Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2016
Volume 61, Number 6
Saturday–Tuesday, April 16–19, 2016; Salt Lake City, Utah
Session J2: Neutrino OscillationsInvited
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Sponsoring Units: DPF Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University Room: Ballroom A |
Sunday, April 17, 2016 10:45AM - 11:21AM |
J2.00001: Neutrino Theory Overview Invited Speaker: Andre De Gouvea I review the current theoretical and phenomenological status of neutrino physics. I will discuss our current understanding of neutrino properties, open questions, the different new physics ideas behind nonzero neutrino masses, and the challenges of piecing together the neutrino mass puzzle. I will also comment on the new physics reach of the current and the next generation of neutrino oscillation experiments. [Preview Abstract] |
Sunday, April 17, 2016 11:21AM - 11:57AM |
J2.00002: MicroBooNE and the broader SBN program Invited Speaker: Wesley Ketchum MicroBooNE has begun collecting and analyzing neutrino interaction events in its Liquid Argon Time-Projection Chamber (LArTPC) located on the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB) at Fermilab. Over the coming years, MicroBooNE will measure neutrino-Ar interactions, elucidate the origin of the ``low-energy excess" observed by the MiniBooNE experiment, and further the development of LArTPC detector technology and event reconstruction. MicroBooNE is also the beginning of Fermilab's short-baseline neutrino program, which will see two new detectors located on the BNB starting in 2018. Together, these three detectors will perform a search for eV mass-scale sterile neutrinos through measurements of standard neutrino oscillations in both appearance and disappearance channels. I will describe the MicroBooNE LArTPC, highlight the advantages and challenges of LArTPCs as neutrino detectors, show the status of the event reconstruction and analysis, and discuss the future plans for MicroBooNE and the short-baseline neutrino program at Fermilab. [Preview Abstract] |
Sunday, April 17, 2016 11:57AM - 12:33PM |
J2.00003: Results and Status of the T2K and NOvA long-baseline neutrino experiments. Invited Speaker: Mathew Muether The discovery of neutrino oscillations and the resulting implication that neutrinos have mass, recently awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, has bolstered a world-wide effort to exploit this effect as a handle on the properties of neutrinos. In the decades since the initial discovery of neutrino oscillations, great strides have been made in understanding the nature of these elusive particles, yet important and fundamental questions remain open, such as: How are the neutrino masses ordered? And Do neutrinos and antineutrinos oscillate differently? The current generation of accelerator based long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments, T2K in Japan and NOvA in the United States, are actively pursuing the answers to these questions. In this talk, I will review the recent results and current status of the T2K and NOvA long-baseline neutrino experiments. [Preview Abstract] |
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