22nd International Workshop on Weak Interactions and Neutrinos

14 Sept 2009, 08:00 → 19 Sept 2009, 13:20 Europe/Rome

Strada Passo dell'Acqua, 34 - 06134 Bosco PERUGIA, Italy

Ornella Palamara (INFN - LNGS)

The WIN 09 Workshop will be organized by the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso of INFN and will take place from September 14th to 19th, 2009. At beginning the Workshop was to be held in the city of L'Aquila, but after the earthquake that affected this region on April 6th, the Organizing Commettee decided to move the conference venue to the "Relais San Clemente" near Perugia (Italy). The philosophy of this small but time-honored series of workshops (it started in the seventies) is to provide the opportunity for the participants to discuss and interact among each other in a very informal and constructive way. The WIN 09 workshop will deal with contemporary issues on the following four major topics, discussed in dedicated groups: DG1 - Electro Weak Symmetry Breaking DG2 - Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM DG3 - Neutrino Physics DG4 - Dark Matter

Monday, 14 September

Welcome - O. Palamara, L. Votano, P. Oddone, H. Pietschmann

1 Welcome

Speaker: Ornella Palamara (WIN09 Chair)

Slides Welcome.pdf Welcome.pdf

Plenary Session: Status Reports. Chair: H. Pietschmann

Plenary session

2 Electro Weak Symmetry Breaking: Theoretical Status

Speaker: Riccardo Barbieri

Slides R_Barbieri.pdf

3 Electro Weak Symmetry Breaking: Experimental Status

Speaker: Roberto Tenchini

Slides R_Tenchini.pdf

10:30 coffee break

Plenary Session: Status Reports. Chair: Y.K. Kim

Plenary session

4 Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM: Theoretical Status

Speaker: Gino Isidori

Slides G_Isidori.pdf

5 Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM: Experimental Status

Speaker: Tim Gershon

Slides T_Gershon.pdf

12:30 Lunch + Break

Plenary Session: Status Reports. Chair: T. Kirsten

Plenary session

6 Neutrino Physics: Theoretical Status

Speaker: Sandhya Choubey

Slides S_Choubey.pdf

7 Neutrino Physics: Experimental Status

Speaker: Art McDonald

Slides A_McDonald.pdf

17:00 coffee break

Plenary Session: Status Reports. Chair: L. Votano

Plenary session

8 Dark Matter: Theoretical Status

Speaker: Neal Weiner

9 Dark Matter: Experimental Status

Speaker: Bruno Serfass

Slides B_Serfass.pdf

19:00 Welcome Drink

Tuesday, 15 September

Plenary Session: Plenary Session. Chair: A. McDonald

Plenary session

10 Muon Collider

Speaker: Pier Oddone

Slides P_Oddone.ppt

11 Review of Current and Future Neutrino Cross-Section Experiments

Speaker: David Schmitz

Slides D_Schmitz.pdf

12 Future Direct Dark Matter Searches: An Outlook

Speaker: Cristiano GALBIATI

Slides WIN'09_Sep_15_2009.pdf

10:30 coffee break

DG1 - Electro Weak Symmetry Breaking: EWK Precision Measurements and Beyond

13 Electroweak physics and proton structure measurements at HERA

Speaker: Andrei Nikiforov

Slides A_Nikiforov.pdf

14 Prospects for Z/W Physics at the LHC

Speaker: Marcella Bona

Slides M_Bona.pdf

15 Minimal Z’ models : present bounds and early LHC Reach

Speaker: Ennio Salvioni

Slides E_Salvioni.pdf

12:15 Discussions

DG2 - Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM: Present Status of the CKM Matrix. Chair: R. Wanke

16 CKM from semi-leptonic B decays

Speaker: Giulia Ricciardi

Slides G_Ricciardi.pdf

17 Measurements of alpha

Speaker: Georges Vasseur

Slides G_Vasseur.pdf

18 Measurements of beta

Speaker: Chih-Hsiang Cheng

Slides CH_Cheng.pdf

DG3 - Neutrino Physics: Neutrino Mass and Mixing: Theory

19 Theory Predictions for Neutrino Masses and Mixing Angles

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 for theta13 is given in terms of the Cabibbo angle and it is within the reach of Daya Bay experiment. CP violation in this model is purely geometrical in origin. Since the only non-vanishing leptonic CP phase is the Dirac phase, the model predicts a connection between the leptogenesis and CP violation in neutrino oscillation.

Speaker: Mu-Chun Chen

Slides M_C_Chen.pdf

20 Testing neutrino mass models at LHC

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.

Speaker: Martin HIRSCH

Slides M_Hirsch.pdf

21 The magic of four zero neutrino Yukawa textures

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 seventy two allowed textures is found, leaving only two allowed forms of the light neutrino mass matrix, one of which is on the margin of being ruled out by the present neutrino oscillation data. The other remains a viable candidate for the actual light neutrino mass matrix chosen by nature and will be crucially tested by future measurements of. theta_{13}. Implications for leptogenesis and radiative lepton flavor violating decays are also discussed. The stabilty of these conclusions under running from a high scale, where those symmetries are imposed, to the weak scale is also demonstrated.

Speaker: PROBIR ROY

pdf file P_Roy.pdf

Slides P_Roy.pdf

12:20 Discussions

12:30 Lunch + Break

DG1 - Electro Weak Symmetry Breaking: Top Physics

22 Top Experimental Prospects at start-up LHC

Speaker: Sascha Mehlhase

Slides S_Mehlhase.pdf

23 Boosted Top at the LHC

Speaker: Seung Lee

Slides S_Lee.pdf

24 Top Quark Physics at the LHC (Theory)

Speaker: Gilad Perez

Slides G_Perez.pdf

16:55 Discussions

DG2 - Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM: Present Status of the CKM Matrix, cont. Chair: G. Buchalla

25 Measurements of gamma

Speaker: Tagir Aushev

Slides T_Aushev.pdf

26 Cabibbo angle review

Speaker: Matthew Moulson

Slides M_Moulson-1.pdf

16:30 Discussions

DG3 - Neutrino Physics: Neutrino Mass and Mixing: Results from Oscillation Experiments

27 KamLAND Results

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 neutrinos utilizing the characteristics of high light intensity. The precise measurement of low energy solar neutrinos helps us obtain a better understanding of fusion reactions. I will show the status of the anti-neutrino analysis and the purification of the liquid scintillator.

Speaker: Itaru Shimizu

Slides I_Shimizu2.pdf

28 Latest Results from the MINOS Experiment

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 neutrino oscillation processes with high precision. In this talk, the methodology employed in the analysis of charged-current muon neutrino and anti-neutrino interactions is outlined and the most recently obtained results are described. Results from a search for oscillations into sterile neutrinos, derived from the analysis of neutral current interactions in the MINOS detectors, are also presented. A beam exposure of 3.2x10^20 protons on target is used in the analyses.

Speaker: Alexandre Sousa

Slides MINOS_SOUSA_WIN_2009.pdf

29 First Results for Electron-Neutrino Appearance in MINOS

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 Soudan mine in northern Minnesota at a distance of 735km. We describe the first results for electron neutrino appearance in MINOS after two years of data-taking.

Speaker: Mayly Sanchez

Slides M_Sanchez.pdf

30 Results from MiniBooNE

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 this talk, recent antineutrino and updated neutrino oscillation results from MiniBooNE will be presented, and implications for the LSND excess will be discussed within the context of sterile neutrino oscillation models.

Speaker: Georgia Karagiorgi

Slides G_Karagiorgi.pdf

16:50 Discussions

17:00 coffee break

DG2 - Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM: Charm, Tau and Top Decays. Chair: G. Buchalla

31 Top measurements at hadronic machines

Speaker: Sandra Leone

Slides S_Leone.pdf S_Leone.ppt

32 D0 mixing measurements

Speaker: Anze Zupanc

Slides A_Zupanc.pdf

33 Non-LFV tau decays

Speaker: MyeongJae Lee

Slides MJ_Lee.pdf

DG3 - Neutrino Physics: Neutrino Mass and Mixing: Results from Oscillation, cont.

34 Search for Muon Neutrino Disappearance in a Short-Baseline Accelerator Neutrino Beam

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, respectively. We took beam data from June 2007 through August 2008 at SciBooNE and MiniBooNE. A preliminary result of the flux measurement at SciBooNE and SciBooNE-MiniBooNE joint oscillation analysis will be presented.

Speaker: Yasuhiro Nakajima

Slides Y_Nakajima.pdf

35 Status of the OPERA experiment

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 Chamber (ECC) technique. ECC is sequence of the nuclear emulsion films interleaved with 1mm-thinkness lead plates. Nuclear emulsion films are used as a tracking device with micrometric accuracy for the detection of tau decays. The ECC allows also to perform the kinematical measurements such as the momentum measurement by multiple scattering detection and the electron shower detection. Total target mass of 1.25kton was assembled by more than 150,000 units. Since 2008 the OPERA experiment has started full data taking in the CNGS beam. Around 1,700 interactions in the detector have been collected in 2008 and the 2009 run is ongoing. The status of the analysis and some fruitful outcome will be presented. The prospect of the future runs is also to be presented.

Speaker: Akitaka Ariga

Slides Ariga_OPERA_WIN09.pdf Ariga_OPERA_WIN09.ppt

Poster Session

36 Strong Scaling Ansatz of flavor neutrino mass matrix and normal mass hierarchy

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 $\theta_{13}$ which allows to arise Dirac CP violation. We can clarify correlations of mass parameter and CP violating phases and compare these dependences of CP violating phases on mass parameters in the case of the normal mass hierarchy with those of the inverted mass hierarchy.

Speaker: Mr Teppei Baba (Tokai university)

19:00 "The path to Beethovens Eroica-finale" by H. Pietschmann

Wednesday, 16 September

DG1 - Electro Weak Symmetry Breaking: Higgs Physics

37 Direct Standard Model Higgs Searches at the Tevatron

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 Higgs searches over a wide mass range, from 100 to 200 GeV/c2, including the golden channels, HW->lvbb in the lower mass region and H->WW->lvlv in the higher mass region, and a series of additional channels, ZH->llbb, ZH->vvbb, HW->WWW, and modes with tau leptons in the final state, which improve sensitively the experiments' reach. Particular prominence will be given to the recently updated measurements that analyze up to 5 fb-1 of data. The combined upper limit of CDF and D0 measurements and the projections on the production cross section limits for the final dataset of Tevatron Run II will also be shown.

Speaker: Massimo Casarsa

Slides M_Casarsa.pdf

38 Prospects for SM Higgs at the LHC

Speaker: Alberto Graziano

Slides A_Graziano.pdf

10:00 Discussions

DG2 - Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM: Theory. Chair: G. Isidori

39 Lattice results - overview and perspectives

Speaker: Damir Becirevic

Slides D_Becirevic.pdf

40 Chiral perturbation theory

Speaker: Gerhard Ecker

Slides G_Ecker.pdf

41 Rare K decays - theory

Speaker: Giancarlo D'Ambrosio

Slides G_DAmbrosio.pdf

DG3 - Neutrino Physics: Neutrino Mass and Mixing: Reactor and New Acelerator Experiments

42 Current Status of RENO

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 Gadolinium loaded liquid scintillator as a neutrino target. The near and far detectors are placed roughly 290 m and 1.4 m from the center of the reactor array. The near detector is constructed at underground of a 70 m high hill and the far detector at underground of a 260 m high mountain. The identical detector setup will reduce systematic uncertainties to less than 1%. The experiment is planned to start data-taking in mid 2010. In this talk the current status of detector construction will be presented.

Speaker: Kang Soon Park

Slides K_S_Park.pdf K_S_Park.ppt

43 Measurement of theta13 at Daya Bay

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 and the current status of the experiment will be discussed.

Speaker: Steve kettell

Slides Daya_Bay.pdf

44 The Double Chooz Experiment

The Double Chooz neutrino oscillation experiment will perform a highly sensitive measurement of the neutrino mixing angle θ13. 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 between the two detectors will allow to push down the θ13 limit at very low values. Double CHOOZ far detector under construction will start taking data beginning of next year and in about 1.5 years will be able to set the limit sin2(2θ13)<0.06, the present limit being sin2(2θ13)<0.2. At that moment, the near detector will also be ready and help to set this limit at sin2(2θ13)<0.03 in less than 3 years. The mixing angle θ13 is the last non-measured oscillation parameter of the neutrino mixing matrix. The possibility of measuring the sin2(2θ13) or lowering the existing limit to a few percent would also allow selection of the best means to search for the CP-phase in the lepton sector. In this presentation a detailed description of the Double Chooz experiment will be done.

Speaker: Marcos Dracos

Slides Dracos_WIN09L.pdf Dracos_WIN09L.ppt

45 T2K General talk(Status and T2K general description)

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 the discovery of the nu_mu to nu_e conversion phenomena and, as a consequence, the finite value of the theta_13 mixing angle. It will also conduct a precise measurement of theta_23 and the mass difference of neutrino mass eigenstate. The ultimate goal for T2K is to establish the lepton flavor mixing structure. Construction of the J-PARC neutrino facility was completed in March 2009 and engineering operation of the T2K started as scheduled the following month. This talk will provide a general introduction to T2K, and present the current beam commissioning status and the status of preparations towards the start of the experiment.

Speaker: Hidekazu Kakuno

Slides win09-t2k-kakuno-v2.pdf

10:20 Discussions

10:30 coffee break

DG2 - Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM: Theory, cont. Chair: G. Isidori

46 New physics models

Speaker: Bjoren Duling

Slides Duling_WIN09.pdf

DG3 - Neutrino Physics: New and Future Experiments

47 The NOvA Experiment: Status and Prospects

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 begin construction shortly thereafter and will be completed in 2014. The project will upgrade the NuMI facility from 400 kW to 700 kW. NOvA will push the search for electron neutrino appearance beyond the current limits by more than an order of mangnitude. It will also have sensitivity to the neutrino mass hierarchy and by running both neutrinos and anti-neutrinos NOvA will begin the search for CP violation in the lepton sector.

Speaker: Mayly Sanchez (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides M_Sanchez_2.pdf

48 Future long baseline experiments: options for Japan

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 J-PARC neutrino beam upgrade plan and discussion on far detector options to maximize potential of the research.

Speaker: Takuya Hasegawa

Slides T_Hasegawa.pdf

49 Future long baseline experiments: options for Europe

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.

Speaker: Andre Rubbia

Slides Rubbia_WIN09_LAGUNA.pdf

50 Future long baseline experiments: options for US

Speaker: Mitchell Soderberg

Slides WIN09_Soderberg.pdf

12:20 Discussions

DG4 - Dark Matter: Dark Matter Direct Detection I. Chair: D. Grant

51 Signals from the Universe: the DAMA/LIBRA results

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 observed by the former DAMA/NaI experiment. The combined analysis of the data of the two experiments (total exposure 0.82 ton x yr) gives a C.L. at 8.2 sigma.

Speaker: Pierluigi Belli

Slides P_Belli.pdf

52 Search for Dark Matter with the CDMS experiment

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 above 44 GeV/c^2, restricting significant parts of the parameter space favored by supersymmetric models. Data taken between July 2007 and October 2008 increase the exposure by a factor of 2.5. Latest results of the experiment will be presented.

Speaker: Sebastian Arrenberg

Slides S_Arrenberg.pdf

11:50 Discussions

12:30 Lunch + Break

DG1 + DG4 - Combined Session: GeV scale hidden sectors/Dark Matter

53 The High Energy Cosmic Ray Electron Spectrum measured with the Fermi Space Telescope: some possible interpretations

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 single (electron dominated) Galactic component, when combined with other complementary experimental results, specifically the CRE spectrum measured by H.E.S.S., and especially the positron fraction measured by PAMELA, an additional electron and positron component has to be invoked. We will show that electron-positron pairs acceleration in Galactic pulsars offer a natural interpretation of all these results and briefly mention other viable scenarios including secondary electron and positron production in supernova remnants and dark matter annihilation/decay. We also briefly discuss the possibility of discriminating among those interpretations by means of other independent measurements.

Speaker: Dario Grasso

Slides D_Grasso.pdf

54 Dark Matter and Antimatter Searches in the Cosmic Radiation and the PAMELA experiment

Speaker: Paolo Papini

Slides P_Papini.pdf

55 GeV scale hidden sector at colliders

Speaker: Matthew Reece

Slides M_Reece.pdf

16:45 Discussions

DG2 - Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM: Rare decays. Chair: G. Ecker

56 Radiative B decays

Speaker: Antonio Limosani

Slides A_Limosani.pdf

57 Leptonic B decays

Speaker: Silke Nelson

Slides S_Nelson.pdf

16:30 Discussions

DG3 - Neutrino Physics: Future Experiments and Cross sections

58 Novel Neutrino Beams: R&D and Design Studies in the US

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 be an important step toward the development of a Muon Collider. This talk discusses the current status and plans for Neutrino Factory R&D in the U.S. focusing particularly on accelerator development for generating the high luminosity parent muon beam and development of new neutrino detectors necessary for the higher neutrino intensities.

Speaker: Terrence Hart

Slides T_Hart.pdf

59 R&D and Design work for novel neutrino beams in Europe

"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 particular, at the design of - a Neutrino Factory, within its International Design Study - a Betabeam neutrino facility - a low energy 4 MW neutrino Superbeam A dedicated workshop is being prepared for early October at CERN, likely to be followed by statements from the CERN Council on the role that Europe should play in a global accelerator neutrino program."

Speaker: Alain Blondel

Slides A_Blondel.pdf

60 Status of the MICE International Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment

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 to ensure a pure muon beam. A first measurement of emittance is performed in the upstream magnetic spectrometer with a scintillating fiber tracker. A cooling cell will then follow, alternating energy loss in liquid hydrogen and RF acceleration. A second spectrometer identical to the first one and a particle identification system provide a measurement of the outgoing emittance. In September 2009 it is expected that the beam and some detectors will be in the final commissioning phase and the time of the first measurement of input beam emittance only months away. The plan of steps of measurements of emittance and cooling, that will follow in the rest of 2009 and later, will be reported.

Speaker: Vittorio Palladino

Slides V_Palladino.pdf

61 Resolving CP Violation by Standard and Nonstandard Interactions in Neutrino Oscillations

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 $¥delta$. 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 experiments. Prior to the quantitative analysis we investigate in detail the various features of the neutrino oscillations with NSI, but under the assumption that only one of the NSI elements, $¥varepsilon_{e ¥mu}$ or $¥varepsilon_{e ¥tau}$, is present. They include synergy between the near and the far detectors, the characteristic differences between the $¥varepsilon_{e ¥mu}$ and $¥varepsilon_{e ¥tau}$ systems, and in particular, the parameter degeneracy. Finally, we use a concrete setting of muon energy 50 GeV and two magnetized iron detectors at the two baselines, one at $L=3000$ km and the other at $L=7000$ km, each having a fiducial mass of 50 kton to study the discovery potential of NSI and its CP violation effects. We demonstrate by assuming $4 ¥times 10^{21}$ useful muon decay for both polarities that one can identify non-standard CP violation down to $¥vert ¥varepsilon_{e ¥mu} ¥vert ¥simeq ¥text{a few} ¥times 10^{-3}$, % $¥vert ¥varepsilon_{e ¥mu} ¥vert ¥simeq ¥text{ several} ¥times 10^{-4}$, and $¥vert ¥varepsilon_{e ¥tau} ¥vert ¥simeq 10^{-2}$ at 3$¥sigma$ CL for $¥theta_{13}$ down to $¥sin^2 2¥theta_{13} = 10^{-4}$ in most of the region of $¥delta$. The impact of existence of NSI on measurement of $¥delta$ and the mass hierarchy is also worked out.

Speaker: Shoichi Uchinami

Slides 090916_WIN09_Uchinami.pdf

16:50 Discussions

17:00 coffee break

DG2 - Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM: Rare decays, cont. Chair: G. Ecker

62 Rare K decays

Speaker: Rainer Wanke

Slides WIN09_Wanke.pdf

63 QCD from K decays

Speaker: Mauro Piccini

Slides WIN09_piccini.pdf WIN09_piccini.pdf

18:30 Discussions

DG3 - Neutrino Physics: Cross Sections

64 Neutrino cross sections in GeV region

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 contributions. For nuclear targets, nuclear corrections are shown to be not negligible, several approaches to estimate them are surveyed.

Speaker: Olga Lalakulich

Slides O_Lalalkulich.pdf

65 Recent results from the neutrino scattering experiments

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.

Speaker: Yoshinari Hayato

Slides Hayato_BooNEs.pdf

66 Hadro-production measurements for the T2K experiment with the NA61/SHINE detector at the CERN SPS

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 ongoing NA61 measurements. In particular preliminary NA61 cross section measurements from the 2007 pilot run will be shown.

Speaker: Claudia Christina Strabel

Slides C_C_Strabel.ppt

67 T2K Cross Section Measurements

Speaker: Steve Boyd

Slides S_Boyd.pdf

DG4 - Dark Matter: Dark Matter and Neutrinos. Chair: B. Serfass

68 Dark matter and solar neutrinos with DEAP/CLEAN

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 currently under construction, and a 3.6 ton detector, DEAP-3600, under development. The pro jected sensitivities of these two Dark Matter detectors are illustrated. As the DEAP/CLEAN program is also for p-p solar neu- trino detection, the sensitivity to these neutrinos expected from future larger upgrades loaded with liquid Neon is also discussed.

Speaker: Franco Giuliani

Slides F_Giuliani.pdf

69 Dark Matter Searches and Fundamental Neutrino Measurements with IceCube-DeepCore

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 sensitivity on spin-dependent dark matter scattering cross-sections. The base design of IceCube now includes an infill array known as DeepCore, improving sensitivity to neutrinos at energies below 100 GeV. Plans for DeepCore, as well as estimates for the IceCube-DeepCore sensitivity to dark matter will be presented. Further, the possibility of studying atmospheric neutrino oscillations using will be discussed.

Speaker: Darren Grant

Slides D_Grant.pdf

70 Mirror Dark Matter

Speaker: Zurab Berezhiani

Slides Z_Berezhiani.pdf

18:45 Discussions

Thursday, 17 September

DG2 - Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM: LFV, EDM. Chair: T. Gershon

71 LFV & EDM

Speaker: Alejandro Ibarra

Slides A_Ibarra.pdf

72 MEG experiment

Speaker: Alessandro Baldini

Slides A_Baldini.pdf

10:10 Discussions

DG3 - Neutrino Physics: Neutrino Properties

73 CUORE: the near future of neutrinoless double beta decay searches

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 - the neutrinoless double beta decay candidate - and it is presently being built in Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory. Data taking is due to start in 2012. The feasibility of the project has been proved by CUORICINO, the pilot experiment that took data until 2008, for about five years, with 62 TeO2 cryogenic detectors in Gran Sasso Laboratory. CUORICINO will be replaced in 2010 by CUORE-0, the first CUORE tower to be installed in the CUORICINO cryogenic facility. CUORE-0 will take data until CUORE start. In this talk I will report on the final results of CUORICINO, and discuss CUORE-0 and CUORE potential and state of the art.

Speaker: Angelo Nucciotti (Dip. Fisica, Univ. di Milano-Bicocca and INFN Sez. di Milano-Bicocca)

Slides A_Nucciotti.pdf

74 The GERDA experiment

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 double-beta-decay of the isotope Ge-76. Germanium crystals enriched in Ge-76, acting as source and detector simultaneously, will be submerged directly into their ultra pure cooling medium (liquid argon) that also serves as a radiation shield. A further reduction of the external background is achieved by means of a 2m-thick water buffer, which is operated as a Cherenkov detector to veto cosmic-ray muons. This concept will allow for a background reduction of up to two orders of magnitudes with respect to earlier experiments - a key requirement for further improvement of sensitivity. The design of the GERDA experiment will be introduced and the current status of the experiment will be discussed.

Speaker: Luciano Pandola

Slides L_Pandola.pdf L_Pandola.PPT

75 Search for neutrinoless double beta decay: latest results from NEMO-3 and plans for SuperNEMO

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 mass to be in the range 0.45 - 0.90 meV, depending on the nuclear matrix element. NEMO-3 data can also be interpreted in terms of alternative transition models, such as weak right-handed currents or Majoron emission. SuperNEMO is a next-generation experiment exploiting the successful tracking plus calorimetry technology of the NEMO-3 experiment. SuperNEMO will use about 100 kg of 82Se and is designed to reach sensitivity to a half-life greater 10**26 years. We will briefly describe main challenges before SuperNEMO and the current status of the project.

Speaker: Karol Lang

Slides K_Lang.pdf

10:20 Discussions

DG4 - Dark Matter: Dark Matter Direct Detection II. Chair: C. Galbiati

76 DAMA/LIBRA and leptonically interacting Dark Matter

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 DM scenario there are loop induced DM-hadron interactions, where the photons emitted from virtual leptons couple to the charge of a nucleus. Using a general effective field theory approach we show that, if such an interaction is induced at one or two-loop level, then DM-nucleus scattering dominates over DM-electron scattering. This is because the latter is suppressed by the bound state wave function. One obtains a situation similar to standard DM-nucleus scattering analyses with considerable tension between the results of DAMA and CDMS/XENON10. This conclusion does not apply in the case of pseudoscalar or axial vector coupling between DM and leptons, where the loop diagrams vanish. In this case the explanation of the DAMA signal in terms of DM-electron scattering is strongly disfavored by the spectral shape of the signal. Furthermore, if DM can annihilate into neutrinos or tau leptons, the required cross sections are excluded by many orders of magnitude using the Super-Kamiokande bound on neutrinos from DM annihilations in the Sun.

Speaker: Jure Zupan

Slides J_Zupan.pdf

77 The WArP Experiment

Speaker: Ettore Segreto

Slides E_Segreto.pdf

10:15 Discussions

10:30 coffee break

DG2 - Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM: LFV, EDM cont. Chair: T. Gershon

78 LFV in tau decays

Speaker: Riccardo Cenci

Slides Cenci_Win09_LFV.pdf.pdf

79 EDM review

Speaker: Peter Fierlinger

Slides P_Fierlinger.pdf

12:00 Discussions

DG3 - Neutrino Physics: Neutrino Properties, cont.

80 Direct neutrino Mass Measurementes

Speaker: Monica Sisti

Slides M_Sisti.pdf

81 SNO & SNO+

Speaker: Steven Biller

Slides S_Biller.pdf

82 Kamland: double beta decay perspectives

Speaker: Itaru Shimizu

Slides I_Shimizu.pdf

83 Characterization of a Nd-loaded organic liquid scintillator for neutrinoless double beta decay search of 150Nd with a 10-ton scale detector

Speaker: Aldo Ianni

Slides A_Ianni.pdf

DG4 - Dark Matter: Dark Matter Direct Detection III. Chair: F. Giuliani

84 The ArDM experiment, a double phase liquid argon TPC for direct detection of Dark Matter

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 wavelength shifters and collected by PMT, instead the electrons produced by ionization are extracted from the liquid into the gas phase of the detector, amplified and read out with Large Electron Multipliers detectors. The talk will give an overview of the design of the detector, and of the R&D of the different components, and it will describe the first light readout test with liquid argon with different gamma and neutron sources.

Speaker: Claudia Lazzaro

Slides C_Lazzaro.pdf

85 The LUX Dark Matter Experiment

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 and will be installed in Fall 2009 at the SUSEL lab in South Dakota. I will review the design features of LUX, give an update on its current status, and describe our conception of the future LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter program.

Speaker: Daniel McKinsey

Slides D_McKinsey.pdf

86 Depleted Argon for Future Direct Dark Matter Searches with Argon

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.

Speaker: Cristiano Galbiati

Slides C_Galbiati.pdf

87 Annual Modulation Effects Observable in a Noble Liquid Detector.

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 single WIMP interactions. Despite this, it might be interesting to investigate whether the annual modulation effect will be observable in these detectors. Another effect that is interesting is the possible influence of the Sagittarius Stream on these observations. The prospects for observing the annual modulation effect and those of the Sagittarius Stream in liquid noble gas detectors will be discussed, as well as some speculations as to what kind information can be gained by these observations.

Speaker: Andrzej Szelc

Slides A_Szelc.pdf

12:30 Lunch + Break

15:30 Free time

Free time

20:00 Social Dinner

Social Dinner

Friday, 18 September

DG1 - Electro Weak Symmetry Breaking: Higgs Physics and SUSY

88 Prospects for BSM Higgs at the LHC

Speaker: Jan Schumacher

Slides J_Schumacher.pdf

89 SUSY Searches at the LHC

Speaker: Phillip URQUIJO

Slides P_Urquijo.pdf

90 Non-Standard Higgs Decays

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.

Speaker: Robert McElrath

Slides R_McElrath.pdf

10:25 Discussions

DG2 - Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM: Future initiatives. Chair: M. Sozzi

91 Flavour physics at LHC

Speaker: Jaap Panman

Slides J_Panman.pdf

92 Super-B in Italy

Speaker: Marcello GIORGI

Slides MA_Giorgi.pdf

93 Super-B in Japan

Speaker: Masanori Yamauchi

Slides M_Yamauchi.pdf

DG3 - Neutrino Physics: Cosmic/solar/Geo Neutrinos

94 Collective Flavor Oscillations For Supernova Neutrinos and r-Process Nucleosynthesis

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 the inverted mass hierarchy. We study the effect of this on the possibility of having a neutron-rich region compatible with r-process nucleosynthesis. The minimal requirement for r-process is the electron-to-nucleon ratio Ye < 0.5, but a more favorable condition may be Ye < 0.45 . In this work we consider a two flavor model, with e-type and x-type neutrinos along with their antiparticles and with the oscillation parameters mass squared difference = 0.003 eV^2 in agreement with realistic 1−3 mixing and a small effective mixing angle of 0.00001 . As in supernovae the four species, mu and tau type neutrinos and antineutrinos have identical spectra, this study itself may give indications of the real situation. Different models of neutrino energy distributions are used. For each of the distributions initial fluxes of different flavors are varied and exclusion plots for these initial neutrino fluxes show the allowed regions for r-process nucleosynthesis .The electron fraction(Ye) as a function of the radius of the core is calculated and it shows an oscillatory behavior in the bipolar region before saturating to a constant value. This shows that for the allowed fluxes one gets neutron-rich regions for r-process in the neutrino driven wind.But other considerations of baryon density and entropy in these regions need to be studied.

Speaker: Kamales Kar

Slides kkarwin09.pdf

95 Geo-Neutrinos

Speaker: Giovanni Fiorentini

Slides G_Fiorentini.pdf

96 SK status and perspectives (low-energy neutrinos)

Speaker: Yasuo Takeuchi

Slides Y_Takeuchi.pdf

97 SK status and perspectives (atmospheric neutrinos)

Speaker: Fanny DUFOUR

Slides fdufour_win09_skatm.pdf

10:30 coffee break

DG1 - Electro Weak Symmetry Breaking: Supersymmetry and Exotica

98 Higgsless models (Theory)

Speaker: Gino Isidori

Slides G_Isidori.pdf

99 Searches for New Physics at HERA

Speaker: Robert CIESIELSKI

Slides R_Ciesielski.pdf

12:15 Discussions

DG2 - Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM: Future initiatives, cont. Chair: M. Sozzi

100 Final Results on K+ -> pi+ nu nu_bar from BNL E949

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); Phys.Rev.D77:052003(2008)}. E949 has recently reported results below the K+ -> pi+pi0 peak, in the pion momentum region [140,199] MeV/c, {Phys.Rev.Lett.101:191802(2008);Phys.Rev.D79:092004(2009)}. A total of seven candidates of this very rare process have been identified. This talk will describe the experiment and these results.

Speaker: Steve kettell

Slides E949.pdf

101 NA62 at CERN

Speaker: Augusto Ceccucci

Slides WIN09_NA62.pdf WIN09_NA62.ppt

102 Status of the J-PARC E14 KOTO Experiment for the KL --> pi0 nu nu-bar

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 tank. The beamline has been constructed, and the beam will be tested starting this fall. New CsI calorimeter will be installed next year, and rest of the detector will be installed in the following year. The features and status of the experiment will be presented.

Speaker: Taku Yamanaka

Slides win09_koto.pdf

DG3 - Neutrino Physics: Cosmic/solar/Geo Neutrinos, cont.

103 Solar neutrino results from Borexino and future prospects

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 with the LMA-MSW scenario for neutrino oscillations, and the measurement of the 8B solar neutrino flux with an energy threshold of 2.8 MeV. These results are reported here and the future prospects discussed.

Speaker: Elena Guardincerri

Slides Borexino_Guardincerri.pdf

104 High energy neutrino astronomy: towards a km3 neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea

Speaker: Emilio Migneco

Slides E_Migneco.pdf

105 The ANTARES detector: status and first results

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 are presented. The future of neutrino astronomy in the Mediterranean Sea is discussed.

Speaker: Annarita Margiotta

Slides win09_v3.ppt

12:10 Discussions

12:30 Lunch + Break

Plenary Session: Discussion Group Summaries. Chair: T. Yamanaka

Plenary session

106 Electro Weak Symmetry Breaking: Theoretical Summary

DG1 - Summary and Perspectives

Speaker: Adam Falkowski

Slides A_Falkowski.pdf

107 Electro Weak Symmetry Breaking: Experimental Summary

DG1 - Summary and perspectives

Speaker: Yves Sirois

Slides Y_Sirois.pdf

Plenary Session: Discussion Group Summaries. Chair: T. Yamanaka

Plenary session

108 Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM: Theoretical Summary

Speaker: Gerhard Buchalla

Slides G_Buchalla.pdf

109 Weak Decays, CP violation and CKM: Experimental Summary

Speaker: Marco Sozzi

Slides M_Sozzi.pdf

17:00 coffee break

Plenary Session: Discussion Group Summries. Chair: E. Migneco

Plenary session

110 Neutrino Physics: Theoretical Summary

DG3 - Summary and perspectives

Speaker: Hiroshi Nunokawa

Slides H_Nunokawa.pdf

111 Neutrino Physics: Experimental Summary I

Speaker: Bonnie Fleming

Slides BT_Fleming.pdf

112 Neutrino Physics: Experimental Summary II

DG3 - Summary and perspectives

Speaker: Oliviero Cremonesi

Slides O_Cremonesi.pdf

Saturday, 19 September

Plenary Session: Discussion Group Summaries. Chair: G. Fiorentini

Plenary session

113 Dark Matter: Theoretical Summary

Speaker: Adam Falkowski

Slides A_Falkowski.pdf

114 Dark Matter: Experimental Summary

Speaker: Daniel McKinsey

Slides D_McKinsey.pdf

115 WIN11 Announcement

Speaker: Herbert PIETSCHMANN

116 End of Workshop

Speaker: Ornella Palamara

Slides Goodbye.pdf

10:50 coffee break