Neutrino Theory Network Workshop

21 Jun 2022, 08:00 → 23 Jun 2022, 18:00 America/Chicago

Fermilab

Pedro Machado (Fermilab)

The Neutrino Theory Network (NTN) is an effort supported by the the Department of Energy (DOE) to strengthen the US neutrino theory community and its impact on the US neutrino experimental program. The NTN aims to strengthen the theoretical neutrino physics research effort in the United States and its impact on the domestic and international experimental programs. At present, the network research focusses on the theoretical description of neutrino interactions, novel signatures and experimental searches, as well as standard and beyond standard physics in the neutrino sector.

This in-person workshop aims to present the latest developments on the aforementioned physics topics, and discuss future directions in theoretical neutrino physics as well as its role supporting the neutrino experimental program.

Due to the current local COVID-19 community levels, the NTN Workshop will be held in a hybrid format, with a maximum of 50 in-person participants. This may subject to change following Fermilab policy (link here).

Partial funding may be available upon request, in particular to postdocs and students. There is no registration fee and the deadline for registration is June 7th.

If you do not have a Fermilab badge, please register and complete the Onsite Access Request before May 25th (link here).

Organizers: John Beacom, Marcela Carena, André de Gouvêa, Pedro Machado, Noemi Rocco.

Further details on the Neutrino Theory Network can be found here.

Tuesday, 21 June

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary

09:00 Welcome and introduction

Speaker: Pedro Machado (Fermilab)

Machado-NTN-workshop-intro.pdf

09:15 Interpretation of MicroBooNE results

Speaker: Ivan Jesus Martinez Soler (Fermilab and Northwestern U.)

NTN_Talk.pdf

09:40 Achilles: A Modern Theory Driven Event Generator

Speaker: Joshua Isaacson

NTN_Workshop_2022.pdf

10:05 Astrophysical Neutrinos and Their Entanglement

Speaker: Baha Balantekin (University of Wisconsin)

FNAL22_Balantekin.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:15 Plenary

11:00 Neutrino Mass Models and Nonstandard Interactions

Speaker: K.S. Babu (Oklahoma State University)

NTN_FNAL.pdf

11:25 Neutrino Nonstandard Interaction Phenomenology

Speaker: Bhupal Dev (Washington University in St. Louis)

dev_NTN_Fermilab.pdf

11:50 Neutrino-nucleus scattering, a Quantum Monte Carlo perspective

Speaker: Alessandro Lovato (ANL)

NTN_Lovato.pdf

12:15 → 14:00 Lunch break and discussion time

14:00 → 15:40 Plenary

14:00 Common physics challenges of modern neutrino event generators

Speaker: Alexander Friedland (SLAC)

Friedland_NTNFermilab_June_2022.pdf

14:25 Electron and neutrino interaction Measurements for precision oscillation measurements

Speaker: Or Hen (MIT)

e4nu_NTN22_June2022.pdf

14:50 Successful nu-p process in neutrino-driven core-collapse supernova outflows

Speaker: Payel Mukhopadhyay (Stanford University)

NTN-Payel.pdf

15:15 Lattice QCD for neutrinos

Speaker: Michael Wagman (Fermilab)

Wagman_NTN_22.pdf

15:40 → 16:10 Coffee break

16:10 → 17:30 Round table

16:10 Theoretical and experimental challenges in neutrino-nucleus interaction modeling

Wednesday, 22 June

09:15 → 10:30 Plenary

09:15 New Constraints on New Explanations of the MiniBooNE Anomaly

In this talk, I will describe some of the latest constraints on new explanations of the MiniBooNE excess. I will focus on results using the T2K near detector, CHARM, and Minerva. I will present results for both dark neutrino scenarios and neutrino dipole interactions.

Speaker: Carlos Arguelles-Delgado (Harvard University)

ntn-workshop-summer-2022.pdf

09:40 Theory of QED radiative corrections to neutrino scattering at accelerator energies

Speaker: Richard Hill (University of Kentucky and Fermilab)

Hill_NTN.pdf

10:05 Flavor Symmetries for Neutrino Mixing

Speaker: Mu-Chun Chen (University of California, Irvine)

2022NTN_MCChen.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:15 Plenary

11:00 Quantum many-body computations of lepton-nucleus quasielastic scattering

Speaker: Bijaya Acharya (JGU-Mainz)

Acharya-NTN-Workshop.pdf

11:25 Near Detector Tuning and New Physics Searches

Speaker: Shirley Li (Fermilab)

Li_BSM_tuning.pdf

11:50 Towards probing the diffuse supernova neutrino background in all flavors

Speaker: Anna Malgorzata Suliga (Niels Bohr Institute)

Suliga.pdf

12:15 → 14:00 Lunch break and discussion time

14:00 → 15:40 Plenary

14:00 Neutrino polarizability

Speaker: Alexey Petrov (Wayne State University)

FNAL_NTN2022.pdf

14:25 QED factorization theorems for scattering with nuclear targets

Speaker: Ryan Plestid (University of Kentucky)

NTN-2022-Workshop.pdf

14:50 Dimuons in neutrino telescopes: New predictions and first search in IceCube

Speaker: Bei Zhou (Johns Hopkins University)

20220622 Fermilab, Bei Zhou.pdf

15:15 Direct and Indirect BSM searches at Neutrino Experiments

Speaker: Zahra Tabrizi (Northwestern University)

NTNworkshopJune2022.pdf

15:40 → 16:10 Coffee break

16:10 → 17:30 Round table

16:10 New opportunities for BSM discovery at neutrino experiments

Thursday, 23 June

09:00 → 10:00 Participant work and discussion time

09:00 → 10:00 Review (closed session): Introduction and discussion

10:00 → 10:30 Plenary

10:00 The Fermilab Experimental Neutrino Program

Speaker: Stephen Brice (FNAL)

Fermilab's Neutrino Experiment Program.pdf

Fermilab's Neutrino Experiment Program.pptx

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Plenary

11:00 Experimental needs from theory: cross sections

Speaker: Kendall Mahn (Michigan State University)

Mahn-NTN-NeedsExptTheory20220623.pdf

11:30 Experimental needs from theory: new physics

Speaker: Ornella Palamara (Fermilab)

Palamara_NeutrinoTheoryNetwork.pdf

12:00 Experimental needs from theory: astrophysics

Speaker: Alec Habig (Univ. of Minnesota Duluth)

NTN-talk.pptx

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 15:00 Review (closed session): NTN presentations

13:30 NTN introduction

Speaker: Marcela Carena (Fermilab)

1-Carena-overview.pdf

2-de Gouvea-SAB.pdf

3-Rocco-interactions.pdf

4-Machado-phenomenology.pdf

5-Beacom-astro-cosmo.pdf

13:40 NTN Scientific Advisory Board - Report

Speaker: Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University)

13:50 Current status and prospects: neutrino-nucleus interactions

Speaker: Noemi Rocco

14:05 NTN phenomenology effort

Speaker: Pedro Machado (Fermilab)

14:20 NTN astro/cosmo effort

Speaker: John Beacom (Ohio State University)

14:35 Questions from panelists

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 18:00 Review (closed session): NTN review