NNN08

Sep 11, 2008, 8:00 AM → Sep 13, 2008, 1:20 PM Europe/Paris

Amphithéâtre Buffon (Laboratoire APC)

Jean-Eric Campagne (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS and Univ. Paris 11), Thomas Patzak (APC - Astroparticule et Cosmologie (UMR 7164) et)

International Workshop on Next Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detectors

Thu, September 11

9:00 AM → 9:10 AM Opening address / announcements

Speakers: Mr Pierre Binetruy (APC), Prof. Stavros KATSANEVAS (CNRS/IN2P3), Prof. Thomas Patzak (Université Paris Diderot Paris 7)

9:10 AM → 10:30 AM Proton Decay

9:10 AM Proton decay theory

Speaker: Prof. Kaladi Babu (Department of Physics Oklahoma State University Stillwater)

Slides nnn08_babu.ppt.ppt

9:40 AM Proton Decay Search in Super-Kamiokande-I and II

Speaker: Mr Haruki Nishino (ICRR, University of Tokyo)

Slides NNN08_nishino_Sep08up.pdf

10:10 AM Proton decay and neutrino astrophysics with the future LENA detector

Speaker: Teresa Marrodán Undagoitia (Technische Univesitaet Muenchen)

Slides Marrodan_NNN08_Paris.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee

11:00 AM → 1:10 PM Supernova Neutrinos

11:00 AM Current understanding of core-collapse supernovae and neutrino emission

Speaker: Dr Hans-Thomas Janka (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

Slides Janka_Paris08.pdf

11:30 AM Relic cosmological and astrophysical neutrinos

Speaker: Prof. Cecilia Lunardini (Arizona State University)

Slides Lunardini_NNN08_upload.ppt

12:00 PM A process to detect neutrinos of vanishing kinetic energy by means of unstable target nuclei.

Speaker: Dr Marcello Messina (University of Bern)

Slides MessinaNNN08.pdf

12:20 PM Core-collapse supernova neutrinos and neutrino properties

Speaker: Prof. Gail McLaughlin (North Carolina State University)

Slides mclaughlin_NNN08.pdf

12:50 PM Possible CP-Violation effects in core-collapse Supernovae

Speaker: Mr Jerome Gava (IPNO)

Slides gava-NNN08-alt.pdf

1:10 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch

2:30 PM → 7:10 PM Current & Near Future Neutrino Experiments

2:30 PM Theoretical models of neutrino parameters

Speaker: Prof. Graham Ross (Department of Theoretical Physics - Oxford University)

Slides nn08ggross.pdf

3:00 PM HARP / NA61

Speaker: Dr Boris Popov (LPNHE(Paris) and JINR(Dubna))

Slides harp_na61_nnn08.pdf

3:20 PM MINOS

Speaker: Dr Alexandre Sousa (University of Oxford)

Slides Sousa_NNN08_MINOS.pdf Sousa_NNN08_MINOS.ppt

3:40 PM OPERA

Speaker: Mr Kunihiro Morishima (Nagoya University)

Slides NNN08_OPERA_morishima_final.ppt

4:00 PM Super Kamiokande latest results

Speaker: Dr Maximilien Fechner (CEA Saclay IRFU/SPP)

Slides Fechner.pdf.pdf

4:20 PM Coffee

4:50 PM Characterising the T2K neutrino beam: Status of the T2K Near Detectors

Speaker: Dr Laura Kormos (Lancaster University)

Slides Kormos.pdf.pdf

5:10 PM Status and Prospects of the NOvA Experiment

Speaker: Dr Peter Shanahan (Fermilab)

Slides shanahan_nova_06.pdf

5:30 PM ICARUS T600

Speaker: Prof. Sandro Centro (Università di Padova / INFN)

Slides Centro_nnn08.pdf Centro_nnn08.ppt

5:50 PM BOREXINO

Speaker: Prof. Franz von Feilitzsch (Technische Universität München, Phyik Dep.)

Slides nnn08borexino1.ppt

6:10 PM KamLAND general talk

Speaker: Dr Alexandre Kozlov (IPMU, University of Tokyo)

Slides Kozlov_NNN08.pdf

6:30 PM DOUBLE CHOOZ and RENO

Speaker: Prof. Tobias Lachenmaier (Technische Universität München)

Slides Lachenmaier_nnn08.pdf

6:50 PM Daya Bay

Speaker: Prof. Kwong Lau (University of Houston)

Slides Lau-NNN08.pdf

Fri, September 12

9:00 AM → 12:45 PM Towards next generation projects

9:00 AM FNAL to HOMESTAKE beam plan

Speaker: Dr Milind Diwan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides NNN08-meeting.pdf

9:30 AM European neutrino beam plans

Speaker: Dr Paul Soler (University of Glasgow)

Slides NNN08_Soler.pdf

10:00 AM J-PARC neutrino beam

Speaker: Prof. Takuya Hasegawa (KEK)

Slides hasegawa.pdf

10:30 AM Coffee

11:00 AM LAGUNA

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Patzak (Université Paris Diderot Paris 7)

Slides Patzak-LAGUNA-NNN08.ppt

11:30 AM SNOLAB

Speaker: Prof. Aksel Hallin (University of Alberta)

Slides SNOLAB_Hallin_NNN08.ppt

11:50 AM INO

Speaker: Dr Indumathi Dharmavaram (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences)

Slides inotalk_nnn.pdf

12:10 PM HANOHANO

Speaker: Prof. Robert Svoboda (University of California, Davis)

Slides Learned_Hanohano_NNN08.pdf

12:30 PM ANTARES, lessons learned from its completion

Speaker: Dr Thomas Eberl (ECAP - Uni Erlangen)

Slides TEberl_NNN08_Antares.ppt

12:45 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 6:30 PM R&D towards Large Scale Detector

2:00 PM R&D in Japan

Speaker: Prof. Masato SHIOZAWA (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, U. of Tokyo)

2:20 PM GADZOOKS

Speaker: Dr Mark Vagins (University of California, Irvine)

Slides Vagins_GADZOOKS!.ppt

2:40 PM Water Cherenkov R&D in the US

Speaker: Prof. Kenneth Lande (University of Pennsylvania)

3:00 PM Water Cherenkov R&D in Europe

Speaker: Dr Alessandra Tonazzo (APC Paris)

3:20 PM Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers: U.S. R&D

Speaker: Dr Mitchell Soderberg (Yale University)

Slides NNN08_Soderberg.pdf

3:40 PM R&D plan towards 100 kton LAr detector (I)

Speaker: Alberto Marchionni (ETH Zurich)

Slides Marchionni_NNN08.pdf.pdf

4:10 PM R&D plan towards 100 kton LAr detector (II)

Speaker: Prof. David B. Cline (Department of Physics and Astronomy UCLA)

Slides ClineParis08.ppt

4:30 PM MODULAR

Speaker: Dr Francesco Pietropaolo (INFN Padova)

Slides MODULAr_NNN08.pdf

4:45 PM Coffee

5:10 PM R&D Scintillators in EU

Speaker: Dr Christian Buck (MPIK Heidelberg)

Slides Buck.pdf

5:30 PM R&D HPD Japan

Speaker: Prof. Hiroaki Aihara (University of Tokyo)

Slides aihara_hpd.pdf.pdf

5:50 PM PARISROC

Speaker: Mrs Gisèle Martin-Chassard (LAL-Orsay)

Slides PMM2_NNN08_final.ppt

6:10 PM Massive PM production by Photonis

Speaker: Dr Bruno COMBETTES (PHOTONIS)

Slides NNN08_Combettes-PHOTONIS.pdf

7:00 PM → 11:00 PM Conference Dinner

Sat, September 13

9:00 AM → 9:20 AM A low energy neutrino factory with non-magnetic detectors

Speaker: Dr Thomas Schwetz-Mangold (CERN)

Slides NNN-schwetz.pdf

9:20 AM → 9:40 AM Geoneutrinos

Speaker: Prof. Giovanni Fiorentini (INFN Ferrara)

Slides Fiorentini_nnn08.pdf

9:40 AM → 10:00 AM Lepton Flavour Violation

Speaker: Prof. Yoshitaka Kuno (Osaka University)

Slides KUNO-NNN2008.pdf

10:00 AM → 12:20 PM Engineering & Discussion

10:00 AM Pre-feasibility study at Pyhasalmi

Speaker: Mr Guido Nuijten (Rockplan Ltd)

Slides 20080913_NNN08_NUIJTEN_prefeasibility-Pyhäsalmi.ppt

10:20 AM Large underground cavities in a salt mine from Slanic-Prahova, Romania

Speaker: Mr Romul Mircea Margineanu (Horia Hulubei National Institute of RD for Physics and Nuclear Engineering IFIN-HH)

Slides Large_underground_cavities_in_salt_ROMANIA.pdf

10:40 AM US DUSEL

Speaker: Prof. Kenneth Lande (University of Pennsylvania)

Slides Lande_DUSEL_NNN08.ppt.ppt

11:00 AM NSF point of view

Speaker: Dr Jonathan Kotcher (National Science Foundation, USA)

Slides Kotcher_NNN08.pdf

11:15 AM Coffee

11:35 AM Roundtable on ways of coordination

12:20 PM → 12:50 PM Neutrino and proton decay what can we learn FOR FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY

Speaker: Prof. Hitoshi Murayama (MacAdams Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley)

Slides Murayama-nnn08.pdf

12:50 PM → 1:20 PM Y. Totsuka's memorial talk

Speaker: Prof. Takaaki Kajita (ICRR and IPMU)

Slides memories-yoji-totsuka-nnn08.pdf