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

09:00 → 12:00 Arrival / Registration

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:35 Short Baseline Anomalies

13:30 Welcome

Speaker: Joachim Kopp (CERN)

cenf-intro.pdf

13:35 Short Baseline Neutrino Oscillations and MicroBooNE

Speaker: Xiao Luo (Yale University)

NeutrinoWeekCERN.pdf

NeutrinoWeekCERN.pptx

14:15 Sterile Neutrino Global Fits

Speaker: Mona Dentler (F)

GlobalFits.pdf

14:55 Standard Model Explanations of the Short Baseline Anomalies

Speaker: Anna Hayes (LANL)

Hayes-CERN.pdf

15:35 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 17:40 Short Baseline Anomalies

16:00 Current status of 3+1 neutrino mixing

Speaker: Christoph Ternes

Neu_Plat_Ternes.pdf

16:25 Light sterile neutrino decay and the short baseline anomalies

Speaker: Ivan Esteban (Universitat de Barcelona)

Talk-1.pdf

16:50 Heavy sterile neutrinos and the MiniBooNE anomaly

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

Heavy_sterile_neutrinos_and_the_MiniBooNE_anomaly.pdf

17:15 Exploring the ANITA events by an $L_e -L_\tau$ gauge model

Speaker: Prof. Yasaman Farzan (IPM)

anita-talk.pdf

18:00 → 19:00 Welcome Reception

Tuesday, 8 October

08:30 → 10:30 Long Baseline Oscillations

08:30 SM and BSM physics in DUNE

Speaker: Albert De Roeck (CERN)

deroeck_DUNE_CERN2019_v3.pdf

deroeck_DUNE_CERN2019_v3.pptx

09:10 BSM physics at near detectors

Speaker: Claudia Frugiuele (CERN)

CERNneutrino.pdf

09:50 Precision (Anti)neutrino Scattering off Nucleons and Nuclei

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

CERN19-Petti.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:05 Long Baseline Oscillations

11:00 Neutrino Interactions with Nuclei

Speaker: Ulrich Mosel (Universitaet Giessen)

CERN_NW_10_19.pdf

11:40 Probing nuclear effects in neutrino interactions using transverse kinematic imbalance

Speaker: Dr Stephen Joseph Dolan (CERN)

sDolanTalk.pdf

12:05 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:40 Long Baseline Oscillations

14:00 Electron and neutrino scattering

Speaker: Prof. camillo mariani (Virginia Tech)

mariani_2019-new.pdf

14:25 Role of short-range nuclear dynamics in neutrino-nucleus interactions

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

benhar_08_10_2019.pdf

14:50 Neutrino Oscillations in Matter

Speaker: Dr Peter Denton (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Denton_CERN.pdf

15:15 Reactor neutrino oscillations as constraints on Effective Field Theory

Speaker: zahra tabrizi

CERN-Oct2019-nuEFT.pdf

15:40 → 16:10 Coffee

16:10 → 17:25 Long Baseline Oscillations

16:10 Light Extended Neutrino Sectors: Foundations and Phenomenology

Speaker: Bibhushan Shakya (CERN)

Bibhushan_neutrino_platform_cern_2019.pdf

16:35 Constraining NSI and Sterile Neutrino Physics with nu_tau Appearance in DUNE

Speaker: Anish Ghoshal (L)

CERN_talk_Anish.pdf

17:00 Non-Standard Interactions in Radiative Neutrino Mass Models

Speaker: Jana Sudip (MPIK Heidelberg)

NSI_radiative_CERN_Sudip.pdf

Wednesday, 9 October

08:30 → 10:00 Neutrino Masses and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

08:30 The Neutrino Option

Speaker: Ilaria Brivio (University of Heidelberg)

slides_NuPlatform.pdf

09:10 Neutrino masses from Planck scale

Speaker: Dr Takashi Toma (McGill University)

cern.pdf

09:35 Heavy Neutrinos and the Majorana vs. Dirac Question

Speaker: Boris Kayser

BorisKayser1910-1.pdf

10:00 → 10:45 Coffee

10:45 → 12:05 Neutrino Masses and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

10:45 Matrix elements for neutrinoless double beta decay

Speaker: Fedor Simkovic (Comenius University)

CERN_NuMeeting_Simkovic.pdf

11:25 Project 8

Speaker: Prof. Karsten Heeger (Yale University)

numass-CERN-Heeger-191009.pdf

12:05 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:50 Neutrino Masses and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

14:10 A light dark neutrino sector

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

CERN_hot_topics_lq.pdf

14:35 Testing seesaw models with gravitational waves

Speaker: Vedran Brdar (MPIK Heidelberg)

Vedran.pdf

15:00 Neutrino mass models: new classification and upper limits on their scale

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

LNscales_nuweek.pdf

15:25 Global bounds on the type-III seesaw

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

TypeIII_CERN2019.pdf

15:50 → 16:20 Coffee

16:20 → 18:00 Neutrino Masses and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

16:20 Neutrino interactions with light new bosons

Speaker: Julian Heeck

heeck-CERN-2019.pdf

16:45 New Physics in Rare Decays

Speaker: Toshihiko Ota (IFT Madrid)

CERN-2019Oct-ota.pdf

17:10 Relic neutrino detection through angular correlations in inverse beta decay

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

Akhmedov.pdf

17:35 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

08:30 → 10:40 Heavy Neutral Leptons / Neutrinos at Colliders

08:30 Collider Tests of NSI

Speaker: Tao Han (University of Pittsburgh)

2019-CERN.pdf

09:10 Heavy Neutral Lepton Searches

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

CERN_NeutrinoWeek2019 less layovers.pdf

09:50 Pseudo-Goldstone sterile neutrino at the LHC

Speaker: Stephane Lavignac (IPhT Saclay)

Lavignac_NeutrinoPlatform_2019.pdf

10:15 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Heavy Sterile Neutrinos

Speaker: Dr Frank Deppisch (University College London)

FrankDeppisch-CERN.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee

11:10 → 12:30 Cosmology and Astrophysics

11:10 Neutrinos in Cosmology

Speaker: Dr Isabel Mira Oldengott

NeutrinoCosmo_Oldengott.pdf

11:50 Connecting neutrino physics with dark matter

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

CERN_Chianese.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Cosmology and Astrophysics

14:00 Leptogenesis

Speaker: Jessica Turner (CERN)

NeutrinoPlatformJT_2019.pdf

14:40 Leptogenesis from oscillations and dark matter

Speaker: Nuria Rius (Valencia University)

nu_platform_19.pdf

15:05 Secret neutrino interactions with ultralight dark matter

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

jcline.pdf

15:30 Neutrino Oscillations in Dark Matter

Speaker: Jongkuk Kim

neutrino_platform_JKK.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee

16:30 → 17:30 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 → 21:00 Dinner

Friday, 11 October

09:00 → 10:45 Cosmology and Astrophysics

09:00 High-energy cosmic neutrinos

Speaker: Dr Mauricio Bustamante (Niels Bohr Institute)

2019-10-11-Bustamante-CERN.pdf

09:40 Neutrinos: from kilonovae to future supernova neutrino observations

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

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

10:05 BSM Searches with Astrophysical Neutrinos

Speaker: Carlos Arguelles (MIT)

IceCubeNewPhysics@CERN.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee

11:15 → 12:20 Cosmology and Astrophysics

11:15 Supernova Neutrinos

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

talk_Capozzi.pdf

11:55 Dirac and Majorana Neutrino signatures of Primordial Black Holes

Speaker: Yuber Perez

NuPlat_PBHs_2019.pdf

12:20 → 14:00 Lunch