Conveners
Neutrino Masses and Neutrino Mixing: Parallel 1 — Neutrino Mass and Astrophysical Neutrinos
- Daniel Dwyer
Neutrino Masses and Neutrino Mixing: Parallel 2 — Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
- Daniel Dwyer
Neutrino Masses and Neutrino Mixing: Parallel 3 — Reactor Neutrinos
- Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University)
- Daniel Dwyer
Neutrino Masses and Neutrino Mixing: Parallel 4 — Higher Energy Neutrinos
- Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University)
- Daniel Dwyer
Neutrino Masses and Neutrino Mixing: Parallel 5 — Double Beta Decay with Final-State Detection | Low-Energy Neutrino Scattering
- Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University)
- Daniel Dwyer
Neutrino Masses and Neutrino Mixing: Parallel 6 — LBNE | Neutrino Cross Sections
- Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University)
- Daniel Dwyer
Prof.
Gregg Franklin
(Carnegie Mellon University)
29/05/2018, 14:00
NMNM
Parallel
The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment will provide a measurement of the effective electron-neutrino mass, $m(\nu_e)$, based on a precision measurement of the tritium beta decay spectrum near its endpoint. The effective mass is an average of the neutrino mass eigenstates $m_i$ weighted by the flavor-mass mixing parameters $U_{ei}$ according to the relation $m^2(\nu_e)=\sum_{i=1}^3...
Mr
Ali Ashtari Esfahani
(University of Washington)
29/05/2018, 14:20
NMNM
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Project 8 has demonstrated Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy (CRES) as a novel technique for performing electron spectroscopy. Applying this method to highest energy electrons from tritium beta decay will lead to a direct neutrino mass measurement. A proof of this concept was performed with a waveguide detector utilizing conversion electrons from $^{83m}$Kr monoenergetic lines. The...
Prof.
Frank Calaprice
(Princeton University)
29/05/2018, 14:40
NMNM
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Borexino is a 300-ton liquid scintillator detector located in the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory in Italy. This detector has been taking solar neutrino data for the past ten years, and recently completed new measurements of the pp, p$e$p, $^7$Be, and $^8$B solar neutrinos. The data comprise the most complete direct experimental confirmation of Bethe’s 1939 theory of the pp-chains of...
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Erin Conley
(Duke University)
29/05/2018, 15:00
NMNM
Parallel
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is an upcoming experiment dedicated to the study of neutrino oscillation physics, nucleon decay, and supernova neutrinos. Understanding the physics of how massive stars die will lead to a better understanding of the creation of elements, properties of neutrinos, and constraints on beyond-the-Standard-Model physics. Neutrinos carry a majority of...
Prof.
Mark Vagins
(Kavli IPMU/UC Irvine)
29/05/2018, 15:20
NMNM
Parallel
The benefits and difficulties of enriching water Cherenkov detectors with water-soluble gadolinium compounds — thereby enabling the detection of thermal neutrons and dramatically improving these devices' performance as detectors of supernova and reactor antineutrinos — will be discussed.
Bradford Welliver
(LBNL)
29/05/2018, 16:10
NMNM
Parallel
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is a large neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay search experiment currently taking data at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS). Such searches can address fundamental questions that remain about the nature of the neutrino such as the mass hierarchy, whether they are Majorana fermions, and may present new...
Dr
Wenqin Xu
(University of South Dakota)
29/05/2018, 16:40
NMNM
Parallel
Located at the 4850' level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), the Majorana Demonstrator (MJD) experiment is searching for neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay in $^{76}$Ge with high-purity Germanium (HPGe) detectors. The initial goals of the Demonstrator are to establish the required background and scalability of a ton-scale Ge-based experiment.
The...
Dr
Jordan Myslik
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
29/05/2018, 17:10
NMNM
Parallel
The lepton number violating process of neutrinoless double-beta decay could result from the physics beyond the Standard Model needed to generate the neutrino masses. Taking different approaches, the current generation of $^{76}$Ge experiments, the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR and GERDA, lead the field in both the ultra-low background and energy resolution achieved. The next generation of...
Dr
Manuel Weber
(Stanford University)
29/05/2018, 17:30
NMNM
Parallel
The EXO-200 experiment is dedicated to the search of neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay in liquid xenon enriched in the isotope 136. A single-phase time projection chamber (TPC), containing 110 kg of active mass, is realized in an ultra-low background environment where both ionization charge and scintillation light is detected. Both channels are combined for improved energy...
Dr
Sereres Johnston
(Argonne National Laboratory)
29/05/2018, 17:50
NMNM
Parallel
Neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) searches are key components of the physics program dedicated to understanding the nature and mass of the neutrino. The Neutrino Experiment with a high-pressure Xenon Time Projection Chamber (NEXT) collaboration uses high pressure gas xenon time projection chambers (TPCs) to demonstrate the performance and scalability of this technology as...
Dr
Vincent Fischer
(UC Davis)
29/05/2018, 18:10
NMNM
Parallel
The SNO+ experiment, located in SNOLAB, 2 kilometers underground in the Creighton mine, near Sudbury, Canada, is a large scale neutrino detector whose main purpose is to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay and thus probe the Majorana nature of the neutrino. With 780 tons of liquid scintillator loaded with tellurium, SNO+ aims at exploring the Majorana neutrino mass parameter space down...
Matthew Kramer
30/05/2018, 14:00
NMNM
Parallel
The Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment continues to provide leading measurements of the mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ as well as important constraints on the atmospheric mass splitting, reactor flux models, and light sterile neutrinos. This talk begins with a review of Daya Bay's existing oscillation analysis based on 1,230 days of data. We then discuss the enhancements in our forthcoming...
Mr
Philipp Soldin
(RWTH Aachen University Germany)
30/05/2018, 14:30
NMNM
Parallel
Double Chooz is a reactor neutrino disappearance experiment with the purpose of a precise measurement of the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$. The experimental set-up consists of two identical liquid scintillator detectors, one at a longer baseline of about 1 km since 2011 and a closer one with a distance of about 400 m since 2014. This double-detector set-up with an essential iso-flux...
Prof.
Bryce Littlejohn
(IIT)
30/05/2018, 15:00
NMNM
Parallel
PROSPECT (Precision Reactor Oscillation and SPECTrum) is a short-baseline reactor antineutrino experiment. PROSPECT consists of a segmented 4-ton $^6$Li liquid scintillator antineutrino detector that will precisely measure the $^{235}$U fission antineutrino spectrum from the High-Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). PROSPECT’s high statistics and high resolution...
Dr
Jayden Newstead
(Arizona State University)
30/05/2018, 15:20
NMNM
Parallel
Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus elastic scattering (CE$\nu$NS) experiments can be used to constrain new physics in the form of non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI). First, we consider the current data from the recent observation by the Coherent experiment within a Bayesian framework. Second, we demonstrate the complementarity of future reactor and accelerator experiments, by employing at...
Kirk Bays
(California Institute of Technology)
30/05/2018, 16:10
NMNM
Parallel
Neutrinos are elusive fundamental particles only directly detectable through weak interactions, and they may be the key to understanding supernovae, the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe, and more. Neutrinos oscillate, where they change flavor as they travel due to being in a quantum superposition of states with different masses, which has already forced us to amend the Standard...
Cristovao Vilela
(Stony Brook University)
30/05/2018, 16:40
NMNM
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T2K is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment making use of Super-Kamiokande as its off-axis far detector that has been taking data since 2010. The results of the oscillation analysis with five far detector samples, including data taken up to May 2017 with a total of $14.7\times10^{20}$ POT accumulated in neutrino-mode and $7.6\times10^{20}$ POT in anti-neutrino mode, will be...
Dr
Jyoti Joshi
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
30/05/2018, 17:10
NMNM
Parallel
Neutrino Oscillation, i.e., discovery that neutrinos have mass, is perhaps the most striking recent experimental evidence of physics which found a crack in the Standard Model to give us a glimpse of the fundamental underlying theories. The Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program makes use of a trio of LArTPC (Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber) detectors — named the Short-Baseline Near...
Mr
Christopher Barnes
(University of Michigan)
30/05/2018, 17:30
NMNM
Parallel
With many current and future neutrino experiments relying on Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) technology, characterizing the performance of these detectors is critical. The MicroBooNE LArTPC experiment is capable of performing numerous measurements to better understand the technology. These include identification and filtering of excess TPC noise, signal calibration and...
Dr
Jingbo Wang
(UC Davis)
30/05/2018, 17:50
NMNM
Parallel
The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE), deployed on the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab, is planning to use a 26-ton Gd-doped water Cherenkov detector to study the multiplicity of final state neutrons from neutrino-nucleus interactions in water, which provides a unique opportunity to study this physics in an energy range relevant to both atmospheric and long...
Dr
Vincent Fischer
(UC Davis)
30/05/2018, 18:10
NMNM
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Recent developments in the field of liquid scintillator chemistry and fast-timing photosensors paved the way for a new generation of large-scale detectors capable of tackling a broad range of physics issues. Water-based Liquid Scintillator (WbLS) is a novel detection medium that combines the advantages of pure water, including low attenuation, accurate direction reconstruction, and low cost,...
Shuoxing Wu
(Stanford University)
31/05/2018, 14:00
NMNM
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The planned next generation Enriched Xenon Observatory (nEXO) experiment is aiming to search for the neutrino-less double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay from $^{136}$Xe. nEXO has a sensitivity in the order of $10^{28}$ years on the half-life (T$_{1/2}$) of $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay from $^{136}$Xe after 10 years’ running, entirely covering the inverted mass hierarchy region. The nEXO detector is a...
Prof.
David Nygren
(University of Texas at Arlington), Dr
David Nygren
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
31/05/2018, 14:20
NMNM
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A new method to tag the barium daughter in the double beta decay of $^{136}$Xe is described, based on adaptation of the single molecule fluorescent imaging (SMFI) technique. Individual barium dications chelated on a transparent plate are detected at a significance of 12.9 $\sigma$, with a spatial resolution of 2 nm rms. Observation of a single-step photo-bleach transition confirms the...
Dr
Daniel Winklehner
(MIT)
31/05/2018, 14:40
NMNM
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Recently, the idea of Decay-At-Rest (DAR) neutrino sources has gained in popularity due to their well understood energy spectrum and flavor composition. Currently, there are experiments being proposed which use decay-at-rest from kaons, pions, muons, and isotopes. I will present an overview of the decay-at-rest process, and the experiments being developed. After looking at the bigger picture,...
Dr
Ivan Tolstukhin
(Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA)
31/05/2018, 15:00
NMNM
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The process of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) predicted more than 40 years ago eluded detection for a long time despite having the largest cross-section for low-energy neutrino interactions. This is largely because CEvNS detection requires sensitivity to low-energy nuclear recoils in a potentially high-background environment. The COHERENT collaboration is deploying a...
Rory Fitzpatrick
(University of Michigan)
31/05/2018, 15:20
NMNM
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This talk will present recent results from MiniBooNE, with a focus on the first measurement of monoenergetic muon neutrino charged current interactions. MiniBooNE's sensitive search for vector portal dark matter in the mass range 0.01–0.3 GeV will also be discussed. The NuMI beam absorber provides an intense source of 236 MeV muon neutrino events originating from kaon decay at rest that are...
Prof.
Jianming Bian
(UC Irvine)
31/05/2018, 16:10
NMNM
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The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation long-baseline experiment. DUNE will utilize a high-intensity neutrino beam produced at Fermilab and will measure electron-neutrino appearance and muon-neutrino disappearance with its 40 kiloton Liquid Argon far detector at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, South Dakota, 1300 km from Fermilab. The goals...
Christopher Marshall
31/05/2018, 16:40
NMNM
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Neutrino interactions and nuclear modeling are among the largest systematic uncertainties in neutrino oscillation experiments, which must infer the true neutrino energy from scattering products on heavy targets such as carbon, oxygen, or argon. Recent data from MiniBooNE, T2K, and MINERvA indicate shortcomings in current theoretical models of neutrino cross sections on nuclei. I will present...
Prof.
Christopher Mauger
(University of Pennsylvania)
31/05/2018, 17:10
NMNM
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The Cryogenic Apparatus for Precision Tests of Argon Interactions with Neutrinos (CAPTAIN) program makes measurements that are crucial for the future DUNE experiment. DUNE aims to study neutrino oscillation phenomena with high precision with long-baseline and atmospheric neutrinos, and the electron-neutrino spectrum from galactic core-collapse supernovae. CAPTAIN addresses challenges with both...
Vassili Papavassiliou
(New Mexico State University)
31/05/2018, 17:30
NMNM
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A good understanding of the cross sections for neutrino interactions with nucleons and nuclei is crucial for neutrino oscillation studies, in addition to providing a tool for the exploration of nucleon and nuclear structures. The MicroBooNE liquid-argon time-projection-chamber (LArTPC) experiment has been taking neutrino data with the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab since 2015. The LArTPC...
Dr
Yoshikazu Nagai
(University of Colorado Boulder)
31/05/2018, 17:50
NMNM
Parallel
A precise prediction of the neutrino flux is a key ingredient for achieving the physics goals of long-baseline neutrino experiments. In modern accelerator-based neutrino experiments, neutrino beams are created from the decays of secondary hadrons produced in hadron-nucleus interactions. Hadron production is the leading systematic uncertainty source on the neutrino flux prediction; therefore,...
Dr
Aaron Meyer
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
31/05/2018, 18:10
NMNM
Parallel
Studies of neutrino oscillation physics lay at the intersection point of nucleon physics, nuclear physics, and experimental physics. Computations of the neutrino scattering cross sections that are necessary to understand oscillation physics require nuclear models with weak matrix elements of the nucleon. These matrix elements are difficult to probe experimentally or can be subject to...
