Dr
Cedric Weiland
(IPPP Durham)
24/03/2017 17:00
Theory
Ordinary
The discovery of neutrino oscillations calls for an extension of the Standard Model that would generate neutrino masses and mixing. One of the simplest possibilities is the addition of fermionic gauge singlets or sterile neutrinos. Many experimental strategies have been proposed to search for heavy sterile neutrinos, depending on their mass. If their mass fall within the MeV-GeV range, they...
Joao Pedro Athayde Marcondes de Andre
(Michigan State University)
24/03/2017 17:20
Experiment
Ordinary
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the South Pole, is the
world's largest neutrino detector.
IceCube is well placed to probe the existence of sterile neutrinos of
around 1 eV², which is a region of particularly interest for the various
anomalies motivating the existence of sterile neutrinos, by looking for
resonant-enhanced muon neutrino disappearance around 1 TeV.
In addition...
Prof.
Mikhail Danilov
(NRNU MEPhI and LPI (Moscow))
24/03/2017 17:40
Experiment
Ordinary
DANSS is a one cubic meter highly segmented solid scintillator detector.
It consists of 2500 scintillator strips (100x4x1 cm3), covered with
gadolinium loaded reflective paint and read out by SiPMs via wave length
shifting fibers. Groups of 50 strips are also read out by conventional
PMT. DANSS is placed under a 3 GW reactor at the Kalinin NPP (Russia) on a
movable platform. The distance...
Dr
Carlo Giunti
(INFN)
24/03/2017 18:00
Theory
Ordinary
I review the experimental indications in favor of short-baseline neutrino oscillations. I discuss their interpretation in the framework of neutrino mixing schemes with one or more sterile neutrinos which have masses around the eV scale. I present arguments in favor of effective 3+1 neutrino mixing with one sterile neutrino at the eV scale. I present the results of the updated 3+1 global fit...
Mlle
Roberta Colalillo
(INFN Napoli)
24/03/2017 18:40
Experiment
Ordinary
The Pierre Auger Observatory, located near Malargue, Argentina, is the world largest
Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Observatory. It has been operating since 2004 and its
exposure reached almost 60 000 km2 sr yr, providing an unprecedented large and high
quality data set that have dramatically advanced our understanding of ultra-high
energy cosmic rays. The suppression of the flux around...
Dr
Omar Miranda
(Cinvestav)
24/03/2017 19:00
Theory
Ordinary
An overview of the current bounds on neutrino magnetic moments will be given. The reactor, accelerator, and solar neutrino data will be used to obtain these constraints, and the interplay of these experiments
will be remarked, especially in the case of the leptonic CP phases. The improvement of these limits in future experimental proposals will also be briefly discussed.
