Crossroads of Neutrino Physics

20 Jul 2015, 08:00 → 14 Aug 2015, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

02.430 (Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University)

With the advent of neutrino astronomy, with significant progress in cosmological and terrestrial precision measurements, and with more and more connections between neutrino physics and other fields being uncovered, neutrino physics has again become one of the main driving forces of progress in astroparticle physics. On the theory side, this experimental progress implies that many theoretical constructs are coming under pressure and new ones are emerging.

The goal of the MITP Program Crossroads of Neutrino Physics is to foster collaboration and exchange of information among theorists working in neutrino physics and related areas. Special emphasis will be put on possible connections between neutrino physics and dark matter, cosmology, nuclear physics, quark flavor physics and the LHC. Consequently, focus topics will include

• Physics at neutrino telescopes
• Sterile neutrinos from meV to the GUT scale
• Neutrinos and the dark Universe
• Neutrino physics at the LHC

Application deadline: 15 February 2015

Executive Summary final-report.pdf

Monday 20 July

11:00 → 11:15 Welcome and practical info

Speakers: Joachim Kopp, Matthias Neubert

Slides practical-info.pdf

11:15 → 12:00 Solar neutrinos: Status and perspectives

Speaker: Alexei Smirnov

Slides smirnov.pptx

Tuesday 21 July

11:00 → 11:45 New developments in collective flavor oscillations

Speaker: Georg Raffelt

Slides raffelt.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Institute Lunch Seminar: The ATLAS/CMS diboson excess (bring your own lunch)

14:30 → 15:30 Institute Seminar: Automation of transverse momentum resummation at NNLO+NNLL and its application to ZZ and WW pairs

Speaker: Marius Wiesemann

16:15 → 17:15 Institute Colloquium: Neutrinos Physics in the Era of Precision Cosmology

Speaker: Steen Hannestad

Slides hannestad.pptx

19:00 → 22:00 Joint Dinner

Wednesday 22 July

13:00 → 14:00 Institute Seminar: Gravity, Fluids and Statistics: Formation of Cosmic Structures

Speaker: Björn Malte Schäfer

15:00 → 17:00 Discussion on technical aspects of collective oscillations

Conveners: Baha Balantekin, Cristina Volpe, Evgeny Akhmedov

15:00 Recent developments on supernova neutrinos

Speaker: Cristina Volpe

Slides volpe.pdf

15:45 Another look at collective neutrino oscillations

Speaker: Evgeny Akhmedov

Thursday 23 July

11:00 → 11:45 High energy neutrino astronomy: What we have learned and the way forward

Speaker: Eli Waxman

Slides waxman.pptx

14:30 → 16:30 Discussion: origin of IceCube neutrinos

Conveners: Arman Esmaili, Danny Marfatia

slides marfatia.pdf

Friday 24 July

11:00 → 11:45 A model with light mediators and new physics in the neutrino sector

Speaker: Pedro Machado

Slides machado.pdf

Monday 27 July

11:00 → 11:45 Sterile Neutrinos and Long-Baseline CP Violation Measurements

Speaker: Boris Kayser

Slides kayser.pdf

Tuesday 28 July

11:00 → 11:45 Standard and Non-Standard Oscillation Physics at ICAL-INO

Speaker: Sanjib Agarwalla

Slides agarwalla.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Institute Lunch Seminar ("BSM Lunch"): The Relaxion as a Solution to the Hierarchy Problem (bring your own lunch)

19:00 → 22:00 Joint Dinner

Wednesday 29 July

11:00 → 11:45 The most compact formulas for neutrino oscillation probabilities in matter

Speaker: Hisakazu Minakata

Slides minakata.pptx

14:30 → 16:30 Discussion on sterile neutrinos

Convener: Baha Balantekin

Thursday 30 July

11:00 → 11:45 Neutrinos in GUTs

Speaker: Borut Bajc

Slides bajc.pdf

14:00 → 16:00 City Tour

Friday 31 July

11:00 → 11:45 Wave packet impact in reactor neutrino experiment

Speaker: Steven Wong

14:30 → 16:30 Discussion session: sterile neutrinos (contd.)

Speakers: Andre de Gouvea, Baha Balantekin, Joachim Kopp

Paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.6337 http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.02795

Slides deGouvea.pdf tabrizi.pdf

Monday 3 August

11:00 → 11:45 High energy neutrinos at IceCube and related questions

Speaker: Zurab Berezhiani

Slides berezhiani.pdf

14:30 → 15:15 Model building with sterile neutrinos

Speaker: Claudia Hagedorn

Slides hagedorn.pdf

Tuesday 4 August

11:00 → 11:45 Revealing the flavor composition of astrophysical neutrinos: interplay of theory and experiment

Speaker: Mauricio Bustamante

Slides bustamante.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Institute Lunch Seminar ("BSM Lunch"): News from EPS-HEP (bring your own lunch)

14:30 → 15:15 New Chiral Fermions, a New Gauge Interaction, Dark Matter and Dirac Neutrinos

Speaker: André de Gouvea

Slides deGouvea.pdf

19:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Reachable by Bus #64 towards Laubenheim

Wednesday 5 August

11:00 → 11:45 Cosmic neutrino spectrum and the muon anomalous magnetic moment

Speaker: Toshihiko Ota

Slides ota.pdf

14:30 → 16:30 Discussion session: Neutrino models, cosmology etc.

Speaker: Zurab Berezhiani

Thursday 6 August

11:00 → 11:45 Cosmology with PeV scale gauged B-L symmetry

Speaker: Urjit Yajnik

Slides yajnik.pdf

15:00 → 20:00 Excursion: Boat Trip in the Middle Rhine Valley

Friday 7 August

11:00 → 11:45 Reactor Neutrino Fluxes and the Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly

Speaker: Patrick Huber

Monday 10 August

11:00 → 11:45 Neutrino Physics at the LHC and beyond

Speaker: Bhupal Dev

Slides dev.pdf

14:30 → 16:30 Discussion of results from the ICRC conference

Speaker: Pasquale D. Serpico

Slides serpico-low-resolution.pdf serpico.pdf

Tuesday 11 August

11:00 → 11:45 Possible signals of dark matter via direct production at neutrino experiments

Speaker: Pilar Coloma

Slides coloma.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Institute Lunch Seminar ("BSM Lunch") - bring your own lunch

19:00 → 22:00 Joint Dinner

Wednesday 12 August

11:00 → 11:45 Astrophysical Connection Between Sterile Neutrinos and Dark Matter

Speaker: Yong Tang

Slides tang.pdf

Thursday 13 August

11:00 → 11:45 A model for large non-standard interactions of neutrinos leading to the LMA-Dark solution

Speaker: Yasaman Farzan

Slides farzan.pptx

16:00 → 17:15 Excursion: Visit to Kupferbergterasse (Sparkling Wine Manufacturer) - guided tour of the facility