Nora Shipp
(University of Chicago, Fermilab)
10/06/2019, 09:10
Oral
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a deep, wide-area optical imaging survey in the southern hemisphere. The unprecedented photometry from DES has allowed for exciting science results on topics ranging from cosmology to our Galaxy. I will discuss details of the survey -- which completed its 5.5-year observations in January 2019 -- and highlight some recent science results from the collaboration.
Sidney Mau
(University of Chicago)
10/06/2019, 09:25
Oral
The Milky Way satellites are among the least luminous and most dark matter-dominated galaxies in the known universe. I present on a search for low-luminosity dwarf galaxy companions of the Milky Way in three years of data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS PS1). Together, these two surveys cover roughly three-quarters of...
Jason Poh
(University of Chicago)
10/06/2019, 09:40
Oral
Strong gravitational lenses are cosmic magnifying glasses that can be used as a probe of cosmic phenomena, like dark energy and dark matter. However, strong lensing systems are rare and complex, which means they are both hard to find and analyze. We present two important results in strong lensing science: 1) new deep learning techniques for finding and measuring strong lenses; and 2) dark...
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Luisa Lucie-Smith
(University College London)
10/06/2019, 10:10
Oral
Dark matter halos are the fundamental building blocks of cosmic large-scale structure. Improving our theoretical understanding of their structure, evolution and formation is an essential step towards understanding how galaxies form, which in turn will allow us to fully exploit the large amount of data from future galaxy surveys. I will present a machine learning approach which aims to provide...
Spoorthi Nagasamudram
10/06/2019, 10:25
Oral
This project was realized primarily to test and improve the spatial tracking resolution of the ANL (Argonne National Laboratory) telescope consisting of the ATLAS IBL silicon pixel sensors and FE-I4 chips by making use of the test beam at Fermilab. In this paper, we will discuss the overall performance of the modules and how it can be improved. We will also discuss efforts made to improve the...
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Prudhvi Raj Varma Chintalapati
(Chintalapati)
10/06/2019, 11:15
Oral
The Muon Campus at Fermilab presently houses two experiments that aim to find discrepancies (if any) in the Standard Model. The Delivery Ring is a 500m circumference storage ring which is used to deliver protons to muon experiments Muon g-2 and Mu2e. Although these experiments are based on the same particle, they require different intensities because of their detector constraints. For the Mu2e...
Mr
Christopher Marshall
(Northern Illinois University)
10/06/2019, 11:30
Oral
A large dynamical-range diagnostics (LDRD) design at Jefferson Lab will be used at the FAST-IOTA injector to measure the transverse distribution of halo associated with a high-charge electron beam. One important aspect of this work is to explore the halo distribution when the beam has significant angular momentum (i.e. is magnetized). The beam distribution is measured by recording radiation...
Dr
Chun-Min Jen
(Los Alamos National Lab)
10/06/2019, 12:00
Oral
E1039/SpinQuest is the first transversally-polarized Drell-Yan experiment at Fermilab. SpinQuest data-taking is anticipated to begin this coming fall 2019. In SpinQuest, a transversely-polarized NH3 or ND3 target is employed with the unpolarized 120-GeV extracted proton beam from Fermilab Main Injector to obtain various measurements of transverse single spin asymmetries in J/psi, psi’, lambda,...
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Katrina Miller
(University of Chicago)
10/06/2019, 14:00
Oral
MicroBooNE is one of three liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) making up the Short-Baseline Neutrino Program at FNAL. Located on the Booster Neutrino Beamline, MicroBooNE has been collecting data since October 2015 to determine the source of the low-energy electromagnetic event excess previously reported by MiniBooNE and LSND. In addition to its signature analysis, MicroBooNE is...
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Afroditi Papadopoulou
(Graduate Student MIT)
10/06/2019, 14:15
Oral
Next generation neutrino oscillation experiments aim towards high-precision extraction of oscillation parameters, which in turn requires an unprecedented understanding of neutrino-nucleus
interactions. Neutrino processes producing a charged lepton and a single intact nucleon in the
final state can offer an important window into the dynamics of neutrino interactions with direct
importance...
Mr
Krishan Mistry
(The University of Manchester)
10/06/2019, 14:30
Oral
The MicroBooNE experiment is an 87 t active mass Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) located on the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab, Chicago. The primary physics goals of this experiment are to investigate the excess of low energy electron-like events observed by MiniBooNE, perform precise measurements of neutrino on argon cross sections, and provide research and development...
Iker de Icaza Astiz
(University of Sussex)
10/06/2019, 15:00
Oral
The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) will be a 112 ton liquid argon time projection chamber devoted to researching neutrino oscillations. Located 110 m downstream from the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) target, SBND will be the near detector of the three-detector Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab. The SBN program will probe neutrino oscillations at the $\sim \! 1 \textrm{eV}^2$...
Mr
Christopher Hilgenberg
(Colorado State University)
10/06/2019, 16:15
Oral
As the SBN far-detector, the ICARUS T600, a set of liquid argon time-projection chambers (TPC), will operate at shallow depth and therefore be exposed to the full surface flux of cosmic rays. This poses a problematic background to the neutrino oscillation search, especially photons produced by muons passing in close proximity to, but not through, the active volume. A direct way to reject this...
Vincent Basque
(University of Manchester)
10/06/2019, 16:30
Oral
Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs) are currently being used extensively for neutrino physics due to their excellent capabilities in performing particle identification, and precise 3D and calorimetric energy reconstruction. The Liquid Argon In A Test Beam (LArIAT) experiment was located at the Test Beam Facility where it was exposed to a known charged particle beam. The...
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Barbara Yaeggy
(Universidad Tecnica Federico Sta. Maria)
10/06/2019, 17:00
Oral
Based in the NuMI beamline at Fermi National Laboratory, the on-axis MINERvA experiment is focused on reaching precision measurements of neutrino and antineutrino interactions in diverse nuclei materials for energies up to 50 GeV. The results support the current and future oscillation experiments as well as to provide information about the structure of nuclei. A look at the latest results from...
Dr
Emrah Tiras
(Iowa State University)
10/06/2019, 17:30
Oral
The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is a gadolinium-loaded water Cherenkov detector located on the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab. The experiment seeks to better understand neutrino-nucleus interactions by studying the number of final state neutrons produced in charged current interactions. It will be the first experiment testing Large Area Picosecond...
Dr
Anthony Villano
(University of Colorado Denver)
10/06/2019, 17:45
Oral
The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) is at the low-threshold frontier. Our detector technology can detect nuclear recoils at the eV-scale energies necessary for generation-two low-mass dark matter searches. The SNOLAB installation, which will be commissioned in the next two years, will produce world-class limits on the presence of low-mass (between 0.5 and 10\,GeV/c$^2$) dark...
Dr
Yu-Dai Tsai
(Fermilab)
10/06/2019, 18:00
Oral
We propose a low-cost and movable setup to probe minicharged particles (or milli-charged particles) using high-intensity proton fixed-target facilities. This proposal, FerMINI, consists of a milliQan-type detector, requiring multi-coincident (nominally, triple-coincident) scintillation signatures within a small time window, located downstream of the proton target of a neutrino experiment....
Cristina Ana Mantilla Suarez
(Johns Hopkins University)
11/06/2019, 09:00
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...
William Jay
11/06/2019, 09:30
Oral
In this talk I summarize the current status of the field in lattice QCD. My goal will be to provide an accessible overview. I will emphasize work done at Fermilab and work affecting Fermilab experiments.
Mr
Aashaq Shah
(University of Delhi)
11/06/2019, 10:00
Oral
The CMS Muon group has proposed the use of Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) technology to maintain an efficient and reliable operation during the High Luminosity phase of the LHC (HL-LHC). This is particularly important to study many physics processes with muons in the final state. The CMS GEM chambers will cover eta region 1.6 to 2.2 of the endcap. We report on the GE1/1 layout and their...
Andrew Wildridge, Mr
Sachin Vaidya
(Purdue University),
Souvik Das
11/06/2019, 10:15
Oral
Clustering of charged particle tracks along the beam axis is the first step in reconstructing the positions of proton-proton (p-p) collisions at Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments. In this talk, we formulate this problem for a 2048 qubit D-Wave quantum computer that works by quantum annealing. We show the performance of the quantum annealer on artificial events generated from p-p...
Andre Sterenberg Frankenthal
(Cornell University)
11/06/2019, 11:30
Oral
Searches for dark matter in the past two decades have largely focused on Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). But what if instead of just one type of dark matter particle, there exists a richer dark sector hidden from ordinary view? This opens up a whole new paradigm for dark matter searches, allowing us to focus not only on the coupling between dark matter and the Standard Model, but...
Richard Diurba
11/06/2019, 11:45
Oral
A brief talk on the updates and technical details of DUNE in a concentrated format.
Mrs
Maura Spanu
(BNL)
11/06/2019, 12:00
Oral
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is an international long-baseline neutrino experiment. DUNE will consist of an intense neutrino beam produced at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. The far detector will comprise of four Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPC) holding in total around 40 ktons of fiducial mass and will be placed at the Sanford...
Dr
Aleena Rafique
(Argonne National Laboratory)
11/06/2019, 12:15
Oral
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a leading-edge experiment for neutrino science and proton decay studies. The single-phase liquid argon prototype detector at CERN is a crucial milestone for the DUNE that will inform the construction and operation of the far detector modules. In this talk, I will present the current status of reconstructing Michel electrons from cosmic-ray...
Dr
Luke Pickering
(Michigan State University)
11/06/2019, 12:30
Oral
The expected precision of current long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments (T2K, NO$\nu$A) will be limited by uncertainties in neutrino interaction models in addition to sample statistics. The interaction uncertainties will also play a significant role in next-generation experiments (DUNE, Hyper-K), which aim to collect much larger samples of oscillated neutrinos. Without significant...
Miranda Elkins
(Iowa State University)
11/06/2019, 14:20
Oral
The long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment named NOvA is comprised of two detectors utilizing liquid scintillator tracking calorimeters. Both are positioned 14 mrad off-axis with respect to the NuMI beam with the near detector being at Fermilab. The far detector, at 14 kton, can be found approximately 810 km away in Ash River, Minnesota. The main physics goals of NOvA include, but are...
Dr
Ashley Back
(Iowa State University)
11/06/2019, 15:05
Oral
NOvA continues as one of the leading long-baseline neutrino experiments,
thanks to Fermilab's powerful 700 kW NuMI beam, which provides NOvA with a beam
of predominantly muon neutrinos or antineutrinos. NOvA studies neutrino
oscillations using two detectors, both constructed from plastic extrusions
filled with liquid scintillator, placed 810 km apart and both slightly off-axis
from the...
Mr
abhilash dombara
(syracuse university)
11/06/2019, 15:20
Oral
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino experiment with two functionally identical liquid scintillator detectors 809 km apart, off-axis from the NuMI beam. The main goal of this experiment is to determine the mass hierarchy and precise measurement of several neutrino oscillation parameters. To measure these parameters precisely we need to have a correct estimate of the neutrino and antineutrino...
Maria Martinez-Casales
11/06/2019, 15:35
Oral
NOvA is a long baseline neutrino experiment based at Fermilab that studies neutrino oscillation parameters via electron neutrino appearance and muon neutrino disappearance. The oscillation measurements compare the Far Detector data to an oscillated prediction which accounts for the Near Detector (ND) data and our understanding of neutrino interactions and cross-sections by using GENIE...
Yang Gao
11/06/2019, 16:30
Oral
Despite that the Standard Model has been put through many stringent tests, it still can not be the full picture of particle physics. In this short talk, we give an overview of the motivations to go beyond the Standard Model and discuss a few plausible scenarios in its extension.
Jason Hempstead
(University of Washington)
11/06/2019, 16:45
Oral
The Muon $g-2$ Experiment (E989) is measuring the magnetic anomaly, $a_\mu$, of the muon to 140 parts per billion (ppb) to resolve the outstanding discrepancy between the value predicted by the Standard Model and the best measurement to date. The magnetic anomaly receives contributions from loops of any particle type in the muon-photon vertex, so a discrepancy between theory and experiment is...
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Meghna Bhattacharya
(University of Mississippi)
11/06/2019, 17:00
Oral
The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab (E989) aims to measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, $a_{\mu}$, to a precision of $140$ ppb, a four-fold increase in precision over the previous experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). The value of $a_{\mu}$ from BNL currently differs from the Standard Model prediction by $\sim 3.5$ standard deviations or higher, suggesting the...
Dr
Raffaella Donghia
(LNF-INFN)
11/06/2019, 17:30
Oral
The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for the charged-lepton flavour violating neutrino-less conversion of a negative muon into an electron in the field of an aluminum nucleus.
The Mu2e detector is composed of a tracker and an electromagnetic
calorimeter and an external veto for cosmic rays.
The calorimeter plays an important role in providing excellent particle identification...
Carlos Sarasty Segura
(University of Cincinnti)
Oral
ProtoDUNE-SP, the prototype of the single-phase DUNE far detector, is constructed and operated at the CERN Neutrino Platform with total liquid argon (LAr) mass of 0.77 kt and using full-scale components of the design for DUNE. The physics program of protoDUNE-SP aims to understand and control the systematic uncertainties for future oscillation measurements at DUNE, the charged-particle beam...
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Andres Felipe Alba Hernandez
(Northern Illinois University)
Oral
Modern cosmic sky surveys (e.g., CMB S4, DES, LSST) collect a complex diversity of astronomical objects. Each of class of objects presents different requirements for observation time and sensitivity. For determining the best sequence of exposures for mapping the sky systematically, conventional scheduling methods do not optimize the use of survey time and resources. We present an alternative...