Colton Hill
(The University of Manchester)
18/06/2018, 09:15
Oral Presentation
Located at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, MicroBooNE is the largest currently operating liquid argon neutrino detector in the world, making it an excellent source of valuable physics discoveries and R&D advancements for future liquid argon experiments. While MicroBooNE's flagship physics goal is investigating the low-energy short-baseline neutrino appearance anomaly seen in...
Brian Kirby
(Brookhaven National Lab)
18/06/2018, 09:30
Oral Presentation
MicroBooNE is an 85-ton single-phase 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...
Polina Abratenko
(University of Michigan)
18/06/2018, 09:45
Oral Presentation
MicroBooNE is a short baseline neutrino oscillation experiment based at Fermilab that uses Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) technology primarily to investigate the excess of low energy events observed by MiniBooNE study neutrino-argon cross-sections, and perform LArTPC R&D for future experiments, such as DUNE. Multiple Coulomb scattering (MCS) is the only way to determine the...
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Afroditi Papadopoulou
(Graduate Student MIT)
18/06/2018, 10:00
Oral Presentation
Neutrino physics is entering an age of precision measurements. A
number of experiments have firmly established the existence of
neutrino oscillations and determined the corresponding squared mass
differences and mixing angles. These measurements have provided
unambiguous evidence that neutrinos have non-vanishing masses.
The large θ 13 mixing angle will enable future experiments to...
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Christopher Barnes
(University of Michigan)
18/06/2018, 10:15
Oral Presentation
I present a study of the distortions on track reconstruction caused by the space charge
effect within the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC). The space
charge effect is the accumulation of slow-moving positive ions in a detector primarily from ionization by cosmic ray muons. Spatial and temporal distortions of ionization electrons result from this effect in addition to...
Dr
Deepika Jena
(FERMILAB)
18/06/2018, 10:55
Oral Presentation
Based in the NuMI beam line at Fermi National Laboratory, the on-axis MINERvA experiment is aimed at precision measurements of neutrino interactions in nuclei for energies up to 50 GeV. The experiment provides measurements of neutrino and antineutrino cross sections off of nuclear targets which are important for both neutrino oscillation experiments and probing of the nuclear medium. The most...
Barbara Yaeggy
(Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria)
18/06/2018, 11:10
Oral Presentation
Neutrinos, the quarry of the MINERvA experiment, are subtle and difficult to capture. Accelerator base oscillation experiments look for electron neutrino appearance, where a neutrino is observed to interact in the electron-type state rather than in the produced muon-type state. This observation is based on the observation of a produced electron and absence of a produced muon in the detector....
Jeffrey Kleykamp
(University of Rochester)
18/06/2018, 11:25
Oral Presentation
Minerva is a precision cross section experiment for neutrino scattering processes on various nuclei. Charged-Current Quasi-Elastic (CCQE) cross sections are relevant for neutrino oscillation experiments such as T2K, NOvA and DUNE. This talk describes how MINERvA's nuclear targets are used to measure the scaling in CCQE-like event rates as function of target nucleus. CCQE-like is defined as...
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Marcus O'Flaherty
(University of Sheffield)
18/06/2018, 11:40
Oral Presentation
The Accelerator Neutrino Nucleus Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) has
recently completed its first phase of data taking. The main physics
goals of ANNIE, to be completed in the upcoming Phase II, are a
measurement of the neutron abundance from neutrino-nucleus
interactions, and a charged-current inclusive cross-section
measurement on Oxygen. To achieve these goals the collaboration...
Dr
Ashley Back
(Iowa State University)
18/06/2018, 11:55
Oral Presentation
The primary physics goal of Phase II of the Accelerator Neutrino Neutron
Interaction Experiment (ANNIE), is to measure the nuclear final states from
neutrino interactions in water, with a particular focus on the production and
multiplicity of final-state neutrons. The detector sits in the SciBooNE Hall,
on Fermilab's Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB). The upgraded detector will have...
Dr
Douglas Berry
(University of Illinois at Chicago)
18/06/2018, 14:30
Oral Presentation
The LHC is the worlds highest energy proton-proton collider with a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The world's largest machine is currently running at twice its designed luminosity and represents forefront of the energy frontier. The CMS detector is a multipurpose detector that features a 4 Tesla magnet and over a 100 million active channels taking data every 25 ns. It, along with its sister...
Hui Wang
18/06/2018, 14:45
Oral Presentation
My presentation is based on the analysis of searching for supersymetric particles, with the data collected by CMS detector in 2016, at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 inverse fb. This analysis focuses on simplified SUSY models with top quarks and large missing transverse momentum in all hadronic final states. These channels have distinctive...
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Orgho Neogi
(University of Iowa)
18/06/2018, 15:00
Oral Presentation
Coannihilation Codex is a classification of models for Dark Matter which lead to a variety of new signatures at colliders. One signature features a Dark Matter field as well as a new particle X and a Leptoquark. We are beginning a search which includes the first-generation leptoquark, leading to a signature with a high-pt electron, jets, and missing ET. We will show kinematic distributions and...
Prakash Thapa
(Wayne State University)
18/06/2018, 15:15
Oral Presentation
Non-resonant excesses in dilepton invariant mass spectra are predicted by several beyond the standard model (BSM) theories. In this search, two theoretical models, large extra dimensions (LED) and Compositeness are considered, and the status of the search in the mass range 400-5000 GeV will be presented using 2016 data collected by CMS detector. In LED, space-time is extended by an additional...
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Wasikul Islam
(Oklahoma State University)
18/06/2018, 15:30
Oral Presentation
The efficient identification of jets from bottom quarks (b-jets) is one of the most important techniques for many physics analyses at the Large Hadron Collider, including studies of the Higgs boson, the top quark, and searches beyond the Standard Model. The performance is characterized by b-tagging efficiency (probability to identify a b-jet as such) and the mistag rate (probability to...
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Guillermo Fidalgo
(University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez)
18/06/2018, 15:45
Oral Presentation
The Data Quality Monitoring (DQM) of CMS is a key asset to deliver high-quality data for physics analysis and it is used both in the online and offline environment. The current paradigm of the quality assessment is labor intensive and it is based on the scrutiny of a large number of histograms by detector experts comparing them with a reference. This project aims at applying recent progress in...
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Bahareh Roozbahani
(suny Buffalo)
18/06/2018, 16:00
Oral Presentation
The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC)
aims to increase luminosity by a factor of 10 beyond
the LHC's design value. To cope with the increased rate of particle
production without compromising physics performance, the LHC detectors
will undergo an extensive upgrade. CMS will replace the current inner
tracker system with a new silicon tracker which will feature...
Megan Splettstoesser
18/06/2018, 16:45
Oral Presentation
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a five year (with half-year extension approved) ground-based optical and near-infrared survey covering ~5,000 square degrees (~12%) of the sky. The DES international collaboration is comprised of several hundred members working toward understanding dark energy and cosmic acceleration. In this talk, I will begin with an overview of several DES working groups and...
Zhuowen Zhang
18/06/2018, 17:00
Oral Presentation
My talk summarizes the modeling of triaxiality on weak lensing galaxy cluster mass estimates for DES Y3 analysis. We use Buzzard dark matter halos and particle simulations to measure the shapes of halos and the redMaPPer algorithm to detect clusters to redshifts up to z < 0.90. We show that triaxiality biases the selection of the redMapper algorithm primarily as a bias in orientation, with a...
Ziqing Hong
(Northwestern University)
18/06/2018, 17:15
Oral Presentation
Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter that, if it exists, may account for more than a quarter of the energy density of our universe. Despite the variety of astrophysical evidence pointing to its existence, the direct interaction of dark matter in a terrestrial detector is yet to be observed. The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) experiment tries to observe a dark matter...
Alissa Monte
(UMass Amherst)
18/06/2018, 17:30
Oral Presentation
DarkSide-50 is the current phase of the DarkSide direct dark matter search program, operating underground at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. The detector is a dual-phase argon Time Projection Chamber (TPC), designed for direct detection of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, and housed within a veto system of liquid scintillator and water Cherenkov detectors. We will...
Dr
Marisa March
(U Penn)
18/06/2018, 17:45
Oral Presentation
Large scale astronomical surveys are going wider and deeper than ever before. However, astronomers, cosmologists and theorists continue to face the perennial issue that their data sets are often incomplete in magnitude space and must be carefully treated in order to avoid Malmquist bias, especially in the field of supernova cosmology. Historically, cosmological parameter inference in...
Mr
Gary Forster
(Darkside-50)
18/06/2018, 18:00
Oral Presentation
Argon is a very useful element for modern scientific endeavors, but its naturally occurring isotopes make it too 'noisy' for low-energy applications like Darkside-50's Dark Matter search. The struggle to produce argon that is free of radioactive isotopes has a decade of rich history, and much of efforts took place at the Proton Assembly Building (PAB) at Fermilab. This talk will address the...
Gianantonio Pezzullo
(Yale University)
19/06/2018, 09:00
Oral Presentation
The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for the charged lepton flavor violating process of neutrino-less μ $\to$ e coherent conversion in the field of an aluminum nucleus. About $7\cdot 10^{17}$ muons, provided by a dedicated muon beam line in construction at Fermilab, will be stopped in 3 years in the aluminum target. The corresponding single event sensitivity will be $2.5\cdot10^{-17}$....
Avery Archer
(Purdue University)
19/06/2018, 09:15
Oral Presentation
The Mu2e experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will study charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) through the measurement of the ratio of the rate of neutrinoless, coherent conversion of muons into electrons in the field of a nucleus to the rate of muon capture on the nucleus. The goal of the experiment is to achieve a single event sensitivity of 2.8×〖10〗^(-17), leading to an...
Kate Ciampa
(University of Minnesota)
19/06/2018, 09:30
Oral Presentation
Mu2e will search for the neutrinoless conversion of a muon to an electron in the presence of a nucleus, µ+N(A,Z) -> e+N(A,Z), more commonly known as charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV). A decay of this sort is extremely suppressed in the Standard Model, on the order 10^{-54}. A process of this kind may never be observed in a lab so detecting it would be an unambiguous evidence of new...
Emma Castiglia
19/06/2018, 09:45
Oral Presentation
Mu2e (muon-to-electron-conversion), an Intensity Frontier experiment at Fermilab set to begin data taking in 2022, will search for flavor violation in charged leptons with a muon decaying to only an electron without any neutrinos. Protons will be accelerated by the 8GeV proton beam before reaching Mu2e’s production target. From there, pions enter an S-shaped Transport Solenoid and travel...
Cristina Schlesier
19/06/2018, 10:00
Oral Presentation
This talk will give a brief overview of the Muon g-2 experiment currently running at Fermilab. Muon g-2 seeks to measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon to an unprecedented precision of 0.14 ppm, with the goal of testing the Standard Model and possibility providing evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model.
Rachel Osofsky
(University of Washington)
19/06/2018, 10:15
Oral Presentation
The muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab (E989) aims to measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon $a_\mathrm{\mu}$ to a precision of 140 parts per billion (ppb). This new measurement will shed light on the 3.5 sigma deviation between Standard Model calculations and the previous measurement (E821) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and will test Standard Model extensions. The muon g-2...
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Thomas Brooks
(University of Sheffield)
19/06/2018, 11:00
Oral Presentation
SBND (Short-Baseline Near Detector) is a 112 ton liquid argon time projection chamber being constructed 110 m from the target of the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam. One of its primary objectives is to test the eV scale sterile neutrino hypothesis by studying short-baseline oscillations along with MicroBooNE and ICARUS T-600 as part of the Short-Baseline Neutrino program. Due to the proximity...
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Pedro Simoni Pasquini
(Unicamp)
19/06/2018, 11:15
Oral Presentation
We study the capabilities of the short baseline neutrino program at Fermilab to probe the unitarity of the lepton mixing matrix. We find the sensitivity to be slightly better than the current one. Motivated by the future DUNE experiment, we have also analyzed the potential of an extra liquid Argon near detector in the LBNF beamline. Adding such a near detector to the DUNE setup will...
Gabriela Vitti Stenico
(Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
19/06/2018, 11:30
Oral Presentation
The hypothesis is of the existence of a fourth neutrino state comes from some experimental anomalies that cannot be explained with the present three lightest neutrinos. This demand the existence of sterile neutrinos. The sterile neutrino appears in many extensions of Standard Model, in the 3 + 1 model that considers three active neutrinos and one sterile state and also in Large Extra...
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Christopher Hilgenberg
(Colorado State University)
19/06/2018, 11:45
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, which poses a problematic background to the electron neutrino appearance analysis. A direct way to remove this background is to utilize a detector external to the...
Laura Gomez bermeo
19/06/2018, 12:00
Oral Presentation
The DUNE Science Collaboration is currently made up of over 1500 collaborators from 175 institutions (60% non-US) in 31 countries (35% of developing countries) plus CERN. The aim of this research program is to discover some of the greatest mysteries of the universe; origin of matter, unification of forces, black holes formation, among others. This project has a cooperative structure of...
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Logan Clutch Jackson Rice
(Northern Illinois University)
19/06/2018, 12:15
Oral Presentation
The DUNE Single Phase Far Detector will be sensitive to neutrinos from supernova neutronization bursts from within the Milky Way. In order to fully reconstruct these interactions, signals from the charge collection system need to be correctly matched to signals from the photon detection system. The challenge is to distinguish flashes of light produced by low energy supernova neutrinos from...
Tyler Rehak
19/06/2018, 14:00
Oral Presentation
As the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment nears construction, the existing neutrino facilities at Fermilab provide opportunities to test and refine methods characterizing high precision neutrino beams. MARGARITA is a water Cherenkov stopped muon detector that features twin photomultiplier tubes and two small, slightly differing detector volumes. The two detector volumes are designed to...
Tanaz Angelina Mohayai
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
19/06/2018, 14:15
Oral Presentation
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, an important R&D step towards a future muon collider or neutrino factory has studied ionization cooling of muons. Several million individual muon tracks have been recorded passing through a series of focusing magnets and a liquid hydrogen or lithium hydride absorber in a variety of magnetic configurations....
Xiaobin Lu
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
19/06/2018, 14:30
Oral Presentation
PROSPECT is a short-baseline reactor-based antineutrino experiment designed to precisely measure the $^{235}$U antineutrino spectrum and search for oscillations due to the existence of an eV$^2$-scale sterile neutrino. Deployed at the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in early 2018, the optically segmented 4-ton $^{6}$Li-loaded liquid scintillator...
Hunter Sullivan
(The University of Texas at Arlington)
19/06/2018, 14:45
Oral Presentation
The LArIAT (Liquid Argon In A Test Beam) experiment at Fermilab's Test Beam Facility exposes a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) to a charged particle test beam in order to calibrate and characterize LArTPCs response. This is a perfect environment in that particle species and momentum can be preselected while event reconstruction tools, particle identification algorithms, and new...
Mr
Cory Rude
(CERN/Fermilab)
19/06/2018, 15:00
Oral Presentation
A crucial component of scintillators in current and future collider experiments is their ability to operate after exposure to radiation. The University of Iowa HEP group is developing scintillators for use in both HEP and medical fields. This talk will focus on our progress so far.
Grace Cummings
(University of Virginia)
19/06/2018, 15:15
Oral Presentation
Measurements in particle physics often rely on measuring the light produced in particle interactions with detector materials. Highly sensitive and fast detectors are frequently required. This is frequently accomplished with the use of Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs), a type of avalanche photodiode operated in Geiger-mode (GAPD) with high detection efficiency and single photon resolution...
Mr
Zhaodi Pan
(The University of Chicago)
19/06/2018, 15:30
Oral Presentation
Fourier Transform Spectrometers (FTSs) have been widely used in many fields for characterizing the power spectrum of radiation. In this talk we present development of an FTS operating between 50 GHz and 330 GHz. Our FTS design features a small size of 15"x10"x3" and weighs only 13 lbs. The hardware, operating software, and analysis software for the FTS have been standardized to make the...
Justin Vasel
(Indiana University)
19/06/2018, 16:15
Oral Presentation
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment which uses the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. Our detectors are functionally-similar liquid scintillator calorimeters, situated 810km apart and 14 mrad off-axis with respect to the the NuMI beam. NOvA's primarily physics goal is a measurement of electron neutrino appearance and muon neutrino disappearance from a muon neutrino beam to...
Micah Groh
(Indiana University)
19/06/2018, 16:30
Oral Presentation
The NOvA experiment has made measurements of the disappearance of $\nu_\mu$ and the appearance of $\nu_e$ in the NuMI beam at Fermilab. Key to these measurements is the identification of the neutrino flavor and measurement of the neutrino energy, for which NOvA has implemented deep learning algorithms utilizing tools from the field of computer vision. These algorithms, first applied to NOvA's...
Dmitrii Torbunov
19/06/2018, 16:45
Oral Presentation
An overview of the recent results from the NOvA muon neutrino disappearance analysis is presented. NOvA is an accelerator based neutrino experiment designed to study the electron neutrino appearance in the muon neutrino beam as it travels from the Near Detector facility at Fermilab to the Far Detector in the Northern Minnesota. The NOvA muon neutrino disappearance group has recently introduced...
Mr
Bruce Howard
(Indiana University)
19/06/2018, 17:00
Oral Presentation
NOvA (the NuMI Off-Axis $\nu_e$ Appearance Experiment) utilizes a near detector at Fermilab and a far detector 810km away in Ash River, MN, to study the properties of neutrinos. Using a beam originating at Fermilab, NOvA studies neutrino oscillation via the disappearance of $\nu_\mu$, $\bar{\nu}_\mu$ in the beam and the corresponding appearance of $\nu_e$, $\bar{\nu}_e$. Prior results from...
Dr
Jeremy Hewes
(University of Cincinnati),
Michael Wallbank
(University of Cincinnati)
19/06/2018, 17:15
Oral Presentation
This talk discusses an updated analysis of neutrino data from the NOvA experiment to search for sterile neutrino oscillations. NOvA consists of two functionally identical liquid scintillator detectors in Fermilab's NuMI neutrino beam: a 300 ton near detector at a 1km baseline, and a 14,000 ton far detector 810km away in Ash River, MN, 14.6 mrad off the beam's central axis. Sterile neutrino...
Derek Doyle
19/06/2018, 17:30
Oral Presentation
When fitting to data with low stats and near physical boundaries, extra measures need to be taken to ensure proper statistical coverage. The method NOvA uses is called the Feldman-Cousins procedure, which entails fitting thousands of independent pseudoexperiments to generate acceptance intervals that are then used to correct our fits. The scale required by the Feldman Cousins procedure makes...
Mr
Rijeesh Keloth
(Cochin University of Science and Technology)
19/06/2018, 17:45
Oral Presentation
The primary goal of the NOvA experiment is to perform sensitive searches for standard three-flavor neutrino oscillations. The experiment is designed to measure electron-neutrino appearance at the Far Detector using the Near Detector to control systematic uncertainties; however, the Near Detector is well suited for searching for possible anomalous short-baseline oscillations. The LSND and...