Conveners
Final Session
- Joseph Zennamo (SUNY at Buffalo, D0)
Farinaldo Queiroz
(Fermilab & UFPB)
14/06/2012, 15:00
The South Pole Telescope (SPT), Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), and Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) have each reported measurements of the cosmic microwave background’s (CMB) angular power spectrum which favor the existence of roughly one additional neutrino species, in addition to the three contained in the standard model of particle physics. Neutrinos influence the CMB by...
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Ritoban Basu Thakur
(Fermilab/ UIUC)
14/06/2012, 15:15
I will talk about the new SuperCDMS experiment. Using 10 kg of ultra cold (50 mK) Germanium detectors, this experiment will look for Dark Matter in the Soudan Underground Laboratory. Apart from being a traditional Dark Matter search, we also explore a novel low threshold search for light Dark Matter. We call this new search, CDMSlite. I will go over the motivation, detector physics and science...
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Son Cao
(The University of Texas at Austin)
14/06/2012, 15:45
The MINOS experiment uses two detectors separated by 734km to study neutrino oscillations between Fermilab and the Soudan Underground Laboratory. MINOS is also conducting a neutrino time of flight measurement between the two detectors. As a part of an improved technique, we have installed two identical pairs of small Auxiliary Detectors (AD) near both MINOS detectors to calibrate the...
Jesse Chvojka
(University of Rochester)
14/06/2012, 16:00
MINERvA is a fine-grained high statistics neutrino scattering
experiment located at Fermilab working to better understand low energy
(few GeV) neutrino and anti-neutrino cross-sections. Improved
understanding of cross-sections will reduce systematic errors
at current and future neutrino oscillation experiments. Recent
anti-neutrino charge current quasi-elastic (nu_mu_bar + p -> mu +...
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Jose Luis Palomino Gallo
(CBPF)
14/06/2012, 16:15
MINERvA is a neutrino-nucleus scattering experiment with multiple nuclear targets.
The experiment is looking for reconstruct neutral pion production, in charge current and neutral current interactions.
Neutral pions are detected through the 2 photons decay, then produce electromagnetic showers.
We will describe how we are reconstructing and identifying electromagnetic showers.
The...
Minerba Betancourt
(University of Minnesota)
14/06/2012, 16:30
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino experiment using an off-axis neutrino beam produced by the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. The NOvA experiment will measure quasi-elastic cross section at 2GeV. A short-term goal for the NOvA experiment is to develop a good understanding of the response of the detector. These studies are being carried out with the Near Detector prototype installed on the...
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Ulascan Sarica
(University of Rochester)
14/06/2012, 16:45
We investigate the “low-ν” method (developed by the CCFR/NUTEV collaborations) to determine the neutrino flux in a wide band neutrino beam at very low energies, a region of interest to neutrino oscillations experiments. Events with low hadronic final state energy nu < nu_cut (of 1, 2 and 5 GeV) were used by the MINOS collaboration to determine the neutrino flux in their measurements of...
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EVAN SHOCKLEY
(SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA)
14/06/2012, 17:00
Evan R Shockley, Timothy D McDonald, and Paul J Nienaber, Department of Physics, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, Winona, MN 55987
The MicroBooNE detector, a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) positioned in the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) line at Fermilab, tracks charged particles produced by interactions of those neutrinos and uses large (eight-inch diameter)...
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Sonam Mahajan
(Panjab University, Chandigarh, India)
14/06/2012, 17:15
The Main Injector Particle Production (MIPP) Experiment at Fermilab is a hadron production experiment which uses 120 GeV/c primary protons from the Main Injector to produce secondary beams of charged pions, kaons, proton and anti-proton from 5 GeV/c to 90 GeV/c. It was designed to measure the total charged particle production of pions, kaons, protons and anti-protons using beams of charged...