Colloquium Prague ν19

24 Oct 2019, 07:00 → 25 Oct 2019, 18:55 Europe/Prague

J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry

Colloquium Towards CP violation in neutrino Physics

The aim of the Colloquium is to present a status and plans for CP violation measurement in neutrino experiments.  It plans to provide an overview of recent experimental results, theoretical predictions, experiments under construction and planned experiments to measure CP violation in lepton sector.
It consists of invited talks.

The organizing committee:

David Wark, Oxford University/Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Debbie Loader, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Rupert Leitner, Charles University, Prague
Vit Vorobel, Charles University, Prague
Milos Lokajicek, Institute of Physics AS CR, Prague
Nina Tumova, Institute of Physics AS CR, Prague

The event is supported by programme CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001787, MEYS Czech Republic LM2015068

 

logistics.pdf

logistics.pptx

Thursday 24 October

09:00 → 09:05 Welcome

1.Prague_v19_welcome.pdf

1.Prague_v19_welcome.pptx

09:05 → 09:35 Latest Results From Daya Bay

The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment is designed to provide a precise measurement of the smallest neutrino-mixing angle, θ13. It is located at the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Complex in southern China. Eight antineutrino detectors with identical design, each with a 20-t gadolinium-doped liquid-scintillator target, are deployed in three underground experimental halls at different distances from six nuclear reactors for detecting the low-energy electron antineutrinos emitted from the cores. Mixing angles and mass-squared differences are determined by comparing the observed rates and spectra of antineutrinos in the far detectors with the predicted one based on the corresponding measurements obtained from the near detectors. This kind of relative measurement can reduce systematic uncertainties significantly. Using this approach, Daya Bay provides precise determination of θ13 and |Δm232|. With a few million reactor antineutrino events collected, Daya Bay can also perform other precision measurements and sensitive searches. Some of the recent results and prospects of Daya Bay will be presented in this talk.

Speaker: Kam-Biu Luk (UC Berkeley/LBNL)

DayaBay_Prague_24Oct2019.pdf

09:35 → 10:00 Double Chooz

Speaker: Dr Anatael Cabrera (IN2P3/CNRS)

DC@PragueColloquium2019OCT-Anatael.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Status and perspectives of the JUNO experiment

JUNO (Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory), a 20 kton multi-purpose underground liquid scintillator detector, has been proposed and approved for realization in the south of China. After an intense design phase, the overall structure of the detector has been fully finalized, paving the way towards the construction of the several components and subsystems, which is now in a very advanced stage. Meanwhile, the excavation of the site, which will host the experiment is rapidly progressing towards its completion. The main physics target of JUNO is the determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy, which will be accessible through the measurement of the antineutrino spectrum from two high power nuclear complexes under installation 53 km away from the experimental site. In my talk I will describe the broad physics capabilities of the experiment, which include in addition to the crucial measure of the neutrino hierarchy the high precision determination of three oscillation parameters, as well as a rich astroparticle program. Moreover, I will illustrate the main technical characteristics of the detector, and I will report the status of the construction work.

Speaker: Gioacchino Ranucci (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

4.status perspectives juno.pdf

4.status perspectives juno.pptx

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:30 Oscillations and More at Super-K, T2K and Hyper-K

Speaker: Yoshi Uchida (Imperial College London)

20191024-Super-K-T2K-Hyper-K-Yoshi-Prague-Colloquium-indico-comments.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 NOvA: Recent Results and Prospects

Speaker: Peter Shanahan (Fermilab)

NOvA.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 The CERN Neutrino Platform and the Neutrino programme at CERN

Neutrino activities at CERN have strongly developed in recent years, following the recommendation of the European Strategy Group issued in 2013: “to pave the way to the for a substantial European role in future long-baseline experiments”. A large facility for R&D and test of neutrino detectors has grown. The main programmes will be discussed, including the prototypes of the DUNE long-baseline project, contributions to the Short Base-line Neutrino project at FNAL and to the Near Detector upgrade for T2K. Physics studies currently taking place will also be illustrated.

Speaker: Sandro Palestini (CERN)

S_Palestini-CPnu19.pdf

12:30 → 13:00 The Current Landscape of LAr TPCs for Neutrino Physics

Speaker: Melissa Uchida (Imperial College (GB))

MUchida_CurrentLandscapeofLArTPCs4NeutrinoPhysics.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 14:30 What is the leptonic CP violation good for?

Speaker: Dr Michal Malinský (IPNP, Charles University, Prague)

M.Malinsky-Colloquium_Prague_2019.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Global fits of neutrino data

Speaker: Thomas Schwetz

2.Prague-Colloquium-2019_Schwetz.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Fermilab Short Baseline

Speaker: Christos Touramanis (University of Liverpool (GB))

SBN-CT-2019.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Tea break

16:00 → 16:30 Neutrino less double beta decay theory

Speaker: Fedor Simkovic (Comenius University)

4.PragueColloqium_Simkovic.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Neutrino less double beta decay - experiments

Speaker: Prof. David Waters (UCL)

0vBB_Experimental.pdf

17:00 → 17:30 Status of the DANSS project

The DANSS is a highly segmented m3 antineutrino-spectrometer aimed to search for SBL sterile neutrino oscillations in reactor sector, as well as to solve applied tasks of monitoring the power and fuel composition of a nuclear reactor. The detector measures the antineutrino spectrum by the IBD method from an industrial nuclear reactor (3.1 GWth, KNNP, Rusia) at distances 10.7-12.7 m from the core using a mobile platform. The search for oscillations in sterile neutrino is carried out through the analysis of the bin-per-bin ratios of the positron energy spectra collected at different distances from the reactor. This relative method is free from systematic errors associated with the calculation of the reactor antineutrino spectra and detector efficiency.
The new results of the DANSS experiment are presented here based on more than 2.1 million events collected in 2016-2019 (2.4-fold increase over published data. With the current full data set we do not have a statistically significant sign of the sterile neutrino oscillations excluding further the large and interesting portion of the 3v+ 1v model phase space. The DANSS’s abilities to measure nuclear fuel composition and to monitor reactor power at high will be also discussed.

Speaker: Dr Yury Shitov (JINR)

danss_n19_prague_shitov_1.pdf

17:30 → 18:05 LiquidO

Speaker: Anatael Cabrera (IN2P3/CNRS)

LiquidO@PragueColloquium2019OCT-Anatael.pdf

19:30 → 22:30 Social dinner

Friday 25 October

09:00 → 09:30 KATRIN

Speaker: Guido Drexlin (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

1.The KATRIN experiment - Prague 2019.pdf

09:30 → 10:00 DUNE

Speakers: Stefan Soldner-Rembold (University of Manchester (GB)), Stefan Soldner-Rembold (University of Manchester)

DUNE_Prague_Oct2019.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Sterile neutrinos

Speaker: Dr Antonin Vacheret (Imperial College London)

Vacheret-Prague-2019-public.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:30 Geoneutrinos

Speaker: Ran Han (North China Electric Power University, Beijing)

4.geo-neutrino-hanran.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Baikal

Speaker: Bair Shaybonov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

5.MOVIE_0409.mov

5.shaybonov_colloq.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Theoretical Prospective on Leptonic CP Violation

Speaker: Serguey Petcov (SISSA/INFN, Trieste, Italy)

6.PetcovPrague251019sh.pdf

12:30 → 13:15 Closeout

Speaker: David Wark (CERN)

dlw_closing_remarks_2019.pdf

dlw_closing_remarks_2019.pptx

13:15 → 14:15 Lunch and Farewell