Dr
Jan Auffenberg
(RWTH Aachen University)
3/14/16, 8:30 AM
Experiment
Ordinary
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic kilometer ice Cherenkov neutrino detector, located at the geographic South Pole, detecting neutrinos down to energies of about $10\,\textrm{GeV}$. Thanks to its size, IceCube can probe small fluxes of high-energy neutrinos $(\gt 10\,\textrm{TeV})$ and in the last couple of years it has established the existence of a high-energy astrophysical neutrino...
Mr
Ashley Timmons
(University of Manchester)
3/14/16, 8:50 AM
Experiment
Ordinary
Over the last couple of decades physicists across the world have obtained model-independent evidence for neutrino oscillations, with the majority of experiments confirming the compatibility with a three-favour model i.e three neutrino mass and flavour states. However, there have been a few anomalous results in the community which among other explanations, can be explained by the existence of...
Dr
Jeff Hartnell
(University of Sussex)
3/14/16, 9:10 AM
Experiment
Ordinary
NOvA recently released its first oscillation physics results announcing that it is primed to make significant contributions to our understanding of the neutrino sector. NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino experiment that consists of two functionally identical detectors; a 330 ton Near Detector located 100m underground at Fermilab,1 km from the source, and a 14 kton Far Detector located 810 km...
Ms
Christine Nielsen
(University of British Columbia)
3/14/16, 9:30 AM
Experiment
Ordinary
The T2K long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment is composed of a near detector at 280m and a far detector at Super-Kamiokande, located 295 km from the neutrino beam source. The 30GeV proton beam at JPARC is used to produce $\sim~$1 GeV muon neutrinos which are detected in the Cherenkov detector at Super-Kamiokande for oscillation measurements, such as electron neutrino appearance and...
Dr
Anna Hayes
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
3/14/16, 10:15 AM
Theory
Ordinary
In this talk I will present a review of the anti-neutrino spectra emitted from reactors.
Knowledge of these and their associated uncertainties are crucial for
neutrino oscillation studies. The spectra used to-date have been determined
by either conversion of measured electron spectra to anti-neutrino
spectra or by summing over all of the thousands of transitions that
makeup the spectra...
Mr
Yiming ZHANG
(Tsinghua University)
3/14/16, 10:40 AM
Experiment
Ordinary
A new spectral measurement of electron antineutrino disappearance using the fully constructed Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment was reported in 2015. The final two of eight antineutrino detectors were installed in the summer of 2012. Including the 404 days of data collected from October 2012 to November 2013 resulted in a total exposure of 6.9 × $10^{5}$ $GW_{th}$ ton days, a 3.6 times...
Dr
Masaki Ishitsuka
(Tokyo Institute of Technology)
3/14/16, 11:00 AM
Experiment
Ordinary
At Rencontres de Moriond, Double Chooz (DC) collaboration will present the first $\theta_{13}$ measurement with two detectors.
DC is a reactor neutrino experiment running at Chooz nuclear power plant in France.
In 2011, DC first reported indication of non-zero $\theta_{13}$ in reactor neutrino oscillation by a single detector at around oscillation maximum (far detector, FD). Until then only...
Dr
Sarah Lockwitz
(Fermilab)
3/14/16, 5:00 PM
Experiment
Ordinary
MicroBooNE is a new 170-ton liquid argon time projection chamber that began collecting data in Fermilab’s Booster neutrino beam in October 2015. Physics goals of the experiment include investigating the MiniBooNE low-energy excess, and measuring cross sections for neutrino interactions. The experiment additionally is a platform for the research and development needed for future planned...
Dr
Daniel Ruterbories
(University of Rochester)
3/14/16, 5:20 PM
Experiment
Ordinary
The MINER$\nu$A experiment makes precision neutrino-nucleus cross section measurements with neutrinos and anti-neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI beamline. These measurements probe both nuclear effects which modify the initial neutrino-nucleon cross sections via nucleon-nucleon correlations and propagation of particles through the nuclear medium. Updates to previous charge-current cross sections...
Dr
Boris Kayser
(Fermilab)
3/14/16, 5:40 PM
Theory
Ordinary
A variety of anomalies in short-baseline neutrino experiments hint at the possible existence of light sterile neutrinos. We show that these sterile neutrinos, if real, could very substantially affect the interpretation of future long-baseline measurements, such as those of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). In particular, interpretations that do not take the sterile neutrinos...
Dr
Alessandra Pastore
(Bari University & INFN)
3/14/16, 6:45 PM
Experiment
Ordinary
The OPERA experiment was designed to investigate muon to tau neutrino oscillations in appearance mode. Physics data were collected from 2008 to the end of 2012 in the CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso (CNGS) $\nu_\mu$ beam and neutrino interactions have been studied on an event-by-event base. Five tau neutrino candidate events have been detected in the analyzed data sample, assessing the discovery...
Prof.
Nick Van Remortel
(University of Antwerp)
3/14/16, 7:05 PM
Experiment
Ordinary
The SoLid neutrino detector concept is currently one of the most compact and most finely segmented neutrino detectors.
Its use is most effective near compact and intense neutrino sources, such as the Belgian high-power BR2 research reactor, where it will operate
from 2016 onwards to search for sterile neutrinos. In this talk we will review the design, the operation characteristics, and the...
Jonathan Engel
(University of North Carolina)
3/15/16, 8:30 AM
Theory
Ordinary
Computing reliable matrix elements for processes such as neutrinoless $\beta\beta$ decay that have never before been observed is a challenging task. So far, all calculations involve approximations and phenomenology that introduce unquantifiable uncertainty. Fortunately, ab initio nuclear-structure theory, based on innovative many-body techniques plus nuclear interactions and currents that...
Dr
Yung-Ruey Yen
(Drexel University)
3/15/16, 8:55 AM
Experiment
Ordinary
EXO-200 is a single phase liquid xenon detector that is one of the most sensitive searches for neutrinoless double beta decay in the world. The experiment uses enriched liquid xenon (110 kg in the active volume) in an ultralow background time projection chamber installed at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a salt mine with a 1600 m water equivalent overburden near Carlsbad, NM, USA. The...
Dr
Paolo Gorla
(Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso - INFN)
3/15/16, 9:15 AM
Experiment
Ordinary
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is a 1-ton scale bolometric experiment whose detector consists of an array of 988 TeO2 crystals arranged in a cylindrical compact structure of 19 towers. CUORE-0 is the CUORE demonstrator: it has been built to test the performance of the upcoming CUORE experiment and represents the largest 130Te bolometric setup ever operated....
