Workshop: Opportunity for short baseline neutrino experiments in nuclear reactors in Argentina

16 Dec 2019, 09:00 → 20 Dec 2019, 17:00 America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires

ICAS

The main goal of this workshop is to bring experimentalists and theorists together to evaluate the possibilities to develop a short baseline neutrino program using nuclear reactors in Argentina. 

Financial support for lodging expenses can be provided to a limited number of participants. Applications for financial support must be addressed to fmoroni.guillermo@gmail.ar before November 15th. 

 

Venue Location

The easiest way to arrive at ICAS is by taking the train “Mitre line”, that runs from Retiro (terminal train station in Buenos Aires) towards Jose Leon Suarez (be aware that there are several branches of Mitre) and getting off at station Miguelete, which is almost inside the campus of the University (and then you have just a 5 minutes walk inside campus).

Monday, 16 December

09:00 → 17:00 Arrival

Tuesday, 17 December

09:00 → 09:30 Registration

09:30 → 10:00 Welcome: Motivation and goals of the workshop

10:00 → 11:00 Introduction of the groups participating in the workshop

Convener: Miguel Sofo Haro

10:00 ICAS group

Speaker: Dr Carla Bonifazi (IF–UFRJ)

10:20 CNEA-CAE

Speaker: Dr Federico Izraelevich

11:00 → 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 → 12:20 Introduction of the groups participating in the workshop

Convener: Carla Bonifazi (IF–UFRJ)

11:20 UNS-IIIE

Speaker: Prof. Eduardo Paolini

11:40 Centro Atómico Bariloche

Speaker: Dr Jerónimo Blostein

12:00 ITEDA

Speakers: Dr Belen Andrada , Ms Matias Hampel

12:20 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Technical talks: Neutrino physics and neutrino source in nuclear reactors

Convener: Guillermo Fernandez Moroni

14:00 Neutrino physics general review

Speaker: Dr Pedro Machado (Fermilab)

neutrino TH review - low threshold detectors in nuclear reactors at Argentina.pdf

14:30 Expected number of events and significance for a Reactor Neutrino Experiment

Speaker: Dr Dario Rodrigues

15:00 Nuclear reactors in Argentina

Speakers: Dario Rodrigues (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), Dr Iván Sidelnik

15:30 → 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 → 16:50 Technical talks: Low energy threshold technology

Convener: Dario Rodrigues

15:50 Skipper CCD

Speaker: Dr Miguel Sofo Haro

16:20 Neutrino Experiments overview

Speaker: Dr Juan Estrada

16:50 → 17:30 Round table with coffee break

Wednesday, 18 December

10:00 → 11:00 Introduction of the groups participating in the workshop

Convener: Guillermo Fernandez Moroni

10:00 RA10

Speaker: Dr Galeta Leonardo

10:20 LAHN

Speaker: Dr Karina Pierpauli

10:40 CNEA-CAE

Speaker: Dr Pablo Bellino

11:00 → 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 → 12:20 Introduction of the groups participating in the workshop

Convener: Dario Rodrigues

11:40 DF-UBA

Speaker: Dr Daniel E. lopez-Fogliani

12:00 Fermilab

Speakers: Javier Tiffenberg (Fermilab), juan estrada (fermilab)

12:20 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:20 Technical talks: Ionization efficiency

Convener: Carla Bonifazi (IF–UFRJ)

14:00 State of the art for electron recoil efficiency in silicon

Speaker: Guillermo Fernandez Moroni

14:20 State of the art for nuclear recoil efficiency in silicon

Speaker: Dr Federico Izraelevich

14:50 New technique to measure nuclear recoil efficiency

Speaker: Dr Jerónimo Blostein

15:20 → 15:40 Coffee break

15:40 → 16:40 Technical talks: Sensitivity for benchmark models

Convener: Miguel Sofo Haro

16:40 → 17:10 Round table with coffee break

Thursday, 19 December

10:00 → 11:00 Technical talks: Background and flux measurements for precision experiments

Convener: Guillermo Fernandez Moroni

10:00 Background in a reactor experiment

10:30 Posible antineutrino flux measurement technologies

Speaker: Iván Sidelnik (CAB-IB-CONICET)

11:00 → 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 → 12:20 Technical talks: Sensitivity for benchmark models

Convener: Miguel Sofo Haro

11:20 Readout system for CCD experiments

Speaker: Dr Fernando Chierchie

11:50 Weak mixing angle and oscillation sensitivity

Speaker: Dr Dario Pablo Rodrigues Ferreira Maltez (Universidad de Buenos Aires (AR))

12:20 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Technical talks: Current low threshold experiments with CCDs

Convener: Dario Rodrigues

14:00 SENSEI experiment

Speaker: Javier Tiffenberg (Fermilab)

14:30 CONNIE experiment

Speaker: juan estrada (fermilab)

15:00 → 15:30 Summary talk

Speaker: Guillermo Fernandez Moroni

15:30 → 16:30 Open discussion: Organization and perspective for the future

Friday, 20 December

09:00 → 17:00 Attendance to external seminars in ICAS

Working groups summaries