...
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  20. Dr Leigh Whitehead (UCL)
    04/08/2016, 17:20
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
  21. Matthew Bass (University of Oxford)
    04/08/2016, 17:40
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
  22. Prof. Takasumi Maruyama (KEK)
    04/08/2016, 18:00
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    The JSNS^2 experiment aims to search for the existence of neutrino oscillations with Delta m^2 near 1 eV^2 at the J-PARC Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility (MLF). The combination of the 1 MW proton beam (3 GeV), created by the Rapid Cycling Synchrotron (RCS), and the spallation neutron target, provides an intense neutrino source from muon decay at rest (mu+ --> e+ + numubar +...
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  23. Christopher Grant (UC Davis)
    04/08/2016, 18:20
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    Neutrino beam facilities, like spallation neutron facilities, produce copious quantities of neutrinos from the decay at rest of mesons and muons. The viability of decay-in-flight neutrino beams as sites for decay-at-rest neutrino studies has been investigated by calculating expected low-energy neutrino fluxes from the existing Fermilab NuMI beam facility. Decay-at-rest neutrino production in...
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  24. Spencer Axani (MIT)
    04/08/2016, 18:40
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    IsoDAR is a cyclotron based neutrino experiment, proposed to investigate the short baseline anomalies by measuring $\bar{\nu_e}$ disappearance over an L/E of approximately 0.6-7.0 m/MeV. When paired with a kiloton class detector like KamLAND, IsoDAR would be able to distinguish between a 3+1 and 3+2 sterile neutrino model and cover the current global allowed region to 5 $\sigma$ in less than...
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  25. Dr Werner Rodejohann
    05/08/2016, 09:00
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    Sterile Neutrino Models appear in many models, and their masses can lie anywhere between zero and the GUT scale. Depending on that mass and the mixing with the active sector, their phenomenology can cover aspects such as leptogenesis, dark matter, short baseline neutrino oscillations, vacuum stability, neutrinoless double beta decay etc. Typical models for several such cases are discussed.
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  26. Stella Riad (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
    05/08/2016, 09:18
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    We investigate the renormalization group running of gauge couplings in various radiative neutrino mass models, which generate neutrino masses at one- and two-loop order. We discuss the possibility for these couplings to unify in such models at an energy scale close to the GUT scale. The studies are performed both analytically, at one-loop level, and numerically, at two-loop level, using the...
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  27. Dr Bhupal Dev (MPIK, Heidelberg)
    05/08/2016, 09:35
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    We will review the current status and future prospects of testing some simple neutrino mass mechanisms at the energy frontier, with particular emphasis on the ongoing searches at the LHC, as well as some recent theoretical developments to enhance the sensitivity. We will also discuss the complementarity with various low-energy probes at the intensity frontier.
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  28. Un Ki Yang (Seoul National University (KR)), Un-ki Yang (Seoul National University)
    05/08/2016, 09:53
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    Heavy neutrinos occur in various extensions of the Standard Model (SM) and may explain the observed small masses of the SM neutrinos via several possible variants of the seesaw mechanism. We present results on searches for heavy neutrinos at the LHC. Searches are performed in the dilepton+jets channel and the trilepton channel, and results are interpreted in terms of the Left-Right Symmetrical...
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  29. Josu Hernandez
    05/08/2016, 10:27
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    We extend the Standard Model with 3 right-handed neutrinos with an approximate lepton number symmetry, which leads to sizeable neutrino mixing while generating the neutrino masses and PMNS matrix measured in oscillation experiments. Constraints on the right-handed neutrino mixing are derived through a global fit to electroweak precision ...
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  30. Eric Van Herwijnen (CERN)
    05/08/2016, 10:45
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    SHIP is a new general purpose fixed target facility, whose Technical Proposal has been recently reviewed by the CERN SPS Committee, who recommended that the experiment proceeds further to a Comprehensive Design phase. In its initial phase, the 400GeV proton beam extracted from the SPS will be dumped on a heavy target with the aim of integrating $2\times 10^{20}$ pot in 5 years. A dedicated...
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  31. Jonathan Engel (University of North Carolina)
    05/08/2016, 14:30
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    At present, calculated nuclear matrix elements for neutrinoless double-beta decay carry a theoretical uncertainty that is hard to quantify but is at least a factor of two or three. That level of uncertainty makes planning and interpreting experiments difficult. Recent progress in nuclear theory and the organization of the theory community, however, should allow more accurate calculations with...
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  32. Jonathan Ouellet (MIT)
    05/08/2016, 14:50
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    The KamLAND-Zen (KamLAND Zero-Neutrino Double-Beta Decay) experiment, located in Kamioka mine, in Japan, is one of the leading experiments for the search of $0ยฅnuยฅbetaยฅbeta$ decay in $^{136}$Xe dissolved in the liquid scintillator (LS). In 2011, initial $0ยฅnuยฅbetaยฅbeta$ decay search with high sensitivity was quickly achieved, owing to the extremely low radioactivity in the already existing...
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  33. Jozsef Janicsko Csathy (Technische Unversitat Munchen)
    05/08/2016, 15:10
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    The neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) is a lepton number violating process and if observed it would be a demonstrate the presence of a Majorana term in the neutrino mass. The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment, located at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory in Italy, is built for the search of $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay in $^{76}$Ge. GERDA operates bare high purity...
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  34. Caio Licciardi (nEXO)
    05/08/2016, 15:30
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    The EXO-200 experiment has made both the first observation and the most precisely measured half-life of any double-beta decay to date, as well as already provided one of the most sensitive searches for the neutrino-less mode of this decay (0vbb). It consists of an extremely low background time projection chamber containing ~150 kg of enriched liquid Xe-136. Using the first two years of data,...
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  35. Kyungeun Lim (Yale University)
    05/08/2016, 15:50
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    CUORE-0 is a cryogenic detector that uses an array of tellurium dioxide bolometers to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of Te-130. The detector consists of 52 TeO2 crystal bolometers held in a ultra-pure copper frame and it was assembled using the new low-background techniques developed for CUORE. Using bolometers operated at โˆผ 10 mK provides excellent energy resolution (< 0.2% FWHM)...
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  36. HongJoo Kim (Kyungpook National University)
    05/08/2016, 16:10
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    The AMoRE (Advanced Mo-based Rare process Experiment) project is an international collaboration experiment searching for neutrinoless double beta decay of Mo-100 using a cryogenic technique with Mo-100 enriched and Ca-48 depleted calcium molybdate (48deplCa100MoO4) crystal scintillators. A pilot experiment is running with 1.5 kg of 48deplCa100MoO4 crystals in simultaneous heat and light...
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  37. Francesc Monrabal (University of Texas at Arlington)
    05/08/2016, 17:00
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    The NEXT collaboration aims to build a 100 kg scale detector for neutrinoless double beta decay searches. The NEXT-100 is a gaseous Time Projection Chamber (TPC) operating with Xenon enriched at 90% in the Xe-136 isotope. Phase-I of the NEXT-100 detector, NEXT-White (NEW), is starting operation in spring 2016. With about half of the NEXT-100 linear dimensions (about 10 kg of xenon), NEW has...
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  38. John Cesar (The University of Texas at Austin)
    05/08/2016, 17:20
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    The NEMO-3 detector, which had been operating in the Modane Underground Laboratory from 2003 to 2010, was designed to search for neutrinoless double-ฮฒ (0ฮฝฮฒฮฒ) decay. The double-beta decay with neutrino emission was observed for several isotopes (100Mo, 82Se, 116Cd, 130Te, 150Nd, 96Zr and 48Ca) and limits sets for 0ฮฝฮฒฮฒ decay lepton-number violating mechanisms . Multivariate analysis were...
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  39. Frรฉdรฉric Perrot
    05/08/2016, 17:40
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    SuperNEMO is a next generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiment with a design capability to reach a half-life sensitivity of 10$^{26}$ years with 100 kg of enriched double beta decay isotopes corresponding to an effective Majorana neutrino mass of $m_{\beta \beta }$ < 50 - 100 meV. The concept of the detector has been validated by the successful NEMO3 experiment. It is based on the...
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  40. Vincente Guiseppe (University of South Carolina)
    05/08/2016, 18:00
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    Neutrinoless double-beta decay searches play a major role in determining the nature of neutrinos, the existence of a lepton violating process, and the effective Majorana neutrino mass. The MAJORANA Collaboration is assembling an array of high purity Ge detectors to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in $^{76}$Ge. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is comprised of 44 kg (30 kg enriched in...
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  41. Ezio Previtali (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)
    05/08/2016, 18:20
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay is intrinsically connected with the complete characterization of neutrino properties and, if observed, implies a lepton number violation by 2 units and proves the existence of massive Majorana neutrinos. Many efforts were spent in the last few years to develop and built very high sensitive experiments increasing the detector masses, to around 1 ton, optimizing...
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  42. Laura Cardani (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)
    05/08/2016, 18:40
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    Background rejection plays a key role for experiments searching for rare events, like neutrino-less double beta decay (0nDBD) and dark matter interactions. Among the several detection technologies that were proposed to study these processes, cryogenic calorimeters (bolometers) stand out for the excellent energy resolution, the ease in achieving large source mass, and the intrinsic...
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  43. Aaron Meyer (University of Chicago)
    06/08/2016, 09:00
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    We address techniques to make the theoretical underpinning of neutrino-nucleon scattering more robust. We see this foundation as a necessary step to disentangle fundamental physics (such as neutrino oscillation parameters) from nuclear effects. We address a reanalysis of old experiments with elementary targets, model-independent parametrizations of nucleon form factors based on analyticity,...
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  44. Ulrich Mosel (Universitaet Giessen)
    06/08/2016, 09:17
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    Neutrino beams are necessarily broad in energy. This poses a unique challenge for any cross section studies with neutrinos since the incoming energy is not known, but must be reconstructed event-by-event. The reconstruction usually uses either kinematics for quasielastic scattering or a calorimetric approach in which the final state energy is measured. Both methods require event generators...
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  45. Gil Paz (Wayne State University)
    06/08/2016, 09:35
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    Understanding the charged current quasielastic (CCQE) neutrino-nucleus interaction is important for precision studies of neutrino oscillations. The theoretical description of the interaction depends on the combination of a nuclear model with the knowledge of form factors. While the former has received considerable attention, the latter, in particular the axial form factor, is implemented using...
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  46. Martin Savage (Institute for Nuclear Theory)
    06/08/2016, 09:52
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    I will present results of recent lattice QCD calculations of axial-current matrix elements in light nuclei performed by the NPLQCD collaboration. Precision calculations of these matrix elements, and the subsequent extraction of multi-nucleon axial current operators, are essential in refining theoretical predictions of neutrino-nucleus cross sections and double-beta decay rates of nuclei. In...
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  47. Michael Kordosky (William and Mary), Mike Kordosky (College of William and Mary)
    06/08/2016, 10:10
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
  48. Julian Felix (Universidad de Guanajuato)
    06/08/2016, 10:30
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
  49. Neil McCauley (Liverpool University)
    06/08/2016, 11:15
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    The T2K long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment is well known for its contributions to our understanding of the neutrino oscillation parameters, but its contribution to the world's knowledge of neutrino interaction cross sections is also significant and growing quickly. The two near detectors in particular, INGRID and ND280, are ideal for contributing to this...
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  50. Robert Cooper (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
    06/08/2016, 11:32
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    The COHERENT collaboration's primary objective is to measure coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) using the unique, high-quality source of tens-of-MeV neutrinos provided by the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). COHERENT will deploy multiple detector technologies in a phased approach and will test the $N^2$ dependence of the cross section....
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  51. Chris Tully (Princeton University (US))
    06/08/2016, 11:49
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
  52. Ali Kheirandish (University of Wisconsin and WIPAC)
    06/08/2016, 12:09
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    IceCube has been observing cosmic neutrinos continuously since their discovery. The origin of these cosmic neutrinos is still unknown and their distribution is compatible with an isotropic diffuse flux. Dedicated studies show that a large fraction of the observed high energy neutrinos originate somewhere outside our galaxy. Regardless of the extragalactic source, the neutrino flux and...
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  53. Dr Sushant Raut (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
    06/08/2016, 12:26
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    The IceCube experiment at the South Pole has been observing ultra high energy neutrinos in the TeV-PeV range and beyond. At such high energies, these neutrinos allow new physics searches, which can be complementary to searches at collider experiments. In this work, we discuss an analysis of IceCube data in the context of neutrino decay. We use the first three years of data from IceCube...
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  54. Marco Drewes (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))
    06/08/2016, 12:43
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    Right handed neutrinos could not only explain the observed neutrino masses via the seesaw mechanism, but also generate the baryon asymmetry of the universe due to their CP-violating interactions in the early universe. If their Majorana masses are at the TeV scale or smaller, these particles can be found at the LHC or future colliders, including SHiP, FCC or CEPC. In addition, the relevant...
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  55. Keith Matera (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
    06/08/2016, 14:00
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation

    This talk reports the first measurement using the NOvA detectors of
    $\nu_{\mu}$ disappearance in a $\nu_{\mu}$ beam. Oscillation parameters
    $\Delta m_{32}^{2}$ and $\sin^{2}\theta_{23}$ are measured as function
    of the count and energy spectrum of $\nu_{\mu}$ interactions at a
    Near and Far Detector, separated by a distance of $810\text{ km}$.
    High-statistics Near Detector energy spectra are...

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  56. Jianming Bian (UC Irvine)
    06/08/2016, 14:20
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation

    NOvA is a long-baseline accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiment that is optimized for NuE measurements. It uses the upgraded NuMI beam from Fermilab and measures electron-neutrino appearance and muon-neutrino disappearance at its Far Detector in Ash River, Minnesota. The NuE appearance analysis at NOvA aims to resolve the neutrino mass hierarchy problem and to constrain the...

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  57. Konosuke Iwamoto (University of Rochester)
    06/08/2016, 14:35
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation

    Merging the following abstracts:

    The T2K long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment has been running in anti-neutrino mode since 2014 and recently released anti-neutrino oscillation results. These results have been updated with further data and now include the full three-flavour anti-neutrino oscillation analysis. We will present these new results and compare them with the neutrino...

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  58. Michel Gonin (Ecole Polytechnique)
    06/08/2016, 14:55
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    Hyper-Kamiokande (HK) will be a next generation underground water Cherenkov detector, based on the highly successful Super-Kamiokande (SK) experiment. HK is the logical continuation of the highly successful program of neutrino physics and proton decay searches using a water Cherenkov technique, with an order of magnitude larger mass than predecessor experiments. One of the main goals of HK...
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  59. Luis Labarga (Departam.de Fisica Teorica)
    06/08/2016, 15:15
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    While the Standard Model provides an excellent description of low energy particle interactions, the description is nonetheless incomplete and there are well motivated reasons to believe it is only part of a larger theory. Among these is its explicit conservation of baryon number, a quantity whose violation is required to produce the matter dominated universe observed today. This issue is...
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  60. Elizabeth Worcester
    06/08/2016, 15:30
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
  61. Peter Denton (Vanderbilt U and Fermilab)
    06/08/2016, 16:15
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    Recently significant progress has been made in the analytic understand of neutrino oscillation probabilities in matter, see arXiv:1505.01826. This work has recently been further extended to large L/E regions and gives the exact probability in vacuum, this new perturbation theory is numerically very accurate and the expressions for the oscillation probabilities is remarkable compact. These...
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  62. Liang Zhan (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS)
    06/08/2016, 16:32
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multipurpose neutrino experiment being built in China. The primary goal is to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy and precisely measure the neutrino oscillation parameters by detecting reactor antineutrinos at a baseline of 53 km from Taishan and Yangjiang reactor power plants with a nominal thermal power of 36 GW. The detector is...
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  63. Andre De Gouvea (Northwestern University)
    06/08/2016, 16:50
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    I discuss the sensitivity of the proposed DUNE experiment to the existence of new neutrino mass eigenstates. I allow for a large range of new mass-squared difference, from values smaller than $10^{-6}$eV$^2$ to values larger than 1 eV$^2$ and discuss the sensitivity to new sources of CP-invariance violation. I also address how well DUNE can disentangle different new physics scenarios,...
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  64. Prof. Raj Gandhi (Harish Chandra Research Institute)
    06/08/2016, 17:08
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    With the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) as an example, we show that even one sterile neutrino of mass ~ 1 eV, if real, could significantly impact the interpretation of future long-baseline measurements. Such measurements, interpreted without taking the sterile neutrino into account, could suggest that CP violation is absent or at most very small, when in fact it is large. ...
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  65. Pilar Coloma (Fermilab)
    06/08/2016, 17:25
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will observe neutrinos traveling through 1300 km of Earth matter. Its long baseline, high neutrino energies and low systematic errors make it an ideal setup to test for effects coming from New Physics affecting neutrinos in propagation through matter. In this talk I will present the expected sensitivities to effective operators giving...
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  66. Poonam Mehta (JNU)
    06/08/2016, 17:43
    Neutrino Physics
    Oral Presentation
    We discuss the impact of non-standard neutrino matter interactions (NSI) in propagation on the determination of CP phase in the context of the long baseline accelerator experiments such as Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). DUNE will mainly address the issue of CP violation in the leptonic sector. Here we study the role of NSI and its impact on the question of observing the CP...
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