Yellow Report - Future Neutrino Physics Workshop

from Thursday 1 October 2009 (08:00) to Sunday 15 November 2009 (18:00)
CERN (500/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
1 Oct 2009
2 Oct 2009
3 Oct 2009
AM
09:00
Introductory Session - convenor Peter Dornan (until 13:30)
09:00 Welcome - S. Bertolucci (CERN)  
09:10 Aims of the workshop - P. Dornan (Imperial College)  
09:30 Overview of the Current Situation in Neutrino & Charged Lepton sectors - A. de Gouvea (Northwestern University)  
10:00 Neutrino oscillation experiments - Solar Experiments - Gioacchino Ranucci  
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10:10 Neutrino oscillation experiments - Reactor experiments - Thierry Lasserre  
10:20 Neutrino oscillation experiments - Accelerator experiments - Christos Touramanis  
11:30 Neutrino mass measurement - Status and expectations - Oliviero Cremonesi  
12:00 Neutrino mass measurement - Longer term prospects - Kai Zuber  
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12:30 General Discussion  
08:30
Accelerators Session I - convenors Ilias Efthymiopoulos; David Wark (until 13:00)
08:30 Introduction - David Wark (Imperial College & RAL)  
08:40 Coordinated Neutrino Physics R&D in Europe - Status and Roadmap - R. Edgecock (RAL)  
09:00 Beta-beam design status and technical challenges ahead - E. Wildner (CERN)  
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09:25 Baseline ion source for beta-beam - T. Stora (CERN)  
09:50 Ionization cooled beta-beams - Semen Mitrofanov (UC Louvain)  
10:15 --- Coffee break ---
10:45 Plans for superbeams in US - Young-Kee Kim (Fermilab & Univ. of Chicago)  
11:15 Plans for superbeams in Japan - Takuya Hasegawa (KEK)  
11:45 Plans for superbeams in Europe - Marcos Dracos (Univ. Louis Pasteur, CNRS/IN2P3 Strasbourg)  
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12:15 35 years after Gargamelle: The Renaissance of "bubble chamber" neutrino physics - C. Rubbia (CERN)  
12:40 Wrap up discussion on beta-beams and superbeams - I. Efthymioupoulos (CERN)  
09:00
Accelerators Session II - convenors Ilias Efthymiopoulos; David Wark (until 13:10)
09:00 Introduction - I. Efthymiopoulos (CERN)  
09:10 Introduction and front-end: Particle production and capture - H. Kirk (BNL)  
09:50 Cooling and acceleration - M. Zisman (LBL)  
10:20 Neutrino factory design study - R&D projects in Europe - J. Pozimski (Imperial College)  
10:50 --- Coffee break ---
11:20 Synergies with LHC and EURISOL projects - R. Garoby (CERN)  
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11:50 From Neutrino-factory to Muon Collider - S. Geer (Fermilab)  
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12:20 Wrap-up discussion on neutrino factory - D. Wark (Imperial College & RAL)  
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14:00
Theory Session - convenor Silvia Pascoli (until 17:45)
14:00 Models of Neutrino Masses and Mixings - Guido Altarelli (CERN)  
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14:25 Neutrino masses at the TeV scale and LHC signatures - Alessandro Strumia (Pisa)  
14:45 Discussion led by G. Ross (U. Oxford) - Graham Ross  
15:45 Neutrino phenomenology - Thomas Schwetz-Mangold (Max Planck Institute - Heidelberg)  
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16:30 Neutrino physics in the era of precision experiments - B. Gavela (U. A. Madrid)  
17:05 The connection of neutrino physics with astrophysics and cosmology - Steen Hannestad (Aarhus U.)  
18:30
Poster session - convenor Ewa Rondio (until 22:10)
18:30 Borexino - Low Energy neutrinos from the Sun and the Earth  
18:35 Charm searches and kinematical analysis with the OPERA experiment  
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18:40 Recent Results from the MINOS Experiment  
18:45 T2K neutrino oscillation experiment  
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18:50 A Search for νμ―›νe Oscillations in the MINOS Experiment  
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Poster
18:55 The Low Energy Neutrino Factory  
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19:00 Study of the SPL-Frejus neutrino Super Beam performanceusing a solid target  
19:05 R&D towards the MEMPHYS detector  
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19:10 Large Underground Observatory for Proton Decay, Neutrino Astrophysics and CP-violation in the Lepton Sector (GLACIER)  
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19:15 Neutrino Detector in Armenia  
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19:20 Large Apparatus for Grand Unification and Neutrino Astrophysics (LAGUNA)  
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19:25 Search for Flavor Changing Neutral Currents (FCNC) at LHC with tagged neutrino beam directed into Lake Geneva  
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19:30 The Emulsion Scanning System in the OPERA experiment  
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19:35 OPERA: Electronic Detectors  
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19:40 Cold front-end electronics and Ethernet-based DAQ systems for large LAr TPC readout  
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19:45 Neutrino-nucleus cross-sections: a unified theoretical approach for nucleon knock-out, coherent and incoherent pion production  
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19:50 Neutral current π0 production  
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19:55 Alternative approach to extraction of oscillation parameters  
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20:00 Preliminary results of NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS on pion productionin p+C interactions at 31 GeV/c for T2K  
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20:05 Pion cross-sections from HARP-CDP or from the HARP Collaboration?  
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20:10 Measurement of the atmospheric muon charge ratio with the magnetic spectrometers of the OPERA detector at Gran Sasso  
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20:15 CMS: Cosmic muons in simulation and measured data  
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20:20 Lepton-Flavor violation in a neutrino mass model with discrete S3 symmetry  
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20:25 Baseline-dependent neutrino oscillations in asymmetrically-warped spacetimes  
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20:30 Multiparameter approach to R-parity violating supersymmetric couplings  
20:35 SPL-based Proton Driver for a neutrino Factory at CERN  
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20:40 The Proton Driver Front End prototype  
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20:45 The MERIT High-Power target experiment at the CERN PS  
Poster
20:50 Solid target for a neutrino factory  
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20:55 Neutrino Factory Front-End: muon capture and cooling optimization - Gersende Prior  
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21:00 The Normal Conducting RF Cavity for the MICE Experiment  
21:05 MICE Particle Identification System  
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21:10 Progress on the MuCool and MICE Coupling Coils  
21:15 Progress on the Fabrication and Testing of the MICE Spectrometer Solenoids  
21:20 The MICE Tracker System  
21:25 MICE, other application  
21:30 Radioactive-Ions Production Ring for Beta-Beams  
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21:35 Modify HERA to accelerate beta beams  
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21:40 He-6 for beta beams  
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21:45 Limitations in the use of Barrier Buckets in the Beta Beam Decay Ring for the FP7 Scenario  
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21:50 LENA – Low Energy Astronomy  
21:55 Towards the detection of cosmological relic neutrinos with neutrino capture on beta decaying nuclei  
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22:00 A 10-ton scale Nd-liquid scintillator experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of 150Nd and requirements for Nd isotopic enrichment  
22:05 Physics with low energy neutrino beams  
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Detectors Session - convenors Dario Autiero; Anselmo Cervera Villanueva (until 18:40)
14:00 Introduction (15 + 5 min) - Y. Declais (IPNL, Lyon)  
14:20 Magnetized iron calorimeter (20 + 10 min) - J. Nelson (William & Mary, Virginia)  
14:50 Fully active scintillator detectors (20+10 min) - Mark Messier (Indiana University)  
15:20 Liquid Argon R&D (20 + 10 min) - A. Marchionni (ETH Zurich)  
15:50 --- Coffee break ---
16:10 Water Cerenkov experience from Japan + R&D (20 + 10 min) - H. Aihara  
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16:40 Underground facilities technological challenges (15 + 5 min) - Neil Spooner (University of Sheffield)  
17:00 Photodetectors R&D for cost effective PMs, MPPC (15+5 min) - T. Nakaya (Kyoto University)  
17:20 Cost effective electronics for LAr and photodetectors readout (15 + 5 min) - S. Centro (University Padova)  
17:40 Round table  
14:00
Summary and conclusions - convenor Alain Blondel (until 17:15)
14:00 Summaries from the sessions  
Detectors
14:40 Round table discussion of the wish lists  
15:10 --- Coffee break ---
15:40 Next steps  
16:00 Round table discussion: European Strategy for Future Neutrino Physics  
17:00 Concluding remarks