Conveners
Neutrino Physics
- Adam Para (Fermilab)
- Gianpaolo Bellini (University & INFN Milano)
- Rupert Leitner (Charles University Prague)
Maura pavan
(Dipartimento di Fisica Università di Milano Bicocca)
8/26/14, 2:00 PM
Heavy Quarks & Leptons
While neutrino oscillation experiments have finally provided the incontrovertible evidence that neutrinos mix and have finite masses the absolute scale and ordering of the masses of the three generations as well as charge conjugation and lepton number conservation properties are still unknown.
In this scenario, a unique role is played by the Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay searches: these...
Florian Fränkle
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
8/26/14, 2:25 PM
Heavy Quarks & Leptons
Experimental information about the neutrino masses and lepton mixing is important both for cosmology and particle physics. Cosmological observations and neutrinoless double beta decay experiments provide an indirect access to the absolute neutrino mass scale, but are model-dependent. A model independent, direct way to measure the neutrino masses is the investigation of the kinematics of single...
Stefano Davini
(University of Houson)
8/26/14, 2:50 PM
The Sun as a well-defined neutrino source provides extremely important opportunities to investigate nontrivial neutrino properties such as nonzero mass, flavor mixing, neutrino oscillations, and MSW effect. The solar neutrino flux is energetically broadband, free of flavor backgrounds, and passes through quantities of matter obviously unavailable to terrestrial experiments.
In this talk,...
Daniel Cronin-Hennessy
(Minnesota University)
8/26/14, 3:15 PM
Heavy Quarks & Leptons
Accelerator neutrino experiments using intense beams of muon neutrinos provide a well-controlled window into the new physics of the PMNS sector which expands the conventional standard model.
Long-baseline experiments are providing significantly improved precision on oscillation phenomena using matter effects, appearance and disappearance channels, and neutrinos and antineutrinos.
Other...
Dr
Antoine Collin
(MPI für Kernphysik Heidelberg)
8/26/14, 4:10 PM
Heavy Quarks & Leptons
The θ13 parameter of the PMNS mixing matrix remained unknown until the first hints and estimates by both reactor and beam experiments in 2011. The most competitive limit set by the Chooz experiment let indeed open the hypothesis of a null value. A precise measurement of a non zero value enables a future observation of the CP violation and the estimate of its phase δ. The Double Chooz...
Jim Napolitano
(Temple University)
8/26/14, 4:35 PM
Heavy Quarks & Leptons
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment measures the neutrino mixing angle θ_13 with high sensitivity, using functionally identical detectors at appropriate distances from the cores of a nuclear power plant. We have analyzed 217 days of data with six detectors, and 404 days with the full complement of eight detectors, obtaining a sample of over two million ν ̄ep → e+n events. Combining rate...
Prof.
Michael Wurm
(JGU Mainz/PRISMA)
8/26/14, 5:00 PM
Heavy Quarks & Leptons
While neutrino oscillations among the three active neutrino flavors are by now well established, several anomalies observed at relatively short baselines in oscillation experiments hint towards the existence of one or more additional sterile neutrino flavors. As a consequence, several experiments are in preparation that are dedicated to test the sterile neutrino hypothesis.
The present...
