Conveners
Neutrino Physics: Monday morning
- JYOTI JOSHI (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Neutrino Physics: Monday afternoon
- Georgia Karagiorgi (Columbia University)
Neutrino Physics: Tuesday morning
- Sowjanya Gollapinni (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Neutrino Physics: Tuesday afternoon
- Minerba Betancourt (Fermilab)
Neutrino Physics: Wednesday morning
- Benjamin Jones (UTA)
Neutrino Physics: Wednesday afternoon
- Christopher Grant (Boston University)
Neutrino Physics: Thursday morning
- Christopher Grant (Boston University)
Neutrino Physics: Thursday afternoon
- Georgia Karagiorgi (Columbia University)
Dr
Gavin S. Davies
(Indiana University)
31/07/2017, 10:45
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
The existence of light sterile neutrinos would have profound implications for both
particle physics and cosmology. The NOvA (NuMI Off-Axis ve Appearance) experiment is sensitive to new neutrino flavors through searches for the disappearance of the known active neutrinos from the NuMI beam over a baseline of 810 km.
We describe the method used by NOvA to look for oscillations into...
Dr
José Ignacio Crespo-Anadón
(Columbia University Nevis Laboratories)
31/07/2017, 11:03
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
SBND (Short-Baseline Near Detector) is a 112 ton liquid argon TPC neutrino
detector under construction on the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam.
Together with MicroBooNE and ICARUS-T600, SBND will search for shortbaseline neutrino oscillations in the 1 eV^2 mass range. SBND will also perform
detailed studies of the physics of neutrino-argon interactions, thanks to a data
sample of millions of...
Mr
Matt Kramer
(UC Berkeley)
31/07/2017, 11:21
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
Reactor neutrino experiments are well-suited for probing the existence of a light sterile neutrino in the region of a sub-eV$^2$ mass splitting (largely unexplored until recently). Using eight functionally identical antineutrino detectors (ADs), the Daya Bay experiment measures the electron antineutrinos produced by six 2.9 GW commercial nuclear reactors located near Shenzhen, China. By...
Dr
David Martinez Caicedo
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
31/07/2017, 11:39
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
The Daya Bay experiment has utilized eight functionally identical underground detectors to sample reactor antineutrino fluxes from three pairs of nuclear reactors in South China, accruing the largest reactor antineutrino sample to date. This talk will summarize Daya Bay’s most recent result, which presents observations of correlations between reactor core fuel evolution and changes in the...
Dr
Michael Baird
(University of Virginia)
31/07/2017, 13:30
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
In light of the Nobel Prize awarded for neutrino oscillations in 2015, it is an exciting time to be a part of a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. NOvA is one such experiment based out of Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory, which uses two liquid scintillator detectors, one at Fermilab (the ``near" detector) and a second 14 kton detector in northern Minnesota (the ``far"...
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Diana Patricia Mendez
(University of Sussex)
31/07/2017, 13:48
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment looking for muon neutrino disappearance and electron neutrino appearance. Having the longest baseline of any past or present accelerator experiment, NOvA uses the upgraded Neutrino Main Injector (NuMI) beam at Fermilab. The experiment measures oscillations within a muon neutrino beam using a 300 ton Near Detector and a 14 kiloton Far...
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Xiaoyue Li
(Stony Brook University)
31/07/2017, 14:06
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
The T2K experiment is a long base-line neutrino experiment located in Japan. Having successfully discovered $\nu_{e}$ appearance from a $\nu_{\mu}$ beam, T2K is now aimed at probing CP violation in the lepton sector, the mass hierarchy, and the precision measurement of $\sin^2{\theta_{23}}$. Since data taking started in 2010, T2K has accumulated $14.7\times10^{20}$ protons on target (POT) in...
Amit Bashyal
(Oregon State University)
31/07/2017, 14:24
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
PPFX for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a project that aims to improve the prediction of DUNE's flux and the estimation of hadron production uncertainties using hadron production data. Currently, the DUNE flux relies on GEANT4 based physics model which large uncertainties from hadronic interactions in the beamline. We used PPFX, a package developed by the MINERvA experiment...
Jim Hylen
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
31/07/2017, 14:42
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
The Long Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) will utilize a beamline located at Fermilab to provide and aim a neutrino beam of sufficient intensity and appropriate energy range toward DUNE detectors, placed deep underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota. The primary proton beam (60-120 GeV) will be extracted from the MI-10 section of Fermilab’s Main...
Dr
Stephen Parke
(Fermilab)
31/07/2017, 15:00
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
As we enter the precision measurement era for neutrino oscillation physics, it is imperative that our understanding of three flavor neutrino oscillations is also at comparable precision. Even in vacuum, three flavor oscillations is highly none trivial at a precision of 5% or better. Matter effects further complicate three flavor oscillation physics. Here, I will revisit the analytic...
Ms
Daisy Kalra
(Student)
01/08/2017, 10:45
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
NOvA (NuMI Off-axis νe Appearance) experiment is designed to study long-baseline neutrino oscillations using two detectors, the Near Detector (ND) at Fermilab and the Far Detector (FD) at a distance 810 km in Northern Minnesota. NOvA looks for the νe appearance at the FD using a narrow band νμ beam peaked at 2 GeV in energy. Neutral Current (NC) interactions with a π0 in the final state...
Hongyue Duyang
(university of south carolina)
01/08/2017, 11:03
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
The NOvA experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to measure electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam. It consists of two finely segmented, liquid scintillator detectors at 14 mrad off-axis in the NuMI beam.The NOvA Near Detector, located at Fermilab, provides an excellent opportunity to study neutrino-nucleus interactions which are important for the...
Ms
Aleena Rafique
(Kansas State University)
01/08/2017, 11:21
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
MicroBooNE is a liquid argon Time Projection Chamber experiment situated on the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab that is designed to probe neutrino interactions, investigate non-standard neutrino oscillations, and further develop the LArTPC detector technology. In this talk, we compare the observed charged particle multiplicity distribution, which is produced via neutrino charged current...
Mr
Dipak Rimal
(University of Florida)
01/08/2017, 11:39
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
Neutrino-Nucleus Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) events provide a probe into the structure of nucleons within a nucleus that cannot be accessed via charged lepton-nucleus interactions. The MINERvA experiment is stationed in the Neutrinos from the Main Injector (NuMI) beam line at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. With the recent increase in average neutrino energy and the greatly...
Dr
Lu Ren
(University of pittsburgh)
01/08/2017, 11:57
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
The neutrino and anti-neutrino charged-current inclusive cross sections are important ingredients for current
and future neutrino oscillation experiments. MINERvA recently measured these cross sections on carbon, and their ratio,
using data from the forward and reversed horn focusing modes of the Fermilab low-energy NuMI beamline.
The flux prediction was obtained from a sample of...
Prof.
Aaron Bercellie
(Rochester University)
01/08/2017, 13:30
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
A precise understanding of quasi-elastic interactions is crucial to measure neutrino oscillations. Current neutrino oscillation experiments use different targets that range from carbon to argon. A sample of neutrino interactions on Fe, Pb, C and CH with one muon and at least one proton candidate is used to study quasielastic-like interactions and the role that the nuclear environment plays...
Prof.
Jeffrey Kleykamp
(Rochester University)
01/08/2017, 13:48
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
MINERvA’s first CCQE results preferred models with 2p2h-like enhancements. Since then work using an inclusive sample measuring reconstructed available energy and three momentum transfer has demonstrated the effect of adding in RPA and 2p2h components to our base GENIE simulation. Further modification via a fit to the inclusive data results in an empirical model which well describes the full...
Mr
Biswaranjan Behera
(IIT Hyderabad/Fermilab)
01/08/2017, 14:06
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. It uses the NuMI beam from Fermilab and two sampling calorimeter detectors off-axis from the beam. The 293 ton Near Detector measures the unoscillated neutrino energy spectrum, which can be used to predict the neutrino energy spectrum at the 14 kton Far Detector at Ash River, MN. The Near Detector also provides an excellent opportunity...
Mr
Aristeidis Tsaris
(Fermilab)
01/08/2017, 14:24
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
The NOvA experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to measure the rates of electron neutrino appearance and muon neutrino disappearance. The NOvA near detector is located at Fermilab, 800 m from the primary target and provides an excellent platform to measure and study neutrino-nucleus interactions.We present the status of the measurement of the double differential...
Mr
Pengfei Ding
01/08/2017, 14:42
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
The electron-neutrino charged-current inclusive cross section on nuclei is an important input parameter for electron-neutrino appearance oscillation experiments. There are a small number of measurements, with limited statistics, in the few GeV region where current and future long base-line neutrinos experiments operate. The NOvA near detector is located at Fermilab, approximately 800 m from...
Prof.
Jianming Bian
(University of California, Irvine)
01/08/2017, 15:00
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
NOvA is a long-baseline accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiment that is optimized for electron-neutrino appearance measurements. It uses the upgraded NuMI beam from Fermilab and consists of a Far Detector in Ash River, Minnesota and a Near Detector at Fermilab. An accurate prediction of the neutrino flux is key to both oscillation and cross-section measurements. The precisely known...
Mr
Scott Locke
(University of California, Irvine)
02/08/2017, 10:45
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
Super-Kamiokande (SK), the world’s largest water Cherenkov detector has collected over 320 kt-years of solar neutrino data. It has observed ~90k Boron-8 solar neutrinos by using neutrino-electron elastic scattering. SK searches for distortions of the solar neutrino energy spectrum caused by matter effects within the core of the Sun. SK also searches for earth matter effects, resulting in a...
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Perturbative charm production and the prompt atmospheric neutrino flux in light of RHIC and LHC
Prof.
INA SARCEVIC
(UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA)
02/08/2017, 11:03
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
We evaluate the high energy prompt atmospheric neutrino flux
using three different frameworks for calculating the heavy
quark production cross section in QCD: NLO perturbative QCD,
kT factorization including low-x resummation, and the dipole
model including parton saturation. We determine QCD parameters,
such as the charm quark mass, factorization and renormalization
scales that provide...
Dr
João Pedro Athayde Marcondes de André
(Michigan State University)
02/08/2017, 11:21
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
The DeepCore infill array of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory enables observations of atmospheric neutrinos with energies as low as 5 GeV. Using a set of 40,000 neutrino events with energies ranging from 5.6 - 56 GeV recorded during three years of DeepCore operation, we measure the atmospheric oscillation parameters $\theta_{23}$ and $\Delta m^2_{32}$ with precision competitive with...
Prof.
Satyanarayan Nandi
(Oklahoma State University)
02/08/2017, 11:39
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
Neutrino mass generation by the effective dimension seven operators leads to a different seesaw relation, m_nu ~ v^3 / M^2 compared to the usual seesaw one, m_nu ~ v^2 / M. The model [1] incorporating this has an isospin 3/2 scalar multiplet along with iso-triplet leptons, both of which can be at the TeV scale. The model can accommodate the neutrino masses and mixings, and both the direct and...
Kate Scholberg
(Duke University)
02/08/2017, 13:30
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
The COHERENT collaboration's primary objective is to measure coherent
elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) using the unique,
high-quality source of tens-of-MeV neutrinos provided by the
Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(ORNL). COHERENT will deploy multiple detector technologies in a
phased approach and will test the $N^2$ dependence of the...
Brandon Becker
(University of Tennessee Knoxville)
02/08/2017, 13:48
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
The COHERENT Collaboration is an experimental effort to measure coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEνNS). The Spallation Neutron Source provides an intense source of neutrinos from decay-at-rest pions, which makes the measurement of this standard model predicted process possible. COHERENT seeks to make an unambiguous measurement by using a variety of low-threshold detectors...
Dr
Neha Dokania
(Stony Brook University)
02/08/2017, 14:06
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
All neutrino oscillation experiments face the problem of reconstructing the incoming
neutrino energy using only the visible interaction products. Unfortunately, the initial
neutrino interaction is not well understood, and some of the interaction products not are
visible. In preparation for the analysis of neutrino oscillation data collected using liquid
argon time projection chambers, the...
Mr
Gregory Pulliam
(Syracuse University)
02/08/2017, 14:24
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
The Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber in a Test Beam (LArIAT) experiment at the Fermilab's Test Beam Facility exposes a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) to a test beam to study LArTPC responses to a variety of charged particles. Event identification and reconstruction techniques as well as cross section measurements from LArIAT will provide critical input to existing liquid...
Elena Gramellini
(Yale University)
02/08/2017, 14:42
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
We present a study of the charged kaon-nucleus total interaction cross section in liquid argon performed at the LArIAT experiment. The kaon-nucleus total interaction cross section has never been measured before in argon and it is fundamental to shed light on light meson interactions in nuclei. Additionally, this measurement provides a key input to proton decay studies in future Liquid Argon...
William Foreman
(University of Chicago)
02/08/2017, 15:00
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
Final state topologies of antiproton-nuclei annihilation at rest are similar to theorized bound neutron-antineutron oscillation signatures, which the DUNE liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) will search for among other rare phenomena like proton decay. LArIAT, a LArTPC in a test beam at Fermilab, has observed antiproton annihilation on argon for the first time. This sample provides...
Mr
Prabhjot Singh Singh
(Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, India)
03/08/2017, 10:45
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
NOvA is a two detector, long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to study nue (anti nue) appearance and numu (anti numu) disappearance in a numu (anti numu) beam produced at Fermilab. The near detector (ND) is located 100 meters underground at a distance of 1 km from the target whereas the far detector (FD) is located on the surface, 810 km away from the beam source in Ash River,...
Erika Catano Mur
(Iowa State University)
03/08/2017, 11:03
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, which consists of two finely-segmented liquid-scintillator detectors operating 14 mrad off-axis from the NuMI muon neutrino beam. With an 810 km baseline, the study of muon to electron neutrino oscillations is sensitive to the still unknown charge-parity phase angle and the neutrino mass ordering. I will describe the electron neutrino...
Hongyue Duyang
(university of south carolina)
03/08/2017, 11:21
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is the next generation neutrino oscillation experiment designed to measure neutrinos’ mass ordering and CP violation. The near detector (ND), located at Fermilab, will provide crucial constraints on the systematic uncertainties to the oscillation measurements. This talk focuses on the measurement of neutrino flux in the DUNE near detector,...
Mr
Rowan Zaki
(Radboud University Nijmegen)
03/08/2017, 11:39
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
The Long Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) will use high energy protons impinging on a graphite target to produce kaons and pions, which will be focused by a set of magnetized focusing horns and directed into a decay pipe where they will decay, producing an intense neutrino beam. The neutrino energy spectrum can be tuned by changing a variety of parameters in the beamline such as horn and...
Dr
Cristovao Vilela
(Stony Brook University)
03/08/2017, 11:57
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
NuPRISM is a proposed 1 kton water Cherenkov detector in the J-PARC neutrino beam, placed at a distance of around 1 km from the neutrino production point. The detector configuration allows for vertical movement over around 50 meters resulting in a wide span of angles with respect to the beam direction. Data taken at different off-axis angles is sampled from neutrino fluxes peaking at different...
Prof.
Mihai Horoi
(Central Michigan University)
03/08/2017, 13:30
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
Neutrinoless double-beta decay, if observed, would signal physics beyond the
Standard Model (BSM). In particular, neutrinoless double-beta decay offers the possibility to test BSM theories that predict that neutrinos are Majorana fermions and that the lepton number conservation is violated. We investigate the contribution of possible extensions to the Standard Model Lagrangian that could...
Andrew Lopez
(University of Tennessee)
03/08/2017, 13:48
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
Neutrino-less double beta decay searches are a promising method of determining currently unknown neutrino properties. The {\sc Majorana} Collaboration is constructing an ultra-low background modular high-purity Ge detector array in order to search for neutrino-less double beta decay in 76Ge. The {\sc Demonstrator} detector assembly, located at the 4850-ft level of the Sanford Underground...
Mr
Ali Ashtari Esfahani
(University of Washington)
03/08/2017, 14:06
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
A direct measurement of neutrino mass still remains a challenge for today's particle and nuclear physics. The current state of the art experiment has a projected neutrino mass sensitivity down to 0.2 eV. However the lower limit suggested by the neutrino oscillation measurements is two orders of magnitude smaller. Project 8 is a new generation of direct neutrino mass measurement experiments...
Matthew Coon
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
03/08/2017, 14:24
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
The Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) looks for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of Xe136 with a very low-background time projection chamber filled with approximately 170 kg Xe enriched to approximately 80%. Observation of this rare decay mode would signify the Majorana nature of neutrinos and new physics beyond the Standard Model. EXO-200 has already set one of the most stringent limit for...
Prof.
Christopher Grant
(Boston University)
03/08/2017, 14:42
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
The SNO+ experiment will use a 780-ton liquid scintillator detector, loaded with 1.3 tons of 130Te, to search for neutrino-less double beta decay (0nbb). The detector has reached a major milestone after filling the detector with ultra-pure water in early 2017. Initial data-taking with a water-filled detector will continue through liquid scintillator filling in the fall of 2017. This talk...
Dr
Benjamin Jones
(UTA)
03/08/2017, 15:00
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
For experiments searching for neutrinoless double beta decay, rejection of backgrounds from radioactivity will be pivotal for success. Gaseous xenon TPC detectors offer unique background rejection capabilities over solid- and liquid-phase technologies. The NEXT-NEW detector is presently operating in the Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc (LSC), and will be followed by the NEXT-100...