Bulletin of the American Physical Society
83rd Annual Meeting of the APS Southeastern Section
Volume 61, Number 19
Thursday–Saturday, November 10–12, 2016; Charlottesville, Virginia
Session H1: Intensity frontier: Neutrinos |
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Chair: Jon Link, Virginia Tech University Room: West Ballroom |
Friday, November 11, 2016 1:30PM - 2:00PM |
H1.00001: Update on Neutrino Astrophysics Invited Speaker: Thomas Weiler We review some of the latest results in Neutrino Astrophysics. Each neutrino event comes from the distant Universe with an energy, direction, and flavor tag. Each of these neutrino attributes is important, in ways that we discuss. [Preview Abstract] |
Friday, November 11, 2016 2:00PM - 2:30PM |
H1.00002: Review of Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiments $\backslash {f1} Invited Speaker: Thomas Kutter Long-baseline neutrino experiments employ accelerators to produce neutrino beams and a combination of near and far detectors to measure fundamental neutrino properties and symmetries in nature. The experiments measure the disappearance of beam neutrinos of one flavor and the appearance of neutrinos of another flavor and thereby provide information on neutrino oscillation parameters. A comparison of neutrino and anti-neutrino oscillations allows to search for charge-parity (CP) violation. I will present an overview of past, present and future projects, describe key design features and highlight recent results before concluding with an outlook on the measurement prospects of the next generation of neutrino long-baseline experiments. [Preview Abstract] |
Friday, November 11, 2016 2:30PM - 3:00PM |
H1.00003: Quest for the Nature of the Neutrino Invited Speaker: Reyco Henning Neutrinos are remarkable particles. They are the only known fermions that interact only via the weak force and have unusually small but finite masses. Although we have learned much about their nature over the past decades, fundamental question remain. A key one is whether neutrinos are Majorana fermions, which would imply that they are their own antiparticles. Surprisingly, this is a very difficult property to test experimentally, and the current best experimental method is to search for neutrinoless nuclear double-beta decay (NDBD). Just demonstrating the existence of this decay would show that neutrinos are Majorana fermions. In this talk I will give a theoretical and historical overview of NDBD, followed by a discussion of the experimental challenges and current international efforts to search for NDBD. [Preview Abstract] |
Friday, November 11, 2016 3:00PM - 3:30PM |
H1.00004: The Supernova Neutrino Burst Invited Speaker: John Cherry The neutrino burst from core collapse supernovae represents a tremendous opportunity to observe physical processes in the heart of an exploding star. The interactions of neutrinos with the matter in and around the proto-neutron star which powers the supernova provides an in-situ probe of the explosion. Details regarding the core compactness, neutron matter equation of state, shock behavior, nucleo-synthetic products, explosion time scale, fundamental neutrino properties and more may be detectable, in principle. However, the neutrino interactions in the envelope of the star can be considerably complicated by macroscopic quantum coherent effects of neutrinos forward scattering on the matter of the envelope as well as one another. I will review possible signals for the next generation of neutrino detectors to observe and reconstruct from realistic models of neutrino emission from supernovae which take account of coherent flavor oscillation effects in a time-dependent and consistent fashion. [Preview Abstract] |
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