Daniel Baxter
(Northwestern University)
08/06/2017, 18:00
In the field of dark matter direct detection, the biggest challenge remains building detectors that sufficiently understand and control their radioactive backgrounds in order to distinguish individual dark matter interactions. Experiments rely on calibrations to understand each detector’s response to predicted backgrounds. Certain backgrounds, such as neutrino-electron scatters, cannot be...
Ashley Back
(Iowa State University)
08/06/2017, 18:00
The primary physics goal of the Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is to use gadolinium-doped water to measure the neutron yield from neutrino-nucleus interactions. ANNIE's studies of neutron yield will lead to reduced systematic uncertainties in oscillation searches and cross-section studies. They will also improve the power of background rejection techniques that use...
Andrés Abreu
(University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez)
08/06/2017, 18:00
We present the results of a search for direct and gluino-mediated production of supersymmetric scalar top-quark pairs in the all-hadronic final state using top tagging. The measurement is based on a 13 TeV proton-proton sample collected with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 fb-1. The results of the search are interpreted in several Simplified Models (SMS).
Varuna Crishan Meddage
(KSU)
08/06/2017, 18:00
MicroBooNE experiment in Fermilab uses the 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...
Jiyeon Han
(Pittsburgh University)
08/06/2017, 18:00
Direct information about electron neutrino initiated quasielastic
scattering will be an important input to ongoing and future long-baseline
electron neutrino appearance measurements. Minerva has performed
measurements of this process using the sub-dominant electron
neutrino 1.8% fractional beam component using its
LE NuMI beam exposure (3.5E20 P.O.T).
Constraints on rates and Q^2...
Arun Tadepalli
(Rutgers University)
08/06/2017, 18:00
SeaQuest E906 is an experiment aimed at studying the anti-quark distributions
in the nucleon and nuclei. The experiment uses a 120 GeV proton beam extracted from the Main Injector at Fermilab to collide with various targets of hydrogen, deuterium, carbon, iron and tungsten to study a variety of physics topics. It takes advantage of the Drell-Yan process to probe the nucleon sea structure. In...
Rhiannon Jones
(University of Liverpool)
08/06/2017, 18:00
GENIE is the main physics generator used in DUNE. As a world leading neutrino event generator, the collaboration is in the process of optimizing the prediction for neutrino interactions in the GeV energy region which has been shown to be difficult to understand, especially in heavy nuclei. To solve this issue, the GENIE collaboration has developed its own system to perform global fits of...
Shivesh Mandalia
(Queen Mary University of London)
08/06/2017, 18:00
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic-kilometer particle detector located at the South Pole. It consists of 5160 digital optical modules (DOMs) embedded in the ice, each containing a 10-inch photomultiplier tube (PMT). The infrastructure at the FTBF gives us a precise knowledge of the particles which are contained in the beamline. Using this knowledge, we plan to make precise...
Miloslava Baginova
(CERN)
08/06/2017, 18:00
Background induced by neutrons is a poorly understood background component for all low-level systems. In shielded laboratories, neutrons can still be produced by interactions of cosmic rays (hadronic cascades, negative muon capture) and by natural radioactivity, via spontaneous fission or (α, n) reactions. Predicting all background components correctly is crucial for designing efficient...
Adam Lister
(Lancaster University)
08/06/2017, 18:00
MicroBooNE is a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) which has been running in the Booster Neutrino Beam since October 2015. As one of the first large scale LArTPCs, one of the primary goals of MicroBooNE is to understand the performance of the LArTPC technology towards the development of future detectors such as the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). In particular,...
Yangyang Cheng
(Cornell University)
08/06/2017, 18:00
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...
Jose Becerra
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)
08/06/2017, 18:00
Our aim is to study the so called neutrino trident production in the context of the MINERvA experiment. This process has a small cross section, in comparison to neutrino-nucleus charged current inclusive interaction. It experimentally appears as a pair of oppositely charged leptons. More specifically, for MINERvA, we will use as a signature the presence of dimuons in the final state. We have...
Davio Cianci
(Columbia University)
08/06/2017, 18:00
The Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab will be uniquely poised to probe for the existence of 3 active plus N sterile (3+N) neutrino oscillation models. In this poster, we present the results of a complete sensitivity analysis of the 3+N parameter space for 3+1, 3+2 and 3+3 models with a focus on the globally allowed regions of parameter space by other short baseline...
Gregory Pulliam
(Syracuse University)
08/06/2017, 18:00
The Liquid Argon In A Testbeam (LArIAT) is a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) positioned in the Fermilab charged particle beamline whose primary purpose is to study the response of LArTPC’s to charged particle interactions in energy ranges relevant for planned neutrino experiments. Paritcles in the tertiary beam line are identified using a set of dedicated beamline detectors...
Jeffrey Eldred
(Indiana University)
08/06/2017, 18:00
Integrable optics is an innovation in particle accelerator design that enables strong nonlinear focusing without generating parametric resonances. We consider an integrable Rapid-Cycling Synchrotron (iRCS) design for a hypothetical replacement of the Fermilab Booster. We show this iRCS is compatible with other modern features of RCS design, including long dispersion-free drifts, six-fold...
SIJITH EDAYATH
(Cochin University of Science and Technology),
Shaokai Yang
(university of Cincinnati)
08/06/2017, 18:00
Contradictory evidence has been presented on the issue of neutrino mixing between the three known active neutrinos and a light sterile neutrino. The excess in observed events seen by LSND and MiniBooNE experiments can be interpreted as sterile neutrinos with mass at 1 eV level. While these results are tantalizing, they are not conclusive as they are in tension with null results from other...
Vijay Iyer
(National Institute of Science Education and Research)
08/06/2017, 18:00
SuperCDMS SNOLAB will be a second generation experiment aimed at directly detecting low-mass (≤10 GeV/c2) dark matter. By measuring ionization and phonon signals using a combination of cryogenic detectors of two types (HV and iZIP) and two target materials (germanium and silicon) we maximize the low-mass reach. The science reach of the detectors show an improvement of 2-3 orders of magnitude...
Lauren Yates
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
08/06/2017, 18:00
Convolutional neural nets (CNNs) are increasingly being used for data analysis tasks in high energy physics. A common strategy for using CNNs relies on training the networks on simulated data and then applying them to real data from the detector. Consequently, any analysis using CNNs must quantify systematic uncertainties due to discrepancies between the simulations and detector data. In this...
Afroditi Papadopoulou
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
08/06/2017, 18:00
In Neutrino Physics we are particularly interested in Neutrino Oscillations. Since the discovery of the oscillations, what we have been trying to do is to make high precision measurements of quantities that interest us. In order to do that, we have to compare our data to the number of events that we expect. But the number of events that we expect is a theoretical prediction that depends on the...
Alexander Radovic
(College of William and Mary),
Gavin Davies
(Indiana University)
08/06/2017, 18:00
Alexander Radovic (William & Mary) and Gavin Davies (Indiana University)
Erika Catano Mur
(Iowa State University),
Kirk Bays
(Caltech)
08/06/2017, 18:00
Erika Cantano-Mur (Iowa State) and Kirk Bays (CalTech)
Joel Mousseau
(University of Michigan)
08/06/2017, 18:00
Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) have become popular devices for detecting light created in scintillators, due to their low cost and scalability. Inexpensive electronics for the digitization of SiPM signals currently lacks due to significant thermal noise inherent to the SiPMs. This poster presents a proposed readout configuration of the Short Baseline Near Detector (SBND) light bars based on...
Polina Abratenko
(University of Michigan)
08/06/2017, 18:00
MicroBooNE is a Fermilab-based experiment that uses a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) to investigate the excess of low energy events observed by MiniBooNE, study neutrino-argon cross-sections, and perform R&D for future LArTPC devices. Multiple Coulomb scattering has been shown to be a promising means of determining muon momentum in a LArTPC, and allows MicroBooNE to study higher...