Prof.
Young-Dae Jung
(Hanyang University)
7/31/17, 6:00 PM
Cosmology and Astrophysics
Poster
The quantum shielding effects on the nuclear fusion reaction process are investigated in quantum plasmas. The closed expression of the classical turning point for the Gamow penetration factor in quantum plasmas is obtained by the Lambert W-function. The closed expressions of the Gamow penetration factor and the cross section for the nuclear fusion reaction in quantum plasmas are obtained as...
Mr
Andrew Fiedler
(Northern Illinois University)
7/31/17, 6:01 PM
Accelerators
Poster
Effects of beam emittance, energy spread, optical parameters and magnet misalignment on beam polarization through particle transport systems are investigated. Particular emphasis will be placed on the beam lines being used at Fermilab for the development of the muon beam for the Muon g-2 experiment, including comparisons with the natural polarization resulting from pion decay, and comments on...
Jonathan Echevers
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
7/31/17, 6:02 PM
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The Liquid Argon Time Projection chamber (LArTPC) is a unique technology well suited for large scale neutrino detectors. They allow for millimeter scale 3D precision particle tracking and calorimetry with good $\frac{dE}{dx} $ resolution, which provides excellent efficiency of particle identification and background rejection. While studies of detector response to high energy events have begun,...
Mario D. Balcazar
(University of Kansas)
7/31/17, 6:03 PM
Particle Detectors
Poster
For the CMS HL-LHC upgrade, a new Inner Tracker will be installed consisting of silicon pixel detector layers in the central region and disks placed in the forward region. A new readout chip will be used along with gigabit optical data links. Proposed designs for the readout chain electronics include a mix of high bandwidth electronic transmission cables and optical links. Until the new custom...
Charles Mueller
(University of Notre Dame)
7/31/17, 6:04 PM
Computing, Analysis Tools and Data Handling
Poster
Throughout Run II, the trigger rate monitoring tool used by CMS has helped identify problems throughout the detector, leading to faster diagnosis and correction thanks to real time monitoring and alarms. This tool also incorporates trigger rates into CMS data certification. An overview of this tool is presented.
Dr
Reddy Pratap Gandrajula
(Michigan State University)
7/31/17, 6:05 PM
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Two of the flagship analyses at the DUNE far detector are to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy and to measure the CP violating phase, using the appearance of electron-neutrino signal events in the far detector. To efficiently select signal events, we require robust shower reconstruction tools to achieve the maximal electron/photon separation. We present a summary of existing shower...
Mr
Cameron Marshall
(Manhattan High School & Kansas State University)
7/31/17, 6:06 PM
Cosmology and Astrophysics
Poster
Humanity's cosmic physics relies on the assumption that, "the Universe looks the same for all observers, regardless of location." This assumption is called the Cosmological Principle, which is defined by the properties of homogeneity and isotropy. Homogeneity states that, the Universe looks the same at each point, while isotropy states that the Universe looks the same in all directions. ...
Dr
Jae-Kwang Hwang
(JJJ Physics Laboratory)
7/31/17, 6:07 PM
Dark Matter
Poster
Three generations of leptons and quarks correspond to the lepton charges (LC) in the present work. Then, the leptons have the electric charges (EC) and lepton charges (LC). The quarks have the EC, LC and color charges (CC). Three heavy leptons and three heavy quarks are introduced to make the missing third flavor of EC. Then the three new particles which have the electric charges (EC) are...
Yangyang Cheng
(Cornell University)
7/31/17, 6:08 PM
Computing, Analysis Tools and Data Handling
Poster
To meet the experimental challenges and reach the physics potential of the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), the CMS experiment will be replacing its current pixel detector with new technology and designs. The upgrade plan includes extending the inner pixel detector in the forward region from the current coverage of |\eta|<2.4 to 4, and adopting small-pitch pixel sensors and next-generation...
Marjorie Bardeen
(FNAL)
7/31/17, 6:10 PM
Diversity, Education and Outreach
Poster
The International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG) is a global network of physicists and educators committed to promote the particle physics research in the community through informal education and outreach. Following the model of experimental particle physics collaborations, IPPOG itself has become a scientific collaboration based on a memorandum of understanding. We describe the...
Laura Fields
(Fermilab)
7/31/17, 6:11 PM
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) will include a conventional neutrino beam made by colliding a high energy proton beam with a fixed target, focusing the resulting hadron using a set of magnetic horns and allowing them to decay to neutrinos. As with most conventional neutrino beams, uncertainties on the number of neutrinos in the beam as a function of energy are of order 10%. The Flux...
Dylan Frizzell
(University of Oklahoma)
7/31/17, 6:12 PM
Particle Detectors
Poster
High voltage CMOS pixel sensors are a promising technology that is being considered for particle physics detectors such as the ATLAS Inner Tracker due to their potential to realize a fully monolithic design at considerable cost savings while not compromising on high track reconstruction efficiency, charge collection, and radiation hardness. HVCMOS sensors have circuitry built into each pixel...
Mr
P James Norris
(Idaho State University)
7/31/17, 6:13 PM
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) hopes to study in great detail atmospheric, solar and supernova neutrino events. In order to do so, the background radiation at both the near detector (at Fermilab) and the far detector (at the Sanford research facility in South Dakota) must be understood in great detail. The Low Background Laboratory (LBL) is to be built at Idaho State...
Dr
Ketevi Adikle Assamagan
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
7/31/17, 6:14 PM
Dark Matter
Poster
Hidden sector or dark sector states appear in many extensions to the Standard Model, to provide a candidate for the dark matter in the universe or to explain astrophysical observations of positron excesses. A hidden or dark sector can be introduced with an additional U(1)d dark gauge symmetry. The presence of the dark sector could be inferred either from deviations from the SM-predicted rates...
Yuhan Wang
(University of Michigan)
7/31/17, 6:15 PM
Dark Matter
Poster
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is a next-generation direct detection experiment under construction to search for dark matter. The detector contains a dual-phase liquid xenon (LXe) time projection chamber with a total active mass of 7 tons and is located at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota. LZ takes advantage of the high VUV reflectivity of PTFE to achieve high...
Dr
David Neuffer
(Fermilab)
7/31/17, 6:16 PM
Accelerators
Poster
Low energy muon experiments such as mu2e and g-2 have a limited energy spread acceptance. Following techniques developed in muon cooling studies and the MICE experiment, the number of muons within the desired energy spread can be increased by the matched use of wedge absorbers. More generally, the phase space of muon beams can be manipulated by absorbers in beam transport lines. Applications...
Mr
Christopher Hilgenberg
(Colorado State University)
7/31/17, 6:17 PM
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The ICARUS T600 liquid argon time-projection chamber will be the far detector for the Short Baseline Neutrino Program. The detector will operate at shallow depth and therefore be exposed to the full surface flux of cosmic rays. Application of overburden attenuates most of this background expected for muons. However, the remaining background is problematic since a photon produced by a muon...
Mr
Cory Crowley
(Fermi National Accelerator Lab)
7/31/17, 6:18 PM
Accelerators
Poster
Optimization efforts for the Long Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) have been pursued as an opportunity to further expand the reach of the experiment in the energy spectrum, and to significantly increase neutrino flux to the detectors. Major improvements and subsequent reconfigurations have been completed to the horn focusing system, in addition to the target, achieving the goals set forth....
Dr
Richard Benavides
(Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano)
7/31/17, 6:19 PM
Beyond Standard Model
Poster
We report the most general expression for the chiral charges of a non-universal U(1)' with identical
charges for the first two families but different charges for the third one. The model is minimal in the
sense that only standard model fermions plus right-handed neutrinos are required. By imposing anomaly
cancellation and constraints coming from Yukawa couplings we obtain two different...
Dr
Thomas Strauss
(FNAL)
7/31/17, 6:20 PM
Accelerators
Poster
The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab is designed to search for charged-lepton flavor violation by looking for muon to electron conversions in the field of the nucleus. The concept of the experiment is to generate a low momentum muon beam, stopping the muons in a target and measuring the momentum of the conversion electrons. The implementation of this approach utilizes a complex magnetic field...
Richard Holmes
(Boeing Company)
7/31/17, 6:21 PM
QCD
Poster
A set of 3x3 mass matrices are identified that have eigenstates that are mathematically equivalent to conventional QCD color states, and which have mass eigenvalues equal to the three quark flavor masses, for each of the two quark families. When integrated into the Dirac equations for each family, one obtains a theory that satisfies, TCP, Lorentz, U(1), and SU(2)L transformations, as well as...
Mr
Madhuranga Thilakasiri Madugoda Ralalage Don
(Oklahoma State University)
7/31/17, 6:22 PM
Beyond Standard Model
Poster
This poster is presenting a search for pair produced vector-like quarks decaying in to a fully hadronic final state using 36.1 fb−1 of pp collisions with a center of mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment. We consider the decays of pair produced T and B vector-like quarks in to third generation standard model quarks with Higgs boson and gauge bosons W and Z. The analysis uses...
Spencer Axani
(MIT)
7/31/17, 6:23 PM
Diversity, Education and Outreach
Poster
The CosmicWatch Desktop Muon Detectors were designed as an outreach tool to promote particle physics to undergraduates and high-school students. The detectors are pocket-sized, self-contained, light-weight (~100g), and require a very small amount of power (sub-Watt). The data can be read-out through a USB serial connection or saved locally to an SD-card. We've been working with students at...
Mr
Yongchao Gan
(Faculty of Physics & Electronic Science, Hubei University)
7/31/17, 6:24 PM
Beyond Standard Model
Poster
After Jihua Gan’s solution for contradiction of separation and continence between classical physics and quantum theory, the contradiction of particle and wave consequentially has new solution. Based on the advance of Dirac's work in 1927, from "mode decomposition of classical electromagnetic field" to "photon decomposition of classical electromagnetic field”, a corresponding relation of basic...
Erika Catano Mur
(Iowa State University)
7/31/17, 6:25 PM
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The NOvA experiment is an off-axis, two-detector experiment designed to study electron neutrino ($\nu_e$) appearance in the NuMI beam from Fermilab. The 300-ton Near Detector is 1 km from the target, and allows the study of the neutrino beam spectrum and composition before oscillations, while the larger (14,000 ton) Far Detector, situated on the surface 810 km away, observes the oscillated...
Joseph Angelo
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
7/31/17, 6:26 PM
Accelerators
Poster
The Long Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) will utilize a beamline at Fermilab to produce a neutrino beam aimed at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota. A primary proton beam will interact with a target to produce mesons, which will be focused by magnetic horns before decaying into neutrinos. The target and horns are contained in a chamber, which is surrounded by a shield...
Ryan Murphy
(Indiana University)
7/31/17, 6:27 PM
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The NOvA Near Detector (ND) is a 300-ton, fine-grained, nearly fully active low-Z tracking calorimeter located at Fermilab, located 1 km from the NuMI beam target. The unique positioning of the ND also results in an exposure to Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) neutrinos at 162 mrad off-axis, 780 m away from the target with a kaon-induced neutrino energy peak around 1.4 GeV and a pion-induced energy...
Mr
Biswaranjan Behera
(IIT Hyderabad/Fermilab)
7/31/17, 6:28 PM
Particle Detectors
Poster
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. It uses the NuMI beam from Fermilab and two sampling calorimeter detectors located off-axis from the beam. The NOvA experiment measures the rate of electron-neutrino appearance in the almost pure muon-neutrino NuMI beam, with the data measured at the Near Detector being used to accurately determine the expected rate at the Far...
Georgia Karagiorgi
(Columbia University)
7/31/17, 6:29 PM
Computing, Analysis Tools and Data Handling
Poster
Future, large-scale liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) detectors provide a unique opportunity to search for neutron-antineutron oscillation. This is a rare, baryon-number-violating signature predicted only by theories beyond the Standard Model. This talk will present a convolutional neural network approach that can be used to search for neutron-antineutron oscillation events in the...
Mr
Daniel Smith
(Boston University)
7/31/17, 6:31 PM
Computing, Analysis Tools and Data Handling
Poster
Kaon physics in liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) is important for future proton decay searches in large-scale LArTPCs, such as DUNE. Using LArIAT, a LArTPC test beam experiment at Fermilab, we have selected—with traditional beam line instrumentation—around 3E3 kaon candidate events, creating the first kaon data sample in a LArTPC. This sample allows us to perform the first...
lei feng
(Johns Hopkins University)
7/31/17, 6:32 PM
Top Quark Physics
Poster
We presents a measurement of Forward-Backward Asymmetry($\displaystyle{A_{FB}}$) in $t\bar{t}$ production. The data sample corresponds to $19.7\,\textrm{fb}^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8\,\textrm{TeV}$ collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. Events selected contain a single isolated muon or electron, with four or five jets of which two are...
Mr
Biao Wang
(Southern Methodist University)
7/31/17, 6:34 PM
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Various scenarios of beyond the Standard Model physics predict Majorana neutrinos with large magnetic moments. NOvA is well suited for such searches since its detectors are optimized for efficient electron detection and its Near Detector (ND) is exposed to an intense neutrino flux from the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. This facilitates the accumulation of significant statistics for studying...
SUDIP JANA
(OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY)
7/31/17, 6:35 PM
Beyond Standard Model
Poster
No matter what the scale new physics is, deviations from the Standard Model for the Higgs observables will indicate the existence of such a scale. We consider effective six dimensional operators, and their effects on the Higgs productions and decays to estimate this new scale. Large uncertainties with the SM predictions still remains in some of the observables of these measurements. This...
Dr
Emrah Tiras
(Iowa State University)
7/31/17, 6:36 PM
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is located at SciBooNE Hall along the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab. It consists of a 23-ton water Cherenkov detector loaded with gadolinium, muon range detector and a veto wall. The main goal of the experiment is to measure the final state neutron multiplicity from charged current neutrino-nucleus interactions within the...
Matthew Judah
(Colorado State University)
7/31/17, 6:37 PM
Computing, Analysis Tools and Data Handling
Poster
The NOvA experiment is a long-baseline neutrino experiment utilizing an intense off-axis neutrino beam and two segmented liquid-scintillator-based detectors, a 300t near detector and a 14kt far detector located 810 km from the beam source. The NOvA experiment employs a data-driven trigger system to fully exploit the detectors during non-beam operation. We will present an overview of the NOvA...
Alessandra Lucà
(FERMILAB)
7/31/17, 6:38 PM
Particle Detectors
Poster
The Mu2e experiment will search for coherent, neutrino-less conversion of muons into electrons in the Coulomb field of an aluminum nucleus with a sensitivity of four orders of magnitude better than previous experiments. The signature of this process is an electron with energy nearly equal to the muon mass. Mu2e relies on a precision (~0.1%) measurement of the outgoing electron momentum to...
Pawel Kryczynski
(IFJ PAN, Krakow)
7/31/17, 6:39 PM
Particle Detectors
Poster
LArIAT is a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) installed in a charged particle beam at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility. This experiment, currently in its third run of data taking, is exploring the response of LAr at particle energies relevant for neutrino experiments. It also serves as a platform to prepare and benchmark the simulation, analysis and reconstruction software, used in...
Dr
Emrah Tiras
(Iowa State University)
7/31/17, 6:40 PM
QCD
Poster
Large Hadron Collider has run at 7, 8, 13 TeV but it is expected and planned to collect data at 14 TeV center of mass energy in 2019. Meanwhile, a 100 TeV hadron collider, called Future Circular Collider (FCC), is proposed to be built as a post-LHC particle accelerator. Therefore, we estimated W and Z boson cross sections and their uncertainties at LO, NLO and NNLO QCD using different most...
Mr
Rijeesh Keloth
(Cochin University of Science and Technology)
7/31/17, 6:41 PM
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Standard three-flavor neutrino oscillations have well explained by a wide range of neutrino experiments. However the anomalous results, such as electron-antineutrino excess seen by LSND and MiniBooNE do not fit the three-flavor paradigm. This can be explained by an additional fourth flavor sterile neutrino at a larger scale than the existing three flavor neutrinos. The NOvA experiment consists...
Ian Snyder
(University of Oregon)
7/31/17, 6:42 PM
Particle Detectors
Poster
The Global Feature Extractor (gFEX) subsystem of the ATLAS Level 1 calorimeter trigger will identify large-radius jets, which are typical of Lorentz-boosted objects. Here I present results from calibrating gBlocks, groups of towers, using offline R=0.4 jets. Dijet Monte Carlo simulation samples at a center of mass energy of 13 TeV are used to find calibration factors. Effects on energy...
Dr
Emrah Tiras
(Iowa State University)
7/31/17, 6:43 PM
QCD
Poster
Cross section predictions of W and Z bosons in association with jets (up to 6 jets) are presented using Alpgen MC generator with CTEQ6L1, a leading order parton distribution function (PDF). This study has been performed at center of mass energies of √s= 7, 8, 13, 14 TeV. To validate the results, a detailed comparison of cross section predictions is performed with the measured results by CMS...
Prof.
Mary Hall Reno
(University of Iowa)
7/31/17, 6:44 PM
Cosmology and Astrophysics
Poster
A technique to detect an astrophysical or cosmic high energy tau neutrino flux involves using the Earth as a neutrino converter. Taus produced near enough to the surface of the Earth can emerge and decay to produce atmospheric showers. The neutrino cross section, energy transfer to the tau, and tau energy loss via electromagnetic interactions will be discussed with applications to surface- and...
Mr
Oscar Eduardo Moreno Palacios
(Universidad de Guanajuato)
7/31/17, 6:45 PM
Particle Detectors
Poster
Cosmic rays are particles generated by astrophysical sources, which currently are studied for their physical properties. Cosmic rays research can be used to improve technology, for instance, spectroscopy for material identification. A three-channel detector was built using three photo-multipliers, two scintillation plastic and several common materials, water, air, oil, aluminum, and others, to...
Dr
Marcelle Soares-Santos
(Fermilab)
7/31/17, 6:46 PM
Cosmology and Astrophysics
Poster
Motivated by the exciting prospect of new wealth of information that will arise from observations of gravitational and electromagnetic radiation from the same astrophysical phenomena, we have established a program to search for optical counterparts to LIGO/Virgo events using the the Dark Energy Camera (DECam). The project is performed in a broad collaboration including members of the Dark...
Vinu Vikraman
(Argonne National Lab)
7/31/17, 6:47 PM
Cosmology and Astrophysics
Poster
Stacking Sunyaev-Zeldovich map of groups and clusters is powerful tool to find average distribution of hot gas in these systems. The goals of this work are to estimate the redshift evolution of SZ signal and average bias weighted electron pressure of the universe. We stack SZ signal from Planck at all the detected redmapper groups from year 1 Dark Energy Survey data. We use groups at different...
Brian Welch
(University of Chicago/Fermilab)
7/31/17, 6:48 PM
Cosmology and Astrophysics
Poster
We present the results of a study of the properties of clusters, selected using the RedMaPPer technique, from the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 data, which cover an area of nearly 2000 square degrees on the sky. We calculate cluster membership probabilities and use a Gaussian mixture model method to characterize the red sequence and blue cloud components of our clusters, and we will present our...
James Annis
(Fermilab)
7/31/17, 6:49 PM
Cosmology and Astrophysics
Poster
Massive Primordial Black Holes (MPBH) generated from large inflation-era curvature fluctuations that reenter during the radiation era could constitute the majority of the dark matter, an idea revived by the LIGO observations of merging 30 solar mass black holes. In this model, the mass distribution of MPBH ranges from 0.01 to 100 solar masses, peaking perhaps at 50 solar masses. There is,...
Mr
Ching Li
(Haverford College)
7/31/17, 6:50 PM
Quark and Lepton Flavor
Poster
We performed theoretical calculations of charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) cross sections and asymmetries in electron-positron scattering. Examples of CLFV include electron antitau final states and electron antimuon final states. We used an effective field theory that incorporated three types of Beyond Standard Model operators: leptonic operators and radiative operators leading to...
Evan Johnson
(Ohio State University)
7/31/17, 6:51 PM
Dark Matter
Poster
The most dramatic "Sommerfeld enhancements" of neutral-wino-pair annihilation occur when the wino mass is tuned to near critical values where there is a zero-energy S-wave resonance at the neutral-wino-pair threshold. If the wino mass is larger than the critical value, the resonance is a wino-pair bound state. If the wino mass is near a critical value, low-energy winos can be described by a...
Marjon Moulai
(MIT)
7/31/17, 6:52 PM
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Anomalies in short-baseline neutrino experiments have suggested the existence of a ~1 eV sterile neutrino. IceCube, an ice-Cherenkov neutrino detector at the South Pole is an ideal testing ground for such neutrinos, but recent searches have found no evidence for them. In a 3+1 sterile neutrino model, decay of the heaviest mass eigenstate to lighter eigenstates is largely unconstrained and...
Ms
Brooke Russell
(Yale University)
7/31/17, 6:53 PM
Neutrino Physics
Poster
MicroBooNE is an 89-ton Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) and the first of a trio of LArTPCs in the Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program which will search for a light sterile neutrino and measure neutrino-argon interaction cross sections. Located in the Booster neutrino beam at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, MicroBooNE has taken neutrino data since October 2015. This...
Dr
Sergey Uzunyan
(Northern Illinois University, for the Mu2e Cosmic Ray Veto Group)
7/31/17, 6:54 PM
Particle Detectors
Poster
We present results of radiation tests of 1.3×1.3 mm^2
and 2.0×2.0 mm^2 for Hamamatsu silicon photo-multiplier (SiPM) sensors. These studies were performed to evaluate the suitability of the Hamamatsu devices for use in the Mu2e Cosmic Ray Veto. Distinct sets of eight SiPMs
were exposed to four different 1 MeV neutron equivalent doses of 200
MeV protons. Measurements of the breakdown...
Dr
JYOTI JOSHI
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
7/31/17, 6:55 PM
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The MicroBooNE detector is the first to be built in the short-baseline neutrino program. It is a single-phase LArTPC built to observe interactions of neutrinos from the on-axis Booster and off-axis NuMI beams at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, IL. We describe the concept and procedure of LArTPC drifted-charge extraction which converts the raw digitized TPC waveform to the...
Mrs
Marina Guzzo
(UNICAMP)
7/31/17, 6:56 PM
Particle Detectors
Poster
The ARAPUCA is a new concept for liquid argon scintillation detection, particularly suited for large liquid argon time projection chambers. It is constituted by a combination of a passive light collector and photo-sensitive silicon devices, which will allow to improve the detection efficiency of actual devices by an order of magnitude. The basic idea is to trap photons inside a box whose...
Prof.
Gonzalo Diaz
(Rochester University)
7/31/17, 6:57 PM
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The MINERvA collaboration has performed important measurements on pion reactions off a scintillator (CH) target, using the NuMI beam at Fermilab in both neutrino and anti-neutrino configurations. These reactions, used by generators to improve nuclear models, are essential for a better understanding of neutrino oscillation experiment results. An important fraction of the signal and background...
Dr
Mary Anne Cummings
(Muons, Inc.)
7/31/17, 6:58 PM
Computing, Analysis Tools and Data Handling
Poster
MuSim is a user-friendly program designed to interface to many different particle simulation codes, regardless of their data formats or geometry descriptions. It presents the user with a compelling graphical user interface that includes a flexible 3-D view of the simulated world plus powerful editing and drag-and-drop capabilities. All aspects of the design can be parameterized so that...
Mrs
Raffaella Donghia
(LNF - INFN)
7/31/17, 6:59 PM
Particle Detectors
Poster
The Mu2e calorimeter is composed by two disks of 1348 un-doped
parallelepiped CsI crystals of 34x34x200 mm^3
dimension, each one readout by two large area SiPM arrays. We
translated the calorimeter requirements in a series of technical
specifications for the SiPMs that are summarized by the following
list:
- high gain, above 10^6, for each monolithic (6x6) mm^2 SiPM cell;
- good photon...
Ms
Jyoti Tripathi
(Panjab University)
7/31/17, 7:00 PM
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The NuMI Off-axis νe Appearance (NOvA) experiment is a long baseline
neutrino oscillation experiment designed to measure both νe appearance and νµ disappearance. The Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) facility produces an intense muon neutrino beam by directing 120 GeV protons onto a 2.5 interaction length graphite target segmented into 48 fins. The secondary particles produced at the...
Ms
Melissa Hutcheson
(University of Michigan)
7/31/17, 7:01 PM
Particle Detectors
Poster
The KOTO experiment at the J-PARC research facility in Tokai-mura, Japan aims to observe and measure the rare decay of the neutral kaon, KL → π0νν¯, in which a neutral kaon decays to a neutral pion and a neutrino antineutrino pair. This decay has a Standard Model predicted branching ratio of (3.00 ± 0.30) x 10^−11. While this decay is extremely rare, it is one of the best decays for studying...
Shaikh Saad
(Oklahoma State University)
7/31/17, 7:02 PM
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The possibility of generating small neutrino mass and large neutrino mixing angles, in the context of the most economic Yukawa sector of non-supersymmetric SO(10) unification is studied. In SO(10) grand unification, the mass matrices of the quarks and leptons are related and given in terms of the same fundamental Yukawa coupling matrices. This is why, it is highly challenging to reproduce the...
Dr
Ralf Ehrlich
(University of Virginia)
7/31/17, 7:03 PM
Computing, Analysis Tools and Data Handling
Poster
The Mu2e experiment will study charged lepton flavor violation by searching for the neutrinoless, coherent conversion of a 𝜇− to an 𝑒−. Such a process will result in an electron of 105 MeV energy. A major background source comes from cosmic-ray muons which can either be misidentified as signal electrons or produce 105 MeV electrons. Such events will occur at a rate of approximately one per...
Dr
Alex Tapia
(University of Medellin), Dr
David Martinez Caicedo
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
7/31/17, 7:04 PM
Diversity, Education and Outreach
Poster
Muon radiography is based on the observation of the absorption of muons in matter, as the ordinary radiography does by using X-rays.The interaction of cosmic rays with the atmosphere produce Extensive Air Showers (EAS), which provide abundant source of muons. These particles can be used for various applications of muon radiography, in particular to study the internal structure of different...
Jason Stock
(South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)
7/31/17, 7:05 PM
Particle Detectors
Poster
The design of the far detector of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) consists of four 10 kton supermodules, each filled with liquid Argon and to be located underground at SURF/SD. Radiological backgrounds are mostly relevant for the low-energy physics of DUNE, such as supernova neutrinos. Radiopurity requirements are driven by the intrinsic Ar-39 contamination of about 1 Bq/kg for...
Mr
SIJITH EDAYATH
(COCHIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, INDIA)
7/31/17, 7:06 PM
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The majority of neutrino oscillation experiments have obtained evidence for neutrino oscillations that are compatible with the three-flavor model. Explaining anomalous results from short-baseline experiments, such as LSND and MiniBooNE, in terms of neutrino oscillations requires the existence of sterile neutrinos. The search for sterile neutrino mixing conducted in NOvA uses a long baseline of...
Michael Andrews
(Carnegie Mellon University)
7/31/17, 7:07 PM
Computing, Analysis Tools and Data Handling
Poster
An essential part of new physics searches at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN involves event classification, or distinguishing signal decays from one of its many background look-alikes. Traditional techniques have relied on reconstructed particle candidates and their physical attributes. However, such reconstructed data are the result of a long, potentially lossy process of forcing the raw...
Justin Vasel
(Indiana University)
7/31/17, 7:08 PM
Computing, Analysis Tools and Data Handling
Poster
The next galactic core-collapse supernova will deliver a wealth of neutrinos which for the first time we are well-situated to measure. These explosions produce neutrinos with energies between 10 and 100 MeV over a period of tens of seconds. Galactic supernovae are relatively rare events, occurring with a frequency of just a few per century. It is therefore essential that all neutrino...
Philip Weigel
(Drexel University)
7/31/17, 7:09 PM
Accelerators
Poster
The IsoDAR (Isotope Decay-At-Rest) experiment aims to explore physics beyond the standard model by searching for anomalous neutrino oscillations indicative of sterile neutrinos. The experiment requires a primary beam of H2+ ions to be accelerated to an energy of 60 MeV/amu at a current of 5 mA, which will be accomplished by using a high-power compact cyclotron. One of the challenges in this...
Prof.
Philip Schreiner
(Benedictine University)
7/31/17, 7:10 PM
Cosmology and Astrophysics
Poster
Seasonal variations of cosmic ray muons have been well-measured by
a number of underground experiments at a variety of overburdens and
it has been found that the rate of muons increases in the summer and
decreases in the winter. This is understood from the properties of
the atmosphere as the temperature varies. But with
large statistics the seasonal variation of multiple muons was...
David Rivera
(University of Pennsylvania),
Jonathon Sensenig
(University of Pennsylvania)
7/31/17, 7:12 PM
Neutrino Physics
Poster
DUNE is an experiment aimed at determining the mass hierarchy of neutrinos and measuring parity violation in the neutrino sector. The ProtoDUNE detector is a prototype Liquid Argon (LAr) TPC for the DUNE far detector and will be operated at CERN to primarily study hadronic interactions in LAr at the few GeV energy scale.
Due to the operation of ProtoDUNE in a beamline near the surface, the...
Ms
Fernanda Psihas
(Indiana University),
Sergei Gleyzer
(University of Florida)
7/31/17, 7:13 PM
Computing, Analysis Tools and Data Handling
Poster
In this poster we will highlight the different community efforts in machine learning in high-energy physics and their positive impact on the community. These efforts include the Inter-Experimental (IML) LHC Machine Learning working group, the Machine Learning group at Fermilab, aMVA4NewPhysics, INSIGHTS, Data Science at HEP workshops. Additional opportunities in the areas of education,...
Ziqing Hong
(Northwestern University)
7/31/17, 7:14 PM
Dark Matter
Poster
SuperCDMS SNOLab is using low energy threshold Si/Ge detectors for dark
matter direct searches. One mode of operation for the experiment runs detectors in a
high-voltage-biased mode, to use Neganov-Luke Amplification.
Understanding the ionization yield of low-energy nuclear recoils is
essential for interpreting dark matter search data taken in this mode. We present two
...
Mr
Francisco Rosas-Torres
(Universidad de Guanajuato), Prof.
Julian Felix
(Universidad de Guanajuato), Ms
Karla Natalia Herrera Guzman
(Universidad de Guanajuato), Mr
Raul Alejandro Gutierrez Sanchez
(Universidad de Guanajuato)
7/31/17, 7:15 PM
Particle Detectors
Poster
In the universe, there are several sources that produce very energetic cosmic rays that interact with the Earth’s atmosphere and create new low energy particles. These particles can be electrically charged and neutral. There are different methods to detect them, according to its interaction with a medium such as the ionization of a material and Cerenkov radiation, among others. An obtained...
Amador Eric
(University of Texas Arlington)
7/31/17, 7:16 PM
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The goals of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at Fermi Lab, is to
precisely measure neutrino and antineutrino oscillation properties to determine if
charge-parity (CP) symmetry is violated in the lepton sector, thus providing a possible
explanation for the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe, and to measure the
neutrino mass ordering. To maximize the...
Dr
Erica Smith
(Indiana University)
7/31/17, 7:17 PM
Neutrino Physics
Poster
NOvA is a neutrino oscillation experiment which probes the neutrino CP-violating phase and mass ordering, as well as improve limits on current neutrino oscillation parameters, by measuring oscillations of muon neutrinos and muon anti-neutrinos produced in the NuMI beam at Fermilab. The muon neutrino disappearance analysis specifically focuses on the measurements of $\Delta m_{32}^2$ and...
Mr
Pedrom Zadeh
(University of Virginia),
Peter Farris
(University of Virginia)
7/31/17, 7:18 PM
Particle Detectors
Poster
The Mu2e experiment will conduct a search for charged lepton flavor violation through observation of a neutrino-less muon-to-electron conversion. In order to reduce backgrounds from cosmic ray muons, a cosmic ray veto consisting of counters made from scintillating plastic will be read out by wavelength-shifting fibers. The cosmic ray veto must have an overall detection efficiency of 99.99%. In...
Leslie Rogers
(University of Texas in Arlington)
7/31/17, 7:25 PM
Particle Detectors
Poster
The NEXT collaboration is developing a sequence of high pressure xenon gas time projection chambers with the aim of creating a ton-scale, very low background neutrinoless double beta decay search. While most aspects of this technology are easily scalable, some detector elements require R&D in order to be realized on a large scale. This poster will describe a new, large-scale test facility...
Nicole Larsen
(U. Chicago, KICP)
7/31/17, 7:26 PM
Cosmology and Astrophysics
Poster
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a rich source of information about the cosmos. Over the past ten years, gains in experimental sensitivity have enabled ground-based instruments to begin the search for B-mode polarization in the CMB as a test of the inflationary paradigm. However, the atmosphere is not fully transparent in the 35-270GHz region targeted by these observations. ...