Mrs
Julia Tena Vidal
(University of Liverpool)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
SBND is the near detector of the Short Baseline Neutrino program at Fermilab. It is a 4m x 4m x 5m liquid Argon time projection chamber providing high-statistics measurements of neutrino interactions by recording 3D images with fine granularity. Cross sections of neutrino-nucleus interactions with pions in the final state were measured by MiniBooNE and MINERvA, showing large discrepancies...
Björn Wonsak
(UniHH Opera)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The precise reconstruction of charged particle tracks in homogeneous liquid scintillator (LSc)
neutrino detectors, e.g., from muons, is an important prerequisite for the efficient rejection of
cosmogenic background events or the analysis of multi-GeV neutrino interactions. Topological
information on such events, i.e., the reconstructed 3D density distribution of isotropically...
Dr
David Radford
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Dr
Yoann Kermaidic
(MPI Kernphysik)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
Neutrinoless double decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) is a powerful observable for probing new physics.
Based on the experience of GERDA and MJD experiments, the LEGEND (Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless $\beta\beta$ Decay) collaboration has been founded with the goal to build a ton scale experiment and boost the $0\nu\beta\beta$ half-life sensitivity in the $^{76}$Ge by two orders...
Samuel Hedges
(Duke University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
A 185 kg NaI[Tl] detector has been deployed to the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to measure the charged-current neutrino interaction cross section on $^{127}$I. Results from an initial run will be shown, as well as improvements from a recent upgrade in which muon vetos were deployed to reduce backgrounds. In addition to measuring the charged-current...
Mr
Patrick James Dunne
(Imperial College London)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
The understanding of neutrino nucleus interaction cross-sections is a dominant uncertainty for current neutrino oscillation experiments. Reductions in these uncertainties will be essential for future experiments. Detectors with low thresholds, such as a high pressure TPC (HPTPC), allow models to be compared in new regions of parameter space and as such for uncertainties to be reduced. A...
Thomas Ehrhardt
(Universität Mainz)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster atmospheric
We present a new search for non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI) with three years of data from IceCube DeepCore. Owing to its dense instrumentation, DeepCore lowers the energy threshold of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory to about 5 GeV and thereby allows detecting and reconstructing high-statistics samples of atmospheric neutrinos. Extra neutrino interactions beyond the Standard Model, or...
Mr
Gibran Morales
(Instituto de Astronomia-UNAM)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster supernova
The measurement of the period derivative and the canonical model of dipole radiation have provided methods to estimate the low superficial magnetic fields in the so-called Central Compact Objects (CCOs). In the present work, a scenario is introduced to explain the magnetic behavior of such CCOs. Based on MHD simulations of the post core-collapse supernova phase during the hypercritical...
Mr
Wilfried Depnering
(JGU Mainz)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
One of the future neutrino detectors is the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) with its primary goal to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy from the oscillations of reactor antineutrinos. For this purpose, an energy resolution of 3% @ 1 MeV is required. Therefore, the transparency of the LS has to be sufficiently high and stable during the whole operation time (attenuation...
Mrs
Benda Xu
(Kavli IPMU, The University of Tokyo)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
Emulsion cloud chamber(ECC) was the key technology for the discovery of tau neutrino at the DONUT experiment and tau neutrino appearance via flavor oscillation at the OPERA experiment. Its micron-scaled event topology resolution and particle identification land ECC to a variety of applications with muonography, as well as the future SHiP experiment.
We present a track identification method...
Dr
Alexey Lokhov
(Institute for Nuclear Research RAS), Dr
Martin Slezák
(Max Planck Institute for Physics)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster sterile
The KATRIN experiment can perform a comparably low-statistics search for keV-scale sterile neutrinos with the first tritium measurements, improving the current laboratory limits on the squared sterile-to-active mixing angle by about one order of magnitude. For the keV-scale sterile neutrino search a wider energy range of tritium β-decay spectrum has to be measured, as the “postulated”...
Dr
Andrea Palladino
(DESY)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
In the last few years, the IceCube experiment has opened a new era in neutrino astronomy, providing the first evidence for high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. The origin of these neutrinos is still unknown and some contradictions in the data are present, such as the different observed spectral indices in the high-energy starting and through-going muon samples, a possible anisotropy due to...
Dr
Alexander Izmaylov
(Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular), Mr
Sergey Suvorov
(INR RAS, Moscow, Russia)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
In recent years neutrino oscillation physics has entered an era of high-precision measurements, which require detailed knowledge of neutrino interactions with matter.
The poster describes the study of the charged-current (CC) interactions of muon antineutrinos which produce neutral pions in the final state. The analysis aims to search for the interactions in the plastic scintillator...
Mr
Lukas Berns
(Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
Since Kamiokande, the basic design of water-Cherenkov detectors has not changed: the walls of a water tank are lined with photodetectors that capture Cherenkov photons produced by relativistic particles. However, with this design the majority of photons are lost in insensitivie regions between photodetectors, while at the same time most photodetectors are outside the ring and remain dark. To...
Ms
Rhiannon Jones
(University of Liverpool)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
SBND is a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) experiment and the near detector in the Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program. At a 110m baseline & with a 112 tonne active mass, the detector will observe ∼5,000,000 $\nu_{\mu}CC$ interactions at energies of $< E_{\nu} > ∼$650 MeV in its 6.6$×10^{20}$ POT (3 year) exposure. SBND will constrain the systematics on the event rate for...
Dr
Philipp Eller
(PennState University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
The IceCube Neutrino observatory, with 5160 sensors submerged in Antarica's glacial ice, collects data from neutrino events over several orders of magnitude in energy. In order to infer physical properties of neutrinos, such as energy, direction and flavor, the raw detector data needs to undergo reconstruction. Taking into account the intricate details of ice properties and sensor efficiencies...
Ms
Paramita Dasgupta
(PhD student)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
ANITA is a balloon-borne radio receivers designed to register RF (50-1000 MHz) signals produced by UHECR. The RF signals produced in the collision of UHECR particles with atmospheric molecules are explained as the combined result of the Askaryan effect and the geomagnetic signal resulting from Earth’s magnetic field. These signals subsequently get reflected off the Antarctic surface and back...
Dr
Ilia Drachnev
(PNPI NRC KI)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster etc.
This work presents a search for low-energy neutrino signal in Borexino detector in coincidence with the gravitational wave (GW) events GW150914, GW151226 and GW170104. Correlated neutrino events were searched with visible energies greater than 250~keV within a time window of $\pm$500~s centered around the GW detection time. A total of five candidates were found for all three GW events...
Prof.
Diane Markoff
(North Carolina Central University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster coherent scattering
The COHERENT collaboration is measuring coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) on various nuclei in several detector systems located at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), in Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), USA. CEvNS is well calculated in the standard model, is important in supernova processes and serves as a background for direct dark-matter searches. The collaboration...
Martin Braß
(Institut für theoretische Physik Uni Heidelberg)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
The determination of the electron neutrino mass by electron capture (EC) in $^{163}$Ho relies on a precise understanding of the deexcitation of a core hole after an EC event. Our ab initio calculation of the EC spectrum of $^{163}$Ho includes all intra-atomic decay channels and many-body interactions on a basis of relativistic bound-orbitals. Many-body Coulomb interactions result in the...
Dr
Rasmus S. L. Hansen
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster supernova
The neutrino flavour evolution in a supernova can be described either in terms of neutrino fields or as the evolution of individual neutrinos. There is no reason to think that the two approaches should give contradicting results, and both has their advantages. One of the advantages of using individual neutrinos is that it becomes clear that the finite width of the neutrino sphere must lead to...
Marco Deffert
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Dr
Wonqook Choi
(KIT)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
The aim of the KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment is the determination of the electron neutrino mass with a sensitivity of 0.2 eV (90\% CL) by measuring an integrated energy spectrum of electrons from tritium $\beta$-decay.
The experiment uses a MAC-E filter where electrons that have sufficient kinetic energy pass an electrostatic barrier and arrive at the focal plane detector...
Mr
Yan Liu
(Queen's University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
SNO+ is a multipurpose neutrino experiment located approximately 2 km underground in SNOLAB, Sudbury, Canada. It started taking physics data in May 2017 and is currently completing its first phase, as a pure water Cherenkov detector. One physics goal of this water phase is to detect reactor antineutrinos for the first time using a pure water target. A key component of this search is the...
Dr
Antonio D'Addabbo
(Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (INFN))
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
The CUORE experiment at Gran Sasso National Laboratory searches for neutrino-less double beta decay (0νββ) using TeO2 crystals operated as cryogenic bolometers. The ton-scale detector is kept at 10 mK by a custom made dilution cryostat, the today’s biggest milli-Kelvin infrastructure in the world. The success of the experiment stands on the capability to mitigate the mechanical vibrations...
Prof.
Gregory Pawloski
(University of Minnesota)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
The MINOS+ experiment is an on-axis neutrino oscillation search situated in the Fermilab NuMI beam. We utilize $\nu_{\mu}\rightarrow\nu_{e}$ appearance candidates to probe for exotic neutrino oscillation phenomena. Here we consider a 3+1 sterile neutrino model, where $\nu_{\mu}\rightarrow\nu_{e}$ oscillation could be further mediated by the presence of a sterile neutrino. Updated limits for...
Mr
Konstantinos Pikounis
(NCSR Demokritos)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
KM3NeT is a research infrastructure housing the next generation neutrino telescopes in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea. The ARCA detector, which is currently under construction, is optimized for searches for neutrinos from astrophysical sources as well as measurements of the diffuse astrophysical flux. The unambiguous detection of neutrinos of extraterrestrial origin by IceCube has led to...
Mr
Karl Christian
(Max Planck Institute for Physics)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment is designed to determine the effective
electron anti-neutrino mass in a model-independent way by investigating the energy
spectrum of tritium beta-decay electrons near the endpoint with a sensitivity of $m_\nu =
0.2$ eV/c$^2$ (90% C.L.).
The detector of the KATRIN experiment is segmented into 148 pixels, each measuring an
independent...
Thomas Caldwell
(University of North Carolina)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR consists of an array of 44 kg of high-purity Ge detectors (30 kg enriched to 88\% $^{76}$Ge) with a p-type point contact geometry. The DEMONSTRATOR's goals are to search for $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay in $^{76}$Ge and to establish the required background and scalability for a next-generation tonne-scale experiment. With commissioning data and initial physics data, the...
Mr
Lukáš Fajt
(IEAP CTU & FMPI CU)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
Detector GVD (Gigaton Volume Detector) is the next-generation neutrino telescope which is recently constructed in the largest and deepest freshwater lake, lake Baikal. Its construction started in 2015 and since then three independent clusters, 864 Optical Modules (OMs), were already installed and data are collected continuously. The first construction phase of the detector with 8 clusters...
Dr
Thomas Karl Warburton
(Iowa State University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
NO$\nu$A is a long-baseline neutrino experiment using the NuMi Beam at Fermilab which aims to resolve many of the outstanding questions in neutrino physics. One of the ways that it attempts to do this is by measuring the rate of muon neutrino disappearance. Previous results have featured neutrino data in isolation; however, the current analysis will be the first to present a combination of...
Dr
Katarzyna Grzelak
(University of Warsaw)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster sterile
In the long-baseline neutrino experiments, an interesting signature of sterile neutrinos could be the anomalous appearance of tau neutrinos in the near detectors, not expected in case of three-flavour oscillations.
The expected sensitivities in the ($\sin^22\theta_{\mu\tau},\Delta m_{41}^2$) parameter space, based on full MINOS+ Monte Carlo simulation and reconstruction, for total...
Dr
KAZUHIRO TERAO
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Ms
Laura Domine
(Stanford University/SLAC)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
Deep Learning is making revolutionary advancements in the field of artificial intelligence and computer vision (CV). As we have recently shown, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), one type of Deep Learning algorithm, can also be successfully used for data reconstruction and analysis of liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs). These algorithms aim to fully exploit the detailed imaging...
Matthew Strait
(University of Minnesota)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster etc.
The NOvA neutrino experiment, designed to measure electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam, also has a wide-reaching astrophysics program as a result of its unique size, granularity and position. Unlike previous long-baseline neutrino experiments, the 14$\,$kt NOvA far detector is on the surface, which enables a search for a low-mass monopole component of cosmic rays. Despite...
Ms
Heike Enzmann
(Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The future neutrino experiment JUNO (Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory) will determine the neutrino mass hierarchy by observing reactor neutrinos in liquid scintillator. To reach the required energy resolution of 3% @ 1MeV, a very good liquid scintillator transparency (attenuation length ≥ 20 m @ 430 nm) is required.
To reach this transparency, it is planned to have several...
Dr
Yufeng Li
(Institute of High Energy Physics)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster coherent scattering
The coherent neutrino scattering with nuclei provides a novel way to measure the distribution of neutrons in nuclei. This interaction has been theoretically predicted more than 40 years ago, but the difficulty of measuring the very small nuclear recoil made possible its experimental observation only in 2017 by the COHERENT experiment.
Using the COHERENT data, we are able to determine for...
Masashi YOSHIDA
(Kyoto University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
We are developing a high pressure xenon gas time projection chamber, AXEL, in order to search for neutrino-less double beta decay (0\nu\beta\beta). For the purpose of achieving high energy resolution and tracking ability, we developed an original electroluminescence light collection system named electroluminescence light collection cell (ELCC), and are developing a high-voltage field cage to...
Ms
Diana Navas
(Ciemat)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
Reactor experiments have successfully measured the $\theta_{13}$ mixing angle by studying the neutrino deficit as a function of the prompt visible energy. Among these, Double Chooz is unique due to the experimental configuration that features only two reactors. Taking advantage of this fact, the Reactor Rate Modulation (RRM) analysis classifies the neutrino interactions according to three...
Dr
Thiago Bezerra
(Subatech Laboraory)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
Double Chooz is a disappearance neutrino experiment that uses nuclear reactors as source and the Inverse Beta Decay (IBD) reaction as detection signal, in order to measure the neutrino mixing parameter, θ13. The IBD produces a positron and a neutron, and the coincident detection, in time, of both characterizes a signal. The identification of spurious signals is of vital importance for a...
Mr
Alexander Ziegenbein
(Eberhard Karls University Tübingen)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
The absolute neutrino mass $m_{\nu_{e}}$ determination is still an open question in particle physics. The ECHo experiment will explore the endpoint of the $^{163}Ho$ electron capture spectrum which offers great potential to reach sub-eV sensitivity on $m_{\nu_{e}}$. In order to better identify signatures of massive neutrinos, the control of background near the spectrums endpoint is of utmost...
Zhan Djilkibaev
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
Baikal-GVD is a next generation, kilometer-scale neutrino telescope under construction in Lake Baikal. It is designed to detect astrophysical neutrino fluxes at energies from a few TeV up to 100 PeV. GVD will be formed by multi-megaton subarrays (clusters). Each cluster consists of 8 strings each carrying 36 optical modules vertically spaced by 15 m. The bottom OM of the string is placed at a...
Austin McDonald
(University of Texas at Arlington), Dr
Fernanda Psihas
(University of Texas at Arlington)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
A robust observation of neutrinoless double beta decay is currently the only known method to determine the Majorana nature of the neutrino. The detection of the single barium ion produced as a result of the double beta decay of xenon 136 would enable a new class of ultra-low background neutrinoless double beta decay experiments. However, despite more than 20 years of R&D, a credible method to...
Mrs
Chiara Righi
(Università degli studi dell'Insubria)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
The recent detection of gravitational waves together with the discovery, few years ago, of an extraterrestrial component of high-energy neutrinos, inaugurate the era of multimessanger astrophysics.
The relativistic effects owing to the beaming of the jet, that is pointing at us, make blazars the most energetic, persistent particle accelerators of the Universe.
Recent observations show the...
Dr
Vedran Brdar
(MPIK Heidelberg)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster model building
We address the 5 MeV event excess in the measured antineutrino
spectrum from nuclear reactors in a beyond the Standard model
framework, a challenge which has not been met to date. We employ
nonstandard neutrino interactions with baryons that can induce the
reaction $^{13}$C$(\overline{\nu}, \overline{\nu}^\prime n)^{12} \text{C}^{*}$
in organic scintillator detectors. The de-excitation of...
Dr
Alejandro Sonzogni
(National Nuclear Data Center)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
We calculate the Inverse Beta Decay antineutrino spectrum generated by nuclear reactors using the summation method to
understand deviations from the smooth Huber-Mueller model due to the decay of individual fission products,
showing that plotting the ratio of two adjacent spectra points can effectively reveal these deviations.
We obtained that for binning energies of 0.1 MeV or lower,...
Mr
Fabio Spagliardi
(University of Oxford)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
ProtoDUNE-SP is a single phase Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) which is under construction at CERN and is expected to be operational in August 2018. Its main goals are the design validation and the response calibration of the full size DUNE far detector components exploiting cosmic ray data and test-beam data of different particles of known energy and type. The high rate of...
Luis Manzanillas
(LAL, Univ Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
SoLid is a short baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, which is searching for sterile neutrinos at
the SCK$\cdot$CEN BR2 reactor in Belgium. It uses a novel technology, combining PVT cubes of 5$\times$5$\times$5 cm$^3$ and
$^6$LiF:ZnS sheets of $\sim$ 250 $\mu$m thickness. To detect anti-neutrino interactions, signals are read out by a network of wavelength shifting fibers and...
Dr
Juan Pablo Yanez Garza
(University of Alberta)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster simulations
Neutrinos produced by cosmic ray interactions in the Earth's atmosphere have proven to be an invaluable tool for particle physics research. While the general features of the flux are well characterized, the absolute precision of calculations is still insufficient for the ambitious atmospheric neutrino research program being currently pursued. A main source of uncertainty is the modeling of...
Ms
Ana Inacio
(LIP)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
SNO+ is a neutrino physics experiment located in Sudbury, Canada, that will search for the neutrinoless double beta decay process. This and other physics goals require a detailed knowledge of the detector energy resolution and systematics, which is achieved by a comprehensive calibration program. It includes the Optical Calibration, that uses a light diffusing sphere called “laserball” to...
Mr
Genrich Zeller
(KIT), Mr
Simon Niemes
(KIT)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
The KATRIN (Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino) experiment aims to measure the mass of the electron anti-neutrino with a sensitivity of 200 meV/$c^2$ by measuring the spectrum of the beta electrons close to the kinematic endpoint region.
For monitoring the isotopic composition in the gaseous tritium source a custom-made Laser-Raman-System (LARA) has been developed at the Tritium Laboratory...
Mr
Ramon Salazar
(University of Texas at Austin)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
SuperNEMO is the successor of the NEMO-3 experiment and will search for the hypothetical
process of 0νββ by combining tracking and calorimetric measurements. The SuperNEMO
calorimeter consists of 712 optical modules made of scintillator blocks directly coupled to
photomultiplier tubes. Radioactive $^{207}$Bi sources will be used to calibrate the energy scale of the
calorimeter in dedicated...
Dr
Stephen Dolan
(Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet / CEA Saclay)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
The T2K experiment’s off-axis near detector (ND280) has recently measured CCQE-like (mesonless) neutrino interactions on hydrocarbon as a series of differential cross-section measurements exploiting both muon and proton kinematics in addition to correlations between them. These results provide a novel probe of the aspects of neutrino-nucleus interactions most pertinent to long-baseline...
Dr
Joshua Hignight
(University of Alberta)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster atmospheric
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory instruments more than a cubic-kilometer of the deep glacial ice below the South Pole Station, Antarctica, creating the world’s largest water Cherenkov detector. With the addition of a low-energy detection array, DeepCore, the observatory is sensitive to neutrinos with energies between ∼ GeV and the EeV- scale. IceCube has now accumulated the world’s largest...
Mr
Ryan Felkai
(IFIC)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
The NEXT experiment aims to identify a neutrinoless double-beta decay (0vbb) signal in 136Xenon employing a high pressure gaseous xenon (HPGXe) EL TPC. The detector techniques employed take advantage of a sub-percent energy resolution at Qbb combined with a topological reconstruction of events at this energy.
The detector NEXT-White (NEW) operating at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory...
J. Renner
(Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC & Universitat de València)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
The NEXT (Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC) experiment will search for neutrinoless double-beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay in $^{136}$Xe with a high pressure xenon gas time projection chamber (TPC). Two principle advantages of the NEXT approach are good energy resolution and topology-based event classification. We describe initial results from the first phase of the experiment, the...
Mr
Michael Wagenpfeil
(University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, ECAP)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
The nEXO experiment will operate an ultra-low background TPC filled with 5 tons of isotopically enriched LXe for the search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe-136. The detector will use $4\,\text{m}^2$ of silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) operated at approx. $-104\,^{\circ}\text{C}$ to collect scintillation light. There are strong requirements on the background levels, light collection...
Marcela Batkiewicz
(IFJ PAN)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
The T2K near detectors aim to measure precisely the neutrino beam flux and energy spectrum before oscillations. Additionally, the off-axis near detector allows us to measure cross sections of neutrino interactions with different nuclear targets and to tune neutrino generator parameters.
At the energies of the T2K neutrino beam, the contribution from inclusive νμ CCπ0 production is...
Mr
Xuefeng Ding
(Gran Sasso Science Institute)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster solar
A recent under-construction-project Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) will use more than 17, 000 photo-multipliers to reach 3% energy resolution at 1 MeV and its target mass is about 20, 000 ton. With such large size and excellent energy resolution it is promising to have opportunities to improve measurements on the fluxes of low energy part of solar neutrinos given decent...
Dr
KAZUHIRO TERAO
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
High resolution particle imaging detectors such as Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) are recently employed in many experiments to study the fine details of particle interactions. While much progress is made in the hardware R&D to construct a large scale TPCs, there remains much challenge to efficiently analyze highly detailed particle images and extract physics out. We formed a...
Prof.
Diego Restrepo
(Professor)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster dark matter
We propose a simple theory for the idea that cosmological dark matter (DM) may be present today mainly in the form of stable neutral hadronic thermal relics. In our model neutrino masses arise radiatively from the exchange of colored DM constituents, giving a common origin for both dark matter and neutrino mass. The exact conservation of $B-L$ symmetry ensures dark matter stability and the...
Dr
Juande Zornoza
(IFIC (CSIC-UV))
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster dark matter
Most of the matter of the Universe appears to be “dark matter”, the properties of which we only know very incompletely. The effort to identify this new kind of matter has to be muti-front, since we do not know which is the best way to proceed. An important player in this quest are neutrino telescopes, since they offer unique advantages that complement other searches. Examples of this are the...
Mr
Alexander Marsteller
(Karlsruher Institut für Technologie), Mr
Bennet Krasch
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
The KATRIN (Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino) experiment aims to measure the mass of the electron anti-neutrino $\overline{\nu}_\mathrm{e}$ with a sensitivity of 200 meV/c² by measuring the spectrum of the beta electrons close to the kinematic endpoint region. The beta-electrons are generated in a windowless gaseous tritium source (WGTS) consisting of T$_2$ molecules inside an enclosing beam-tube of...
Andrey Elagin
(University of Chicago)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
In a liquid scintillator detector electrons from double-beta decay ($\beta\beta$-decay) often exceed Cherenkov threshold. These Cherenkov photons carry information about event topology of the two-track single-vertex $\beta\beta$-decay. Event topologies of background events are distinctly different by number of tracks and/or by number of verticies. Therefore signal/background separation can be...
Ms
Aleena Rafique
(Kansas State University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
We measure a large set of observables in inclusive charged current muon neutrino scattering on argon with the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber operating at Fermilab. We evaluate three neutrino interaction models based on the widely used GENIE event generator using these observables. The measurement uses a data set consisting of neutrino interactions with a final state muon...
Alec Lindman
(Universität Mainz)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
Spectral broadening caused by molecular degrees of freedom, about 1 eV FWHM, limits the sensitivity of neutrino mass experiments using the T$_2$ molecule. The high-resolution Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy (CRES) method developed in Project 8 makes an atomic T experiment attractive. The basic ingredients of a conceptual design are presented: a dissociator to make T from T$_2$, an...
Mr
Vargas Perez Benito
(Instituto Politécnico Nacional)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
To understand the implications of the Double Chooz data on both oscillation parameters $\sin^{2}(2\theta_{13})$ and $\Delta m^2_{31}$, we analyze the data corresponding to the Far detector, with no additional restriction. By doing this, confidence regions and best fit values are obtained for ($\sin^{2}(2\theta_{13}),\Delta m^2_{31}$). This analysis yields an out-of order $\Delta m^2_{31}$...
Mrs
Ilenia Salvadori
(Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster sterile
Using the ANTARES neutrino telescope data set, from 2007 to 2016, a measurement of the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters is presented. Constraints on the 3+1 model, which foresees the existence of one sterile neutrino, are derived as well. Up-going atmospheric neutrinos which traverse the Earth are affected by the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations, which suppresses the observed...
Tomislav Vladisavljevic
(University of Oxford and Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
Accurate modelling of the T2K neutrino flux is crucial for a better understanding of neutrino interactions at the near and far detectors. Most of T2K neutrinos are created through in-flight decays of unstable hadrons, produced by interactions of 31 GeV/c protons in a long graphite target (90 cm). The nominal unoscillated T2K neutrino flux prediction relies on NA61/SHINE measurements collected...
Ignacio Taboada
(Georgia Institute of Technology)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
The unknown sources of very-high-energy (VHE) astrophysical neutrino are also expected to be sources of VHE gamma rays. With a very large field of view (2 sr), a sky coverage of 2/3 of the sky and an uptime ratio better than 95%, HAWC is an outstanding detector to search for gamma-ray counterparts to neutrino sources. We present two works. In the first, limits of VHE gamma ray emission are...
Dr
Suprabh Prakash
(Instituto de Fisica "Gleb Wataghin" - Unicamp)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
Neutrino decay provides for a very interesting case for the "beyond PMNS'' neutrino physics. It has been shown that this phenomenon can also explain some of the anomalies seen in neutrino experiments. We study the constraints that $\bar{\nu}_e$ disappearance experiments like JUNO and KamLAND can put on neutrino decay scenarios. In particular, we consider a model where a heavier neutrino can...
Mr
Haoqi Lu
(Institute of High Energy Physics)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
Spallation neutron from cosmic-ray muon is an important background for underground experiments, such as neutrino oscillation study, dark matter search, and neutrinoless double beta decay search. The neutron yield measurement results at Daya Bay were (10.26$\pm$ 0.86)$\times 10^{-5}$, (10.22$\pm$0.87)$\times10^{-5}$, and
(17.03$\pm$1.22)$\times 10^{-5}\mu^{-1}g^{-1}cm^{2}$ at different depths...
Mr
Almaz Fazliakhmetov
(Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Mr
Gregory Koroteev
(Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
Investigation of charge-exchange resonances is important for calculating neutrino capturing cross-sections σ(E) of nuclei that can be used in neutrino detectors. Analog resonance, Gamow-
Teller resonance (GTR) and three pigmy resonances are selected. Calculations were performed using the self-consistent theory of finite Fermi systems for Ga-71, Mo-98 and I-127. Even not accounting GTR gives...
Dr
Sophie King
(Queen Mary University of London)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
In the Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) oscillation analysis, electron (anti)neutrino candidates are both the signal channel and the largest background. As the neutrino oscillation community looks to the future with experiments such as Hyper-Kamiokande, the oscillation analyses become limited by systematic error. A detailed understanding of neutrino-nucleus interactions is therefore imperative to...
Martin Antonio Unland Elorrieta
(Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster simulations
In the framework of a planned upgrade of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and a next-generation neutrino telescope at the South Pole, new optical modules are being developed which are expected to significantly increase the detector sensitivity. As the deep ice at the South Pole has no intrinsic optical activity, light produced by the modules themselves represents the dominant background. Two...
Dr
Patricia Sanchez-Lucas
(University of Zurich)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster dark matter
The future of dark matter direct searches calls for the use of multi-ton scale detectors. In this context, DARWIN (DARk matter WImp search with liquid xenoN), with its 40 tons of active target, will be the ultimate detector, able to explore the entire experimentally accessible parameter space for WIMPs. Such a huge detector, with its low-energy threshold and ultra low background level, will be...
Dr
Erica CADEN
(SNOLAB)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
SNO+ is a multipurpose liquid scintillator neutrino detector, with the main goal of searching for $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay in Te-130, as well as studying solar $\nu$s, geo- and reactor- $\bar{\nu}$s, and supernovae $\nu$s. Located in SNOLAB, it reuses the SNO experiment’s hardware: PMTs, electronics, and acrylic vessel. SNO+ is currently running in water phase to study backgrounds and perform a...
Mr
Christoph Alt
(ETH Zurich)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
Combining high precision calorimetry with scalability to the multi-kiloton level, the Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) has proven to be an attractive technology for long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. An extensive R&D program for LAr TPCs at the ten-kiloton level is currently underway in the context of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). The DUNE far...
Mr
John Franklin Crenshaw
(Duke University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster supernova
The Helium and Lead Observatory (HALO) at SNOLAB is a supernova neutrino detector and a member of the Supernova Early Warning System (SNEWS). The detector consists of 128 3He counters embedded in a 79-ton lead matrix. Depending on energy, neutrino interactions with lead may generate single (1n) or double (2n) neutron events. The relative rates of 1n and 2n events are sensitive to supernova...
Ms
Shiqi Yu
(Argonne National Lab/ Illinois Institute of Technology), Mr
Tomas Nosek
(Charles University, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
NO$\nu$A is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, using two functionally identical detectors to measure $\nu_e$ appearance and $\nu_\mu$ disappearance at the Far Detector (FD) with the NuMI Beam at Fermilab. The Near Detector (ND) measures the beam before oscillations, which will allow us to make a measurement of the signal flux before it has oscillated and the background...
Ms
Aoife Boyle
(Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching bei Muenchen, Germany)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cosmology
The upper limit on the sum of neutrino masses is provided by cosmology. Massive neutrinos modify the expansion rate of the Universe and the growth of matter perturbations in ways that can be measured using galaxy redshift surveys. However, as we demonstrated in our recent paper, the constraints extracted are heavily dependent on the cosmological model assumed. Most such constraints are...
Suzannah Fraker
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
Liquid scintillator-based detectors are one of the leading detector technologies in the search for neutrinoless double beta decay. They are currently limited by naturally occurring and spallation induced backgrounds. In the future they will be limited by the neutrino-electron scattering of boron-8 solar neutrinos. With the advancements in machine learning technology, we attempt to classify two...
Dr
Corey Adams Adams
(Harvard University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
The liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) is poised to play a leading role in neutrino physics experiments, particularly with the launch of the Short Baseline Neutrino Program at Fermilab, and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) in South Dakota. The LArTPC hardware has recently seen great advances over the past years, though to reach the goal of precision cross section and...
Mr
Tobias Ziegler
(Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
The $\mbox{EXO-200}$ experiment searches for the neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay in $^{136}$Xe with an ultra-low background single-phase time projection chamber$~$(TPC) filled with 175$\,$kg isotopically enriched liquid xenon$~$(LXe). The detector has demonstrated good energy resolution and background rejection capabilities by simultaneously collecting scintillation light and...
Prof.
Georgia Karagiorgi
(Columbia University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) uses a large liquid argon time projection chamber detector, well shielded from cosmogenic radiation, and sensitive to physics signals down to a few MeV. As such, it is well positioned for rare event searches, e.g. searches for neutrinos from a nearby supernova burst, and various modes of nucleon decay. The detector is read out in the form of...
Dr
Dan Dwyer
(LBNL)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
We report the demonstration of a micro-power sensor designed for true three-dimensional ionization charge detection and digital readout of liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs). True 3D readout is achieved using a custom-designed 32-channel system-on-a-chip ASIC (LArPix-v1), manufactured in 180 nm bulk CMOS, to uniquely instrument each pad in a charge-sensitive pad sensor array....
Mr
David Hervas Aguilar
(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, a modular array containing both natural and $^{\text{76}}$Ge-enriched germanium p-type point contact detectors, is currently searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay in $^{\text{76}}$Ge. The DEMONSTRATOR uses custom high voltage and signal cables to bias the detectors and to read out the deposited charge respectively. These purposefully low-mass cables and...
Danielle Norcini
(Yale University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
PROSPECT is a reactor antineutrino experiment uniquely designed to search for eV-scale sterile neutrinos and to precisely measure the U-235 antineutrino spectrum from the highly-enriched High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR). The $\sim$4 ton segmented detector is positioned 7-9 m from the reactor core with minimal overburden and uses ${^6}$Li-loaded liquid scintillator to identify and localize...
Ana Paula Vizcaya Hernández
(Carnegie Mellon University),
Woo-Jeong Baek
(KIT)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster etc.
The TRIMS experiment measures the molecular tritium β decay branching ratio to the bound state $^3$HeT$^+$. The setup consists of a decay volume filled with T$_2$ gas and one Canberra PIPS detector at each end. The most probable recoil ions for T$_2$ β decay are $^3$HeT$^+$, $^3$He$^+$ and T$^+$. The ions and electrons are accelerated by an electric field, reach the silicon detectors and...
Dr
Guillaume Pronost
(Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, The University of Tokyo)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster supernova
EGADS is the successful prototype of the Super-Kamiokande Gd project (SK-Gd). It is now converted as a standalone supernova (SN) detector. EGADS will serve as a backup for the SK detector this summer, when the SK tank will be opened for inspection and refurbishing. After SK tank work, it will provide automatic and immediate notification to the full community in case of a SN $\nu$ burst...
Mr
Andrey Sheshukov
(Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, JINR)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster supernova
Core-collapse supernovae emit about 99% of their gravitational energy in a burst of neutrinos. Detecting such a neutrino signal would provide a valuable information both on the neutrino properties and on the stellar collapse physics. The large liquid scintillator detectors used in the NOvA experiment provide a possibility to detect such a signal. A dedicated trigger system was developed for...
Mr
Massimiliano Lincetto
(Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster supernova
Core Collapse Supernovae (CCSN) are explosive phenomena that may occur at the end of
the life of massive stars, releasing over 99% of the energy through emission of MeV
neutrinos. Neutrinos are believed to play an important role in the not yet fully understood
explosion mechanism. Only 24 SN neutrinos have been detected from the SN1987A event.
For a galactic CCSN, the KM3NeT ORCA and...
Mr
ChangDong Shin
(Chonnam National University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The RENO experiment has been taking electron antineutrino data from the reactors at Hanbit nuclear power plant in Korea, using two identical detectors since 2011. It has measured the neutrino mixing angle theta13 using inverse beta decay events with a neutron captured on Gadolinium(Gd). A neutron is also captured by Hydrogen. Reactor antineutrinos are detected with a delayed signal of neutron...
Dr
Marco Zito
(IRFU/DPHP CEA Saclay), Prof.
YUry Kudenko
(INR, Moscow)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
An essential component of the T2K near detector upgrade is a highly segmented scintillator detector, acting as a fully active target for the neutrino interactions.
The baseline concept for it is a novel device, called SuperFGD (arXiv:1707.01785), with dimensions of ~200x180x60 cm3. It consists of about 2x106 small scintillator cubes each of 1 cm3. The signal readout from each cube is...
Mr
Tim Brunst
(Max Planck Institute for Physics)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster sterile
Sterile neutrinos are a minimal extension of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. If their mass is in the kilo-electron-volt regime, they are viable dark matter candidates. One way to search for sterile neutrinos in a laboratory-based experiment is via tritium beta decay, where the new neutrino mass eigenstate would manifest itself as a kink-like distortion of the spectrum. The objective of...
Mr
Frank Edzards
(Max Planck Institute for Physics)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
The LEGEND experiment is a future large-scale experiment that will search for neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) in the isotope $^{76}$Ge using high purity germanium detectors. Its observation would establish lepton number violation, provide information on the neutrino mass and open a window to understand matter dominance in our universe.
The signal readout is one of the...
Dr
Matthieu Vivier
(CEA Paris-Saclay)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster coherent scattering
The recent observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENNS) opens up a new way to search for beyond standard model physics at low energies in the neutrino sector. The development of ultra low threshold cryogenic detectors with fast time response and good background discrimination is a promising way to fully exploit the spectrum of neutrino-induced nuclear recoils and perform...
Mr
Michael Willers
(LBL)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster dark matter
The CRESST-III (Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers) experiment
located in the Gran Sasso underground laboratory (LNGS, Italy) aims at the direct
detection of dark matter (DM) particles. The experiment employs
scintillating CaWO4 single-crystals as the target material for dark matter interactions
and aims to probe the low-mass parameter space of elastic...
Prof.
A. MURAT GULER
(Middle East Technical University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster dark matter
A variety of experiments have been developed over the past decades, aiming at the detection of Weakly Interactive Massive Particles (WIMPs) via their scattering in an instrumented medium. Detectors capable of reconstructing the direction of the nuclear recoil induced by the WIMP scattering are opening a new frontier to possibly extend Dark Matter searches beyond the neutrino background....
Mr
Alejandro Segarra
(IFIC (CSIC - U. Valencia))
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster etc.
We propose a criterion to disentangle genuine from matter-induced CP violation in neutrino oscillations, based solely on symmetry principles. We prove a theorem establishing that, in any flavor channel, neutrino oscillation CP asymmetries have two contributions that are profoundly different: a CPT violating term that vanishes in vacuum and a T violating term that vanishes, even in matter, if...
Mr
Jacopo Dalmasson
(Stanford University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
We discuss a novel paradigm in the optical readout of scintillation detectors. Usually, such detectors are homogeneous and the scintillation light is collected by external photodetectors. It is usually assumed that imaging in such a photon-starved and large-emittance regime is not possible. We show that the appropriate optics, matched with segmented photodetector and dedicated reconstruction,...
Birgit Schneider
(IKTP, TU Dresden)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
GERDA searches for the neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay of $^{76}$Ge.
The observation of such a decay would prove the Majorana character of the neutrino and indicate the effective Majorana neutrino mass.
The half life of the neutrino accompanied double beta ($2\nu\beta\beta$) decay of $^{76}$Ge into the ground state of $^{76}$Se was measured by GERDA with unprecedented...
Dr
Thomas Lindner
(TRIUMF)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
E61 is a proposed water Cherenkov near detector in the J-PARC neutrino beam. We will describe the design of the E61 detector; in particular, we will focus on the photosensors and electronics for E61. Key challenges for the design include maintaining good reconstruction performance for a relatively small inner volume and handling large rate of pile-up events from the high-intensity J-PARC...
John Walker
(University of Winnipeg)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
Future long-baseline neutrino oscillation parameter measurements will be dominated by systematic rather than statistical uncertainty. The determination of incident neutrino energy based on experimental observables relies on theoretical neutrino-nucleus interaction models, which is the dominant uncertainty for the HK experiment. E61 is an experimental solution to constrain this...
Dr
Burin Asavapibhop
(Chulalongkorn University), Dr
Narumon Suwonjandee
(Chulalongkorn University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), a 20 kton multi-purpose underground liquid scintillator detector in Jiangmen city, Guangdong Province, China, aims to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy by detecting antineutrinos from nuclear power plants. The JUNO detector consists of a central detector (CD), a water Cherenkov detector and a muon tracker.
The Earth magnetic...
Prof.
Alexander Studenikin
(Moscow State University and JINR-Dubna), Prof.
Konstantin Kouzakov
(Lomonosov Moscow State University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
We present a theoretical analysis [1] of possible influence of neutrino magnetic moments on the propagation of ultrahigh-energy cosmic neutrinos in the interstellar space under the assumption of two-neutrino mixing. The exact solution of the effective equation for neutrino evolution in the presence of a magnetic field and matter is obtained, which accounts for four neutrino species...
Prof.
Alexander Studenikin
(Moscow State University and JINR-Dubna)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster etc.
A review of theory and phenomenology of neutrino electromagnetic properties (EMP) is presented. The general structure of the of Dirac and Majorana neutrinos electromagnetic interactions (given by charge, magnetic, electric, and anapole form factors defined as matrices in the mass basis with account for three-neutrino mixing) is presented. Constraints on neutrino EMP from the terrestrial...
Dr
Philipp Chung-On Ranitzsch
(IKP, WWU Münster),
Rudolf Sack
(Westfaehlische Wilhelms Universitaet)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino experiment (KATRIN) is a next generation tritium beta-decay experiment, which aims to determine the neutrino mass with an estimated sensitivity of $0.2$ eV/c$^2$ (90% C.L.).
One of the main sources of systematics in KATRIN is the scattering of beta-electrons on the source gas and its impact on the shape of the measured spectrum. To improve the understanding of...
Mr
Stefano Roberto Soleti
(Harvard University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
MicroBooNE (the Micro Booster Neutrino Experiment) is a liquid argon
time-projection chamber experiment designed for short-baseline neutrino physics,
currently running at Fermilab. It aims to address the anomalous excess of low-
energy events observed by the previous MiniBooNE experiment. In this poster we
demonstrate the ability of the experiment to reconstruct electron...
Ms
Rizalina Mingazheva
(University of Zurich)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
GERDA has been designed to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge76. Ge76 decays with the emission of two electrons and two antineutrinos, with a Q-value of 2039 keV. If neutrinos are Majorana particles, the two emitted antineutrinos can annihilate, with the signature of the decay being a sharp peak at the Q-value, whose width is determined by the detectors energy resolution. The...
Mr
Andrea Scarpelli
(APC - Paris VII)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
The 4 10 kt Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LAr-TPCs) of the future DUNE experiment will enable precise measurements of the oscillation parameters and the discovery of CP violation for leptons, thanks to their excellent 3D imaging capabilities coupled with a high-resolution calorimeter. One or more modules of the DUNE detector may exploit a dual phase (DP) LAr-TPC that, relying on the...
Mr
Adrien Blanchet
(CEA-Saclay)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly (RAA) has challenged our understanding of antineutrino fluxes near fission reactors. Adding an extra oscillation channel with $\Delta m^2 \simeq 1 $eV involving a new “sterile” neutrino flavor would resolve the RAA. This hypothesis can be tested by looking at disappearance oscillation patterns at very short baseline from reactor cores.
The STEREO experiment...
Mrs
Christine Marquet
(Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Bordeaux Gradignan), Mr
Emmanuel CHAUVEAU
(Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Bordeaux Gradignan)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
The SuperNEMO experiment aims to reach the sensitivity on the neutrinoless double beta decay half-life to 10^26 years, i.e a Majorana neutrino mass of 50-100 meV. The detector is a modular tracker-calorimeter based experiment. The calorimeter is composed of 712 Optical Modules, an assembly of large volume plastic scintillators (10L) mainly coupled with 8 inch photomultipliers (Hamamatsu...
Dr
Thomas Stuttard
(Niels Bohr Institute)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster etc.
Dissipative interactions between neutrinos and the environment in which they propagate lead to quantum decoherence. Such an environment is predicted by quantum gravity models featuring a 'foamy' space-time structure. Environmental decoherence degrades the interference between neutrino states that is responsible for neutrino oscillations, resulting in exponential damping of oscillation...
Mr
Grzegorz Żarnecki
(National Centre for Nuclear Research, Poland)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
The goal of presented analysis is the measurement of the muon antineutrino single $\pi^{-}$ production cross section in the T2K near detector. One of the crucial steps is the optimization of signal selection in order to obtain good selection's purity, efficiency and efficiency distribution in the phase space. Since the antineutrino beam is largely contaminated by neutrinos, the main background...
Shao-Hsuan Chiu
(Chang Gung University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster etc.
A set of rephasing invariant parameters for the neutrino mixing are introduced.
Under this parametrization, the squared elements of the neutrino mixing matrix are found to satisfy a set of differential equations as functions of the induced mass.
They show clearly the dominance of pole terms when the neutrino induced masses
cross. It is found that these equations have very good approximate...
Dr
Jun Terasaki
(Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
My presentation will be on the nuclear matrix element (NME) of the neutrinoless double-β decay for determining the effective neutrino mass. The quasiparticle random-phase approximation (QRPA) is used in my study for calculating the nuclear wave functions. In my poster, the calculated NMEs will be presented for $^{150}$Nd and $^{48}$Ca, and the improvements and examinations that I have...
Mr
Konstantin Treskov
(Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster etc.
The plane-wave model of neutrino oscillation based on treatment of neutrinos as states with definite momentum relies on controversial assumptions. A self-consistent description of neutrino oscillation treats propagating neutrinos as a coherent superposition of plane-wave states — wave packet (WP). In a model with WP, neutrino oscillations depend on an additional parameter — momentum dispersion...
Dr
Raimund Strauss
(Max-Planck-Insitut für Physik)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster coherent scattering
The detection of coherent-neutrino nucleus scattering opens up new opportunities to probe physics beyond the Standard Model such as the search for a neutrino magnetic moment or sterile neutrinos. We present a novel cryogenic neutrino experiment at a nuclear power reactor which allows for precision measurements with a miniaturized detector size. With a recent demonstrator we have achieved...
Prof.
Emilio Ciuffoli
(IMP, CAS)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster coherent scattering
Recently the COHERENT collaboration reported the first observation of coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (CENNS), opening the door to the use of neutrinos for the study of nuclear properties. Studying the CENNS spectrum, indeed, it is possible to measure the electroweak nuclear form factor and therefore constrain the neutron distribution. It is possible to use the neutrinos produced...
Diana Patricia Mendez
(University of Sussex)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment measuring $\nu_{\mu}$ disappearance and $\nu_e$ appearance within the NuMI beam from Fermilab. The experiment uses a Near and a Far Detector placed 810 km away from each other and at 14 milliradians off the beam-axis resulting in an observed energy spectrum that peaks at 2 GeV, close to the oscillation maximum.
A combined $\nu_{\mu}$ +...
Dr
Colin Whyte
(Strathclyde Univ, Glasgow), Prof.
Vittorio Palladino
(Univerity & INFN Napoli, Italy)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) at RAL has studied the ionization cooling of muons. Several million individual particle tracks have been recorded passing through a series of focusing magnets in a number of different configurations and a liquid hydrogen or lithium hydride absorber.
Measurement of the tracks upstream and downstream of the absorber has shown the expected effects of...
Ms
Linyan WAN
(Tsinghua University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster supernova
Neutrinos emitted from past core-collapse supernovae are called supernova relic neutrinos (SRN), or diffused supernova neutrino backgrounds (DSNB). The electronics and triggering in Super-Kamiokande-IV (SK-IV) enables tagging inverse beta decay interactions from SRN by neutrons captured on hydrogen. Neutral current quasi-elastic (NCQE) scattering of atmospheric neutrinos on $^{16}$O in SK...
Dr
Joseph Zennamo
(Fermilab)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
MicroBooNE offers a unique configuration for studying neutrino interactions on argon at energies of interest to neutrino oscillation experiments. We present the first measurement of the charge current neutral pion production for muon neutrinos scattering off argon. This analysis implements the first fully automated LArTPC electromagnetic shower reconstruction for selecting and reconstructing...
Dr
Anne Schukraft
(Fermilab), Mr
Marco Del Tutto
(University of Oxford)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
MicroBooNE is the first of three liquid-argon time projection chambers in the Fermilab Short Baseline Neutrino Program, which is aiming to probe the electron neutrino like event excess observed by LSND and MiniBooNE. In addition, MicroBooNE has a rich cross section physics program to study neutrino-argon interactions in the energy range of 100MeV to 2GeV. This contribution is presenting the...
Dr
laura zambelli
(LAPP - CNRS/IN2P3)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
Future giant LAr TPCs at the ten-kiloton scale are now in the design and prototyping phase in the context of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). This technology is not only attractive as it is cost-effective and scalable to the multi-kiloton level, but also because LAr TPCs are excellent calorimeters with the ability to 3D reconstruct tracks of ionising particles.
Two different...
Dr
Takashi Iida
(University of Tsukuba)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
The observation of neutrino-less double beta decay (0nbb) would be the most practical way to prove the Majorana nature of the neutrino and lepton number violation. CANDLES studies 48Ca double beta decay using CaF2 scintillator. The main advantage of 48Ca is the highest Q-value (4.3 MeV) among all the isotope candidates.
The CANDLES III detector is currently operating with 300kg CaF2 in the...
Stefano Pozzi
(MIB INFN)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
CUPID-0 is the first large mass experiment based on cryogenic calorimeters (bolometers) which implements the dual read-out of light and heat for background rejection. The detector, consisting of 24 enriched Zn
$^{82}$Se crystals (5.28 kg of $^{82}$Se), is taking data in the underground LNGS (Italy) from March 2017.
In this poster we will present the analysis that allowed to set the most...
Dr
Michael Wallbank
(University of Cincinnati)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster sterile
Observations of neutrino oscillations from the majority of neutrino oscillation experiments are consistent with a three-flavor framework. However, the excess of events seen by LSND and MiniBooNE are incompatible with this model and can be explained by an additional, sterile, neutrino. These intriguing results are not conclusive and are in tension with findings from other short-baseline and...
Dr
Martin Slezák
(Max Planck Institute for Physics)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
The KATRIN experiment will perform a measurement of the effective electron antineutrino mass with an unprecedented sensitivity of 0.2 eV/c$^2$ (90 % C.L.). An essential calibration and systematic tool in all tritium $\beta$-decay measurements is the metastable isotope $^{83\mathrm{m}}$Kr. With its unique decay characteristics it provides monoenergetic conversion electrons of suitable energies...
Mr
Hendrik Seitz-Moskaliuk
(KIT-IETP)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
The KATRIN experiment measures the electron antineutrino mass with a sensitivity of 0.2$\,\mathrm{eV}/c^2$. This goal sets strong requirements on the systematic uncertainties of the measurement. One main systematic uncertainty is related to the stability of operational parameters of the Windowless Gaseous Tritium Source (WGTS). These have to be monitored and controlled on the per mille level....
Mr
Leendert Hayen
(KU Leuven)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The study of beta decay has continually been at the forefront in the search for new physics, not in the least in the reactor antineutrino anomaly. These results depend critically on the knowledge of individual electron beta spectrum shapes. In previous analyses, all spectra were treated using simple allowed shapes even though those of forbidden decays can change drastically. We have, for the...
Dr
Stephanie Hickford
(Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
The KATRIN experiment will measure the neutrino mass with a sensitivity of $0.2~eV$ ($90~\%$ CL). This will be achieved by observing the $\beta$-electron spectrum of tritium decay. The tritium source properties, in particular the activity, need to be stable and known to a high precision to accurately measure the neutrino mass. The source will undergo extensive measurements from several...
Mr
Michael Willers
(LBL)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
Two mysteries in cosmology and astroparticle physics are whether lepton number is conserved and whether the neutrino is its own anti-particle. The most practical technique to answer these questions is to search for neutrinoless double beta decays.
A highly promising way to search for this extremely rare decay is to use high-purity germanium detectors enriched in the isotope $^{76}$Ge. The...
Dr
Hyunkwan Seo
(Seoul National University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
A study has been on progress to find changes in the reactor antineutrino flux with respect to the reactor fuel evolution through grouping RENO data by effective fission fraction of Pu-239. Observed fuel dependent variation of reactor antineutrino flux has been used to determine IBD yield from each fission isotope. The measurement of IBD yield from each fission isotope test reactor antineutrino...
Ms
Valentina Novati
(CSNSM)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
CUPID (CUORE Upgrade with Particle IDentification) will be a tonne-scale bolometric experiment searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay. CUPID aims to improve CUORE sensitivity to this nuclear transition by isotope enrichment and substantial background reduction. The CUORE limiting background is due to degraded-energy $\alpha$ particles emitted at surfaces close to the detector, that a...
Prof.
Anatolii Serebrov
(PNPI NRC KI)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster sterile
In Neutrino-4 experiment on SM-3 research reactor we are looking for confirmation of a hypothesis about oscillation into sterile neutrino state.
To attain needed accuracy project of new neutrino laboratory with two detectors at SM-3 reactor was developed.
This poster present scheme of new laboratory, new detector design and implementation phases of equipment for him. Also results of...
Mr
Yan Zhang
(Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster supernova
Supernova neutrino is one of the focal points in the field of neutrino research in recent years. Many experiments hope to detect neutrino burst once again caused by core-collapse supernova (i.e. type Ib/c and type II). Many methods have been applied to estimate galactic core-collapse supernova rate, this article discusses four kinds of reliable method: Detection of supernova neutrinos, SN...
Dr
Marco Roda
(University of Liverpool)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
GENIE is the world's most widely-used neutrino Monte Carlo generator and its physics model is employed by nearly all current and near future experiments.
The collaboration developed the capability to perform global physics tuning using both the increasing body of neutrino scattering data and the vast complementary array of electron-nucleus and hadron-nucleus scattering data.
This is based on...
Ms
Elisabeth Kneale
(University of Sheffield)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
WATCHMAN - a kiloton-scale, gadolinium-doped water Cherenkov detector - will demonstrate for the first time the feasibility of detecting the antineutrino signal from a hidden reactor against another reactor background, for application to nuclear non-proliferation.
Such a detector will out of necessity operate at long range, often at the very limit of its sensitivity, and so minimising...
Dr
Yaping Cheng
(FZJ IKP2)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a 20kt liquid scintillator detector that will be located at Kaiping, Jiangmen city in South China. An energy resolution of 3% at 1 MeV is required to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy (MH) by spectral analysis. In this largest liquid scintillator detector, a good understanding of the position-dependence of the energy response is...
Dr
Barry Pointon
(British Columbia Institute of Technology)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster supernova
Neutrinos from a CC supernova will shed light on astro- and particle physics processes that leave different signatures on the $\nu$ / $\bar\nu$ fluences. Existing detectors are most sensitive to $\bar\nu_e$, so a lead-based detector with high $\nu_e$ sensitivity would improve the characterization of the neutrino emission.
HALO-1kT, will be located at LNGS, and use 1kt of lead, instrumented...
Caroline Rodenbeck
(WWU Münster),
Larisa Thorne
(Carnegie Mellon University),
Thomas Thuemmler
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Nuclear Physics)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment aims to measure the effective electron-antineutrino mass with a sensitivity of 0.2 eV/c^2 (90% C.L.). This is achieved by measuring the tritium beta spectrum in the endpoint region using an integrating spectrometer. For this, the voltage needed to create the integrating spectrometer’s electrostatic energy barrier must be precisely set and...
Giulia Illuminati
(IFIC - Valencia)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
For the first time, on August 17th 2017, the LIGO/Virgo interferometers have detected the coalescence of two neutron stars whose associated electromagnetic emission has been observed from radio to gamma-rays. A neutrino follow-up was performed using ANTARES data to search for a potential high-energy neutrino counterpart to this event, together with IceCube and the Pierre Auger Observatory. No...
Dr
Christian Glaser
(Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, USA)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
The discovery of cosmogenic neutrinos is going to be a major milestone in high-energy neutrino astronomy. Due to the low flux of cosmogenic neutrinos effective volumes of at least an order of magnitude improvement of the size of the IceCube detector are needed. As optical methods are cost-prohibitive at these scales, the radio technique is most promising.
The ARIANNA detector aims to detect...
Mr
Jarrett Moon
(MIT)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster simulations
The MicroBooNE experiment is a large Liquid Argon TPC located on the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermi National Laboratory. The primary goal is to investigate the source of the excess of low energy electron neutrino events observed by the MiniBooNE experiment. The main background to the oscillation signal arises from intrinsic electron neutrinos coming from decay of pions and muons in the beam...
Dr
Tomasz Palczewski
(The University of California, Berkeley)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
The IceCube observatory has observed an excess of high-energy neutrinos above the atmospheric background opening a new era in astronomy. The absence of events with energies E > ~3PeV can be seen as an argument for the presence of a spectral cutoff. Therefore, analyses of extremely high energy events are crucial to determine whether the absence of events is a statistical fluctuation or an...
Dr
Yuber Ferney Perez Gonzalez
(Universidade de São Paulo)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cosmology
The determination of the unknown neutrino fermionic nature is one of the open problems in particle physics. Cosmology has predicted the existence of a Cosmic Neutrino Background in which the fermionic properties would be important. Indeed, recent works have shown that the relic neutrino capture rate would have different values for Majorana and Dirac fermions. We consider the sturdiness of such...
Dr
Morihiro Honda
(Institute for Cosmic Ray Research Univ. of Tokyo)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster atmospheric
The study of neutrino oscillation has moved from the discovery phase to
the understanding of the neutrino nature such as the CP phase of mass
matrix or the mass hierarchy.
There are some proposals to carry out these studies with atmospheric
neutrino, and it is requested to improve the accuracy of the atmospheric
neutrino flux prediction especially at low energies.
We present a...
Maximilian Meier
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
IceCube has discovered a diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux. The significant numbers of tau neutrinos expected due to neutrino mixing from traversing astronomical distances have yet to be observed. Since high-energy (>100 TeV) tau neutrino production in the Earth’s atmosphere is negligible, a tau detection confirms the astrophysical origin of the observed neutrino signal and helps improve the...
Sarah Nowicki
(University of Alberta)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
Detection of few-GeV atmospheric neutrinos is made possible by the DeepCore infill array to the IceCube detector. The relatively small amount of recorded event information at these energies introduces challenges for the reconstruction of particle properties, such as energy and incoming angle. Further, the naturally-occurring deep glacial Cherenkov medium requires detailed models, based on...
Nathaniel Bowden
(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
PROSPECT is a reactor antineutrino experiment whose primary goals are to probe short-baseline oscillations and perform a precise measurement of the U-235 reactor antineutrino spectrum. The PROSPECT Antineutrino Detector (AD) has been installed at the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, with the detector active volume covering a baseline range of 7-9m. To...
Mr
Ian Lam
(Queen's University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
SNO+ is a neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) search experiment using 780 tonnes of tellurium-loaded liquid scintillator. The experiment is currently collecting data in the first of three planned phases, in which the detector is filled with ultrapure water. During this phase, the cleanliness of the water can be assayed using in situ measurements of $^{214}$Bi and $^{208}$Tl...
Dr
Guofu Cao
(Institute of High Energy Physics)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a 20 kton liquid scintillator detector of unprecedented 3%/sqrt(E) energy resolution, currently under construction in the south of China. JUNO is a multipurpose neutrino experiment designed to determine neutrino mass hierarchy and precisely measure oscillation parameters by detecting neutrinos from reactors. The Monte Carlo simulation...
Dr
thierry lasserre
(cea)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
Double Chooz is a reactor neutrino experiment located at Chooz, in France. Its main purpose is to measure the neutrino-mixing angle theta-13. Two liquid scintillator detectors have been taking data since 2011 and the Near detector since 2014.
Reactor electron anti-neutrinos are detected through the inverse beta-decay reaction (IBD), which produces a positron and a neutron. A statistical...
Ms
Mariia Fedkevych
(WWU Münster)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino experiment (KATRIN) is aiming to probe the absolute neutrino mass with a sensitivity of 0.2 $\mathrm{eV/c^2}$ (90 $\%$ C.L.). It uses a pair of electrostatic spectrometers of MAC-E filter type to analyze energies of electrons from tritium-$\beta$-decay. In the region between the spectrometers, a Penning trap is created by their retarding potentials combined with...
Prof.
Liangjian Wen
(Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
An ionization readout “tile” was investigated for use in the proposed nEXO experiment. The design is to deposit orthogonal metal charge-collection strips on a fused-silica wafer. The width of each strip is small compared to the size of the tile, so a Frisch grid is not required. This grid-less, modular design is beneficial for nEXO, where a wire tensioning support structure and Frisch grid...
Mr
Spencer Axani
(MIT)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster sterile
The Isotope Decay-At-Rest (IsoDAR) experiment is designed to provide a unique search for short baseline electron flavor anti-neutrino oscillations. In essence, it is a novel high-intensity cyclotron based neutrino factory that will be able to precisely measure neutrino oscillations over an L/E of approximately 0.6-7.0 m/MeV. When paired with a kiloton scale detector, IsoDAR can decisively...
Ms
Anna Pollithy
(Technische Universität München)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) Experiment is designed to determine the effective electron anti-neutrino mass in a model-independent way with a sensitivity of m$_{\nu}$ = 0.2 eV/c$^{2}$. For reaching this sensitivity a very low background level is required. One approach to characterize the residual background in KATRIN is by determining its energy spectrum. This information enables to...
Jannik Hofestädt
(ECAP)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster atmospheric
Studying the atmospheric neutrino oscillation pattern below 2GeV with a multi-megaton Cherenkov detector may allow for a measurement of the leptonic CP-phase. The most relevant CP-sensitive energy range is below the neutrino detection threshold of KM3NeT/ORCA, which is a underwater Cherenkov detector optimised for the neutrino mass hierarchy determination by measuring the oscillation pattern...
Ms
Federica Mantegazzini
(Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University), Dr
Loredana Gastaldo
(Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, Universität Heidelberg)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
The ECHo experiment aims to determine the electron neutrino mass via the analysis of the calorimetrically measured electron capture spectrum of $^{163}$Ho. The detector technology is based on large arrays of metallic magnetic calorimeters (MMC). Implantation of $^{163}$Ho has been selected as method to enclose the source in the detectors. We present the design of the ECHo-1k chip which has...
Elim Cheung
(university of maryland college park)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster atmospheric
We present a summary of the latest atmospheric oscillation parameter measurements using DeepCore, part of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. With 30 megatonnes of fiducial volume, DeepCore can detect atmospheric neutrinos down to 5 GeV, probing the energy range of the first atmospheric oscillation maximum for neutrinos crossing the Earth. Under the assumption of a unitary mixing matrix, three...
Dr
Laurent SIMARD
(LAL, Orsay)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
The NEMO-3 detector was operated in the Modane Underground Laboratory (LSM) to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ). The observation of this process would prove that the neutrino is a Majorana particle, i.e. identical to its antiparticle. This could explain the observed asymetry between matter and antimatter by letogenesis, as well as the smallness of neutrino masses.
In...
Dr
Liang Zhan
(Institute of High Energy Physics)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The poster presents the latest results of the reactor antineutrino flux and spectrum at Daya Bay. The antineutrinos were generated by six nuclear reactors with 2.9 GW thermal power each and detected by eight antineutrino detectors deployed in two near and one far underground experimental halls. The Inverse beta decay reaction yield was measured and compared with the reactor flux predictions. A...
Dr
Nancy Wandkowsky
(UW-Madison)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a cubic kilometer scale detector in the deep Antarctic ice, has detected an astrophysical neutrino flux above 100 TeV. In this poster we present the results of seven years of data using a sample of high-energy events with contained vertices. Compared to previous iterations of this analysis, the treatment of systematics and calibration has been improved and new...
Matthew Green
(North Carolina State University / Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
The LEGEND Collaboration aims to explore the range of majorana neutrino masses allowed by the inverted mass hierarchy by building upon the successes of the GERDA experiment and the Majorana Demonstrator in the deployment of a 1000-kg array of germanium detectors enriched in $^{76}$Ge. The first phase of the LEGEND experimental program, LEGEND-200, will make use of existing detectors,...
Dr
Bartosz Dziewit
(University of Silesia in Katowice), Dr
Sebastian Zajac
(Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster model building
In frame of the two-Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM) we try to find some discrete, non-abelian
flavour symmetry, which could explain masses and mixing matrix elements for leptons. Unlike the
Standard Model currently the flavour symmetry need not to be broken. With the GAP program we
investigate all finite subgroups of the U3 group, up to the order 1025. Up to such order there is no
group, for...
Prof.
Jiajie Ling
(Sun Yat-Sen University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster sterile
The standard three-neutrino mixing framework works very well with most of the neutrino oscillation experiments except for several ``anomalies'', which may be caused by light sterile neutirnos at eV or sub-eV energy scale.
With millions of electron antineutrino candidates accumulated by multiple antineutrino detectors at hundred meters away from the reactors, Daya Bay has the best sensitivity...
Mrs
Alina Vishneva
(JINR)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster etc.
Although predictions for the magnetic moment of neutrino in the standard theory are far beyond the sensitivity of contemporary experiments, anomalously large neutrino magnetic moments would be of interest from the point of view of astrophysical consequences.
Electromagnetic neutrino interaction caused by the non-zero magnetic moment occurs, e.g., in the $\nu-e$ elastic scattering...
Hans Mumm
(National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster sterile
PROSPECT (Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum) is a short-baseline reactor antineutrino experiment currently operating at the High-Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). PROSPECT is designed to make a high-statistics high-resolution measurement of both the antineutrino energy spectrum and flux from HFIR's compact U-235 core. PROSPECT is situated...
Prof.
Li Zhou
(Institute of high energy physics, CAS,Beijing)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
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The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multi-purpose underground neutrino experiment. The energy resolution of JUNO is designed to be 3% at 1 MeV, corresponding to a light output of at least 1,200 photoelectrons per MeV. Contamination in LS is also required. In order to study the optical performance and radioactivity removal for LS, a purification system...
Mr
Pablo Fernández de Salas
(IFIC (CSIC - Univ. Valencia))
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cosmology
Neutrino oscillations have shown that these weakly interacting particles have a non-zero mass. Despite the smallness of their mass, relic neutrinos coming from the time of their decoupling cluster under strong gravitational potentials, such as the one of our galaxy, leading to an overdensity of such neutrinos in our surroundings. This can be helpful for future experiments like PTOLEMY, whose...
Prof.
Miodrag Pavićević
(University of Salzburg), Prof.
Yuri Litvinov
(GSI Darmstadt)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster solar
A geochemical determination of the Solar (pp) neutrino flux was proposed in 1970s [1]. The neutrino capture reaction 205Tl+ve→205Pb+e- has the low energy threshold of 52 keV. By measuring the amount of 205Pb in naturally occurring lorandite (TlAsS2) minerals, the LOREX (LORandite EXperiment) project [2] will provide the integral neutrino flux over the last 4.31(2) My, the age of lorandite [3]....
Guillaume Eurin
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster dark matter
In the current state of rare-event searches such as direct dark matter detection with the future multi-ton scale DARWIN detector, background control and reduction is critical.
A significant part of this background comes from the radioactive decays of the daughter nuclei of 238U and 232Th (e.g. 214Bi or 208Tl).
Several strategies have been adopted by low-background experiments in...
Dr
Michele Lucente
(CP3 - UCLouvain)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster model building
We provide the first systematic study of the low-scale leptogenesis scenario in the minimal Standard Model extended with 3 right-handed neutrinos having masses at the GeV scale.
We highlight and discuss the differences between the 2- and the 3-right-handed neutrino cases, the major qualitative distinction being the possibility, in the latter scenario, of probing part of the parameter space at...
Dr
Adam Smetana
(IEAP CTU in Prague)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster model building
Knowing how the mass generation of neutrinos is realized would help us to understand a lot more about the Lepton Number Violation (LNV), the cosmological evolution of the Universe, or the evolution of astronomical objects. We propose a viable extension of the Standard Model where neutrino mass is generated via the LNV condensation in the sector of sterile neutrinos. To prove the concept, for...
Prof.
Alexander Derbin
(Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster etc.
S.V. Bakhlanov, A.V. Derbin, I.S. Drachnev, V.N. Muratova, N.V. Pilipenko, D.A. Semenov, E.V. Unzhakov
St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”, Gatchina, Russia
The specifications of a newly developed beta-spectrometer, based on full absorption Si(Li) detector and thin transmission detector, are shown. The spectrometer allows to separate...
Dr
Philipp Eller
(PennState University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster atmospheric
We present measurements of atmospheric tau neutrino appearance using three years of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The DeepCore detector sub-array in the deepest clear ice of IceCube enables detection and reconstruction of neutrinos produced by the interaction of cosmic rays in the Earth’s atmosphere at energies and baselines suitable for the study of neutrino of oscillations....
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Measurement of muon neutrino CC0pi cross sections on Oxygen and Carbon at the T2K near detector
Ms
Margherita Buizza Avanzini
(CNRS/LLR)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
A detailed understanding of neutrino(ν)-nucleus interactions is essential for the precise measurement of ν oscillations at long-baseline experiments, such as T2K. Moreover, since T2K utilises a water Cherenkov far detector, the study of ν cross sections on Oxygen is imperative. In this poster we report preliminary results from a measurement of ν-Oxygen and ν-Carbon cross sections and their...
Mr
Ken'ichi KIN
(Osaka City University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
The WAGASCI experiment is being carried out at J-PARC to precisely measure the neutrino cross-section ratio between water and hydrocarbon target. We constructed a new detector which consists of a water target module, hydrocarbon target module, and muon-range detector. Scintillators of the water module have a characteristic 3D-grid structure, which achieves a large solid angle acceptance. We...
Hongyue Duyang
(University of South Carolina)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
The NOvA experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to measure muon neutrino to electron neutrino oscillation. It uses the NuMI beam at Fermilab and consists of a far detector in Ash River, Minnesota and a near detector at Fermilab. An accurate prediction of the neutrino flux is important to both oscillation and cross-section studies at NOvA. Neutrino-electron...
Dr
Minerba Betancourt
(Fermilab)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
A good understanding of nuclear effects in neutrino interactions is crucial to measure neutrino oscillations. A sample of neutrino interactions with no pion, one muon and al least one proton candidate is used to study quasielastic-like interactions from the MINERvA experiment using the low energy NuMI beam at Fermilab. Kinematic correlations between final-state particles are measured....
Dr
Francois Drielsma
(University of Geneva), Mr
Francois Drielsma
(University of Geneva), Prof.
Vittorio Palladino
(Univerity & INFN Napoli, Italy)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
MICE will demonstrate feasibility of the ionization cooling technique proposed to cool the muon beam at a future neutrino factory or muon collider. Position and momentum reconstruction of each muon in a sample by high precision sci-fibre trackers in a solenoid, before and after the cooling
cell, provides several alternative figures of merit in addition to beam emittance. Contraction of the...
Mr
Alexander Leder
(MIT)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
0$\nu\beta\beta$ is a nuclear process under investigation by numerous experiments, which if detected would demonstrate that neutrinos are Majorana particles. 0$\nu\beta\beta$ samples a wide range of intermediate forbidden nuclear transitions, which are governed by the quenched axial vector coupling constant ($g_A^{eff}$), the uncertainty of which plays a pivotal role in the uncertainty of the...
Dr
David Martinez Caicedo
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The Daya Bay experiment has utilized eight functionally identical underground detectors to sample reactor antineutrino fluxes from three pairs of nuclear reactors in South China, accruing the largest reactor antineutrino sample to date. Four antineutrino detectors in two experimental halls were used to identify 2.2 million inverse beta decays (IBDs) over 1230 days spanning multiple fuel cycles...
Aurélie Bonhomme
(DPhN/IRFU/CEA-Saclay)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
STEREO addresses the light sterile neutrino hypothesis by placing a segmented liquid scintillator target at 10m from the ILL reactor core, in Grenoble. Data collected since late 2016 already constrain the parameter domain favored by the Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly. One main challenge arises from the ground level location of the detector, making the measurement particularly sensitive to...
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Measurement of theta13 in the reactor neutrino events with neutron captures on Hydrogen at RENO
Mr
ChangDong Shin
(Chonnam National University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
RENO has been taking data since August, 2011 and successfully measured the smallest neutrino mixing angle, theta13. The measurement values are obtained from the observed reactor antineutrino events with neutron captures on gadolinium (n-Gd) in the target detector region. In addition, RENO has successfully measured the mixing angle as well, using an independent sample with neutron captures on...
Mr
Jacob Zettlemoyer
(Indiana University, Bloomington)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster coherent scattering
The COHERENT experiment recently made the first measurement of coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (CEvNS) at the 6.7$\sigma$ level with a 14.6 kg CsI(Na) crystal at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. COHERENT uses the Spallation Neutron Source at ORNL as the neutrino source and also plans to test the N$^2$ dependence of the CEvNS cross section by making measurements on multiple...
Dr
Phillip Litchfield
(Imperial College London)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
Since the the observation of the $\nu_\mu \rightarrow \nu_e$ appearance channel by T2K and others, neutrino experiments have refocused on precision measurements. Previous generations of experiments sought simply to detect oscillations in a particular channel, which is optimally achieved with a baseline and energy tuned as close as possible to the first maximum of the oscillation signature. ...
Mr
David Coplowe
(University of Oxford)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
The current status of probing nuclear effects in CC muon neutrino interactions with at least one proton (N$>$0) and one $\pi^0$ (M$>$0) in the final state is presented. This work considers the differential cross section on hydrocarbon as a function of double transverse momentum -- a kinematic imbalance of the final state hadronic system transverse to the neutrino direction and muon momentum...
Dr
Tomasz Wachala
(Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
A good understanding of neutrino-nucleus interactions is crucial to precisely measure neutrino oscillations parameters. An essential component of the neutrino interaction model concerns how the cross sections scale with mass number (A). Measurements of neutrino interactions on heavy targets, such as lead, can help to better understand A-dependence and validate theoretical models. The goal of...
Mr
Stefan Schoppmann
(Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik Heidelberg)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
Many neutrino experiments use organic liquid scintillators as detector technology. Some of the advantages as compared to alternative options are a low energy threshold, versatile and the rather precise spectral/timing information. The loading of metals in the organic liquid allows in several cases to enhance the neutrino signal over background events. Such metal loaded scintillators are of...
Florian Heizmann
(KIT),
Valérian Sibille
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
The KATRIN experiment aims at measuring the effective electron antineutrino mass with a 0.2\,eV (90\%\,C.L.) sensitivity using the kinematics of tritium \textbeta-decay near the spectral endpoint. Previous experiments in Mainz and Troitsk based on this technique, which yielded an upper limit of 2\,eV (95\%\,C.L.), did not employ specific blinding methods. For KATRIN, we investigate several...
Dr
Mark Ross-Lonergan
(Columbia University, Nevis Labs)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
The MiniBooNE Low Energy Excess (LEE) is the observation of anomalous events, whose true origin could be attributed to either electrons or photons in the detector as MiniBooNE lacked the power to distinguish them. One of the primary goals of MicroBooNE is to address this issue of the underlying source of the LEE, using Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber technology to enable electron/photon...
Dr
Anna Holin
(University College London)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
The MINOS(+) experiment took neutrino oscillation data in the NuMI beam from 2005-2016. The MINOS Near Detector (ND), an iron scintillator calorimeter functionally identical to the MINOS Far Detector, is on-axis and, at 1.04km, close to the NuMI Beam target that is used to generate the NuMI neutrino beam. This makes the MINOS ND the best beam flux monitoring device, better than any other...
Dr
Denys Poda
(CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
Know-how of 100Mo-enriched Li2MoO4 scintillating bolometers has been recently developed by the LUMINEU Collaboration as a part of the R&D activities towards a tonne-scale 0ν2β experiment CUPID. The reproducibility of high performance (~5-6 keV FWHM at 2615 keV, α background rejection on the level of about 9σ) and radiopurity (below 10 μBq/kg U/Th activity) has been demonstrated in multiple...
Dr
Stefano Gariazzo
(IFIC - CSIC/Univ. Valencia)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The existence of an additional, fourth neutrino mass eigenstate is being studied under different points of view.
When considering the ratio of the spectra measured at different distances by DANSS and NEOS in a model independent,
a 3.7$\sigma$ indication in favor of short-baseline electron antineutrino oscillations arises.
We discuss the implications of the model-independent NEOS+DANSS...
Dr
Jan Behrens
(KIT), Mr
Lutz Schimpf
(KIT)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
The KATRIN experiment will measure $m(\nu_\mathrm{e})$ with 0.2 eV sensitivity (90% C.L.) by taking an integrated energy spectrum of tritium $\beta$-decay.
The response function which describes the electron transmission through the beamline is an essential part of the fit model used for analysis.
It gives rise to several sources of systematic uncertainties which need to be carefully...
Dr
Jürgen Brunner
(CPPM)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
By constantly monitoring at least one complete hemisphere of the sky, neutrino telescopes are well suited to detect neutrinos emitted by transient astrophysical sources. A follow-up program of the ANTARES neutrino alerts is in operation since 2009: it triggers a network of robotic optical telescopes immediately after the detection of a neutrino event and schedule several observations in the...
Francesco Pessina
(Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro),
Marco Grassi
(APC - IN2P3 - CNRS)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster etc.
The neutrino oscillation phenomenology foresees the presence of CP-violation accessible via high precision neutrino oscillation measurements with both neutrino and antineutrinos. Already today, non-null CP-violation is hinted by running T2K and NOvA experiments. In this poster, we present a novel experimental framework for high precision CP-violation based on a powerful $\pi$-decay-at-rest...
Dr
Marcos Dracos
(IPHC-IN2P3/CNRS)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
The relatively high value of θ13 privileges the 2nd oscillation max. for the discovery of CP violation instead of the usually used 1st max. The sensitivity at this 2nd max. is about three times higher than for the 1st one inducing a lower influence of systematic errors. Going to the 2nd max. necessitates a very intense neutrino beam with the appropriate energy. The world's most intense pulsed...
Mr
Connor Awe
(Duke University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
Neutrino induced neutrons (NINs) are an important background for coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) measurements at the SNS in Oak Ridge, Tn. This process has never been measured experimentally and has a large theoretical uncertainty. An understanding of this process is critical for the COHERENT collaboration in its ongoing efforts to detect and characterize CEvNS on a...
Prof.
Alexander Studenikin
(Moscow State University and JINR-Dubna)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster etc.
The phenomena of neutrino oscillations can proceed only in the case of the coherent superposition of neutrino mass states. An external environment can modify a neutrino evolution in a way that conditions for the coherent superposition of neutrino mass states are violated. Such a violation results in quantum decoherence of neutrino states and leads to suppression of flavor neutrino...
Ms
Ayami Hiramoto
(Kyoto University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
It is essential for the T2K experiment to measure low momentum protons and understand multi-nucleon interactions in the sub-multi GeV region in order to reduce systematic uncertainty. The NINJA experiment aims to measure neutrino-nucleus interactions on a water target precisely using nuclear emulsion. Since nuclear emulsion has sub-micron position resolution, it allows us to observe the...
Prof.
Alexander Studenikin
(Moscow State University and JINR-Dubna), Mr
Artem Popov
(MSU)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster etc.
We further develop recently proposed new approach to description of the relativistic neutrino flavour $\nu_e^L\leftrightarrow\nu_{\mu}^L$, spin $\nu_e^L\leftrightarrow\nu_e^R$ and spin-flavour $\nu_e^L\leftrightarrow\nu_{\mu}^R$ oscillations in a constant magnetic field that is based on the use of the exact neutrino stationary states in the magnetic field. The neutrino flavour, spin and...
Ms
Rebecca Rapp
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster coherent scattering
The COHERENT experiment has observed coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) using the pulsed neutrino production from the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The collaboration now seeks to test the $N^2$ dependence of the standard model cross section for CEvNS using a suite of detector systems. Building on an existing GEANT4 simulation of neutrino...
Dr
Aaron Mislivec
(Univ of Minnesota - Twin Cities)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
The NOvA neutrino oscillation experiment uses the GENIE event generator to predict neutrino interactions in its detectors. Recent data, recent reanalysis of extant data, and continued development of theoretical models have brought to light deficiencies in the default GENIE cross section model, which in turn impact the predicted spectra used to infer oscillation parameters. We discuss...
Mr
Kamil Porwit
(University of Silesia, Institute of Physics, Poland)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster model building
The Standard Model is based on three neutrino flavours where neutrinos mix by unitary matrix PMNS. However, there can exist additional number of neutrinos hidden within our mathematical and experimental benightedness. We propose an independent analysis of neutrino mixing data based on interval matrices.
Methods of matrix analysis show that the set of physically admissible mixing matrices...
Kate Scholberg
(Duke University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster coherent scattering
The COHERENT collaboration's primary objective is to measure coherent
elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) using the unique,
high-quality source of tens-of-MeV neutrinos produced as a by-product
during normal operation of the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak
Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). COHERENT made the first measurement
of CEvNS using a CsI[Na] detector in 2017....
Ms
Anne Norrick
(The College of William and Mary)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
Neutrino-Nucleus Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) events provide a probe into the structure of nucleons within a nucleus that cannot be accessed via charged lepton-nucleus interactions. The MINERvA experiment is stationed in the Neutrinos from the Main Injector (NuMI) beam line at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. With the recent increase in average neutrino energy and the greatly...
Dr
Fernanda Psihas
(University of Texas at Arlington, Indiana University), Mr
Micah Groh
(Indiana University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
The NOvA experiment has made both $\nu_\mu$ disappearance and $\nu_e$ appearance measurements in Fermilab's NuMI beam, and is working on cross section measurements using near detector data. At the core of NOvA's measurements is the use of deep learning algorithms for identification and reconstruction of the neutrino flavor and energy. These algorithms, used for the first time on NOvA in 2016,...
Dr
Katsuki Hiraide
(ICRR, the University of Tokyo)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster etc.
XMASS is a multi-purpose experiment using a single-phase liquid-xenon
scintillator detector located underground at Kamioka Observatory in Japan.
Thanks to a low-energy threshold and low background, the XMASS detector
has a potential to pursue various topics in a field of neutrino physics.
For example, XMASS has a possibility to detect galactic supernova neutrinos
via coherent elastic...
Prof.
Alexander Studenikin
(Moscow State University and JINR-Dubna), Mr
Pavel Pustoshny
(MSU)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster etc.
We consider the effect of neutrino spin oscillations $\nu_{e}^{L}\Leftrightarrow\nu_{e}^{R}$ engendered by the neutrino weak interaction with the transversal matter current $\bf{j}_{\perp}$ that was predicted [1] within the quasiclassical treatment of the neutrino spin vector evolution based on the generalized Bargmann-Michel-Telegdi equation. Now
we develop [2] the consistent quantum...
Janina Hakenmüller
(Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
The Germanium Detector Array (GERDA) is currently the most sensitive experiment in search of the Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (0νββ) of Ge-76, a process that violates lepton number conservation. GERDA operates an array of bare high-purity germanium detectors enriched in Ge-76 in a cryostat with 64 m3 of liquid argon at LNGS, Italy, at 3500 m w.e.
The experiment is taking data...
Chiara Capelli
(University of Zurich)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
The XENON1T experiment is leading the sensitivity to spin-independent, elastic WIMP-nucleon scatters, excluding cross-sections down to 7.7·10$^{−47}$ cm$^2$ at a mass of 35 GeV/c$^2$ (90% CL) with the first science run of 34 days. A second science run with 247 live days is currently under analysis. The XENON1T data is also scrutinised for other rare-event searches, including the neutrinoless...
Dr
Wan-Lei Guo
(Main building A406, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 918, Beijing 100049, China)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster atmospheric
We explore the neutrinos from decays of stopped atmospheric muons in
the Earth. In terms of the atmospheric muon flux at the sea-level
and the average muon range $R$, we derive the depth distribution of
stopped muons in the Earth. The stopped $\mu^-$ can be captured by
different nuclei in the rock. Based on the mean-life of captured
$\mu^-$ and the average muonic capture probabilities of...
Mr
Christoph Andreas Ternes
(IFIC (Universitat de Valencia/CSIC))
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
CPT symmetry, the combination of Charge Conjugation, Parity and Time reversal, is a cornerstone of our model building strategy and therefore the repercussions of its potential violation will severely threaten the most extended tool we currently use to describe physics, i.e. local relativistic quantum fields. However, limits on its conservation from the Kaon system look indeed imposing. Here we...
Mr
Justin Raybern
(Duke University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster coherent scattering
The COHERENT Collaboration made the first observation of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS) as published in Science Magazine in August 2017. The signal for this process is a small nuclear recoil in the detector material. COHERENT is measuring CEvNS at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) because of the timing, energy, and intensity of...
Juliana Stachurska
(DESY Zeuthen)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole detects Cherenkov light from charged particles produced in neutrino interactions. At the highest energies, the neutrino flux is of cosmic origin, but its astrophysical sources are yet unknown. A measurement of the flavor ratio on Earth can provide important constraints on sources and production mechanisms. In this poster we present the...
Dr
Tianlu Yuan
(University of Wisconsin Madison)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a cubic-kilometer in-ice detector at the South Pole, offers a unique window into the smallest and largest scales of our universe. In this poster, I will present several new physics analyses with seven years of data using the high-energy starting event selection. This includes a Standard Model cross-section measurement that exploits the flux attenuation of...
Dr
Carlos Argüelles Delgado
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT))
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
The IceCube neutrino observatory has measured the TeV-scale atmospheric neutrino flux with increasing accuracy. As statistics accumulate, corresponding improvements in treatments of systematic uncertainty enable highly sensitive searches for beyond Standard Model physics. In this poster, I will highlight our recent searches for Lorentz Violation and sterile neutrinos using high-energy muon...
Dr
Christian Farnese
(Università di Padova and INFN sezione di Padova)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
The ICARUS T600, a liquid argon time projection chamber (LAr-TPC), underwent a major overhauling at CERN, in 2016-2017, which included also a new design of the read-out electronics, in view of its operation in Fermilab on the Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program from 2019. The new more compact electronics showed capability of handling more efficiently also the signals in the intermediate...
Mr
Pau Novella
(IFIC)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
The NEXT experiment aims at the sensitive search of the neutrino-less double beta decay of $^{136}$Xe at the LSC. A large-scale prototype of a high-pressure gas-Xenon electroluminescent TPC (NEW) is being operated since 2016, proving both the excellent energy resolution and the topological capabilities for background rejection. NEW is currently measuring the backgrounds for the $\beta\beta$...
Dr
Krzysztof Graczyk
({Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Wroclaw)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
Polarization transfer (PT) observables in the single pion production induced by the charged current neutrino-nucleon interaction are examined within two models. The predictions are made for neutrino energy of the order of 1 GeV as well as for the T2K energy flux. It is demonstrated that the PT observables: the degree of polarization and the polarization components of outgoing fermions are...
Dr
Ashley Back
(Iowa State University), Ms
Liudmila Kolupaeva
(JINR)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
NOvA is an experiment devoted to studying neutrino oscillations in the NuMI neutrino beam from FNAL (USA). It is a long-baseline experiment consisting of two functionally identical, finely granulated detectors which are separated by 810 km of Earth crust and sited at 14 mrad off the beam axis. By measuring the transition probabilities P($\nu_\mu \rightarrow \nu_e$) and P($\nu_\mu \rightarrow...
Aldiyar Oralbaev
(APC & NRC "Kurchatov institute")
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The Double Chooz experiment has developed a new Inverse Beta Decay (IBD) detection method called Total neutron Capture (TnC) exploiting neutron captures over all isotopes in the liquid scintillator volume (H, C and Gd). TnC provides remarkable advantages over any isotope-dependant detection, such Gd or H, such as the increases the detection efficiency per volume, yielding higher statistics...
Dr
Shun Furusawa
(RIKEN, iTHEMS)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster supernova
Core-collapse supernovae are one of the most fascinating phenomena in astrophysics,but the explosion mechanism is not clearly understood yet because of their intricacies. One underlying problem is the uncertainty in weak interaction rates. In particular, during core-collapse stage, neutrino emission and scattering rates of heavy nuclei potentially affect the mass of newborn hot neutron star...
Dr
Julieta Gruszko
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
As neutrinoless double-β decay searches seek to reach into and beyond the inverted hierarchy regime, new strategies are needed to reject backgrounds. In monolithic liquid-scintillator-based detectors, otherwise-irreducible backgrounds could be identified by their event topology and novel deep-learning-based algorithms. NuDot is a 1-ton prototype that aims to demonstrate Cherenkov signal...
Mr
Ryan Dorrill
(University of Hawaii)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
NuLat is a new detector designed to study reactor anti-neutrinos at short baselines. NuLat is based on the Raghavan Optical Lattice (ROL), which uses segmented 6Li doped plastic cubical
cells, separated by air gaps to take advantage of total internal reflection. The first phase of NuLat contains 125 cubes (5x5x5), each 6.3 cm (2.5") on a side, while the full detector will contain 3375, for a...
Dr
Jan Sobczyk
(Wroclaw University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster simulations
NuWro is a neutrino Monte Carlo generator developed at the Wrocław University and used in many studies related with oscillation and cross section experiments. The main focus is on the 1 GeV energy region but a wide spectrum of neutrino energies is covered, from ~100 MeV to TeV energies. NuWro is well known for being very effective and friendly used, but it has all the functionalities needed...
Dr
Yen-Hsun Lin
(Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster dark matter
We introduce the dark matter (DM) evolution process in the Sun
under a two-component DM scenario. In this picture, both DM species could be
captured by the Sun through DM-nucleus scattering and DM self-scatterings,
e.g. $\chi\chi$
and $\xi\xi$ collisions. In addition, the heterogeneous self-scattering due
to $\chi\xi$ collision is
essentially possible in any 2DM models. This new...
Dr
Daniel Saunders
(Imperial College London)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster sterile
SoLid searches for sterile neutrinos at the SCK•CEN BR2 reactor in Mol, Belgium. Inverse beta decay interactions of reactor anti-neutrinos result in a positron and neutron that are coincidental and correlated in space. To take advantage of these correlations, the detector uses a highly segmented design of 12,800 cells, each composed of two scintillators: PVT cubes 5cm cubes and 6LiF:ZnS(Ag)...
Irene Nutini
(Gran Sasso Science Institute - INFN LNGS)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
The CUORE Experiment is a ton scale bolometer detector located at the Gran Sasso National Laboratories in Italy. The goal of the experiment is to investigate the 0nuBB decay of 130Te. CUORE started pre-operation runs in early 2017 for detectors optimization, which were followed by the first physics runs from Spring 2017 to Fall 2017. Afterwards a second optimization campaign was performed in...
Pablo del Amo Sánchez
(LAPP - IN2P3 - CNRS / Université Savoie Mont Blanc)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster sterile
STEREO is a coarsely segmented liquid scintillator calorimeter studying anti-neutrinos produced by the compact nuclear reactor core of the Institut Laue-Langevin at Grenoble (France). The experiment has been designed to test the light sterile neutrino explanation of the Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly (RAA) by comparing the neutrino energy spectra recorded by its six detector cells. The cells are...
Matthew Bass
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a long-baseline neutrino experiment that will be built over the next ten years with a high-power neutrino beam coming from Fermilab to a detector at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, South Dakota. The experiment will make use of the liquid argon time-projection chamber (LArTPC) technology to image neutrino-argon...
Mr
Tommaso Comellato
(TUM)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
The newly formed LEGEND collaboration plans to deploy up to 200 kg of enriched germanium detectors in its first phase in the GERDA infrastructure at LNGS, Italy. The science goal is to search for the neutrinoless double beta (0nbb) decay of $^{76}$Ge. In the current GERDA and Majorana Demonstrator experiments, enriched HPGe detectors with excellent pulse shape discrimination (PSD) properties...
Francesco Terranova
(Universita' di Milano Bicocca and INFN), Dr
Paolo Gorla
(INFN Gran Sasso)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is the largest bolometric experiment searching for neutrino-less double beta decay. The detector consists of an array of 988 TeO2 crystals arranged in a cylindrical compact structure of 19 towers. The construction of the experiment and, in particular, the installation of the towers in the cryostat was completed in August 2016 and...
Ms
Diana Gooding
(Boston University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
Quantum dots are semiconducting crystals with dimensions on the order of nanometers. Due to quantum confinement, their size gives rise to optical properties that resemble those of single atoms, rather than bulk material. One of these is their absorption of light shorter than a characteristic wavelength and reemission in a narrow peak around that wavelength. An emergent class of these...
Mr
Sanghoon Jeon
(Sungkyunkwan University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
The Korean Neutrino Observatory (KNO) is proposed as a next generation underground neutrino detector in Korea. The detector is a 260 kiloton water Cherenkov detector and can serve as the second detector of Hyper-Kamiokande experiment. By detecting J-PARC neutrino beam in these two detectors in Korea and Japan at the same time, the measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters such as leptonic...
Dr
Frank G. Schröder
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
GRAND will be a huge antenna array for air showers initiated by ultra-high-energy cosmic particles, aiming at the discovery of their sources. The primary targets are tau neutrinos interacting in mountains and producing tau leptons. Some of these will initiate atmospheric particle cascades detectable by its radio emission. The final configuration of GRAND will span 200,000 km$^2$. It will reach...
Dr
Wiesław Sobków
(Institute of Theoretical Physics,Wroclaw University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
Possibility of using the elastic scattering of low energy electron neutrinos (Dirac or Majorana) on the polarized electron target for a study of the time reversal symmetry violation (TRSV) and neutrino nature is considered.It turns out that the azimuthal asymmetry (AA) and the spectrum of scattered electrons contain the interference terms between standard $V-A$ and exotic $V + A$ and...
Mr
Oleg Titov
(National Research Center «Kurchatov Institute»)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
To produce a beam of electron neutrinos one can use $\beta^+$-decaying nuclei, accumulated in a storage ring. Such a beam can have a considerable monochromatic part if the nuclei decay is due to electron capture with significant probability. Under certain conditions, in particular, when using hydrogen-like ions, this monochromatic fraction can be modulated. The requirements for the nuclei of...
Dr
Ran HAN
(BISEE)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster etc.
Geoneutrinos are unique probes that bring direct information about the amount and distribution of heat producing elements in the crust and mantle.Due to low counting statistics results from geoneutrino measurements at Kamland and BOREXINO are inadequate to resolve which of the three models best describes the BSE composition. The 20 kton JUNO detector will provide sufficient data to address...
Mr
Charles Simpson
(U. Oxford, and Kavli IPMU, U. Tokyo)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster supernova
SK-Gd is the next phase of the Super-Kamiokande (SK) experiment. Gadolinium (Gd) sulphate will be dissolved at 0.2% by mass, enriching the detector medium to contain 0.1% Gd. Gd's extremely high capture cross-section for thermal neutrons, which is followed by an energetic gamma cascade, will make neutron tagging in the detector more than 80% efficient. Prior to a core collapse supernova (SN),...
Dr
Tsutomu Fukuda
(Nagoya University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
Nuclear emulsion is a 3D tracking detector with sub-micron resolution. Thanks to its high spatial resolution, emulsion can detect short-length tracks and measure neutrino interactions with a low energy threshold, especially multi-nucleon interactions. Furthermore, emulsion has 4 ¥pi tracking acceptance and provides flexibility in the choice of target materials, even water may be used. Emulsion...
Mr
DongHa Lee
(Seoul National University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The RENO experiment has measured the neutrino mixing angle θ_13 and dm^2_ee, using reactor antineutrinos from the reactors at Hanbit Nuclear Power Plant since Aug. 2011. In 2016, RENO published results on sin^2(2θ_13) and dm^2_ee using the energy dependent oscillation of reactor antineutrinos in the 500days of data. RENO has accumulated roughly ~2000 days of data with reduced backgrounds and...
Mr
Uma Sankar S.
(Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster model building
The neutrino mixing angles are predicted to be $\theta_{23}=-\pi/4$ and
$\theta_{13}=0$ if the neutrino mass matrix has $\mu\leftrightarrow\tau$ exchange symmetry.
We need to break this symmetry to obtain a match with experimental measurements.
This breaking is given by two parameters: $\varepsilon_1$ and $\varepsilon_2$.
We show that the magnitude
of $\theta_{13}$ is controlled by...
Ms
Susana Molina Sedgwick
(University of Southampon / Queen Mary University of London)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster model building
The origin of light neutrino masses remains an unknown, though at present the most widely accepted model for understanding the smallness of the masses observed in nature is the Seesaw Mechanism.
The Littlest Seesaw model extends the SM by two right-handed neutrinos with constrained Yukawa couplings and provides a highly predictive description of neutrino masses and PMNS mixing...
Prof.
Anatolii Serebrov
(PNPI NRC KI)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The main goal of experiment "Neutrino-4" is to search for the oscillation of reactor antineutrino to a sterile state. Experiment is conducted on SM-3 research reactor (Dimitrovgrad, Russia). Data collection with full-scale detector with liquid scintillator volume of $3m^3$ was started in June 2016. We present the latest results of measurements of reactor antineutrino flux dependence on the...
Prof.
Amol Dighe
(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR))
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster sterile
The Iron CALorimeter (ICAL) detector at the India-based Neutrino Observatory(INO)
is an upcoming atmospheric neutrino oscillation experiment. The ICAL is designed to measure muon energy and direction with fine resolutions and high detection efficiency. The detector will have a fiducial mass of 50 kt and be magnetized to distinguish between $\nu_\mu$ and $\overline{\nu}_\mu$.
In this...
Dr
Andrea Giachero
(University and INFN of Milano-Bicocca)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
HOLMES is a experiment with the aim to directly measure the neutrino mass. HOLMES will perform a calorimetric measurement of the energy released in the Electron Capture decay of the artificial isotope 163Ho. The most suitable detectors for this type of measurement are low temperature thermal detectors. HOLMES will deploy 1000 detectors of low temperature microcalorimeters with implanted 163Ho...
Mr
Tom Kieck
(Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
The ECHo collaboration aims at measuring the electron neutrino mass
by recording the spectrum following electron capture of $^{163}$Ho using
metallic magnetic calorimeters (MMCs).The radioisotope $^{163}$Ho
is produced from enriched $^{162}$Er in the ILL high flux nuclear reactor,
chemically purified and mass separated and
is fully embedded into the 180x180 µm$^{2}$ Au-absorber of...
Prof.
William Fairbank
(Colorado State University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
The identification, or “tagging”, of the 136Ba daughter atom that results from double beta decay of 136Xe is a promising technique for elimination of all backgrounds in the nEXO 136Xe double beta decay experiment. Possible methods for extracting and detecting a single 136Ba daughter atom from the nEXO enriched liquid xenon detector will be discussed. Progress on Ba tagging for the nEXO...
Dr
Brent VanDevender
(Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
Project 8 is a tritium endpoint experiment to measure neutrino mass using the technique of Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy (CRES). Early phases of Project 8 demonstrated CRES in small microwave waveguide volumes. An immediate challenge is to scale the detection scheme in size to accommodate sufficient tritium source intensity for a competitive neutrino mass measurement. We present...
Dr
Noah Oblath
(Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy (CRES), a frequency-based method for determining the energy of relativistic electrons, has recently been demonstrated by the Project 8 collaboration. Applying this technique to the tritium endpoint provides a new avenue for measuring the absolute mass-scale of the neutrino. The proof of principle was done in a small waveguide detector using gaseous...
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Prospects for Exploring New Physics in Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering Experiments
Mr
Joseph Johnston
(Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster coherent scattering
Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CENNS) is a Standard Model process that, although predicted for decades, has only been detected recently. Now that CENNS has been discovered, it provides a new probe for physics beyond the Standard Model. We study the potential to probe new physics with CENNS through the use of low temperature bolometers at a reactor source. We consider...
Dr
Xabier Marcano
(LPT Orsay)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster sterile
Motivated by the capability of the KATRIN experiment to explore the existence of KeV neutrinos in the [1-18.5] KeV mass range,
we explore the viability of minimal extensions of the Standard Model involving sterile neutrinos (namely the 3+1 and 3+2 frameworks)
and study their possible impact in both the beta decay and the neutrinoless double-beta decay effective mass, for the two possible...
Mr
Long Li
(Duke University, Durham NC 27708, USA)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster coherent scattering
The Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering has been observed by the COHERENT collaboration using a 14.6-kg CsI[Na] scintillator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This indicates a new way to build compact neutrino detectors and unlocks new channels to test the Standard Model. The main challenge is to understand the neutrino-induced low energy nuclear recoils. It is commonly known that the...
Mr
Benjamin Schmidt
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
CUPID (CUORE Upgrade for Particle IDentification) is a next generation ton-scale bolometric detector to search for lepton number violating processes and probe 0$\nu\beta\beta$ in the full inverted neutrino mass hirarchy. To achieve this goal, backgrounds have to be at least two orders of magnitude lower with respect to CUORE, requiring the active rejection of the dominant background from alpha...
Dr
Monica Sisti
(University and INFN of Milano-Bicocca)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a 20 kton multiple-purpose experiment with the primary goal of determining the neutrino mass hierarchy. To reach the needed physics sensitivity it is required to reduce the single trigger count rate to less than 10 Hz in the fiducial volume. Therefore, it is crucial to carefully select the radiopurity of all materials used to build the...
Mr
Christophe Hugon
(CPPM - IN2P3), Ms
Fang Xie
(University College London)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
SuperNEMO is a tracker-calorimeter neutrinoless double beta decay
experiment using $^{82}$Se to reach a sensitivity of T$_{1/2} >
10^{26}$~y, and the effective neutrino mass of $\langle
m_{\beta\beta}\rangle<40-100$~meV. The construction of the first
Demonstrator Module at the LSM is under completion, with the aim to
reach 0 background in the ROI of the $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay. This...
Gulden Othman
(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is currently searching for neutrinoless double-beta decays in $^{76}$Ge and will demonstrate the feasibility to deploy a tonne-scale experiment in a phased and modular fashion. It consists of two modular arrays of natural and $^{76}$Ge-enriched germanium detectors totaling 44.1 kg, of which 29.7 kg is enriched, located at the 4850' level of the Sanford Underground...
Dr
Hanyu Wei
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
Event reconstruction is one of the most challenging tasks in analyzing the data from current and future massive liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) and its performance is critical to physics opportunities. MicroBooNE is an approximately 90 metric ton active volume single-phase LArTPC and the first of a trio of LArTPCs in the Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program which will search...
Dr
Alan Young
(Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow), Prof.
Vittorio Palladino
(Univerity & INFN Napoli, Italy)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
Multiple Coulomb scattering and energy loss are well known phenomena experienced by charged particles as
they traverse a material. However, from recent measurements by the MuScat collaboration, available simulation codes (GEANT4, for example) are known to overestimate the scattering of muons in low Z materials.
This is of particular interest to the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE)...
Prof.
Steve Boyd
(Warvick University, Coventry, UK), Prof.
Vittorio Palladino
(Univerity & INFN Napoli, Italy)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) has measured the evolution of beam emittance due to ionization
cooling. A muon beam is focused by a large aperture solenoid onto an absorber ( Lithium
hydride or liquid hydrogen). Detectors are placed upstream and downstream
of the focus, enabling the phase space coordinates of each muons to be reconstructed and
the change in beam emittance ...
Dr
Erica Smith
(Indiana University), Dr
Michael Baird
(University of Virginia)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment that aims to investigate the neutrino mass ordering, probe the lepton sector CP violating phase factor, and improve the limits on current neutrino oscillation parameters by measuring oscillations of both neutrinos and anti-neutrinos produced in the NuMI beam at Fermilab. Careful comparisons of the neutrino energy spectrum measured by the...
Dr
Irina Machikhiliyan
(ITEP (Moscow))
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The DANSS detector is a compact neutrino spectrometer currently operating under one of reactors of the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant. It records almost 5000 inverse beta decay (IBD) events per day with the fraction of cosmic background not exceeding few percent level.
The IBD reaction is generally reconstructed by selecting the time-correlated pairs of events with the prompt positron and...
Dr
Shun Zhou
(IHEP, CAS, Beijing)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster model building
We apply the general idea of renormalization-group equations (RGEs) to understand how neutrino masses and flavor mixing parameters evolve when neutrinos propagate in a medium. Taking the matter parameter $a \equiv 2\sqrt{2}G^{}_{\rm F} N^{}_e E$ to be an arbitrary scale-like variable , we derive a complete set of differential equations for the effective neutrino mixing matrix $V$ and the...
Mr
Christian Roca
(Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphisik), Ms
Helena Almazán
(Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphisik)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The STEREO experiment searches for light sterile neutrinos in the eV range. The STEREO detector is divided in two subvolumes both filled with liquid scintillator: an inner neutrino target loaded with gadolinium, which is subsequently subdivided in 6 different cells, and an external unloaded gamma catcher subdivided in 4 cells.
The response of each of the cells, including charge to energy...
Martin Leuermann
(III. Physikalisches Institut B, RWTH Aachen University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
The measurement of the Neutrino Mass Ordering (NMO), i.e. the ordering of the three neutrino mass eigenstates, is a major goal of many future experiments. One strategy to measure the NMO is observing matter effects in the oscillation pattern of atmospheric neutrinos as proposed for the Precision Next Generation Upgrade (PINGU) of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
This type of measurement...
Brian Fujikawa
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Mr
Sachinthya Wagaarachchi
(UC Berkeley)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is the first bolometric experiment searching for neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) that has been able to reach the one-ton scale. The detector consists of an array of 988 TeO$_{2}$ crystals arranged in a compact cylindrical structure of 19 towers. The construction of the experiment was completed in August 2016 with...
Dr
Irene Di Palma
(INFN and University of Rome La Sapienza)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
KM3NeT will be the largest underwater neutrino telescope employing the Cherenkov detection technique in the deep Mediterranean Sea. The infrastructure will consist of three detector building blocks: large 3D arrays of optical sensor modules arranged on vertical detection units anchored on the seabed. Two building blocks for KM3NeT/ARCA are optimised for the detection of TeV-PeV neutrinos in...
Mr
Alexander Marsteller
(Karlsruher Institut für Technologie),
Florian Heizmann
(KIT)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN) will perform a direct, kine\-matics-based measurement of the
neutrino mass with a sensitivity of 200\,meV (90\,\%\,C.L.). The neutrino
mass is obtained by investigating the shape of the spectrum of tritium \textbeta-decay electrons close to the endpoint at
18.6\,keV with a spectrometer of MAC-E filter type. To achieve the targeted...
Mr
Carsten Röttele
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment aims to determine the effective neutrino mass with a sensitivity of m$_\nu$=0.2 eV/c$^2$ (90% C.L.) using electrons from the tritium $\beta$-decay. These $\beta$-electrons are guided adiabatically from the source to the spectrometer, where their energy is analyzed. Simultaneously the tritium flow from the source into the spectrometers has to...
Prof.
Daijiro Suematsu
(Kanazawa University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster model building
Strong CP problem is known to be solved by imposing Peccei-Quinn symmetry. However, domain wall problem could make models invalid in many cases. We propose a model in which the PQ charge is assigned quarks so as to escape this problem. In the effective model resulting after the PQ symmetry breaking, both the quark mass hierarchy and the
CKM mixing could be explained through Froggatt-Nielsen...
Dr
Thierry lasserre
(CEA & TUM/MPP)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster simulations
The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment aims to de-
termine the effective mass of the electron-antineutrino with an sensitivity of 200 meV/c2 (90% C.L.).
The neutrinos mass can be inferred from the shape of the endpoint
energy-region of the tritium beta spectrum, which is measured using the largest MAC-E filter and an intense Windowless Gaseous Tritium Source (WGTS).
SAMAK...
Dr
Alessandro Menegolli
(University of Pavia and INFN sez. di Pavia)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
The ICARUS T600 LAr-TPC detector (474 t of active mass) is being installed at Fermilab to be exposed to the Booster and NuMI neutrino beams in the framework of the SBN program for the ultimate search of sterile neutrinos.
The high rate of cosmic rays impinging on the detector due to its shallow depth operation requires the development of innovative trigger and DAQ systems. ICARUS trigger will...
Ms
Anne Chappuis
(LAPP - CNRS/IN2P3)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
In a LArTPC, the scintillation light is an important signal as it will provide the t0 for track reconstruction, may improve the calorimetric performances and can be used as a inner trigger for non-beam rare events. However, the optical properties of liquid argon for scintillation light wavelength are poorly known. A detailed light simulation allows us to study the impact of these parameters...
Prof.
Alvaro Chavarria
(University of Washington)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
We are developing a new experimental technique to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Se-82 with imaging devices made from an active layer of amorphous selenium coupled to a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) active pixel array. The proposed technology combines at once the possibility of a low-background implementation, the precise energy resolution required to reject...
Mr
Massimiliano Lincetto
(Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) are one of the most intriguing transient radio sources discovered a decade ago. The origin of these FRBs is still a great mystery despite the growing observational efforts made by various multi-wavelength and multi-messenger facilities. So far, many theories have been proposed but no progenitors have been clearly identified as well as the radiative and the particle...
Dr
Luigi Antonio Fusco
(APC Laboratoire, Paris)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
The presence of young Cosmic Ray accelerators in the proximity of the interface between the Local and the Loop1 Superbubbles could enhance neutrino production over a large part of the sky, and a diffuse signal could be detectable in already available neutrino telescopes data samples.
The ANTARES neutrino telescope is the best performing neutrino telescope for low-energy galactic emission of...
Mr
SungBin Oh
(Seoul National Univesity)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster etc.
We present a search for heavy majorana neutrinos (N) using same-sign dilepton plus jets events with the CMS data taken in the 2016 LHC pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV. The existance of non-zero masses of the Standard Model (SM) neutrinos from neutrino oscillations results is a clear evidence for physics beyond the SM. No significant excess of N was observed in the data and upper limits...
Mr
Mathieu Lamoureux
(DPhP, IRFU, CEA)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs, heavy neutrinos) with masses below the electroweak scale are introduced in some extensions of the Standard Model to address consistently such effects as neutrino oscillations, light neutrino masses, dark matter and baryon asymmetry.
The poster presents the search for heavy neutrinos in the mass range of $140 < M_{HNL} < 493$ MeV/c$^2$ with the T2K neutrino...
Mr
Mukharbek Organokov
(IPHC, Université de Strasbourg)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
ANTARES is the largest high-energy neutrino telescope in the Northern Hemisphere. This contribution presents the results of a search, based on the ANTARES data collected over 17 months between Nov. 2014 and Apr. 2016, for high energy neutrino emission in coincidence with TeV gamma-ray flares from Markarian 421 and Markarian 501, two bright BL Lac extragalactic sources highly variable in flux,...
Mr
Anton Huber
(Karlsruher Institute of Technology)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster sterile
A sterile neutrino with a mass up to 18.6 keV would be visible in the beta-decay spectrum of tritium. The KATRIN experiment is designed to determine the absolute neutrinos mass by measuring the beta-decay spectrum of gaseous tritium close to its endpoint. Beyond that, it’s unprecedented tritium source luminosity and spectroscopic quality could be used to measure the entire beta-spectrum to...
Mr
Robert Murrells
(University of Manchester)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
MicroBooNE, an 85 metric ton (active mass) liquid argon time projection chamber (TPC), began studying neutrino interactions on the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB) in October 2015. One of its primary physics goals is to investigate the Low Energy Excess of events previously observed by the MiniBooNE experiment, which could be single-electron or single-photon in nature. Neutrino neutral...
Ms
Katarzyna Frankiewicz
(National Centre for Nuclear Research)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster dark matter
One of the strategy for dark matter detection is to search for the products of its self-annihilation, such as antimatter, photons or neutrinos. The later provide very good information about their source location and generated energy spectra. In the presented analysis, atmospheric neutrino data collected with the Super-Kamiokande in years 1996-2016 was used in order to search for the neutrinos...
Dr
Hidekazu TANAKA
(ICRR, University of Tokyo)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster etc.
The Super-Kamiokande (SK) detector, a large water Cherenkov detector, is well-suited to proton decay searches, with $7.5 \times 10^{33}$ protons in the 22.5 kiloton fiducial volume.
SK has been carried out searches for proton (nucleon) decay via many decay modes, like
$p \rightarrow e^{+}\pi^{0}$, $p \rightarrow \mu^{+}\pi^{0}$, $p \rightarrow \bar{\nu}K^{+}$, and many other decay...
Prof.
Alexander Derbin
(Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster dark matter
A.V. Derbin, I.S. Drachnev, Yu.M. Gavrilyuk, A.M. Gangapshev,
V.V. Kazalov,V.V.Kuzminov,V.N. Muratova, S.I. Panasenko, S.S. Ratkevich,
D.A. Tekueva, E.V.Unzhakov, S.P. Yakimenko
A search for resonant absorption of the solar axions with a wide continuous spectra by $^{83}\rm{Kr}$ nuclei is continued with the krypton proportional counter at the Baksan Neutrino Observatory. Such an...
Carsten Rott
(Sungkyunkwan University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
Cosmic ray interactions with the solar atmosphere are expected to generate energetic neutrinos that might be observable with neutrino telescopes, such as IceCube. These so called solar atmospheric neutrinos are expected to have a harder energy spectrum compared to those generated in the Earth atmosphere. The difference originates from the lower atmospheric density of the Sun, which allows...
Prof.
Adam Aurisano
(University of Cincinnati), Prof.
Alexandre Sousa
(University of Cincinnati)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster sterile
The three-flavor neutrino oscillations model has precisely described a wide selection of neutrino oscillations data, yet, the observations by LSND and MiniBooNE of excess electron neutrino appearance can be interpreted utilizing a model containing three active neutrinos and one sterile neutrino. MINOS+, the medium-energy extension of the successful MINOS experiment, is a two-detector, long...
Jiwoong Seo
(Sungkyunkwan University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster sterile
The RENO experiment has successfully measured $θ_{13}$ using the disappearance of electron anti-neutrinos in three-flavor neutrino oscillations.We search for sterile neutrinos in four-flavor oscillation model using roughly 1500 days of data collected by the RENO experiment. We have not seen any positive signal and obtain an excluded region of the oscillation parameters. We present an excluded...
Dr
Jeremy Hewes
(University of Cincinnati)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster sterile
This poster presents an updated analysis of neutrino data from the NOvA experiment to search for sterile neutrino oscillations. NOvA consists of two functionally identical liquid scintillator detectors in Fermilab’s NuMI neutrino beam: a 300 ton near detector at a 1km baseline, and a 14,000 ton far detector 810km away in Ash River, MN, 14.6 mrad off the beam’s central axis. Sterile neutrino...
Giulia Illuminati
(IFIC - Valencia)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
We present a search for ANTARES neutrino events in spatial and temporal coincidence with IceCube High-Energy Starting Events (HESE) reconstructed as track events and Extremely High-Energy (EHE) through-going muon neutrinos. This analysis uses a maximum likelihood ratio approach. All ANTARES neutrino flavors yielding track or cascade events are considered. Each IceCube event direction is...
Alexander Fieguth
(University of Muenster), Mr
Christian Wittweg
(University of Muenster)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster etc.
The XENON project pursues the direct detection of WIMPs. It is currently running in its third stage with the multi-ton xenon dual phase TPC XENON1T at LNGS. Probing cross-sections below 10$^{−46}$ cm² it is the most-sensitive detector for spin-independent-WIMP-nucleon interactions. Its low background of less than 2x10$^{-4}$ events/(kg x keV x day) below 100 keV is optimal for the search of...
Dr
Juande Zornoza
(IFIC (CSIC-UV))
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster dark matter
The nature of dark matter is one of the hottest topics in physics nowadays. Neutrino telescopes have an important role in this quest, given their specific characteristics. For instance, the detection of high energy neutrinos from the Sun would be a smoking gun for the presence of dark matter, since the astrophysical uncertainties are small, contrary to what happens with most of other indirect...
Ms
Lorenza Iacobuzio
(University of Birmingham)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster etc.
Searches for heavy neutral lepton (HNL) production in charged kaon decays using the data collected by the NA62 experiment at CERN are reported. Upper limits are established on the elements of the extended neutrino mixing matrix for heavy neutral lepton mass in the range 130-450 MeV, improving on the results from previous HNL production searches. The status and prospects of searches for lepton...
Prof.
Alexandre Sousa
(University of Cincinnati)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
By deploying a massive high-resolution Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber detector at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, South Dakota, sampling a high-intensity 1.2 MW neutrino beam produced 1300km away at Fermilab, the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will perform high-precision measurements of neutrino mixing and potentially discover or constrain CP violation in the...
Prof.
Karol Lang
(The University of Texas at Austin), Dr
Simon De Rijck
(The University of Texas at Austin), Mr
Thomas Carroll
(The University of Texas at Austin)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
Most data from neutrino oscillation experiments are consistent with the standard three-flavor paradigm. With increasing experimental precision, potential effects from high scale physics that could modify oscillations in subtle ways are searched for. One such high scale physics scenario involves large extra dimensions. Following the Large Extra Dimension model, sterile neutrinos arising as...
Mr
Ludwig Rauch
(DESY)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
The IceCube neutrino observatory has detected a flux of extragalactic neutrinos. However, the origin of the neutrinos is still unknown. Among the possible candidates are Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), Core-Collapse Supernovae (SNe), Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) - all are accompanied by a characteristic optical counterpart. Therefore, the goal is to identify the...
Prof.
Bryce Littlejohn
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster sterile
PROSPECT is a reactor antineutrino experiment consisting of a segmented liquid scintillator antineutrino detector designed to probe short-baseline neutrino oscillations and precisely measure the antineutrino spectrum of the primary fission isotope U-235. PROSPECT's neutrino oscillation analysis utilizes target segmentation to look for differences in measured inverse beta decay (IBD) positron...
Mr
Thomas Kintscher
(DESY)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
The IceCube neutrino observatory is a 1 km$^3$ detector deployed deep in the Antarctic glacier. While IceCube recently discovered a diffuse astrophysical flux of high energy neutrinos, its sources are yet to be identified.
With a field of view covering the whole sky and continuous data-taking, IceCube is capable of detecting transient sources when one or more high energy neutrinos arrive, and...
Dr
Yu Zeyuan
(Institute of High Energy Physics)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
In recent years, the underground muon flux was observed to be seasonally modulated, as caused to atmospheric density variations due to the atmospheric temperature. With eight identically designed detectors located in three underground experimental halls at different overburdens (250, 265 and 860 meters of water equivalent), the Daya Bay reactor antineutrino experiment is an excellent facility...
Mr
Michael Ospina
(National University of Colombia - ECCI University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster model building
A see-saw mechanism for the masses of the light active neutrinos and their mixing angles is proposed in the context of an extension of the particle spectrum of the standard model. By adding one right-handed sterile neutrino and a Higgs triplet, we generate a neutrino mass matrix that depends from the sterile neutrino and Higgs triplet Yukawa couplings. By aligning the Yukawa triplet coupling...
Mr
Cristian Jesus Lozano Mariscal
(WWU Münster)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster supernova
IceCube has proven that its low background environment allows for the detection of MeV neutrinos from core-collapse supernovae (SNe). These neutrinos can reveal the time structure of the evolution of a SN and enhance our picture of these explosions. However, IceCube is not able to reconstruct such neutrinos individually but they are measured as a collective enhancement of the modules...
Mr
Liam Quinn
(CPPM), Mr
Simon Bourret
(APC)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster atmospheric
ORCA (_Oscillations Research with Cosmics in the Abyss_) is a megaton-scale Cherenkov neutrino detector currently under construction by the KM3NeT collaboration, at a depth of 2450m in the Mediterranean Sea. Atmospheric neutrinos cross the Earth along a wide range of baselines, undergoing matter effects which enhance neutrino oscillations in the few GeV energy range with a dependence on the...
Dr
Gavin Stuart Davies
(Indiana University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster sterile
Apparent short-baseline neutrino oscillations observed by the LSND and MiniBooNE experiments, and the deficit of events seen at the GALLEX and SAGE experiments, can be explained by the addition of sterile neutrino state with a mass at the 1eV level. These results are in tension with null results from other experiments. The NOvA Near Detector (ND) is a 293 ton fine-grained liquid-scintillator...
Mr
Konrad Altenmüller
(Technical University of Munich)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
The TRISTAN project is an extension of the KATRIN experiment to search for the signature of keV-scale sterile neutrinos in the tritium beta decay spectrum. The KATRIN focal plane detector that counts electrons within a controlled energy range close to the spectral end point to investigate the effective neutrino mass will be replaced by a novel 3500-pixel silicon drift detector (SDD) array that...
Mr
Kuo-Lun Jen
(National Chiao Tung University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster supernova
Supernova(SN) 1987A was the first detected neutrino burst in neutrino experiment.
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory(JUNO) is an upcoming large liquid scintillator detector experiment with an expected 3% energy resolution at 1 MeV and abundant light yield. These properties make JUNO a powerful SN neutrino detector. In this poster, we present our simulation studies on SN neutrino...
Ms
Esther Turner
(University of Oxford)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
SNO+ is a general purpose neutrino detector 2km underground in SNOLAB. Its main aim is a neutrinoless double beta decay search in $^{130}$Te. It consists of a 6m radius acrylic vessel filled with the detection medium and surrounded by ~9300 PMTs on a support structure (PSUP) at a radius of ~8.9m.
Having a good understanding of detector response is vital for success. One contribution to...
Dr
Szymon Manecki
(Queen's University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
SNO+ will be a kilo-tonne scale liquid scintillator based experiment located at the SNOLAB underground facility in Sudbury, Canada. The major physics goal of the collaboration is to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{130}$Te. With a target mass of 260 kg of the isotope in the fiducial volume, the half-life sensitivity is projected to reach ~1.96x10$^{26}$ years after 5 years of...
Dr
Erica CADEN
(SNOLAB)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster etc.
SNOLAB is a 5000$~m^2$ facility 2 km underground in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Operating in an active mine site, SNOLAB maintains the laboratory as a class 2000 clean room. Many outstanding questions in astroparticle and subatomic physics today require the radio-quiet environment provided by deep underground research facilities. Neutrino experiments at SNOLAB include SNO+ and HALO, as well as...
Dr
Brais Lopez paredes
(Imperial College London)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster solar
We present the projected sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter experiment to solar boron-8 neutrinos detected via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering, and the physics prospects opened by such a measurement with the LZ detector.
Mr
Andrey Vyborov
(Master student of Moscow institute of physics and technology)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
In GERDA and LEGEND experiments, a solar neutrino absorption by Ge-76 isotope induces a background event which is indistinguishable from beta decay signal. We estimate cross sections for solar neutrino capture by Ge-76 nucleus for various excited states of daughter nucleus As-76. The Gamow-Teller transitions to the low-lying excited states and the Fermi transitions to the resonance states of...
Dr
Martin Suchopár
(Nuclear Physics Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
The gaseous 83mKr source provides spatially distributed monoenergetic conversion electrons suitable for commissioning, systematic measurement and energy calibration in the KATRIN experiment. On the other hand, the 83Rb/83mKr source prepared by the implantation of 83Rb into solid substrate emits conversion electrons which serve in the monitor...
Prof.
Qun Wu
(Shandong University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The Daya Bay experiment has measured $sin^2(2\theta_{13})$ and $\Delta m^2_{32}$ with better than 4% precision using an inverse beta decay (IBD) sample tagged via neutron capture on gadolinium (nGd). A precise and independent measurement of the oscillation parameters is performed with IBDs tagged via neutron capture on hydrogen (nH), a statistically distinct sample with largely...
Aleksei Lokhov
(Institute for Nuclear Research RAS)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster etc.
The spin light of neutrino (SLν) is the electromagnetic radiation emitted by a neutrino due to its magnetic moment when the particle is moving in external environments, i.e. in the presence of matter and/or electromagnetic or gravitational fields. One of the most promising astrophysical conditions for this phenomenon to be manifested in are realized in Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) where generation...
Ms
Erin Hansen
(Drexel University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
The nEXO experiment will search for neutrinoless double beta decay of ${}^{136}$Xe using 5 tonnes of enriched liquid xenon in a low-background single-phase time projection chamber. nEXO is expected to reach a 10 year sensitivity of $\sim$10$^{28}$ years. To this end, the nEXO collaboration is engaged in an R&D program to improve detector performance. We present the status of a selection of R&D...
Prof.
Mathew Muether
(Wichita State University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
NOvA (NuMI Off-axis Electron-Neutrino Appearance Experiment) is a long-baseline
neutrino oscillation experiment which uses two functionally identical detectors,
a near detector at Fermilab and a far detector located 810 km away in northern Minnesota, to measure electron-neutrino appearance in a narrow-band beam of muon-neutrinos peaked at 2 GeV in energy. Neutrino induced Neutral Current...
Mr
Alvaro Hernandez-Cabezudo
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster sterile
The measurements of the anti-neutrinos fluxes coming from nuclear reactors present a deficit with respect to the theoretical predictions, known as the reactor anti-neutrino anomaly.
Sterile neutrino oscillations could solve the problem, with a new massive neutrino order 1eV. A miscalculation of the anti-neutrino flux predictions could also be the main source of the anomaly. We performed a...
Mr
Yang HAN
(Lab APC, Paris)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) will install 25k 3-inch PMTs (SPMTs) in the gaps between 18k closely packed 20-inch PMTs (LPMTs). The SPMT system will significantly enhance JUNO’s physics capabilities by mitigating the non-stochastic term of the energy resolution, providing a semi-independent measurement of the solar oscillation parameters, and improving the reconstruction...
Marjon Moulai
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster sterile
Sterile neutrinos are hypothetical particles introduced to resolve anomalies in neutrino oscillation experiments. In a 3+1 sterile model, one heavier, mostly sterile neutrino mass eigenstate joins the three light, mostly active neutrino mass eigenstates. This simple model does not fit the world's data well. We consider an extension of the 3+1 scenario where the heaviest mass eigenstate decays....
Dr
Vladislav Pantuev
(Institute for Nuclear Research, RAS, Moscow, Russia)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster sterile
We present status and the first results of precision measurements of tritium beta-decay spectrum in the electron energy range 16-18.6 keV by the Troitsk nu-mass experiment. The goal is to find distortions which may be caused by the existence of a heavy sterile neutrinos. A signature would correspond to a kink in the spectrum with characteristic shape and end point shifted by the value of a...
Oliver Fischer
(KIT)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
Sterile neutrinos are among the most attractive extensions of the SM to generate the light neutrino masses observed in neutrino oscillation experiments.
When the sterile neutrinos are subject to a protective symmetry, they can have masses around the electroweak scale and potentially large neutrino Yukawa couplings, which makes them testable at planned future particle colliders.
The...
Prof.
Krishna Kumar
(Stony Brook University), Dr
Michal Tarka
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Prof.
William Fairbank
(Colorado State University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
We are investigating novel in-situ laser-driven techniques to enhance calibration and monitoring of transport properties of charge clusters in nEXO. One approach is to study electron drift properties in a small liquid xenon TPC using photoelectricity. The charged clusters are generated by driving a semi-transparent gold photocathode in transmission mode with a pulsed ultraviolet laser....
Dr
Yuuki Nakano
(Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, the university of Tokyo)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster solar
Super-Kamiokande (SK), a 50 kton water Cherenkov detector in Japan, has stably accumulated solar neutrinos over 20 years. With the long operation, SK has chance to search for periodic signals in the observed data.
The Sun does oscillate around its equilibrium state because of its restoring forces. The internal gravity modes, g-modes, may locally affect the electron density in the core of...
Dr
Takatomi Yano
(ICRR, The University of Tokyo)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster supernova
Hyper-Kamiokande (Hyper-K) is a proposed next generation neutrino experiment, aiming at the measurement which starts at 2026. Hyper-K project includes a high intensity accelerator neutrino beamline at J-PARC and one to two underground large water Cherenkov detectors as the far detectors. Each far detector will provide the fiducial volume of 0.19 Mt ultra-pure water, with its cylindrical water...
Mr
Miroslav Macko
(IEAP CTU in Prague / Comenius University in Bratislava / Université de Bordeaux)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
Energy calibration of SuperNEMO demonstrator will be performed by $^{207}$Bi sources. They were produced in form of point-like droplets deposited between two transparent mylar foils encased by rectangular frame. Deposited $^{207}$Bi droplet should be well centered within the rectangular frame in order to avoid uncertainties in the calibration which could have influence on the data quality....
Mr
Ryosuke AKUTSU
(University of Tokyo, ICRR)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
T2K is a long-baseline $\nu$ oscillation experiment. A $\nu_{\mu}$ beam produced at J-PARC in Japan is detected by the Super-Kamiokande(SK)far detector positioned at 295 km away from the beam source.
Neutrons accompanying $\nu$ interactions on water are of value to $\nu$ oscillation analyses and nucleon decay searches. These analyses need a precise Monte Carlo(MC) simulation that predicts...
Dr
Pin Lv
(Institute of high energy physics)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
The Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) is aiming to search for 0νββ decays of Xe-136 using a liquid xenon TPC. nEXO is the second phase of EXO with 5 tons of enriched liquid xenon TPC, which will employ ~4 m2 of SiPM arrays to detect the 175nm scintillation light from xenon. Overall photon detection efficiency includes the light transport efficiency in TPC and the photo-detection efficiency of...
Dr
Yury Gornushkin
(JINR)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
At the CERN SPS, the DsTau project has been proposed to study tau-neutrino production aiming at providing important information for future $\nu_\tau$ measurements. Precise measurement of the $\nu_\tau$ charged-current cross section would enable a search for new physics effects in $\nu_\tau$-nucleon CC interactions. The source of $\nu_\tau$ is the sequential decay of $D_s$ mesons produced by...
Mr
Gibran Morales
(Instituto de Astronomia-UNAM)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
Compact object binary mergers; neutron star-neutron star or neutron star-black hole have amply been discussed as progenitors of short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs). Whereas the strength of magnetic field in a neutron star-black hole merger can be $\sim 10^{12}$ G, in a binary neutron star system, the magnetic field could be amplified beyond $(\sim 10^{15}$ - $10^{16}\ )$ G. By calculating the...
Véronique Van Elewyck
(APC Laboratoire, Paris)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
Neutrino telescopes allow the collection of large samples of multi-TeV neutrinos.
Above a few tens of TeV, since the neutrino cross section increases with energy, the increasing absorption of neutrinos crossing the Earth modifies the energy spectrum of atmospheric neutrinos in a zenith-dependent way. These effects can be quantified using the high-purity neutrino samples collected with...
Mr
Simon Bienstock
(LPNHE)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
The T2K collaboration has reported world-leading results on neutrino oscillation parameters $\theta_{23}$, $\Delta m^2_{32}$, and $\delta_{CP}$ from measurements of muon (anti)neutrino disappearance and electron (anti)neutrino appearance in accelerator-produced muon (anti)neutrino beam. The oscillation analysis relies on neutrino flux and cross-section models that are tuned by near detector...
Dr
Alessandro Minotti
(Laboratoire d’Annecy de Physique des Particules), Dr
Cheryl Patrick
(University College London), Ms
Lauren Dawson
(University College London)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
SuperNEMO is searching for the neutrinoless double-beta decay process which, if observed, would prove the Majorana nature of the neutrino. It builds on the strengths of its predecessor, NEMO-3, which has set competitive $0\nu\beta\beta$ limits for multiple isotopes. Using an improved version of NEMO-3's tracker-calorimeter architecture, the SuperNEMO demonstrator aims to measure the...
Prof.
Alec Habig
(University of Minnesota Duluth)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster supernova
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) liquid argon time projection chambers will record the burst of neutrinos from the core collapse of a massive star in the Milky Way neighborhood. DUNE's liquid argon has unique sensitivity to the electron neutrino component of the burst. This poster will describe recent progress on reconstruction of supernova burst neutrinos in DUNE.
Dr
Xunjie XU
(MPIK)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster supernova
Modern neutrino facilities will be able to detect a large number of neutrinos from the next Galactic supernova. We investigate the viability of the triangulation method to locate a core-collapse supernova by employing the neutrino arrival time differences at various detectors. We perform detailed numerical fits in order to determine the uncertainties of these time differences for the cases...
Prof.
Carsten Krauss
(University of Alberta)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster supernova
The PICO 500 dark matter detector at SNOLAB will be be filled with about one tonne of superheated **$C_3F_8$** freon operating at a recoil threshold below 3keV. The new experiment will extend the reach for spin dependent interactions with a planned start of operation in 2019 at SNOLAB. The poster will provide an update on the status of the PICO 500 experiment and the dark matter sensitivity...
Micah Groh
(Indiana University), Dr
Reddy Pratap Gandrajula
(Michigan State University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
One of the key physics goals of NOvA is to constrain oscillation parameters such as the octant of $\theta_{23}$, $\delta_{cp}$, and the neutrino mass hierarchy via a joint $\nu_{\mu}+\nu_{e}$ oscillation analysis. We do this by propagating $\nu_\mu$s from the world's most powerful neutrino beam at Fermilab, over a baseline of 810 km to northern Minnesota, USA, and measure the $\nu_\mu$ to...
Mr
Tyler Alion
(University of Sussex)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
As the NOvA long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment takes more data, systematic uncertainty begins to more heavily impact the oscillation analyses. The largest effects are calibration on calorimetric energy, detector modeling on muon energy scale, and near-detector pileup on normalization of the far-detector expectation. Cross-section systematics will be discussed in another poster....
Dr
Daniele Fargion
(Physics Depart., ROME UNIVERSITY 1 and INFN)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
The Ultra High Energy neutrino astronomy at PeV has been partially opened by Icecube few events. The several abundant tens or hundred TeVs neutrino might be polluted by common or prompt charmed atmospheric neutrino. Indeed the absence of any galactic plane clustering, the paucity or absence of AGN or GRB gamma correlated neutrino events, as well as the absence of any gamma or X signal along...
Dr
Thomas Eberl
(ECAP / Erlangen university)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster atmospheric
ORCA is the low-energy branch of KM3NeT, the next-generation underwater Cherenkov neutrino detector currently being built in the Mediterranean Sea. The detector is optimised to study oscillations of atmospheric neutrinos in the few-GeV energy range in order to determine the neutrino mass ordering. Within its instrumented volume of more than 7 Mm$^3$ of sea water an unprecedented statistics of...
Mr
Haiqiong Zhang
(IHEP)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The physical goal of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy by precisely measuring the oscillation spectrum with 3% energy resolution at 1 MeV. Totally 20000 large area 20’’ tubes with high photon detection efficiency will be used to achieve this motivation, including 5000 Hamamatsu dynode PMTs and 15000 NNVT MCP PMTs. The JUNO...
Mr
Miguel Campos
(Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster sterile
In this work we analyse the possibility of measuring sterile neutrino dark matter in direct detection experiments, such as XENON100 and its future stages. In particular we focus on the keV range, studying the interaction of these particles with electrons in bound states.
Mr
Hans Th. J. Steiger
(TUM)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
In the planned JUNO (Jinangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory) Detector 20 kt of liquid scintillator (LS) will be used as neutrino target. A 120 mm thin highly transparent acrylic hollow sphere stores the target in a water tank. Slightly different filling levels in the tank and the sphere during the filling of these volumes or during detector operation could cause fatal damage of the sphere....
Mr
Paulo Brás
(LZ Collaboration, LIP)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is a 7 active tonne liquid xenon (LXe) time projection chamber designed primarily to search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate dark matter (DM) particle. Natural xenon contains 8.9% of the isotope 136Xe, a known double beta decay element, endowing LZ with sensitivity to a rare double beta decay process, occurring without the...
Dr
ZHONGHUA QIN
(Institute of High Energy Physics, China)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multi-purpose neutrino experiment under construction. The primary goal is to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy and precisely measure the oscillation parameters by detecting reactor anti-neutrinos. There will be around 20000 PMTs with a large photo-cathode of 20-inch equipped for the JUNO experiment, which includes 15000 MCP PMTs...
Mr
Zachary Matthews
(University of Adelaide)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster sterile
We investigate the impact of a light sterile neutrino ($\sim$1eV) on the data expected
from currently running LBL experiment NO$\nu$A and future experiment DUNE. If an eV scale sterile neutrino exists, and has non-zero mixing with the other neutrinos then nature of the predictions for the mass hierarchy, CP-violation and octant by these two experiments will be modified. Parameter degeneracy...
Dr
Bei-Zhen Hu
(National Taiwan University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
In addition to 18000 20-inch large PMTs (LPMTs), the JUNO Experiment will use 25000 3-inch small photomultiplier tubes (SPMTs) to help control the non-stochastic term of the energy resolution and to improve the reconstruction of cosmic-ray muons and supernova burst neutrino events, among other benefits. The 3-inch PMTs are required to have good resolution for single photoelectrons, high...
Andrey ELAGIN
(University of Chicago)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
Large-Area Picosecond Photo-Detectors (LAPPD) can enhance scientific reach of future liquid-based neutrino detectors by allowing for optical tracking and event topology reconstruction. In order to enable high volume production of LAPPD to provide sufficient photo-coverage in future large-scale experiments the next generation of LAPPD is being developed. The Gen-II LAPPD is a 20x20 cm$^2$...
Prof.
Matthew Wetstein
(Iowa State)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) has completed Phase I background measurements and is now progressing towards its Phase II physics measurement. Located in the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB), the experiment has two primary goals: (1) perform a measurement of the production of neutrons from $\nu_{\mu}$ interactions as a function of $Q^2$ to constrain...
Dr
Jonathan Eisch
(Iowa State University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) at Fermilab will use 30 tons of gadolinium-enhanced water to capture and detect the otherwise invisible neutrons produced in complex neutrino-nucleus interactions in addition to traditional water-Cherenkov charged particle detection. The number of these final-state neutrons helps constrain the interaction type and the kinematics...
Mr
Robert Temminghoff
(TU Dortmund)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
The COBRA collaboration aims to search for $0\nu\beta\beta$-decay, a lepton-number
violating process which could provide information about new physics beyond
the Standard Model. For this COBRA uses CdZnTe room-temperature
semiconductor detectors in a low-background environment at the LNGS in Italy.
The COBRA demonstrator setup has recently been upgraded to the
extended demonstrator...
Mr
Alexander Fulst
(Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino experiment is a model-independent measurement of the neutrino mass from the tritium β decay spectrum, aiming for a sensitivity of 0.2 eV/c² (90% C.L.). The CKrS has been developed as a source for absolute energy calibration, monitoring and determination of the transmission function of the MAC-E-filter spectrometer. It utilizes nearly mono-energetic conversion...
Prof.
Christopher Grant
(Boston University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
The emergence of Water-based Liquid Scintillator (WbLS) and ultra-fast, high-efficiency photon detection has opened up new avenues in neutrino detector development. WbLS provides a mechanism for tuning light yields and loading isotopes and metallic ions. Using WbLS in-situ with fast photon sensors could yield directional information from Cherenkov light further enhancing background rejection...
Mr
Philipp Soldin
(RWTH Aachen University Germany)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
Double Chooz is a reactor neutrino disappearance experiment with the purpose of a precise mesurement of the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$. The experimental setup consists of two identical liquid scintillator detectors at average baselines of about 400m and 1km to two reactor cores at the nuclear power plant in Chooz, France. The neutrinos are detected by measuring the signature of the...
Dr
Loredana Gastaldo
(Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, Universität Heidelberg)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
The present upper limit on the electron neutrino mass $m(𝜈_{\mathrm{e}})$ is still at 225 eV. The Electron Capture in $^{163}$Ho experiment, ECHo, is designed to investigate $m(𝜈_{\mathrm{e}})$ in the sub-eV region.
In ECHo, high sensitivity on a finite m(𝜈𝑒) will be reached by the analysis of the endpoint region in high statistics and high resolution calorimetrically measured $^{163}$Ho...
Mr
Yongbo Huang
(Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, China)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
Since the first observation of a non-zero $sin^{2}2\theta_{13}$ with a $5.2 \sigma$ significance in 2012, the Daya Bay experiment lead the precision measurement of the $sin^{2}2\theta_{13}$ and presented the best $|\Delta m^{2}_{ee}|$ of the world. A precise measurement of the absolute neutrino flux and spectrum was also performed. Both analyses require a precise modeling of the detector...
Giulia Brunetti
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
The ENUBET ERC-CoG prject is funded (2016-2021) to prove the possibility to monitor lepton production in the decay tunnel of neutrino beams at single particle level thus providing a 1% measurement of the flux at source. In particular, the three body semileptonic decay of kaons monitored by large angle positron production offers a fully controlled nu_e source at the GeV scale for a new...
Dr
Justin Evans
(University of Manchester)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster atmospheric
The successes of the IceCube project have included the discovery of astrophysical neutrinos and neutrino-oscillation measurements. Work is ongoing towards extensions of the IceCube detector, for the first phase of which, the first seven strings of a dense, low-energy infill will be installed in the centre of IceCube. These strings - called the IceCube Upgrade - will allow the atmospheric...
Dr
david lhuillier
(CEA Saclay)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The STEREO experiment is measuring the antineutrino flux emitted by the reactor of the ILL in Grenoble-France. About 400 antineutrinos per day of data taking are currently detected. The target volume, segmented in 6 detector cells, allows for a search of a light sterile neutrino in a way independent of prior knowledge on the reactor. However the detected spectrum will also provide a new...
Dr
Ralph Massarczyk
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
The observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay would show that lepton number is violated, reveal that neutrinos are Majorana particles, A discovery-capable experiment covering the inverted hierarchy, with effective Majorana neutrino
masses of 15-50 meV, will require a tonne-scale experiment with excellent energy resolution and extremely low backgrounds (∼ 0.1 ct /(FWHM t yr)) in the region...
Ms
Chiara F Lastoria
(CIEMAT (Madrid))
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
The ProtoDUNE-DP experiment aims to build and operate a 6x6x6 m3 LAr TPC prototype to fully demonstrate the dual-phase technology at large scale for the next generation long-baseline neutrino detector, DUNE. DUNE plans to install four 10-kton LAr TPC detectors to measure neutrino oscillations at 1300-km distance from the neutrino beam, to perform neutrino astrophysics studies, and nucleon...
Dr
XinRan Liu
(University of Edinburgh)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
Gamma ray spectroscopy using germanium detectors is a key method for the measurement of trace material contamination for the construction of neutrino-less double beta decay or dark matter experiments. Moreover, the measurements inform the experimental background models against which any potential signal is evaluated. A new world-class screening facility has been established at the newly...
Dr
Nikolaos Vassilopoulos
(IHEP, CAS)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
In this poster, the neutrino beam produced at the Experimental Muon Source (EMuS) at China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) is presented. EMuS is foreseen to produce intense muon beams for muon science using the CSNS accelerator complex. EMuS could be also operated in neutrino mode in order to achieve neutrino cross section measurements and to search for new physics. The layout and the...
Dr
Peter Rowson
(SLAC),
andrea pocar
(umass amherst)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
nEXO, a next-generation experiment to search for neutrino-less double beta decay, uses 5 tonnes of enriched liquid xenon instrumented as a single-drift time projection chamber (TPC) and contained inside an ultra-low background, right-cylindrical copper vessel 1.2 m long. Xenon scintillation is detected by an array of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs). Ionization is collected on a segmented...
Prof.
Karol Lang
(University of Texas at Austin)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
NOvA is a long-baseline off-axis beam neutrino experiment at Fermilab and Ash River, Minnesota. By measuring $\nu_\mu$ disappearance and $\nu_e$ appearance at the 14 kiloton NOvA Far Detector, the experiment is addressing outstanding questions in neutrino physics, including the neutrino mass hierarchy and existence of leptonic CP violation. The NOvA Test Beam program, under deployment at the...
Mr
Andrew Smith
(The University of Cambridge)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
Pattern recognition is an essential aspect in the reconstruction of particle interactions in liquid argon time projection chamber experiments. The novel multi-algorithm approach implemented in the Pandora software [1,2], developed in Cambridge, uses many tens of algorithms to gradually build up an image of the event and has been used successfully for pattern recognition in a number of particle...
Dr
Jürgen Brunner
(CPPM)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
The ORCA detector is part of the KM3NeT project. It is currently under construction 40 km off-shore Toulon, France. With an energy threshold of a few GeV and an effective mass of several Mtons, ORCA will make high precision measurements with atmospheric neutrinos.
A neutrino beam from the accelerator center IHEP in Protvino (Russia) to ORCA (France) with a baseline of 2590 km will add...
Mr
Alexander Tietzsch
(Uni Tübingen),
Björn Wonsak
(UniHH Opera)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
To reach the goal of determining the neutrino mass hierarchy, all parts of the JUNO experiment
need to meet certain quality criteria, especially those which are related to the final energy resolution of the detector. This is relevant in particular for the 20’000 20-inch photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) to be deployed in JUNO. Therefore, all PMTs will be checked and characterized with two...
Dr
Bei-Zhen Hu
(National Taiwan University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment consists of eight functionally identical detectors placed underground at different baselines from six 2.9 GW reactor cores. In 2012, the experiment announced the discovery of a non-zero value of $\sin^2 2 \theta_{13}$ with a significance better than 5 $\sigma$, based on a dataset collected with six antineutrino detectors. In the summer of...
Thomas Kutter
(LSU)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will use large liquid argon (LAr) detectors to measure the CP violating phase, determine the neutrino mass hierarchy and perform precision tests of the three-flavor paradigm in long-baseline neutrino oscillations. The underground laboratory will house four detectors, each with a fiducial mass of 10 kt of LAr. Due to its unprecedented size, DUNE...
Mr
Wenqi Yan
(IHEP)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
We are studying and designing a novel high pressure (~10bar, Ne+TMA=95:5) gas TPC detector based on the thick-GEM or Micromegas to detect the neutrino energy spectrum of the reactor, which will provide an input for JUNO to determine the neutrino hierarchy. By detecting the energy and scattering angle of the elastic scattering electron, which happens between the reactor neutrino and gas, we...
Dr
Dmitry Akimov
(NRC "Kurchatov Institute" - ITEP & NRNU MEPhI)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster coherent scattering
The RED-100 detector has been built for observation of CEvNS (Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nucleus Scattering) at the Kalinin nuclear power plant (KNPP).
The RED-100 is a two-phase xenon emission detector which is sensitive the extremely low ionization signals (down to single ionization electrons) in a massive target (~100-kg in FV). This corresponds to energies < 1 keV of Xe nuclear...
Dr
Matthew Malek
(University of Sheffield)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
The Theia experiment is a proposed 50 - 100 kilotonne next-generation detector for neutrinos and nucleon decay. In recent years, the development of Water-based Liquid Scintillator (WbLS) has made possible a detector with tunable light yields that can be adjusted to optimise for a broad range of physics goals. These include searches for neutrinoless double-beta decay, a target for a...
Jaret Heise
(Sanford Underground Research Facility)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster etc.
Building on rich legacies, the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) has been operating for over 10 years as a facility dedicated to supporting underground research. Laboratory facilities include a Surface Campus with recently upgraded capabilities as well as two main campuses at the 4850-foot level (4300 m.w.e.) - the Davis Campus and the Ross Campus - that host a range of significant...
Dr
SeungCheon Kim
(Institute for Basic Science)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
The AMoRE(Advanced Mo based Rare process Experiment) collaboration intends to find neutrinoless
double beta decay of Mo-100 using CaMoO$_4$ crystals. The crystals are equipped with MMC-type phonon and photon
sensors to detect both thermal and scintillation signals from particle interactions in the crystals cooled down to 10~20 mK.
The experiment is to be realized in three phases. AMoRE...
Dr
Zhimin wang
(Institute of High Energy phisics, CAS)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multi-purpose underground experiment and the largest liquid scintillator (LS) detector going for neutrino mass hierarchy, precise neutrino oscillation parameter measurement and studies of other rare processes which include but not limited to solar neutrino, geo-neutrino, supernova neutrinos and the diffuse supernova neutrinos...
Dr
João Pedro Athayde Marcondes de André
(IPHC/CNRS/IN2P3)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The JUNO experiment is under preparation in China.
It's main goal is to determine the $\nu$ mass ordering via the precise measurement of the energy spectrum of $\bar\nu$ from nuclear reactors 53 km away.
To achieve JUNO's goals it is essential to suppress or control the
background processes rate that fake the signal
from $\nu$ in the Central Detector (CD).
The most dangerous of those is...
Prof.
susanne mertens
(TUM/MPP)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster sterile
Sterile neutrinos are a natural extension of the Standard Model of particle physics. With a mass in the keV-range they could account for a significant fraction of the dark matter in the universe. A unique way to search for these sterile neutrinos in a model-independent laboratory experiment is via tritium beta decay.
The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN) is a large-scale...
Dr
Justyna Lagoda
(NCBJ), Dr
Marco Zito
(IRFU/DPHP CEA Saclay)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
The T2K collaboration has launched the upgrade project for its near detector ND280 with the aim of reducing the overall uncertainties at better than 4\% . In January 2018 the proposal has been submitted to the CERN SPSC (CERN-SPSC-P357) and to the JPARC PAC. The project aims at installing innovative detectors to significantly increase the physics capabilities. It includes two High-Angle...
Mr
Francis Bench
(University of Liverpool), Dr
Steve Dennis
(University of Liverpool)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
VALOR is a neutrino oscillation software fitting package, originally designed for the T2K experiment. It is a powerful, flexible, well-validated, and optimised analysis and framework which is now used on several other experiments.
It has been used for evaluation of DUNE physics goals as well as in preparations for the physics exploitation of the Fermilab SBN programme.
VALOR is capable of...
Dr
Cong Guo
(Institute of High Energy Physics)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), a 20 kton multi-purpose underground liquid scintillator detector, is under construction with the determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy as a primary physics goal. To suppress natural radioactivity and neutrons from rock, the central detector is surrounded with at least 2.5 meters ultra-pure water. About 2000 MCP-PMTs are equipped to...
Sebastian Böser
(Universität Mainz / PRISMA)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster new technologies
Large-area low-noise photon sensors with single-photon detection capability play a vital role for many detectors in astroparticle physics, such as neutrino telescopes. In conventional photo-multipliers scintillation light from radioactive decays typically dominates over the thermionic noise, both of which increase with the size of the photosensitive area. Using wavelength-shifting and...
Thomas Carroll
(University of Texas at Austin)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
The MINOS+ experiment began using the MINOS detectors with a higher energy neutrino beam in September 2013. For three years MINOS+ collected data from the Medium Energy NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab and atmospheric neutrinos. Results for the measurement of $\Delta m^2_{32}$ and $\theta_{23}$ using muon neutrino disappearance from the complete MINOS+ data set will be presented. These results...
Dr
Javier Galan
(CEA Saclay)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
The search for the neutrinoless double beta decay (0$\nu\beta\beta$) is one of the most important quests nowadays in neutrino physics. Among the different techniques used, High Pressure Xenon (HPXe) gas Time Projection Chambers (TPC) stand out because they allow to image the topology of the 0$\nu\beta\beta$ event (one straggling track ending in two blobs), and use it to discriminate signal...
Ms
Huiling Li
(Shandong University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster supernova
For the future large liquid scintillator detectors, given a typical galactic distance of 10 kpc and typical SN parameters, for instance the JUNO detector will register about 5000 events from the inverse beta decay (IBD), 2000 events from all-flavor elastic neutrino-proton scattering, as well as more than 300 events from neutrino-electron scattering, and the charge current and neutral current...
Dr
Raquel Castillo Fernandez
(Fermilab)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
One of the main limiting factors in nu oscillation analysis is our understanding on the nu-nucleus scattering. In the particular case of a heavy nucleus, such as argon, we expect to be dominated by the nuclear structure modeling. MicroBooNE is a liquid argon time projection chamber located at 470 meters from the target of the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) which provides an almost pure NuMu beam,...
Prof.
Karsten Heeger
(Yale University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
PROSPECT, the Precision Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment, is a reactor antineutrino experiment designed to search for eV-scale sterile neutrinos and measure the spectrum of antineutrinos from highly-enriched 235U at the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR). PROSPECT uses a 4-ton, segmented 6Li-doped liquid scintillator detector to make a high-resolution measurement of the prompt energy spectrum...
Brooke Russell
(Yale University)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
MicroBooNE is an approximately 90 metric ton single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) and the first of a trio of LArTPCs in the Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program which will search for a light sterile neutrino and measure neutrino-argon interaction cross sections. Located in the Booster neutrino beam at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, MicroBooNE has taken neutrino...
Dr
Andrew Furmanski
(University of Manchester)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
One of the primary challenges in current and future precision neutrino oscillation measurements is understanding nuclear effects in neutrino-nucleus interactions. Current models are known to be deficient in a number of areas, leading to relatively large uncertainties which will become limiting soon. MicroBooNE is a liquid argon TPC in the booster neutrino beam at Fermilab, which has the...
Dr
Matthew Lawe
(Lancaster University)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
As neutrino oscillation experiments continue to improve their sensitivity, it is increasingly important to understand and constrain the details of neutrino interactions with complex nuclei. As part of this drive comes the desire to measure single pion production mechanisms, which can provide particular insight into the cross sections for neutrino interactions that induce baryon resonances and...
Mr
Alexander Booth
(University of Sussex)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster supernova
Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs) are sensitive to low energy electron neutrinos via a charged current interaction on argon. The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment’s (DUNE’s) 40kt far detector at the Homestake mine in South Dakota will therefore offer a unique opportunity to study supernova neutrinos. The detection of galactic supernova burst neutrinos, a primary physics goal...
Mr
Ying-Ting Lin
(University of Washington)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
The Tritium Recoil-Ion Mass Spectrometer (TRIMS) experiment measures the branching ratio of molecular tritium (T$_2$ and HT) beta decay to their bound states ($^3$HeT$^+$ and $^3$HeH$^+$). This measurement will help validate the current molecular final-state theory utilized by neutrino mass experiments such as KATRIN and Project 8. TRIMS consists of a 60-kV acceleration chamber with magnetic...
Prof.
Nepomuk Otte
(Georgia Institute of Technology)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
The predictions of the cosmogenic-neutrino flux at 1e9 GeV are pretty solid and depend mostly on the composition of the cosmic-rays above 1e10 GeV. It is, therefore, no surprise that the hunt to detect the first cosmogenic neutrino is a hot topic in astroparticle physics. But pushing the experimental sensitivity into the predicted flux region is a challenge. A major obstacle for experiments is...
Manuel Klein
(KIT)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster direct neutrino mass
The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment aims at the model-independent measurement of the electron neutrino mass. KATRIN is designed for a neutrino mass sensitivity of 0.2 eV (90\% CL) after three years of measurement time. In May 2018, KATRIN performed its First Tritium measurements. Along with the beta electrons, tritium beta decay creates ions inside the tritium source. The...
Mr
Francisco Pedreira
(University of Santiago de Compostela)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
Neutrinos in the cosmic ray flux with energies above 100 PeV are detectable with the Surface Detector array (SD) of the Pierre Auger Observatory. Neutrino identification is efficiently done for neutrinos of all flavors interacting in the atmosphere at large zenith angles, as well as for Earth-skimming tau neutrinos.
No neutrino candidates were found up to 31 Mar 2017, and this allowed to...
Prof.
Sankagiri Umasankar
(Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
A combined analysis of disappearance and appearance data of NOvA
experiment gives three nearly degenerate solutions. This degeneracy
can be understood by the following argument: We first consider $\nu_e$
appearance signal due to vacuum oscillations in the limit of
maximal $\theta_{23}$ and no CP-violation. We then calculate the
deviations induced in the signal event rate by (a)...
Mr
Francis Bench
(The University of Liverpool)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
I report the results of a search for $\bar{\nu}_{\mu} \rightarrow \bar{\nu}_{e}$ oscillations at the T2K experiment in a 3-flavour framework using an exposure of $1.49 \times 10^{21}$ Protons On Target (POT) in $\nu$ mode and $1.12 \times 10^{21}$ POT in $\bar{\nu}$ mode, an increase of $50\%$ in the $\bar{\nu}$ exposure compared to results reported in 2016.
Results are reported for a joint...
Dr
Konstantin Gusev
(JINR)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
The GERDA (GERmanium Detector Array) experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso of INFN, Italy, is designed to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{76}$Ge. In GERDA for the first time ever detectors are directly immersed in liquid argon which works as a cooling medium and as an additional active shield against external radioactivity. Phase II data taking started in...
Dr
Adrien Hourlier
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster accelerator
MicroBooNE is a 90 ton fiducial volume Liquid Argon TPC (LArTPC) neutrino experiment on the Booster Neutrino Beamline at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. One of MicroBooNE’s primary physics goal is to investigate the excess of $\nu_e$ seen by MiniBooNE in the [200-600] MeV range. MicroBooNE will constrain the excess of $\nu_e$ from their expected intrinsic component in the beam by...
Mr
Wrijupan Bhattacharyya
(DESY, Platanenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster high energy neutrinos & cosmic rays
On 22nd September, 2017 a high energy neutrino event was detected by the IceCube neutrino detector in spatial
coincidence to the blazar TXS0506+056, which was also observed by the Fermi-LAT satellite to be in a state of enhanced gamma-ray activity. These observations triggered a series of multi-messenger and multi-wavelength (MWL) campaigns. On 24th September 2017, the MAGIC telescopes...
Christoph Wiesinger
(TU München)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
In-situ production of long-lived isotopes by cosmic muon interactions may generate a non-negligible background for deep underground rare event searches.
Previous Monte Carlo studies for the GERDA experiment at LNGS identified the delayed decays of $^{77}$Ge and its metastable state $^{77m}$Ge as dominant cosmogenic background contribution in the search for neutrinoless double beta decay of...
Dr
Haoqi Lu
(Institute of High Energy Physics,CAS), Prof.
Ruiguang Wang
(Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a 20 kton liquid scintillator detector with primary physics goal of neutrino mass hierarchy determination and other measurements, including precise neutrino oscillation parameters, solar neutrino, geo-neutrino, supernova neutrinos and the diffuse supernova neutrinos background. The detector will be built in 700m deep underground...
Ms
Michaela Schever
(Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster reactor
The JUNO (Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory) experiment is a multi-purpose neutrino experiment currently under construction in Jiangmen, China.
The primary goal is to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy by measuring
reactor antineutrinos at a baseline of 53 km. The 20 kton liquid-scintillator
detector aims at achieving an outstanding energy resolution of...
Dr
Suprabh Prakash
(Instituto de Fisica "Gleb Wataghin" - Unicamp)
Poster (participating in poster prize competition)
Poster cross sections
We show that neutral current (NC) measurements at neutrino detectors can play a valuable role in the search for new physics. Such measurements have certain intrinsic features and advantages that can fruitfully be combined with the usual well-studied charged lepton detection channels in order to probe the presence of new interactions or new light states. NC measurements provide access to...
Prof.
Yoshiyuki Fukuda
(Miyagi University of Education)
Poster (not participating in poster prize competition)
Poster 0vbb
A liquid scintillator containing a tetrakis (isopropyl acetoacetate) zirconium has been developed for new project of neutrinoless $^{96}$Zr double beta decay experiment. The liquid scintillator has 1.4 wt.% concentration of Zr, light yield of $48 \pm 7.1 $% for BC505, and an energy resolution of $2.5 \pm 0.4$ % at 3.35 MeV assuming 64 % photo coverage. In order to investigate a half-life over...
