Conveners
Neutrino II: Monday afternoon
- Sowjanya Gollapinni (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Neutrino II: Thursday morning
- Bryce Littlejohn (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Neutrino II: Thursday afternoon
- Bryce Littlejohn (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Brian Kirby
(Brookhaven National Lab)
7/31/17, 1:30 PM
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
MicroBooNE is an 85-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 been taking neutrino data since October 2015. In...
Dr
ANIMESH CHATTERJEE
(The University of Texas at Arlington)
7/31/17, 1:48 PM
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
The WA105 protoDUNE Dual Phase Liquid-argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) is a large demonstrator based on the GLACIER design, with a 6x6x6 m3 (a Dual-phase LArTPCs are one of the far detector technology options foreseen for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at Fermilab. Dual Phase (DP) refers to the extraction of ionization electrons at the interface between liquid and...
Dr
Hanyu Wei
(brookhaven national laboratory)
7/31/17, 2:06 PM
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will use the state-of-the-art massive Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs) to search for CP violation in the neutrino sector, proton decay, and supernova neutrinos. The 3D reconstruction of the particle trajectories in LArTPCs relies on multiple wire planes, which can be challenging due to the intrinsic ambiguity of identifying where...
Dr
Guang Yang
(Stony brook university)
7/31/17, 2:24 PM
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
The main purpose of the DUNE experiment is to measure the CP-violation phase in long-baseline neutrino oscillations with a liquid-argon
detector of unprecedented size. The DUNE detector will consist of a liquid-argon Time Projection Chamber. The protoDUNE detectors at CERN
are prototypes of the full-scale DUNE experiment; their operation will provide important input for the success of DUNE....
Mr
Varuna Meddage
(Kansas State University)
7/31/17, 2:42 PM
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
The MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab uses liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) technology to study neutrino interactions in argon. A fundamental requirement for LArTPCs is to achieve and maintain a low level of electronegative contaminants in the liquid to minimize the capture of drifting ionization electrons. The attenuation time for the drifting electrons should be long compared to...
Prof.
Joshua Spitz
(University of Michigan)
8/3/17, 10:45 AM
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
A set of possible observations of neutrino oscillations at short distances may be indicative of a new neutrino. The resolution of these anomalies with explanation has been identified by the neutrino community as one of its most important near/mid-term goals. The J-PARC Sterile Neutrino Search at the J-PARC Spallation Neutron Source (JSNS2) experiment will directly address these anomalies and...
Mr
Pranava Teja Surukuchi
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
8/3/17, 11:03 AM
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
PROSPECT is a short-baseline reactor antineutrino experiment with primary goals of performing a search for sterile neutrinos and making a precise measurement of 235U reactor antineutrino spectrum from the High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Using a ~ 4-ton segmented PSD-capable 6Li-loaded liquid scintillator detector, the PROSPECT detector will provide excellent...
Mr
Alejandro Diaz
(Graduate Student at MIT)
8/3/17, 11:21 AM
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
A number of short baseline neutrino oscillation experiments have observed an anomalous excess of neutrinos in the low energy range. This may hint towards the existence of additional neutrino mass splittings. Therefore, additional sterile (non-interacting) neutrino states above the current 3 neutrino model would be required. On the other hand, many parameters of the allowed space are limited by...
Dr
Alfredo Aranda
(Universidad de Colima (Mexico))
8/3/17, 11:39 AM
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
Electroweak scale right-handed neutrinos have become a commodity in recent years. Most scenarios involve the so-called sterile neutrino paradigm, where right-handed neutrinos are assumed to be completely neutral under the Standard Model gauge group. A more interesting possibility is - of course - one in which they do interact. Such a fertile (non-sterile) possibility is certainly important...
Lauren Yates
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT))
8/3/17, 1:30 PM
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
MicroBooNE is a neutrino experiment based at Fermilab which consists of a liquid argon time-projection chamber in the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB). The experiment aims to investigate the excess of electron neutrino-like events seen by the MiniBooNE experiment, also located in the BNB, which is potential evidence for new non-Standard Model physics such as sterile neutrinos. In this talk, I will...
Mr
Biswaranjan Behera
(IIT Hyderabad/Fermilab)
8/3/17, 1:48 PM
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
The NOvA experiment observes oscillations in two channels ( electron-neutrino appearance and muon-neutrino disappearance) using a predominantly muon-neutrino NuMI beam. The Near Detector records multiple overlapping neutrino interactions in each event and the Far Detector has a large background of cosmic rays due to being located on the surface. The oscillation analyses rely on the accurate...
Ms
Fernanda Psihas
(Indiana University)
8/3/17, 2:06 PM
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
The NOvA experiment measures long baseline oscillations from muon neutrinos into electron neutrinos in Fermilab's NuMI beam. Measurement of this oscillation probability enables determination of the neutrino mass ordering and opens a window to observation of charge-parity violation in the neutrino sector. In 2016 the NOvA experiment released results for the observation of oscillations in the...
Dr
Dominic Brailsford
(Lancaster University)
8/3/17, 2:24 PM
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next generation long-baseline neutrino experiment whose primary physics goals include measurement of the charge-parity violating phase delta(CP) and determination of the neutrino mass ordering. The DUNE experiment's far site will house four 10 kt liquid argon time projection chambers which will measure the event rates of intrinsic...
Dr
Nick Grant
(University of Warwick)
8/3/17, 2:42 PM
Neutrino Physics
Presentation
A study is made of neutrino energy reconstruction in the DUNE far detector. This detector will consist of four modules of liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs), each with a fiducial mass of 10kt; the study uses simulations of one of these modules. We have developed a method to reconstruct the neutrino energy taking advantage of the excellent spatial and energy resolutions of LArTPCs....