Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2011 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics
Volume 56, Number 12
Wednesday–Saturday, October 26–29, 2011; East Lansing, Michigan
Session HB: Neutrinos From Heaven and Earth |
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Chair: Rex Tayloe, Indiana University Room: Auditorium |
Friday, October 28, 2011 10:30AM - 11:06AM |
HB.00001: Recent Results in Solar Neutrinos Invited Speaker: Richard Saldanha Solar neutrinos are an invaluable tool for studying neutrino oscillations in matter as well as probing the nuclear reactions that fuel the Sun. In this talk I will give an overview of solar neutrinos and discuss the latest results in the field. I will highlight the recent precision measurement of the $^7$Be solar neutrino interaction rate with the Borexino solar neutrino detector and present the status of the analysis of pep and CNO neutrinos. I will also briefly describe future experiments and their potential to detect low energy solar neutrinos. [Preview Abstract] |
Friday, October 28, 2011 11:06AM - 11:42AM |
HB.00002: New Results from Long Baseline Experiments Invited Speaker: Kate Scholberg Experiments using high-energy beams of neutrinos detected after they have propagated hundreds of kilometers aim to improve knowledge of neutrino mixing. The current physics emphasis of long baseline beam neutrino oscillation experiments is on the measurement of the $\theta_{13}$ mixing angle and on muon neutrino disappearance. This talk will review new results from the current long baseline experiments T2K, MINOS and OPERA (and the implications of these results), and will also cover prospects for future measurements with experiments in the US, Europe and Asia. [Preview Abstract] |
Friday, October 28, 2011 11:42AM - 12:18PM |
HB.00003: What can geo-neutrinos tell us about the Earth? Invited Speaker: Nikolai Tolich The principal source of energy for dynamic processes of the earth, such as plate tectonics, is thought to come from the radioactive decays of $^{238}$U, $^{232}$Th, and $^{40}$K within the earth. These decays produce electron-antineutrinos, so-called geo-neutrinos, the measurement of which near the earth's surface allows for a direct measure of the total radiogenic heat generation in the earth. The KamLAND and Borexino experiments have both recently measured a geo-neutrino flux significantly greater than zero. I will discuss how these and future measurements can constrain our knowledge of the earth. [Preview Abstract] |
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