Neutrino Platform Week 2019: Hot Topics in Neutrino Physics

7 Oct 2019, 08:00 → 11 Oct 2019, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

Gabriela Barenboim (University of Valencia & IFIC (UV-CSIC)), Pilar Hernandez, Patrick Huber, Joachim Kopp (CERN), Stephen Parke (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Silvia Pascoli (University of Durham (GB)), Thomas Schwetz, Melissa Clegg (Fermilab)

A quote famously attributed to Isaac Asimov is "the most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not `Eureka' but `That's funny ...'.''  Neutrino physics is arguably a field of research where this phrase can be heard rather frequently. Therefore, the goal of this theory-focused workshop, hosted by the CERN Neutrino Platform, is to discuss recent progress in neutrino physics, as well as the potential of future neutrino facilities.

Topics include

• New theoretical and experimental results on the short baseline anomalies
• Improving our knowledge about neutrino cross sections and the properties of neutrino beams
• Astrophysical neutrinos and neutrino telescopes
• New Physics searches with the near detectors of neutrino beam facilities
• Connections between neutrino physics and collider physics
• Neutrinoless double beta decay
• Neutrinos in cosmology
• Models of the neutrino sector

Registration: Attendance will be limited to around 80 participants. There is no registration fee. Applications to attend will be open until August 31st, 2019.

The scientific program of the workshop will begin on Monday, October 7, 2019 after lunch, and will conclude on Friday, October 11 around noon.

Travel support: Limited funds are available to support some participants' expenses.

Monday, 7 October

1 Arrival / Registration

12:00 Lunch

Short Baseline Anomalies

2 Welcome

Speaker: Joachim Kopp (CERN)

cenf-intro.pdf

3 Short Baseline Neutrino Oscillations and MicroBooNE

Speaker: Xiao Luo (Yale University)

NeutrinoWeekCERN.pdf

NeutrinoWeekCERN.pptx

4 Sterile Neutrino Global Fits

Speaker: Mona Dentler (F)

GlobalFits.pdf

5 Standard Model Explanations of the Short Baseline Anomalies

Speaker: Anna Hayes (LANL)

Hayes-CERN.pdf

15:35 Coffee

Short Baseline Anomalies

6 Current status of 3+1 neutrino mixing

Speaker: Christoph Ternes

Neu_Plat_Ternes.pdf

7 Light sterile neutrino decay and the short baseline anomalies

Speaker: Ivan Esteban (Universitat de Barcelona)

Talk-1.pdf

8 Heavy sterile neutrinos and the MiniBooNE anomaly

Speaker: Alvaro Hernandez Cabezudo (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

Heavy_sterile_neutrinos_and_the_MiniBooNE_anomaly.pdf

9 Exploring the ANITA events by an $L_e -L_\tau$ gauge model

Speaker: Prof. Yasaman Farzan (IPM)

anita-talk.pdf

18:00 Welcome Reception

Tuesday, 8 October

Long Baseline Oscillations

10 SM and BSM physics in DUNE

Speaker: Albert De Roeck (CERN)

deroeck_DUNE_CERN2019_v3.pdf

deroeck_DUNE_CERN2019_v3.pptx

11 BSM physics at near detectors

Speaker: Claudia Frugiuele (CERN)

CERNneutrino.pdf

12 Precision (Anti)neutrino Scattering off Nucleons and Nuclei

Speaker: Roberto Petti (University of South Carolina (US))

CERN19-Petti.pdf

10:30 Coffee

Long Baseline Oscillations

13 Neutrino Interactions with Nuclei

Speaker: Ulrich Mosel (Universitaet Giessen)

CERN_NW_10_19.pdf

14 Probing nuclear effects in neutrino interactions using transverse kinematic imbalance

Speaker: Dr Stephen Joseph Dolan (CERN)

sDolanTalk.pdf

12:05 Lunch

Long Baseline Oscillations

15 Electron and neutrino scattering

Speaker: Prof. camillo mariani (Virginia Tech)

mariani_2019-new.pdf

16 Role of short-range nuclear dynamics in neutrino-nucleus interactions

Speaker: Prof. Omar Benhar (INFN and Sapienza University)

benhar_08_10_2019.pdf

17 Neutrino Oscillations in Matter

Speaker: Dr Peter Denton (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Denton_CERN.pdf

18 Reactor neutrino oscillations as constraints on Effective Field Theory

Speaker: zahra tabrizi

CERN-Oct2019-nuEFT.pdf

15:40 Coffee

Long Baseline Oscillations

19 Light Extended Neutrino Sectors: Foundations and Phenomenology

Speaker: Bibhushan Shakya (CERN)

Bibhushan_neutrino_platform_cern_2019.pdf

20 Constraining NSI and Sterile Neutrino Physics with nu_tau Appearance in DUNE

Speaker: Anish Ghoshal (L)

CERN_talk_Anish.pdf

21 Non-Standard Interactions in Radiative Neutrino Mass Models

Speaker: Jana Sudip (MPIK Heidelberg)

NSI_radiative_CERN_Sudip.pdf

Wednesday, 9 October

Neutrino Masses and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

22 The Neutrino Option

Speaker: Ilaria Brivio (University of Heidelberg)

slides_NuPlatform.pdf

23 Neutrino masses from Planck scale

Speaker: Dr Takashi Toma (McGill University)

cern.pdf

24 Heavy Neutrinos and the Majorana vs. Dirac Question

Speaker: Boris Kayser

BorisKayser1910-1.pdf

10:00 Coffee

Neutrino Masses and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

25 Matrix elements for neutrinoless double beta decay

Speaker: Fedor Simkovic (Comenius University)

CERN_NuMeeting_Simkovic.pdf

26 Project 8

Speaker: Prof. Karsten Heeger (Yale University)

numass-CERN-Heeger-191009.pdf

12:05 Lunch

Neutrino Masses and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

27 A light dark neutrino sector

Speaker: Matheus Hostert (University of Minnesota / Perimeter Institute)

CERN_hot_topics_lq.pdf

28 Testing seesaw models with gravitational waves

Speaker: Vedran Brdar (MPIK Heidelberg)

Vedran.pdf

29 Neutrino mass models: new classification and upper limits on their scale

Speaker: Juan Herrero Garcia (INFN/SISSA, Trieste)

LNscales_nuweek.pdf

30 Global bounds on the type-III seesaw

Speaker: Jacobo Lopez Pavon (IFIC, CSIC-Universitat de València)

TypeIII_CERN2019.pdf

15:50 Coffee

Neutrino Masses and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

31 Neutrino interactions with light new bosons

Speaker: Julian Heeck

heeck-CERN-2019.pdf

32 New Physics in Rare Decays

Speaker: Toshihiko Ota (IFT Madrid)

CERN-2019Oct-ota.pdf

33 Relic neutrino detection through angular correlations in inverse beta decay

Speaker: Evgeny Akhmedov (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg)

Akhmedov.pdf

34 Leptonic Dirac CP Phase Measurement and Non-Standard Interactions

Speaker: Dr Shao-Feng Ge (Kavli IPMU & UC Berkeley)

191009_CERN_nuPlatform19.pdf

Thursday, 10 October

Heavy Neutral Leptons / Neutrinos at Colliders

35 Collider Tests of NSI

Speaker: Tao Han (University of Pittsburgh)

2019-CERN.pdf

36 Heavy Neutral Lepton Searches

Speaker: Marco Drewes (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))

CERN_NeutrinoWeek2019 less layovers.pdf

37 Pseudo-Goldstone sterile neutrino at the LHC

Speaker: Stephane Lavignac (IPhT Saclay)

Lavignac_NeutrinoPlatform_2019.pdf

38 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Heavy Sterile Neutrinos

Speaker: Dr Frank Deppisch (University College London)

FrankDeppisch-CERN.pdf

10:40 Coffee

Cosmology and Astrophysics

39 Neutrinos in Cosmology

Speaker: Dr Isabel Mira Oldengott

NeutrinoCosmo_Oldengott.pdf

40 Connecting neutrino physics with dark matter

Speaker: Dr Marco Chianese (GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam)

CERN_Chianese.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Cosmology and Astrophysics

41 Leptogenesis

Speaker: Jessica Turner (CERN)

NeutrinoPlatformJT_2019.pdf

42 Leptogenesis from oscillations and dark matter

Speaker: Nuria Rius (Valencia University)

nu_platform_19.pdf

43 Secret neutrino interactions with ultralight dark matter

Speaker: James Cline (McGill University, (CA))

jcline.pdf

44 Neutrino Oscillations in Dark Matter

Speaker: Jongkuk Kim

neutrino_platform_JKK.pdf

16:00 Coffee

45 Neutrinos for Nuclear Security

Nuclear reactors are the brightest man-made neutrino sources and have been the workhorse of neutrino physics since the discovery of the neutrino. In the 1970s Lev Mikaelyan realized that neutrinos also can be used to learn about the internal state of a nuclear reactor. The past decade has seen a significant increase in the interest in reactor neutrinos, thanks to the theta-13 experiments and the search for sterile neutrinos. In particular, I will discuss case studies we have performed for the historical case of the 1990s nuclear crisis in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and for the IR-40 reactor in Iran. I will report on on-going efforts to develop suitable detectors for surface deployment close to a nuclear reactor and comment on the role coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering may play. With the most recent results from PROSPECT and other experiments, for the first time, a real world capability exists and I will present recent efforts by an international group of reactor neutrino experts with regards to North Korea.
(see also https://indico.cern.ch/event/849464/)

For remote participants: the URL for the webcast of this colloquium is https://webcast.web.cern.ch/event/i849464

Speaker: Patrick Huber

cern-2019.pdf

19:00 Dinner

Friday, 11 October

Cosmology and Astrophysics

46 High-energy cosmic neutrinos

Speaker: Dr Mauricio Bustamante (Niels Bohr Institute)

2019-10-11-Bustamante-CERN.pdf

47 Neutrinos: from kilonovae to future supernova neutrino observations

Speaker: Cristina VOLPE (AstroParticle and Cosmology - APC /CNRS)

Hot-topics-CERN-workshop-MCVolpe-2.pdf

48 BSM Searches with Astrophysical Neutrinos

Speaker: Carlos Arguelles (MIT)

IceCubeNewPhysics@CERN.pdf

10:45 Coffee

Cosmology and Astrophysics

49 Supernova Neutrinos

Speaker: Dr Francesco Capozzi (Max Planck Institute For Physics (Munich))

talk_Capozzi.pdf

50 Dirac and Majorana Neutrino signatures of Primordial Black Holes

Speaker: Yuber Perez

NuPlat_PBHs_2019.pdf

12:20 Lunch