14โ€“19 Sept 2009
Strada Passo dell'Acqua, 34 - 06134 Bosco PERUGIA, Italy
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  1. Ornella Palamara (WIN09 Chair)
    14/09/2009, 08:45
  2. Riccardo Barbieri
    14/09/2009, 09:00
  3. Roberto Tenchini
    14/09/2009, 09:45
  4. Gino Isidori
    14/09/2009, 11:00
  5. Tim Gershon
    14/09/2009, 11:45
  6. Sandhya Choubey
    14/09/2009, 15:30
  7. Art McDonald
    14/09/2009, 16:15
  8. Neal Weiner
    14/09/2009, 17:30
  9. Bruno Serfass
    14/09/2009, 18:15
  10. Pier Oddone
    15/09/2009, 09:00
  11. David Schmitz
    15/09/2009, 09:30
  12. Cristiano GALBIATI
    15/09/2009, 10:00
  13. Giulia Ricciardi
    15/09/2009, 11:00
  14. Andrei Nikiforov
    15/09/2009, 11:00
  15. Mu-Chun Chen
    15/09/2009, 11:00
    Neutrino Physics
    I will review recent developments in theoretical models for neutrino masses and mixing. Emphases are given to models based on finite group family symmetries in which Tri-bimaximal neutrino mixing pattern is generated. In particular, I will describe one recent model based on grand unification, in which both the Tri-bimaximal neutrino mixing and realistic CKM matrix are generated. The prediction...
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  16. Marcella Bona
    15/09/2009, 11:25
    Electro Weak Symmetry Breaking
  17. Georges Vasseur
    15/09/2009, 11:30
    Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM
  18. Martin HIRSCH
    15/09/2009, 11:30
    Neutrino Physics
    Majorana neutrino masses can be generated in a variety of ways. They could be due to some variant of the seesaw mechanism or be generated radiatively. Also within supersymmetric models neutrino masses can be non-zero if R-parity is broken. This talk discusses different signals of various neutrino mass models one can expect for the LHC experiments.
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  19. Ennio Salvioni
    15/09/2009, 11:50
  20. Chih-Hsiang Cheng
    15/09/2009, 12:00
    Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM
  21. PROBIR ROY
    15/09/2009, 12:00
    Neutrino Physics
    Within the type-I seesaw framework with three heavy right chiral neutrinos and in the basis where the latter and the charged leptons are mass diagonal, we investigate the effects of mu-tau symmetry as well as trbimaximal mixing on the maximally allowed four zero neutrino Yukawa textures which had already led to a predicitve and highly constrained theoretical scheme. A drastic reduction of the...
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  22. Itaru Shimizu
    15/09/2009, 15:30
    Neutrino Physics
    The KamLAND experiment searched for the oscillation of anti-neutrinos emitted from distant nuclear reactors. We observed the anti-neutrino spectral distortion, which was a piece of evidence of neutrino oscillations. Due to their clear spectral distortion, the neutrino mass difference was determined with 2.8% precision. In the near future, we will have a sensitivity also to the low energy solar...
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  23. Tagir Aushev
    15/09/2009, 15:30
  24. Sascha Mehlhase
    15/09/2009, 15:30
    Electro Weak Symmetry Breaking
  25. Alexandre Sousa
    15/09/2009, 15:50
    Neutrino Physics
    The Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) long baseline experiment measures a muon neutrino beam in two locations: a Near detector at Fermilab, close to beam production, and a Far detector, 735 km downstream, in Northern Minnesota. Comparisons of the observed energy spectrum at the Far detector with the expectation derived from the Near detector measurement allow MINOS to study...
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  26. Seung Lee
    15/09/2009, 15:55
  27. Matthew Moulson
    15/09/2009, 16:00
    Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM
  28. Mayly Sanchez
    15/09/2009, 16:10
    Neutrino Physics
    MINOS is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to make precision measurements of the neutrino mixing parameters associated with the atmospheric neutrino mass splitting. Using a neutrino beam from the Main Injector (NuMI) facility at Fermilab, it compares the neutrino energy spectrum for neutrino interactions observed in two large detectors located at Fermilab and in the...
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  29. Gilad Perez
    15/09/2009, 16:20
    Electro Weak Symmetry Breaking
  30. Georgia Karagiorgi
    15/09/2009, 16:30
    Neutrino Physics
    MiniBooNE is a short-baseline experiment located at Fermilab, sensitive to muon (anti)neutrino to electron (anti)neutrino appearance and muon (anti)neutrino disappearance oscillations at high $\Delta m^2~$ 1 eV$^2$. These oscillation searches have been motivated by the 3.8$\sigma$ excess of electron antineutrino events in a muon antineutrino beam observed by the LSND experiment in 1995. In...
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  31. Yasuhiro Nakajima
    15/09/2009, 17:30
    Neutrino Physics
    Neutrino oscillation is a probe for new physics not included in the Standard Model. We search for muon neutrino disappearance at \Delta m^2 ~ 1 eV^2 using the Fermilab Booster Neutrino beamline and two experiments, SciBooNE and MiniBooNE. The neutrino fluxes are measured at SciBooNE and MiniBooNE detectors, located at 100 m and 540 m downstream from the neutrino production target,...
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  32. Sandra Leone
    15/09/2009, 17:30
    Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM
  33. Akitaka Ariga
    15/09/2009, 17:50
    Neutrino Physics
    The OPERA experiment is a long baseline neutrino experiment aiming at the first observation of the appearance of a new flavor signal predicted by the neutrino flavor-mixing oscillations hypothesis. The OPERA is designed to detect a tau neutrino appearance in the pure muon neutrino beam from CERN to Gran Sasso (CNGS beam). The target has a modular structure made of units based on Emulsion Cloud...
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  34. Anze Zupanc
    15/09/2009, 18:00
    Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM
  35. Mr Teppei Baba (Tokai university)
    15/09/2009, 18:10
    Neutrino Physics
    To find hidden structure of flavor neutrino mass matrix, we study properties of flavor neutrino mass satisfying the strong scaling Ansatz (SSA) that predicts non maximal $\nu_2 - \nu_3$ mixing, vanishing $U_{e3}$ and inverted mass hierarchy. However, we find another possibility of SSA that tiny deviation from this Ansatz permits us to realize normal mass hierarchy and tiny value of...
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  36. MyeongJae Lee
    15/09/2009, 18:30
    Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM
  37. Kang Soon Park
    16/09/2009, 09:00
    Neutrino Physics
    RENO(Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillation), is under construction to measure the smallest neutrino mixing angle theta_13 using antineutrinos emitted from the Yonggwang power plant in Korea with world-second largest thermal power output of 16.4 GW. A high precision measurement of reactor neutrino oscillation can be achieved by two identical detectors. Each detector consists 16-ton...
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  38. Massimo Casarsa
    16/09/2009, 09:00
    Electro Weak Symmetry Breaking
    Since the beginning of Run II the Fermilab Tevatron has delivered 6.9 fb-1 of proton-antiproton collisions at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV. Using the collected dataset the CDF and D0 experiments are pursuing extensive Physics programs which have as a main goal the search for a Standard Model Higgs boson. The contribution will review the CDF and D0 results on the direct Standard Model...
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  39. Damir Becirevic
    16/09/2009, 09:00
    Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM
  40. Steve kettell
    16/09/2009, 09:20
    Neutrino Physics
    The Daya Bay experiment aims to measure the last unobserved neutrino mixing angle theta_13 with a sensitivity of sin^2 (2 theta_13) < 0.01 at 90% C.L. The experiment will measure the flux and energy spectrum of reactor antineutrinos through the inverse beta-decay reaction on protons in eight detectors in three underground sites at different distances from the reactor cores. An overview...
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  41. Gerhard Ecker
    16/09/2009, 09:30
    Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM
  42. Alberto Graziano
    16/09/2009, 09:35
    Electro Weak Symmetry Breaking
  43. Marcos Dracos
    16/09/2009, 09:40
    Neutrino Physics
    The Double Chooz neutrino oscillation experiment will perform a highly sensitive measurement of the neutrino mixing angle ฮธ13. The Double Chooz project will utilize two detectors, a near one providing the unoscillated neutrino flux coming from the two reactor cores of the Chooz nuclear plant (France), and a far detector measuring the neutrino flux after oscillation. The signal comparison...
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  44. Giancarlo D'Ambrosio
    16/09/2009, 10:00
    Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM
  45. Hidekazu Kakuno
    16/09/2009, 10:00
    Neutrino Physics
    T2K (Tokai-to-Kamioka) is a second generation long baseline neutrino experiment utilizing a newly built neutrino source with a MW class high energy proton accelerator complex (J-PARC neutrino facility), a near neutrino detector (ND280) to characterize the neutrino beam 280 meters from the source, and Super-Kamiokande as the far detector at 295 km. The primary motivation for T2K is...
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  46. Bjoren Duling
    16/09/2009, 11:00
    Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM
  47. Pierluigi Belli
    16/09/2009, 11:00
    The highly radiopure about 250 kg NaI(Tl) DAMA/LIBRA set-up is running at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory of the I.N.F.N.. Results exploiting the model independent annual modulation signature for Dark Matter particles in the galactic halo are presented (exposure of 0.53 ton x yr). The DAMA/LIBRA data confirm the evidence for the presence of Dark Matter particles in the galactic halo as...
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  48. Mayly Sanchez (Argonne National Laboratory)
    16/09/2009, 11:00
    Neutrino Physics
    NOvA is a next generation long baseline neutrino experiment. It has been designed to study electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam using a totally active, segmented, liquid scintillator detector located off the Fermilab NuMI beam axis. Construction of a prototype Near detector will commence this year and will be placed in the existing NuMI beam during 2010. The Far Detector will...
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  49. Takuya Hasegawa
    16/09/2009, 11:20
    Neutrino Physics
    As the first phase experiment utilizes J-PARC(Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex) neutrino facility, T2K(Tokai to Kamioka Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment) starts operation. T2K is supposed to give critical information, which guides the future direction of the neutrino physics. I will discuss possible future discovery experiment next to T2K. Talk will focus especially on describing...
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  50. Sebastian Arrenberg
    16/09/2009, 11:25
    The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Experiment (CDMS) employs a total of 30 Germanium and Silicon Detectors at the Soudan Underground Laboratory to detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) via their elastic scattering from the target nuclei. Previous CDMS results, released in February 2008, yielded a world-leading limit for spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross sections for WIMP masses...
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  51. Andre Rubbia
    16/09/2009, 11:40
    Neutrino Physics
    The LAGUNA design study is presently assessing the feasibility of a new large underground infrastructure in Europe for next generation neutrino and proton decay search experiment I will describe the status of LAGUNA and discuss possible options for future long baseline experiments coupled to a potential future program at CERN.
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  52. Mitchell Soderberg
    16/09/2009, 12:00
  53. Terrence Hart
    16/09/2009, 15:30
    Neutrino Physics
    A Neutrino Factory producing intense neutrino beams from muon decays is an intriguing possibility for the next generation of neutrino experiments. Determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy, precision measurements of the neutrino mixing parameters, and observation of CP violation in the neutrino sector are among the many studies possible with a Neutrino Factory. A Neutrino Factory can also...
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  54. Antonio Limosani
    16/09/2009, 15:30
    Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM
  55. Dario Grasso
    16/09/2009, 15:30
    The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has recently provided the measurement of the high energy (20 GeV to 1 TeV) cosmic ray electrons plus positrons (CRE) spectrum with unprecedented accuracy. The spectrum shows no prominent features and it is significantly harder than that inferred from several previous experiments. While the reported Fermi-LAT data alone can be interpreted in terms of a...
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  56. Alain Blondel
    16/09/2009, 15:50
    Neutrino Physics
    "R&D and Design Studies towards novel neutrino beams are advancing well in Europe. International R&D experiments (HARP, MERIT, MICE, EMMA) have been and are succesfully being performed. Design studies of high power upgrades of existing (ISIS) or planned (SPL) proton machines, of detector concepts and sites (Laguna) and of high intensity beams (EUROnu) are in progress. EUROnu aims, in...
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  57. Paolo Papini
    16/09/2009, 15:55
  58. Silke Nelson
    16/09/2009, 16:00
    Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM
  59. Vittorio Palladino
    16/09/2009, 16:10
    Neutrino Physics
    Muon ionization cooling provides the only practical solution to prepare high brilliance beams necessary for a neutrino factory or muon colliders. The muon ionization cooling experiment (MICE)* is under development at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK). It comprises a dedicated beam line to generate a range of input emittance and momentum, with time-of-flight and Cherenkov detectors...
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  60. Matthew Reece
    16/09/2009, 16:20
  61. Shoichi Uchinami
    16/09/2009, 16:30
    Neutrino Physics
    In neutrino oscillation with non-standard interactions (NSI) the system is enriched with CP violation caused by phases due to NSI in addition to the standard lepton Kobayashi-Maskawa phase $ยฅdelta$. In this paper we show that it is possible to disentangle the two CP violating effects by measurement of muon neutrino appearance by a near-far two detector setting in neutrino factory...
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  62. Franco Giuliani
    16/09/2009, 17:30
    The large difference between the time constants of the two scintillation pulse com- ponents of a noble liquid like liquid Argon or Neon provide a very reliable correlation between pulse shape and type of event. This pulse shape discrimination already pro- vides the power of rejecting a background $10^{8}-10^{9}$ times larger than the signal. A 400 kg LAr detector, MiniCLEAN, is...
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  63. Olga Lalakulich
    16/09/2009, 17:30
    Neutrino Physics
    Modern long-baseline neutrino experiments, aiming at precise measurements of the neutrino oscillation parameters require a thorough understanding of neutrino cross sections in medium-energy region. An overview of neutrino-nucleon and neutrino-nucleus cross sections in a few GeV region is presented. Cross section on a nucleon target is expressed as a sum of quasi-elastic, resonance and DIS...
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  64. Rainer Wanke
    16/09/2009, 17:30
    Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM
  65. Darren Grant
    16/09/2009, 17:55
    IceCube is a cubic kilometer neutrino telescope under construction at the South Pole, a successor to the first-generation AMANDA telescope designed to the search for astrophysical neutrino sources. IceCube is now three quarters complete with the full detector expected to be operating in early 2011. Data taken with the partially built detector already provides world-leading...
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  66. Mauro Piccini
    16/09/2009, 18:00
    Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM
  67. Yoshinari Hayato
    16/09/2009, 18:00
    Neutrino Physics
    Recent experimental studies of neutrino oscillation require more precise knowledge of the neutrino-nucleus scatterings. Therefore, several experiments to study neutrino nucleus-scattering experiments have been performed. In this presentation, I will report the recent results of neutrino scatterings from SciBooNE and MiniBooNE.
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  68. Claudia Christina Strabel
    16/09/2009, 18:20
    Neutrino Physics
    In this talk the NA61/SHINE detector will be presented, which is a large acceptance hadron spectrometer at the CERN SPS. It allows for a precise study of the particle production from the interactions of a 31 GeV/c proton beam on a Carbon target in order to predict the neutrino flux of the T2K experiment at J-PARC, Japan. Requirements for the T2K experiment will be discussed together with the...
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  69. Zurab Berezhiani
    16/09/2009, 18:20
  70. Steve Boyd
    16/09/2009, 18:40
  71. Angelo Nucciotti (Dip. Fisica, Univ. di Milano-Bicocca and INFN Sez. di Milano-Bicocca)
    17/09/2009, 09:00
    Neutrino Physics
    Neutrinoless double beta decay is a powerful tool to investigate the fundamental nature of neutrinos and to determine the absolute neutrino mass scale. To date, CUORE is the only fully approved next generation 1-ton size experiment with the goal of exploring the inverted hierarchy region for the neutrino masses. CUORE is an array of 988 TeO2 cryogenic detectors containing 200 kg of Te-130 -...
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  72. Jure Zupan
    17/09/2009, 09:00
    We consider the hypothesis that Dark Matter (DM) has tree-level interactions only with leptons. Such a framework, where DM recoils against electrons bound in atoms, has been proposed as an explanation for the annually modulated scintillation signal in DAMA/LIBRA versus the absence of a signal for nuclear recoils in experiments like CDMS or XENON10. However, even in such a leptophilic...
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  73. Alejandro Ibarra
    17/09/2009, 09:00
    Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM
  74. Luciano Pandola
    17/09/2009, 09:25
    Neutrino Physics
    Neutrinoless double-beta-decay could be the key to understanding the nature of the neutrino: if observed it would prove its Majorana-nature and the half-life of the decay would be a direct measure of the yet unknown absolute scale of the neutrino mass. The GErmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment at the INFN, Gran Sasso Laboratory, Italy, is designed to investigate the...
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  75. Alessandro Baldini
    17/09/2009, 09:40
    Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM
  76. Karol Lang
    17/09/2009, 09:50
    Neutrino Physics
    The NEMO-3 experiment, located in the Modane Underground Laboratory, is searching for neutrinoless double beta decay since 2003. We will present the latest results for seven isotopes used on NEMO-3: 48Ca, 96Zr, 82Se, 100Mo, 116Cd, 130Te and 150Nd. We observe no evidence for neutrinoless double beta decay and based on 100Mo data set an upper limit on the effective Majorana neutrino...
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  77. Ettore Segreto
    17/09/2009, 09:50
  78. Monica Sisti
    17/09/2009, 11:00
  79. Riccardo Cenci
    17/09/2009, 11:00
    Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM
  80. Claudia Lazzaro
    17/09/2009, 11:00
    The goal of the ArDM experiment is a direct detection of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP) in the universe using a double phase argon TPC. This detector has a fiducial volume of about 1 ton of liquid argon and the detection is done independently by collecting the scintillation light as also by the ionization charge. The Argon scintillation light has to be converted with...
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  81. Daniel McKinsey
    17/09/2009, 11:25
    Dark Matter
    The LUX dark matter experiment is a 350 kg two-phase xenon time projection chamber. There are several advantages of liquid xenon for WIMP detection: high scintillation yield, high ionization yield, low intrinsic radioactivity, easy purification, effective gamma-ray self-shielding, and significant A^2 enhancement of the spin-independent WIMP cross-section. LUX is currently under construction...
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  82. Peter Fierlinger
    17/09/2009, 11:30
    Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM
  83. Steven Biller
    17/09/2009, 11:30
  84. Cristiano Galbiati
    17/09/2009, 11:50
    I will discuss progress on procurement of large quantities of depleted argon from underground sources in the US, and the how this could improve future dark matter searches with argon detector. I will also discuss results from R&D efforts on two-phase argon detectors in the US and future plans.
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  85. Itaru Shimizu
    17/09/2009, 12:00
  86. Andrzej Szelc
    17/09/2009, 12:15
    The use of liquid noble gas detectors in the search for Dark Matter is quickly becoming more widespread and they are already playing one of the major parts in the field. One of the possible signatures of the presence of Dark Matter is the so called annual modulation effect, possibly already observed by the DAMA collaboration. The liquid noble gas detectors are generally tailored to observe...
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  87. Aldo Ianni
    17/09/2009, 12:15
  88. Kamales Kar
    18/09/2009, 09:00
    Neutrino Physics
    The effect of collective flavor oscillations of neutrinos driven by neutrino-neutrino interaction at the very high density region of core collapse supernovae controls the emitted flux of neutrinos of different flavors. In the process one or more swaps of the flavors for both neutrinos and antineutrinos take place depending on the initial neutrino flux and distributions, particularly for...
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  89. Jaap Panman
    18/09/2009, 09:00
    Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM
  90. Jan Schumacher
    18/09/2009, 09:00
  91. Giovanni Fiorentini
    18/09/2009, 09:20
  92. Phillip URQUIJO
    18/09/2009, 09:25
  93. Marcello GIORGI
    18/09/2009, 09:30
    Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM
  94. Robert McElrath
    18/09/2009, 09:50
    Electro Weak Symmetry Breaking
    Theories of natural Electroweak Symmetry Breaking can involve light higgses. These imply significant changes in search strategies at the Tevatron, LHC, and B-factories. I will review some non-standard Higgs scenarios which involve higgs-to-higgs decays, and the experimental signatures thereof.
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  95. Yasuo Takeuchi
    18/09/2009, 09:50
    Neutrino Physics
  96. Masanori Yamauchi
    18/09/2009, 10:00
    Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM
  97. Fanny DUFOUR
    18/09/2009, 10:10
  98. Steve kettell
    18/09/2009, 11:00
    Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM
    The extremely rare decay K+ -> pi+ neutrino anti-neutrino has been studied for the last 20 years with the E787 and E949 experiments and the high-intensity proton beam of the AGS accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The E949 experiment previously reported results above the K+ -> pi+pi0 peak, in the pion momentum region [211,229] MeV/c {Phys.Rev.Lett.93:031801(2004);...
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  99. Elena Guardincerri
    18/09/2009, 11:00
    Neutrino Physics
    Borexino is a liquid scintillator, solar neutrino detector running underground at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy. Thanks to the extreme radio-purity achieved throughout its whole set-up Borexino is capable of detecting solar neutrinos below 2 MeV. Among the main results obtained so far are the first measurement of the 7Be solar neutrinos flux, whose value is in agreement...
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  100. Emilio Migneco
    18/09/2009, 11:20
  101. Gino Isidori
    18/09/2009, 11:25
  102. Augusto Ceccucci
    18/09/2009, 11:30
    Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM
  103. Robert CIESIELSKI
    18/09/2009, 11:50
    Electro Weak Symmetry Breaking
  104. Annarita Margiotta
    18/09/2009, 11:50
    Neutrino Physics
    ANTARES is an underwater neutrino telescope, located about 2500 m under the sea, 40 km off the coast of Toulon/France. Consisting of about 900 optical modules it is currently the largest neutrino detector in the northern hemisphere and has been taking data in its final configuration since May 2008. In this talk the physics potential and the detection technique are described and first results...
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  105. Taku Yamanaka
    18/09/2009, 12:00
    The purpose of the J-PARC E14 KOTO experiment is to search for new physics beyond the standard model that enhances the branching ratio of the \(K_L \to \pi^0 \nu \bar{\nu}\) decay. The experiment looks for two and only two photons from the decay that have a finite transverse momentum. The detector consists of a pure CsI calorimeter and hermetic photon veto counters placed in a vacuum...
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  106. Adam Falkowski
    18/09/2009, 14:00
    DG1 - Summary and Perspectives
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  107. Yves Sirois
    18/09/2009, 14:45
    DG1 - Summary and perspectives
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  108. Gerhard Buchalla
    18/09/2009, 15:30
  109. Marco Sozzi
    18/09/2009, 16:15
  110. Hiroshi Nunokawa
    18/09/2009, 17:30
    DG3 - Summary and perspectives
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  111. Bonnie Fleming
    18/09/2009, 18:00
  112. Oliviero Cremonesi
    18/09/2009, 18:30
    DG3 - Summary and perspectives
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  113. Adam Falkowski
    19/09/2009, 09:00
  114. Daniel McKinsey
    19/09/2009, 09:45
  115. Herbert PIETSCHMANN
    19/09/2009, 10:30
  116. Ornella Palamara
    19/09/2009, 10:40
  117. Dr Rukmani Mohanta (University of Hyderabad)
    Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM
    The recent observation of the mass difference in B_s system seems to be not in complete agreement with the corresponding standard model value. We consider the model with an extra vector like down quark to explain this discrepancy and obtain the constraints on the new physics parameters. Thereafter, we show that with these new constraints, this model can successfully explain other observed...
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  118. Andrew Sonnenschein
    Dark Matter
  119. Dr Anjan Giri (National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India)
    We study the effect of non-universal Z' boson in the decay modes B -> K pi. In the standard model these modes receive dominant contributions from b -> s QCD penguins. Therefore, in this limit one expects $S_{\pi^0 K^0} \approx \sin 2 \beta $, $A_{\pi^0 K^0} \approx 0$ and $A_{\pi^0 K^-} \approx A_{\pi^+ K^-}$. The corrections due to the presence of small non-penguin contributions is found to...
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  120. Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM
  121. Dr Mitchell Soderberg (Yale University)
    Neutrino Physics
    Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) detectors are well suited to study neutrino interactions, and are an intriguing option for future massive detectors capable of measuring the parameters that characterize neutrino oscillations. These detectors combine fine-grained tracking with calorimetry, allowing for excellent imaging and particle identification ability. The ability of liquid...
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  122. Massimiliano Grazzini
    Electro Weak Symmetry Breaking
  123. Christina Hagemann
    Neutrino Physics
    The EXO collaboration aims to measure the regular double beta of 136Xe and carry out a sensitive search for neutrinoless double beta decay. Discovery of the neutrinoless decay would provide information on the neutrino mass scale and provide the first measurement of a lepton number violating process. The status of the EXO efforts will be provided including the latest update for the 200 kg...
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  124. Blair Edwards
    The results from the first science run of ZEPLIN-III will be presented which have resulted in an upper limit to the WIMP-nucleon spin-independent elastic scattering cross-section of 8.1x10(-8)pb. The instrument performance charateristics and behaviour will be reviewed. The status of preparations for the second science run will be given
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  125. Lucia Votano (LNGS Director)
  126. Pier Oddone (Fermilab Director)