Belen Gavela
8/19/13, 8:40 AM
Prof.
Patrick Huber
(Virginia Tech)
8/19/13, 9:10 AM
Steen Hannestad
8/19/13, 9:40 AM
Prof.
Andre de Gouvea
(Northwestern University)
8/19/13, 10:40 AM
Dr
Mauro Mezzetto
(INFN)
8/19/13, 11:10 AM
Prof.
Takeshi Nakadaira
(KEK)
8/19/13, 11:40 AM
Prof.
Kenneth Long
(Imperial College London)
8/19/13, 12:10 PM
Dr
Jaroslaw Pasternak
(Imperial College London/RAL-STFC)
8/19/13, 1:30 PM
Dr
Marco Zito
(IRFU CEA Saclay)
8/19/13, 2:00 PM
Dr
Chris Densham
(STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
8/19/13, 2:30 PM
Prof.
Jingyu tang
(Accelerator center)
8/19/13, 3:00 PM
Prof.
Daniel Kaplan
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
, Dr
Michael Zisman
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
8/20/13, 8:30 AM
Prof.
Alexandre Sousa
(University of Cincinnati)
,
WG1 convenor
8/20/13, 9:00 AM
WG2 convenor
8/20/13, 9:15 AM
WG3 convenor
8/20/13, 9:30 AM
Dr
Giovanni Signorelli
(INFN Pisa)
8/20/13, 9:45 AM
Dr
Marcos Dracos
(IPHC-IN2P3/CNRS)
8/20/13, 10:30 AM
Mr
Chris Marshall
(Univ. Rochester)
8/20/13, 10:30 AM
Neutrino Scattering Physics
Quasi-elastic neutrino scattering is a valuable tool for determining the neutrino beam energy in oscillation experiments and provides a means of studying multi-nucleon final states. Disagreements exist between measurements for neutrino energies below 1 GeV on scintillator and those at higher energies. MINERvA (Main INjector Experiment for v-A) is a neutrino scattering experiment in the NuMI...
Dr
David Hadley
(University of Warwick)
8/20/13, 10:55 AM
Dr
Jonathan Paley
(Argonne National Laboratory)
8/20/13, 10:55 AM
Neutrino Oscillation Physics
The NuMI Off-Axis $\nu_e$ Appearance (\nova) experiment, currently under construction, is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment optimized for the measurement of $\nu_\mu \rightarrow \nu_e$ appearance. The experiment consists of two nearly identical fully-active liquid-scintillator tracking calorimeter detectors separated by 810 km and exposed to an upgraded 700 kW NuMI beam from...
Dr
Nikolaos Vassilopoulos
(IPHC, CNRS)
8/20/13, 11:00 AM
Dr
Nicholas Graf
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
8/20/13, 11:20 AM
Dr
Chih-hsiang Cheng
(California Institute of Technology)
8/20/13, 11:20 AM
Mr
Philippe Velten
(CERN EN-STI)
8/20/13, 11:30 AM
Tingjun Yang
(Fermilab)
8/20/13, 11:45 AM
Neutrino Scattering Physics
The liquid argon TPC (LArTPC) is a novel technique that provides excellent energy and spacial resolution and is an optimal tool to study neutrino-nucleus interactions. ArgoNeuT was the first LArTPC placed in a low energy neutrino beam. During the 5 months of running, ArgoNeuT accumulated several thousand neutrino and antineutrino interactions in the liquid argon. In this talk, I will discuss...
Prof.
Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla
(Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar)
8/20/13, 11:45 AM
Dr
Tetsuro Sekiguchi
(KEK)
8/20/13, 1:30 PM
Dr
Jianjun Yang
(CIAE)
8/20/13, 2:00 PM
Prof.
Kirk T McDonald
(Princeton University)
8/20/13, 2:30 PM
Dr
Hisham Sayed
(Brookhaven National Lab)
8/20/13, 3:00 PM
Accelerator Physics
The Neutrino Factory 4MW target system is optimized to increase the captured muon count that fits within the acceptance of the subsequent acceleration section. A proposed staged Neutrino Factory, producing lower muon intensities of 10^20 muons per year assumes a 1 MW target station. The proton driver of the scaled down target station has a lower intensity and lower energy (3 GeV) which could...
Dr
Pavlovic Zarko
(LANL)
8/20/13, 4:00 PM
Neutrino Scattering Physics
Dr
Juan Nieves
(IFIC (CSIC-UV))
8/20/13, 4:25 PM
Dr
William Briscoe
(The George Washington University)
8/20/13, 4:35 PM
Alain Blondel
(DPNC UNiversity og Geneva)
8/20/13, 4:40 PM
Neutrino Oscillation Physics
The LAGUNA-LBNO European design study aims at defining a deep underground neutrino observatory for the study of neutrino oscillations at long baselines, the investigation of the Grand Unification of elementary forces and for the detection of known and unknown astrophysical sources of neutrinos. For the neutrino oscillation studies, the project is specifically considering long baseline neutrino...
Dr
Krzysztof Graczyk
(IFT, University of Wrocław)
8/20/13, 4:50 PM
David Neuffer
(Fermilab)
8/20/13, 5:00 PM
Dr
David Adey
(Fermilab)
8/21/13, 8:30 AM
Pilar Coloma
(Center for Neutrino Physics at Virginia Tech)
8/21/13, 8:50 AM
Dr
Jonathan Paley
(Argonne National Laboratory)
8/21/13, 8:55 AM
Neutrino Scattering Physics
The NuMI Off-Axis $\nu_e$ Appearance (\nova) experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment optimized for the measurement of $\nu_\mu \rightarrow \nu_e$ appearance. A prototype 220 ton liquid-scintillator tracking calorimeter near detector, built and operated on the surface, was exposed to the NuMI beam at Fermi National Laboratory. This detector was placed at a far off-axis...
Prof.
Daniel Kaplan
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
8/21/13, 9:00 AM
Dr
Ryan Bayes
(University of Glasgow)
8/21/13, 9:10 AM
Neutrino Oscillation Physics
A neutrino factory provides a well defined neutrino beam with a wide
range of oscillation channels for the direct detection of CP violation
in the neutrino sector. To make use of this beam, a detector must have
excellent charge discrimination capabilities because the
un-oscillated background has the same flavour, but with the opposite
charge to the signal. A magnetic field is required to...
Dr
Mattias Blennow
(KTH Royal Institute of Techology)
8/21/13, 9:30 AM
Dr
Diktys Stratakis
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
8/21/13, 9:30 AM
Dr
Mark Palmer
(Fermilab)
8/21/13, 10:30 AM
Jean-Pierre Delahaye
(CERN)
8/21/13, 11:00 AM
Lorenzo Calibbi
(University of Brussels (ULB))
8/21/13, 11:30 AM
Prof.
Satoshi Mihara
(KEK, IPNS)
8/21/13, 12:00 PM
Dr
Wei Wang
(William and Mary)
8/21/13, 1:30 PM
Neutrino Oscillation Physics
The value of the last mixing angle theta13 has been measured the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment, followed by consistent results from RENO and Double Chooz. Its large value, compared with most speculated values before its discovery, creates a unique opportunity in resolving neutrino mass hierarchy (MH) using medium-baseline reactor antineutrino experiments employing massive liquid...
Mr
Aaron Higuera
(Guanajuato University)
8/21/13, 1:30 PM
Neutrino Scattering Physics
MINERvA is a few-GeV neutrino-nucleus scattering experiment located in the high intensity NuMI beam line at Fermilab. The goal of MINERvA is to make precise measurements of low energy neutrino interactions, both in support of neutrino oscillation experiments and as a pure weak probe of the nuclear medium. Employing a fine-grained, high resolution detector composed of plastic scintillator as...
David Neuffer
(Fermilab)
8/21/13, 1:30 PM
Prof.
Jarah Evslin
(Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
8/21/13, 1:55 PM
Neutrino Oscillation Physics
Analyses of neutrino mass hierarchy determinations at future experiments determine an expected Delta Chi^2. As the hierarchy is a discrete choice, and not a continuous degree of freedom, this Delta Chi^2 does not obey Wilks' theorem. As a consequence it does not follow a chi^2 distribution and its square root is not the number s of sigmas of confidence that can be expected. I will present a...
Dr
Eliecer Hernandez-Gajate
(Departamento de Fisica Fundamental, Universidad de Salamanca)
8/21/13, 1:55 PM
Dr
Jean-Baptiste lagrange
(Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute)
8/21/13, 2:00 PM
Dr
Xilin Zhang
(Institute of Nulcear and Particle Physics, Ohio University)
8/21/13, 2:20 PM
Dr
Kenneth Clark
(University of Toronto)
8/21/13, 2:20 PM
Neutrino Oscillation Physics
IceCube and its low energy extension DeepCore have been deployed at the South Pole and taking data since early 2011. DeepCore provides a neutrino energy threshold of about 10 GeV, which allows IceCube to access a rich variety of physics including indirectly searching for WIMP dark matter and studying atmospheric neutrinos. Currently under consideration is a new in-fill array named PINGU,...
Prof.
Alan Bross
(Fermilab)
, Dr
David Adey
(Fermilab)
8/21/13, 2:30 PM
Dr
Mattias Blennow
(KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
8/21/13, 2:45 PM
Neutrino Oscillation Physics
To be supplied
Mr
En Wang
(IFIC, University of Valencia, Spain)
8/21/13, 2:45 PM
Neutrino Scattering Physics
We report on the study of photon emission induced by E_nu ∼ 1 GeV (anti)neutrino neutral current interactions with nucleons and nuclei. This process is an important background for nu_e appearance oscillation experiments. At the relevant energies, the reaction is dominated by the excitation of the ∆(1232) resonance, but there are also non-resonant contribution, that, close to threshold, are...
Dr
Sovan Chakraborty
(Max-Planck Institute for Physics)
8/21/13, 4:00 PM
Yohei Nakatsugawa
8/21/13, 4:00 PM
Dr
Satoshi Nakamura
(Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University)
8/21/13, 4:00 PM
Ms
Yang Wu
(Institute of High Energy Physics)
8/21/13, 4:00 PM
Dr
Thomas Eberl
(Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics)
8/21/13, 4:20 PM
Neutrino Oscillation Physics
The talk will present the current status of a dedicated feasibility study “Oscillation Research with Cosmics in the Abyss” (ORCA) to evaluate the potential of a neutrino mass hierarchy measurement with “phase 1” of KM3NeT, the future multi-km3 water Cherenkov neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean.
Mr
MOHAMMAD RAFI ALAM
(ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY)
8/21/13, 4:25 PM
Dr
Zhihui Li
(Inistitute of High Energy Physics, CAS, China)
8/21/13, 4:30 PM
Dr
Sandhya Choubey
(Harish-Chandra Research Institute)
8/21/13, 4:40 PM
Prof.
Alessandro Bravar
(Univ. Geneva)
8/21/13, 4:50 PM
Neutrino Scattering Physics
MINERvA is a few GeV neutrino-nucleus scattering experiment located in the high intensity NuMI beam line at Fermilab. MINERvA aims to make precision measurements of low energy neutrino interactions, both in support of neutrino oscillation experiments and as a pure weak probe of the nuclear medium. The experiment employs a fine-grained, high resolution detector. The active region is composed of...
Mr
Hongyue Duyang
(University of South Carolina)
8/22/13, 8:30 AM
This talk will be devoted to the precision measurements of Coherent-Rho0
production in neutrino neutral current scattering. The new results from
the NOMAD data will be presented, which shows the first observation of
Coherent-Rho0. Future prospects of such measurements in the proposed
high-resolution LBNE-ND will be outlined.
Katsuya Yonehara
(Fermilab)
, Dr
milorad popovic
(Fermilab)
8/22/13, 8:30 AM
Prof.
Liang Yang
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
8/22/13, 8:30 AM
Dr
Lopez Pavon Jacobo
(SISSA)
8/22/13, 8:50 AM
Dr
Xinchun Tian
(U. of South Carolina)
8/22/13, 8:55 AM
Neutrino Scattering Physics
Status and preliminary result of the Coherent-Rho production
in NOMAD is presented. Prospect of future measurements and
its implication is briefly described.
Dr
Toshihiko Ota
(Saitama University)
8/22/13, 9:10 AM
If the standard model is an effective model of a fundamental theory realized at high energy scales, the full Lagrangian that describes physics at the electroweak scale should contain the series of higher-dimensional operators whose mass dimensions are higher than four. Such effective interactions suppressed by the inverse power of new physics scale $\Lambda_{NP}$ are typical low-energy remnant...
Mr
Xiaochuan Lu
(UC Berkeley)
8/22/13, 9:30 AM
Dr
Robert Palmer
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
8/22/13, 9:30 AM
Prof.
Naba Kumar Mondal
(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
8/22/13, 10:30 AM
Steve kettell
(BNL)
8/22/13, 11:00 AM
Dr
Miao He
(IHEP)
8/22/13, 11:30 AM
Dr
Carlo Giunti
(INFN)
8/22/13, 12:00 PM
Prof.
David Schmitz
(University of Chicago)
8/23/13, 8:30 AM
Prof.
Jan Sobczyk
(Wroclaw University)
8/23/13, 9:00 AM
Pilar Coloma
(Center for Neutrino Physics at Virginia Tech)
8/23/13, 9:30 AM
Dr
Jason St. John
(University of Cincinnati)
8/23/13, 10:30 AM
Dr
Charles Taylor
(Los Alamos National Lab)
8/23/13, 10:55 AM
Dr
Jaroslaw Pasternak
(Imperial College London/RAL-STFC)
8/23/13, 11:00 AM
Ms
Maria Archidiacono
(Aarhus University)
8/23/13, 11:30 AM
Mr
Pinzon Guerra Elder
(York University)
8/23/13, 11:45 AM
Ms
Ralitsa Sharankova
(Tokyo Institute of Technology)
8/23/13, 11:50 AM
Dr
Alexander Korzenev
(University of Geneva)
8/23/13, 1:30 PM
Neutrino Scattering Physics
New results from the NA61/SHINE experiment on the determination of charged hadron yields in proton-carbon interactions are presented. They aim to improve predictions of the neutrino flux in the T2K experiment. Analysis is based on the main dataset collected by NA61/SHINE in the year 2009.
The data were recorded using a secondary-proton beam of 31 GeV/c momentum from CERN SPS which impinges on...
Dr
Jonathan Paley
(Argonne National Laboratory)
8/23/13, 1:55 PM
Neutrino Scattering Physics
The fixed-target Main Injector Particle Production (MIPP) Experiment was designed to produce large sets of hadron production data on variety of nuclear targets using a range of beam particles and momenta. The spectrometer has excellent momentum resolution, and particle identification is determined for particles ranging between 0.3 - 80 GeV/c using $dE/dx$, time-of-flight and Cherenkov...
Dr
Chengping Shen
(Beihang University)
8/23/13, 2:15 PM
Prof.
MOHAMMAD SAJJAD ATHAR
(ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY)
8/23/13, 2:20 PM
Ms
K K Meghna
(The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai 600 113, India)
8/23/13, 2:45 PM
Dr
Paul Soler
(University of Glasgow)
8/24/13, 9:00 AM
Prof.
Karol Lang
(University of Texas at Austin)
8/24/13, 12:00 PM
Dr
Akira Sato
(Osaka University)
Muon Physics
The first muon source with a pion capture system was build at RCNP, Osaka University in 2009. We successfully demonstrated its beam performance to provide a high intense DC muon beam. In 2013, construction of a new beam line for the MuSIC muon beam will be started. The beam line is dedicated for muon science with a low intensity muon beam, such as muSR measurements and experiments with muonic...
Dr
Alex Bogacz
(Jefferson Lab)
Accelerator Physics
The new baseline to accelerate muons to 10 GeV is presented. It involves a single pass linac to 0.8 GeV, followed by 4.5-pass RLA to 2.8 GeV and finally another 4.5-pass RLA to 10 GeV. All linacs are based on 201 MHz SRF with different styles of cryo-modules. The accelerator complex assumes a horizontal in-plane layout of all tree components, with compact transfer lines (a double-arc chicane)...
Prof.
Yoshiharu Mori
(Kyoto University)
Accelerator Physics
Possibility of cw beam acceleration with scaling FFAGs is presented.
Ms
huma haider
(aligarh muslim university)
Neutrino Scattering Physics
We shall present the results for nuclear correction factor for the electromagnetic and weak structure functions. The calculations have been performed in several nuclei like
$^9Be$, $^{12}C$, $^{40}Ca$, $^{56}Fe$, and $^{208}Pb$. These calculations are performed in a microscopic nuclear model using relativistic nuclear spectral functions which incorporate Fermi motion,
nuclear binding, and...
Dr
Alejandro Gutierrez-Rodriguez
(Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas)
, Dr
Maria de los Angeles Hernandez-Ruiz
(Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas)
Neutrino Scattering Physics
We calculate the emissivity due to neutrino-pair production via the process $e^+ e^- \to \nu \bar \un $ in the context of a 331 model in a way that can be used in supernova calculations. We also present some simple estimates which show that such process can act as an efficient energy-loss mechanism in the shocked supernova core. We find that the emissivity is almost independent on the mixing...
Ms
Daljeet Kaur
(University Of Delhi)
Neutrino Oscillation Physics
The proposed detector for India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) is a magnetized Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) consisting of Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) as the active detector. The main purpose of ICAL detector is to study the neutrino physics. Determination of neutrino mass and mixing parameters is one of the important open challenge in
today’s physics. The ICAL detector is designed to to...
Ms
LAKSHMI S MOHAN
(INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES , CHENNAI , INDIA)
Neutrino Oscillation Physics
The study of atmospheric neutrinos is the primary goal of the proposed India based Neutrino Oservatory (INO), which will make use of a magnetized Iron CALorimeter (ICAL) for this purpose. ICAL is very sensitive to muons which leave clean tracks in the detector which can be studied to calculate the properties of the incident neutrinos which interacted with the iron target to created these muon...
Prof.
Chengping Shen
(Beihang University)
Muon Physics
Searches for Charged Lepton Flavor Violation (CLFV) processes are powerful probes of physics beyond the Standard Model. In this report, we will review the latest lepton-flavor and lepton-number-violating τ decays at Belle, together with the comparison to other experiments’ results. At the same time, we will investigate the physics accessible on CLFV in the coming Belle II experiment. We will...
Dr
Maria de los Angeles Hernandez-Ruiz
(Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas)
Neutrino Scattering Physics
Using as an input the data obtained by the L3 Collaboration for the reaction e^+e^- --> \nu\bar\nu\gamma, we obtained limits on the electromagnetic dipole moments of the tau-neutrino in the context of a Simplest Little Higgs Model (SLHM). Our bounds on the electromagnetic moments are consistent with the bounds obtained by the L3 Collaboration for the reaction e^+e^- --> \nu\bar\nu\gamma. In...
Dr
Louise Suter
(Argonne National Lab)
Neutrino Oscillation Physics
The NOvA long-baseline neutrino experiment consists of two totally active, segmented, liquid scintillator detectors located 14 mrad off Fermilab's NuMI beam axis, with a Near Detector located at Fermilab, and a Far Detector 810 km away. The NOvA experiment will measure theta(23) and delta m^2_(32) through the observation of muon neutrino and muon antineutrino disappearance. The analysis...
Mr
Kazuo Tanaka
(University of Tokyo)
Muon Physics
We are planning a measurement of the ground state hyperfine structure of muonium at J-PARC/MLF. Muonium is a hydrogen-like bound state of leptons, and its HFS is a good probe for testing QED theory. The muon mass mm and magnetic moment mm which are fundamental constants of muon have been so far determined by the muonium HFS experiment at LAMPF. The high intensity beam soon to be available at...
Dr
Chih-hsiang Cheng
(California Institute of Technology)
Muon Physics
Current search for charged lepton flavor violating decay mu -> e gamma is limited by the accidental background. Future facility such as Project X at Fermilab could provide a much more intensive beam but one needs a more sensitive detector as well. One of the limiting factors in current detectors is the photon energy resolution of the calorimeter. We present a study of a conceptual design of a...
peter kasper
(fermilab)
Muon Physics
The Mu2E experiment uses a bunched beam to eliminate prompt backgrounds. For this to work, the fraction of the beam arriving between bunches, the so-called extinction, must be less than 1.0E-10. In this talk we will describe our plans for achieving and monitoring extinction at this level of precision.
Ms
Kanishka Rawat
(Panjab University, Chandigarh)
Muon Physics
The proposed magnetised Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) detector at the India-based Neutrino Observatory aims in determining the neutrino oscillation parameters precisely with atmospheric muon neutrinos, matter effect in neutrino oscillations and to determine the sign of Δm²32 using the
matter effect. ICAL is mostly sensitive to atmospheric muon neutrinos, which are detected through their interaction...
Dr
Alan Bross
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
Accelerator Physics
The Fermilab Engineering Services Section (FESS) has produced a Project Definition Report that details how nuSTORM could
be constructed at Fermilab. This talk will describe the conclusions of the report and will cover the proton beam line, target station,
pion transport line, decay ring, near detector hall and far detector hall.
Wu Yang
(McMaster University)
Accelerator Physics
A post-acceleration system based on the accelerators at CSNS (China Spallation Neutron Source) is proposed to build a super-beam facility for neutrino physics. Two post-acceleration schemes, one using superconducting dipole magnets in the main ring and the other using room-temperature magnets have been studied, both to achieve the final proton energy of 128 GeV and the beam power of 4 MW by...
Dr
Jaroslaw Pasternak
(Imperial College London/RAL-STFC)
The PRISM system was proposed to provide high intensity and high quality muon beams for next generation lepton flavour violation experiments. In PRISM such beams can be produced by sending a short proton pulse to a pion production target, capturing pions and performing RF phase rotation on the resulting muon beam in an FFAG ring. This paper presents the current status of the PRISM design...
Prof.
Vittorio Palladino
(Univ & INFN Napoli, Italy)
The Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment (MICE) based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory aims to demonstrate 10%
ionisation cooling of a beam of muons by its interaction with low Z absorber materials followed by restoration of
longitudinal momentum in RF linacs.
Extensions to the apparatus required to achieve STEP IV, including the first absorber cell, of either liquid hydrogen or
lithium...
Dr
Jean-Baptiste lagrange
(Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute)
Accelerator Physics
The interest for NuStorm Project is growing recently for neutrino physics experiments as an early stage of Neutrino Factories. The facility requires a racetrack muon decay ring with both large transverse acceptance and large momentum acceptance. On the one hand, FODO lattices can achieve very large transverse acceptance, but natural chromaticity strongly limits the momentum acceptance, even...
Prof.
Vittorio Palladino
(Univ & INFN Napoli, Italy)
The Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment (MICE) will demonstrate ionisation cooling, an essential technology for a
Neutrino Factory and/or Muon Collider, by measuring a 10% reduction in emittance of a muon beam. A realistic
demonstration requires beams closely resembling those expected at the front-end of a Neutrino Factory, i.e. with large
transverse emittance and momentum spreads. The MICE...
Ms
Meghna K K
(RESEARCH SCHOLAR)
Neutrino Oscillation Physics
The main goals of the proposed magnetized Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) detector at the India-based Neutrino Observatory(INO) are to make precision measurements of the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters and to determine neutrino mass hierarchy. Neutrinos interact with the the detector material via the charged current or the neutral current processes and produce leptons and hadrons. The...
Dr
Diktys Stratakis
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Accelerator Physics
An ionization cooling channel is a tightly spaced lattice containing absorbers for reducing the momentum of the muon beam, rf cavities for restoring the longitudinal momentum and solenoids for focusing the beam. Such a lattice is an essential step for a Muon Collider. Here, we explore two different schemes for designing ionization cooling channels for muon related applications. The first is an...
Dr
Nikolaos Vassilopoulos
(IPHC, CNRS)
Accelerator Physics
The European Spallation Source (ESS) neutrino super beam has the prospective to become the world’s most intense neutrino beam facility and has possibly the best physics potential for the discovery of leptonic CP-violation and neutrino mass hierarchy. The adaptation of the secondary-beam elements of CERN's SPL (Superconductive Proton Linac) neutrino super beam to ESS requirements is discussed...
Prof.
Kirk T McDonald
(Princeton University)
A Neutrino Factory based on muon beams and a Muon Collider both require an intense source of muons with similar parameters: collection of pions/muon of low energy and both signs from a multimegawatt proton beam with pulses at 10-100 Hz and only 2 ns duration. A Target System based on capture in a solenoid field (rather than a toroidal field) has been studied. An initial strong magnetic...
Dr
Galli Luca
(Paul Scherrer Institut and INFN Pisa)
Muon Physics
The MEG experiment at PSI is searching for the lepton-flavour violating decay mu-> e gamma with unprecedented sensitivity. MEG set the most stingent experimental bound to date, based on the analysis of 2009, 2010 and 2011 data, to be <5.7 x 10**-13.
After a successful run in 2012 and a final run in 2013 also a MEG Upgrade is envisaged, with a new positron spectrometer and an improved gamma...
Dr
Zhengyun You
(University of California Irvine)
Muon Physics
The Mu2e collaboration will search for coherent, neutrino-less conversion of muons into electrons in the field of a nucleus with sensitivity of one detected event for a branching fraction of ~2x10^-17; this would improve on the existing upper limit by a factor of ~10^4. Such a lepton flavor-violating reaction probes new physics at a scale inaccessible to direct searches at either currently...
Dr
William Briscoe
(The George Washington University)
Muon Physics
The controversy over the significant difference between the determination of proton radius using high-precision muonic hydrogen techniques and from electronic scattering and atomic measurements is called the "Proton Radius Puzzle" (PRP). The resolution of the puzzle remains unclear and appears to require new experimental results. The MUSE Collaboration will perform an experiment at the Paul...
Mr
Ushak Rahaman
(IIT Bombay)
Neutrino Oscillation Physics
The moderately large value of $\theta_{13}$, measured recently
by reactor experiments, is very welcome
news for upcoming accelerator experiments. In particular,
the NO$\nu$A experiment, with 3 years of $\nu$ run followed
by an equal $\bar{\nu}$ run, will be able to
determine the mass hierarchy if one of the following
two favorable combinations is true:
normal hierarchy with...
