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Fernanda Psihas
(Indiana University)
05/06/2017, 08:45
Oral Presentation
A premier challenge of HEP analysis is the interpretation of highly multivariate data. The efforts to extract the strongest measurements from the available data combined with access to large-scale computing resources allow researchers to take advantage of and contribute to the development of cutting-edge machine learning tools. Recent applications have shown that some techniques, especially...
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Jessica Esquivel
(Syracuse University)
05/06/2017, 09:00
Oral Presentation
MicroBooNE is a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) that has been operating for the past 18 months on the Booster Neutrino Beamline at Fermilab. MicroBooNE’s physics goals include studying the excess of low energy electromagnetic events observed by the MiniBooNE experiment as well as performing the first set of neutrino-argon cross-section measurements in the 1 GeV energy range....
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Aleena Rafique
(Kansas State University)
05/06/2017, 09:15
Oral Presentation
In this talk, we present a comparison of the observed charged particle multiplicity distributions in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber from neutrino interactions in a restricted final state phase space to predictions of this distribution from several GENIE models. The measurement uses a data sample consisting of neutrino interactions with a final state muon candidate fully...
Mr
Robert Murrells
(University of Manchester)
05/06/2017, 09:30
Oral Presentation
MicroBooNE, an 89 ton (active volume) liquid argon time projection chamber (TPC), began studying neutrino interactions in the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB) in October 2015. One of its primary physics goals is to investigate the MiniBooNE electromagnetic "Low Energy Excess". A leading interpretation of this excess is single photon production in neutrino neutral current (NC)...
Colton Hill
(The University of Manchester)
05/06/2017, 09:45
Oral Presentation
MicroBooNE is a liquid argon neutrino detector at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory with the unique feature to simultaneously receive neutrinos from both Fermilab neutrino beams. The electron neutrino search from the lower-energy on-axis BNB will address MicroBooNE’s signature analysis investigating the low-energy electromagnetic event excess previously observed by the MiniBooNE...
Mr
Victor Genty
(Columbia University, Nevis Labs)
05/06/2017, 10:00
Oral Presentation
MicroBooNE employs the first large scale (> 100 ton) Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) in the U.S. to detect electron and muon neutrinos produced from the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB). The primary goal of the experiment is to perform a definitive study of the observed electron neutrino event excess at low energy by the MiniBooNE experiment, which could indicate the...
Mr
Emrah Tiras
(University of Iowa- High Energy Physics)
05/06/2017, 10:15
Oral Presentation
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...
Johnny Ho
(University of Chicago)
05/06/2017, 11:00
Oral Presentation
The LArIAT (Liquid Argon in a Test Beam) experiment in Fermilab's Test Beam Facility exposes a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) to a test beam in order 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 argon neutrino...
Dr
Nicola McConkey
(University of Sheffield)
05/06/2017, 11:15
Oral Presentation
SBND is the Short Baseline Near Detector, which is a 112 ton liquid argon time projection chamber (TPC) that will be located 110m from the target of the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam. SBND, together with MicroBooNE and ICARUS-T600 detectors at 470m and 600m, respectively, make up the Fermilab Short Baseline Program (SBN).
SBN will search for new physics in the neutrino sector by testing...
Mr
Christopher Hilgenberg
(Colorado State University)
05/06/2017, 11:30
Oral Presentation
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
Siva Prasad Kasetti
(University of Hyderabad, Fermilab)
05/06/2017, 11:45
Oral Presentation
Anomalous results from past neutrino experiments have been interpreted as potential evidence for an additional sterile neutrino with a mass on order of 1 eV, but this evidence remains inconclusive. The NOvA Near Detector is a 300 ton almost fully-active fine-grained liquid scintillator detector, that was designed for electron-neutrino identification. The detector is placed along the Fermilab...
Mr
Rijeesh Keloth
(Cochin University of Science and Technology)
05/06/2017, 12:00
Oral Presentation
Three-flavor neutrino oscillations have successfully explained a wide range of neutrino oscillation experiment results. However, anomalous results, such as the electron-antineutrino appearance excesses seen by LSND and MiniBooNE, do not fit the three-flavor paradigm and can be explained by the addition of a sterile neutrino at a larger mass scale than the existing three flavor mass...
Mr
Alejandro Diaz
(Graduate Student (MIT))
05/06/2017, 12:15
Oral Presentation
Neutrino oscillations have provided proof of the existence of massive neutrino states. The standard model currently accepts the existence of three different neutrinos, but oscillation experiments such as LSND and MiniBooNE have detected an excess of neutrinos above that expected from a standard 3 neutrino model. We will discuss this excess, and explain how an explanation could lie in the...
Mr
Benjamin Schlitzer
(UC Davis)
05/06/2017, 13:30
Oral Presentation
One of the unique challenges facing direct dark matter searches is the signal characterization of the dark matter particle with the detector medium. The goal of the Argon Recoil Ionization and Scintillation (ARIS) experiment is to characterize the response of nuclear recoils in liquid argon (as expected from WIMPs) by measuring the energy scale of nuclear recoils with respect to electron...
Ting Li
(Fermilab)
05/06/2017, 13:45
Oral Presentation
The census of Milky Way satellite galaxies provides crucial tests of both galaxy formation models and the broader Cold Dark Matter paradigm. A total of 27 new Milky Way satellite candidates have been discovered in the last two years, primarily in data from the Dark Energy Survey. These discoveries may represent a 100% increase in the number of known Milky Way satellite galaxies, leading a huge...
Dr
Brian Nord
(Fermilab)
05/06/2017, 14:00
Oral Presentation
Current and future cosmology surveys will provide data sets unprecedented in size and precision with which to measure dark energy, dark matter and the early universe through probes like strong gravitational lensing, supernovae, and the cosmic microwave background. First, we’ll discuss the challenges posed by astronomically big and complex data, and the potential for machine learning. Then, I...
Ross Cawthon
(University of Chicago)
05/06/2017, 14:15
Oral Presentation
Redshift estimation is among the most significant issues in photometric cosmological surveys. Undetected biases in photometric redshift estimation can be found using clustering redshifts. In this presentation, we describe our clustering redshift estimates for weak lensing source galaxies, and redMaGiC galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey year 1 data. We also describe our methodology of applying...
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Qing Yang Tang
(University of Chicago)
05/06/2017, 14:30
Oral Presentation
Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) have become an attractive alternative to traditional Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers in the sub-mm and mm observing community due to its innate frequency multiplexing capabilities and simple lithographic processes. These advantages make MKIDs a viable option for the O(100,000) detectors needed for the upcoming Cosmic Microwave Background -...
Mr
Daniel George
(University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
05/06/2017, 14:45
Oral Presentation
We developed a new method for end-to-end time-series signal processing, based on deep convolutional neural networks, which can rapidly identify and extract signals much weaker than the background noise. We applied this method for analyzing gravitational waves from mergers of black holes and demonstrated that it significantly outperforms conventional machine learning techniques, is far more...
Mr
Karthik Ramanathan
(University of Chicago)
05/06/2017, 15:00
Oral Presentation
We report results of low-energy Compton scattering calibration studies in Silicon undertaken under the umbrella of the DAMIC (Dark Matter in CCDs) experiment. We expose a calibration detector at the University of Chicago to Co-57 and Am-241 gamma-ray sources and measure and characterize the resultant spectrum. We identify several theoretically motivated, but heretofore unobserved in the...
Mr
Vadim Semenov
(The University of Chicago)
05/06/2017, 15:15
Oral Presentation
[https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04239]
We present a physical model that elucidates why gas depletion times in galaxies are long compared to the time scales of the processes driving the evolution of the interstellar medium. We show that global depletion times are not set by any "bottleneck" in the process of gas evolution towards the star-forming state. Instead, depletion times are long because...
Marianette Wospakrik
(University of Florida)
05/06/2017, 16:00
Oral Presentation
The MINERvA experiment is a dedicated neutrino scattering experiment located on the NuMI beamline in Fermilab. It aims to make high precision measurement of neutrino interaction cross sections in the 1-to 10-GeV energy range, to support the current and future oscillation experiments as well as to provide information about the structure of nuclei, protons and neutrons and the strong force...
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Mehreen Sultana
(University of Rochester)
05/06/2017, 16:15
Oral Presentation
MINERvA is a neutrino scattering experiment designed for high precision measurements of cross sections and studies of nuclear effects. Charged-current quasielastic (CCQE) scattering events are a significant contribution to the signal of many oscillation experiments. It is the dominant reaction near 1 GeV, a critical energy region for long baseline oscillation experiments. MINERvA has conducted...
Rob Fine
(University of Rochester)
05/06/2017, 16:30
Oral Presentation
Charged-current quasielastic (CCQE) scattering events are one of the most numerous and most important categories of neutrino interactions available to us today to study neutrino cross sections and oscillations. This presentation will cover the progress of the Minerva collaboration towards fully leveraging the awesome statistics that the NuMI 'Medium Energy' exposure has to offer. Data...
Mr
Gonzalo Diaz Bautista
(University of Rochester)
05/06/2017, 16:45
Oral Presentation
MINERvA is a neutrino scattering experiment that uses the NuMI beamline with the goal of measuring neutrino-nucleus cross sections on targets of different materials with high precision, as well as studying the internal structure of the nuclei of those materials. Among the different kinds of neutrino interactions that could occur in the detector, charged and neutral pion production are...
Mr
Roger Rodrigo Galindo Orjuela
(Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria)
05/06/2017, 17:00
Oral Presentation
Many analyses in neutrino experiments require the reconstruction of neutral pions, particularly neutrino oscillation experiments measuring $\nu_{e}$ appearance, where $pi^0$ production is a background. Neutral pions are identified in the MINER$\nu$A detector by identifying the gammas that result from the neutral pion decay. The gamma candidates are energy depositions which are not associated...
Manuel Alejandro Ramírez Delgado
(Universidad de Guanajuato)
05/06/2017, 17:15
Oral Presentation
Charged Current Coherent pion production is a rare neutrino reaction producing a forward muon and a forward charged pion while leaving the target nucleus in its initial state. On its own, it provides a way to study the weak axial vector current, by testing theories such as PCAC and related models. After the discovery of neutrino oscillations, coherent pion production has become an important...
Mr
Biswaranjan Behera
(IIT Hyderabad/Fermilab)
05/06/2017, 17:30
Oral Presentation
NOvA is a long-baseline (810 km) neutrino oscillation experiment. It uses a NuMI neutrino beam from Fermilab and two mostly active, segmented, liquid scintillator off-axis detectors that offer a remarkable capability in event identification. The 293 ton Near Detector at Fermilab is to measure the unoscillated neutrino energy spectrum, which can be used to predict the neutrino energy spectrum...
Matthew Judah
(Colorado State University)
05/06/2017, 17:45
Oral Presentation
We present an update to the progress of the measurement of the electron neutrino charged-current inclusive cross section per nucleon with data collected from November 2014 to February 2017 in the NOvA near detector. The NOvA near detector, located at Fermilab 800m from the primary target, provides an excellent platform to measure and study neutrino interactions and cross sections. We are...
Aristeidis Tsaris
(Fermilab), Ms
Jyoti Tripathi
(Panjab University)
05/06/2017, 18:00
Oral 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 interaction and cross sections. We present the status of the measurement of the double...
Ryan Murphy
(Indiana University)
06/06/2017, 09:00
Oral Presentation
NOνA is a second generation, long-baseline, neutrino oscillation experiment that uses the NuMI beam, the world’s most powerful neutrino beam, from Fermilab. It consists of two functionally similar, finely segmented, liquid scintillator calorimeter detectors that operate 809 km apart, 14 mrad off-axis from the beam. NOνA’s main physics goals include measuring electron (anti)neutrino appearance...
Teresa Lackey
(Indiana University)
06/06/2017, 09:15
Oral Presentation
NOvA consists of two detectors, one at Fermilab, and the second 810km away in northern Minnesota. The experiment uses Fermilab's NuMI beam to measure the νμ to νe oscillation probability in order to learn more about the neutrino mass hierarchy, mixing angles, and CP violation in the neutrino sector. As with any large experiment, there are many components that need to operate smoothly to...
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Daisy Daisy Kalra
(Panjab University)
06/06/2017, 09:30
Oral Presentation
NOvA (NuMI Off-axis νe Appearance) is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to search for both νe appearance and νμ disappearance. Fermilab NuMI (Neutrinos at Main Injector) facility produces an intense neutrino beam (narrow band νμ beam peaked at 2 GeV in energy) colliding 120 GeV protons from the Main Injector into a long target with a set of two magnetic horns (Horn1 and...
Mr
Tyler Alion
(University of Sussex)
06/06/2017, 09:45
Oral Presentation
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment consisting of a near and far detector, both comprising layers of orthogonal scintillator-filled PVC extrusions. Reconstructing hits along the orthogonal views provides 3D tracks, and scintillation light provides calorimetry important for determining the visible hadronic energy of an interaction. Selecting muon tracks which stop inside the...
Mr
Nitish Nayak
(University of California-Irvine)
06/06/2017, 10:00
Oral Presentation
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment that is designed to probe the neutrino mass hierarchy and mixing structure. It uses two functionally identical liquid scintillator detectors 14mrad off-axis from the NuMI beamline at Fermilab, allowing a tightly focused neutrino flux peaked at around 2 GeV. The Near Detector is located 100 m underground and is used to characterize the...
JOSE SEPULVEDA-QUIROZ
(IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY)
06/06/2017, 10:15
Oral Presentation
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment based at Fermilab that uses two highly active liquid scintillator detectors located off-axis of the NuMI beam.
Latest results have excluded maximal mixing at $2.6\sigma$ via the
muon-neutrino disappearance channel, which use fully contained interactions of the type $\nu_{\mu} + X \to \mu + X'$.
We explore potential improvement of...
Anne Schukraft
(Fermilab)
06/06/2017, 10:30
Oral Presentation
Announcement about the International Neutrino Summer School being help at Fermilab in Summer of 2017.
Ms
Shiqi Yu
(IIT/ANL)
06/06/2017, 11:00
Oral Presentation
NOvA is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment at Fermilab. It uses two detectors, the Near Detector at Fermilab and the Far Detector at a distance of 810 km at Ash River, Minnesota.These two functionally identical liquid scintillator calorimeters are 14 mrad off-axis from the beam, providing a neutrino flux narrowly peaked at around 2 GeV. NOvA measures the rate of $\nu_{e}$ ...
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Sijith Edayath
(Cochin University of science and Technology, India)
06/06/2017, 11:15
Oral Presentation
The majority of neutrino oscillation experiments have obtained evidence for neutrino oscillations that are compatible with the three-flavor model. Explaining the apparent neutrino flavor change observed in 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...
Thomas Carroll
(University of Texas at Austin)
06/06/2017, 11:30
Oral Presentation
The MINOS experiment ran from 2003 until 2012 and produced some of the best precision measurements of the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters $\Delta m^2_{32}$ and $\theta_{23}$ using muon neutrino disappearance of beam and atmospheric neutrinos and electron neutrino appearance of beam neutrinos. The MINOS+ experiment succeeded MINOS in September 2013. For almost three years MINOS+...
Mr
Felipe Garcia Ken Kamiya
(Universidade Federal do ABC)
06/06/2017, 11:45
Based on the premise that the neutrino beam used in DUNE traverses the Earth’s crust on its journey from being produced until detection, we propose a non-standard interaction (NSI) between the neutrinos and the matter of the Earth’s crust. Such NSI can cause the change of the flavor and change the energy of the neutrinos. The phenomenon of the flavor oscillations that we know can produce...
Mr
Rowan Zaki
(Radboud University Nijmegen)
06/06/2017, 12:00
Oral 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
Dennis Steve
(University of Liverpool)
06/06/2017, 12:15
Oral Presentation
Neutrino physics is entering the liquid argon era, and these experiments
offer large statistics with excellent reconstruction abilities.
The wealth of information available opens new opportunities
to break degenaracies between different sources of systematic uncertainty
by simultaneously fitting samples selected for different final state topologies.
At near detectors, use of many such...
Julie Hogan
(Brown University)
06/06/2017, 13:30
Oral Presentation
The Large Hadron Collider is one of the most powerful machines in the world, accelerating protons to 99.9999990% of the speed of light to provide 40 million collisions per second at particle detectors such as CMS. The CMS detector is highly versatile, featuring a 4 Tesla solenoid magnet (the largest superconducting magnet ever built!) and over 100 million detection elements in trackers,...
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Jean Somalwar
(Rutgers University)
06/06/2017, 13:45
Oral Presentation
We present a search for low mass paired dijet resonances using jet substructure techniques. This search uses data from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13~TeV, recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC. Limits at 95% confidence level are set on the production of top squarks decaying to two quarks in the framework of R-parity violating supersymmetry.
Michael Krohn
(University of Colorado Boulder)
06/06/2017, 14:00
Oral Presentation
A search for heavy resonances decaying into pairs of standard model Higgs bosons is performed using 35.9 $\text{fb}^{-1}$ of data collected by the CMS experiment during 2016 at a center of mass energy of 13 TeV. The final state consists of both Higgs bosons decaying to b quark-antiquark pairs. Results are consistent with the Standard Model expectations and are interpreted as upper limits on...
Cristina Ana Mantilla Suarez
(Fermilab)
06/06/2017, 14:15
Oral Presentation
A search for narrow vector resonances decaying to quarks is presented using events
collected in sqrt(s) = 13 TeV proton-proton collisions with the CMS detector at the
LHC. The data sample, collected in 2016, corresponds to an integrated luminosity
of 35.9 fb−1. The hypothetical resonance is produced with high transverse momentum
such that the decay products of the resonance are merged into...
Dr
Scarlet Norberg
(university of puerto rico mayaguez)
06/06/2017, 14:30
Oral Presentation
Presenting on searchs for the direct production of top squarks in events with multiple jets and large missing transverse energy, using 35.9 fb−1 of data collected by the CMS detector in 2016 at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. Events are categorized into exclusive search regions optimized for different signal topologies. Discussing analysis that use multi variant techniques to identify tops...
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Dipsikha Debnath
(University of Florida)
06/06/2017, 14:45
Oral Presentation
We critically examine the classic endpoint method for particle mass determination, focusing on difficult corners of parameter space, where some of the measurements are not independent, while others are adversely aected by the experimental resolution.In such scenarios, mass dierences can be measured relatively well, but the overall mass scale remains poorly constrained. Using the example of a...
Mr
XIANYI ZHANG
(ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY)
06/06/2017, 15:00
Oral Presentation
PROSPECT, the PRecision Oscillation and SPECTrum Experiment, is a multi-phased short baseline reactor antineutrino experiment that aims to precisely measure the U-235 antineutrino spectrum and prob for oscillation effects involving a possible ∆m^2 ∼ 1 eV^2 scale sterile neutrino. In PROSPECT Phase-I, an optically segmented Li-6 loaded liquid scintillator detector will be deployed at at the...
Mr
Pranava Teja Surukuchi
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
06/06/2017, 15:15
Oral 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 Labo- ratory. PROSPECT will provide a model-independent oscillation measurement of electron antineutrinos by comparing the observed...
Mr
Alec Tewsley-Booth
(University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
06/06/2017, 16:00
Oral Presentation
Precise measurements of the anomalous magnetic moment, a = (g - 2)/2, of the muon provide strong tests of the Standard Model, and are more sensitive to physics beyond the Standard Model than measurements of the electron anomalous magnetic moment. The most recent measurement of the muon magnetic moment at Brookhaven E821 has hinted at new physics, with its result differing from theoretical...
Cristina Schlesier
(University of Illinois)
06/06/2017, 16:15
Oral Presentation
The Muon g-2 experiment uses electrostatic quadrupoles for vertical focusing in the muon storage ring, where higher-order electric field multipoles produce non linearities in the restoring forces. Top/bottom quadrupole plates are aligned to 0.5 mm and side plates are aligned to 0.75 mm over long length scales to limit the higher-order multipoles. Plate alignment techniques and an electric...
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Esra B. Yucel
(ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY)
06/06/2017, 16:30
Oral Presentation
The Muon g-2 experiment uses electrostatic quadrupoles for vertical focusing in the muon storage ring. High voltage (HV) feedthroughs provide electrical contact across the vacuum-air interface. Trapped electrons drift in the direction of the cross product between the electric and magnetic fields. These electrons drift along the quadrupole HV leads and eventually damage the HV feedthrough...
Dr
David Flay
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
06/06/2017, 16:45
Oral Presentation
The Muon $g-2$ Experiment at Fermilab (E989) has been designed to determine the
muon anomalous magnetic moment to a precision of 140 parts per billion (ppb),
a four-fold improvement over the Brookhaven E821 measurement. Key to this precision
goal is the determination of the magnetic field of the experiment's muon storage
ring to better than 100 ppb.
The magnetic field will be measured...
Jacob Colston
(Mu2e)
06/06/2017, 17:00
Oral Presentation
This talk will give a concise, graduate-student-level overview of the Mu2e
experiment. It will describe the goal of the Mu2e experiment (to search for
neutrino-less muon-electron conversion), and why this process would indicate
physics beyond the Standard Model. It will further detail the implementation
and design of the experiment: (1) a brief description of how the...
Manolis Kargiantoulakis
(Fermilab)
06/06/2017, 17:15
Oral Presentation
The Mu2e experiment in Fermilab will search for the coherent neutrinoless conversion of a muon into an electron in the field of an aluminum nucleus, improving sensitivity by 4 orders of magnitude over existing limits and indirectly probing new physics beyond the reach of current or planned high energy colliders. To achieve a single conversion event sensitivity better than 3e-17, the experiment...
Tanaz Angelina Mohayai
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
06/06/2017, 17:30
Oral Presentation
The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) is a high energy physics experiment located at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in U.K. The aim of MICE is to demonstrate muon beam cooling for the first time. The process of reducing beam phase-space volume is known as beam cooling and this process is necessary for a beam of muons because of the large phase-space volume that they...
Mr
Dongwi Handiipondola Dongwi
(Hampton University)
06/06/2017, 17:45
Oral Presentation
We are potentially standing at the precipice in the quest for discovery of New Physics (NP) beyond the Standard Model (SM) by performing a precision test of lepton universality. Experiment E36 conducted at J- PARC in Japan is testing lepton universality in the RK = Γ(Ke2)/Γ(Kμ2) ratio. In the SM, the ratio of leptonic K+ decays is highly precise with an uncertainty of δRK /RK = 4 · 10−4. Any...