Filip Jediny
(Czech Technical University in Prague)
24/03/2017 08:30
Experiment
Ordinary
The NOvA experiment is a long-baseline accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiment. It uses the upgraded NuMI beam from Fermilab and measures electron-neutrino appearance and muon-neutrino disappearance between its onsite near detector and the far detector in Ash River, Minnesota. The beam recently reached the 700kW power design benchmark. Goals of the experiment include measurements of...
Prof.
Takeshi Nakadaira
(High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, KEK)
24/03/2017 08:50
Experiment
Ordinary
T2K (Tokai-to-Kamioka) is the accelerator-based long base-line neutrino experiment that measures the probabilities of flavor change of neutrino beam during 295km flight. The high intensity muon-neutrino beam that generated using J-PARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex) accelerator is detected by Super Kamiokande, 50 kt water Cherenkov detector that can distinguish electron-neutrinos...
Prof.
James Cline
(McGill University)
24/03/2017 09:10
Theory
Ordinary
Electroweak baryogenesis is ruled out (or nearly so) in the MSSM and two Higgs doublet models. We present a new, less constrained realization, where the Higgs sector is extended with a singlet scalar that strengthens the electroweak phase transition, and the CP asymmetry needed for baryogenesis is generated by dark matter interactions with the bubble walls. The CP asymmetry is communicated...
Dr
Patrick Decowski
(Nikhef)
24/03/2017 09:30
Ordinary
Victoria Wagner
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik)
24/03/2017 09:50
Experiment
Ordinary
The GERDA experiment searches for neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay of $^{76}$Ge using high purity germanium (HPGe) detectors operated in liquid argon (LAr).
The aim is to explore half-lives of the order of $10^{26}$\,yr.
Therefore, GERDA relies on improved active background reduction techniques such as pulse shape discrimination (PSD) in which the time structure of the...
Tom Carroll
(The University of Texas at Austin)
24/03/2017 10:30
Experiment
Ordinary
We will describe two new searches for sterile neutrino oscillations. The first search looked for evidence through muon-neutrino disappearance with data collected by the MINOS detectors exposed to the NuMI beam. The second search looked for evidence through electron-antineutrino disappearance with data collected by the Daya Bay detectors exposed to nuclear reactors. We will explain how the...
Dr
Anselmo Meregaglia
(IPHC Strasbourg)
24/03/2017 10:55
Experiment
Ordinary
The Double Chooz experiment (DC) is a reactor neutrino oscillation experiment running at Chooz nuclear power plant (2 reactors) in France. In 2011, DC first reported indication of non-zero θ13 with the far detector (FD) located at the maximum of oscillation effects (i.e. disappearance), thus challenging the CHOOZ non-observation limit. A robust observation of θ13 followed in 2012 by the Daya...
Dr
Thomas Schwetz-Mangold
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
24/03/2017 11:15
Theory
Ordinary
In this talk I will discuss results from a global analysis of neutrino oscillation data and give an overview of the determination of neutrino parameters.
