International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Super Beams and Beta Beams

19 Aug 2013, 08:30 → 24 Aug 2013, 14:00 Asia/Shanghai

A214 (IHEP)

Jingyu Tang (Accelerator center) , Jun Cao (Institute of High Energy Physics)

    The XV^th NuFact Workshop is organized by Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Beijing, China. It will be held in the campus of IHEP during August 19-24, 2013.

    The NuFact workshops are one of the important yearly neutrino conferences with emphasis on future projects. The main goal is to review the progress, and share the challenges, on the different studies of future neutrino oscillation facilities able to discover and study the mass hierarchy of neutrinos, CP violation in the leptonic sector and possible new phenomena. The workshops are original in that they combine the skills of experimenters, theorists and accelerator physicists.

Monday, 19 August

08:30 → 10:10 Plenary session #1, Chair: David Wark

08:30 Welcome - IHEP

Speaker: Prof. Yifang Wang (IHEP)

Slides IHEP-overview.ppt

08:40 Neutrinos and Flavor Puzzle

Speaker: Belen Gavela

Slides Gavela-NuFact-2013-final.pdf

09:10 Impacts of precision measurement of neutrino mixing parameters

Speaker: Prof. Patrick Huber (Virginia Tech)

Slides talk.pdf

09:40 Cosmological measurements of neutrino properties

Speaker: Steen Hannestad

Slides 05_Cosmological.pdf

10:10 → 10:40 Break

10:40 → 12:40 Plenary session #2, Chair:James Strait

10:40 Summary of US Snowmass 2013 meeting

Speaker: Prof. Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University)

Slides nufact13_snowmass.pdf

11:10 European neutrino physics plan

Speaker: Dr Mauro Mezzetto (INFN)

Slides Nufact-Mezzetto.pdf

11:40 Performance on CPV and MH of near future accelerator projects.

Speaker: Prof. Takeshi Nakadaira (KEK)

Slides nufact13_prenary_ver1.pdf

12:10 Performance on CPV and MH of long term accelerator projects

Speaker: Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London)

Slides 2013-08-19-Long-NuFact13.pptx

12:40 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:30 Plenary session #3, Chair:Vittorio Palladino

13:30 Overview of high-power proton drivers

Speaker: Dr Jaroslaw Pasternak (Imperial College London/RAL-STFC)

Slides Proton_Drivers.pdf

14:00 Technological Challenges for Future Superbeams

Speaker: Dr Marco Zito (IRFU CEA Saclay)

Slides 02_MZ-nufact2013-s1.pdf

14:30 Multiple-Megawatt targets for neutrino beams

Speaker: Dr Chris Densham (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Slides Densham_MMW_targets_for_neutrino_beams.pptx

15:00 A medium-baseline neutrino facility

Speaker: Prof. Jingyu tang (Accelerator center)

Slides 04_Nufact2013-China_SuperBeam-Tang.pptx

15:30 → 16:20 Break + Poster

16:20 → 17:30 IHEP tour

17:30 → 19:30 Reception

Tuesday, 20 August

08:30 → 10:00 Plenary session #4, Chair:Alex Bogacz

08:30 R&D efforts for Neutrino Factory

Speakers: Prof. Daniel Kaplan (Illinois Institute of Technology) , Dr Michael Zisman (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Slides Kaplan-NF-R&D-NuFact13-8-13-R4.pdf

09:00 Introduction of WG1: Neutrino oscillation

Speakers: Prof. Alexandre Sousa (University of Cincinnati) , WG1 convenor

Slides NuFact_2013_WG1_Intro_Sousa.pdf

09:15 Introduction of WG2: Neutrino scattering physics

Speaker: WG2 convenor

Slides WG2-intro.pdf

09:30 Introduction of WG3: Accelerator physics

Speaker: WG3 convenor

Slides WG3_–_Accelerator_Physics.pdf

09:45 Introduction of WG4: Muon physics

Speaker: Dr Giovanni Signorelli (INFN Pisa)

Slides Signorelli_WG4.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 break

10:30 → 12:30 WG1: Present and near future oscillation experiments

Nu Oscillation Physics

Conveners: Prof. Alexandre Sousa (University of Cincinnati) , Dr Enrique Fernandez-Martinez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) , Dr Takeshi Nakadaira (KEK)

10:30 MINOS and MINOS+

Speaker: Dr Joao Coelho (Tufts University)

Slides Joao_NuFact13.pdf

10:55 Status of the NOvA Experiment

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 Fermi National Laboratory. Goals of the experiment include measurements of $\theta_{13}$, resolution of the neutrino mass hierarchy, measurement of the CP-violating angle $\delta_{\mathrm{CP}}$, and the octant of the $\theta_{23}$ mixing angle. This talk will provide an overview of the detectors, physics goals and sensitivities of the experiment, and a first look at commissioning data from the far detector.

Speaker: Dr Jonathan Paley (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides Paley_WG1_-_NOvA_Status.pdf

11:20 Status of the T2K Experiment

Speaker: Dr Megan Friend (KEK)

Slides T2Kresults_mfriend_NuFact2013.pdf

11:45 Resolving the octant of theta23 with T2K and NOvA

Speaker: Prof. Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla (Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar)

Slides Sanjib-Nufact2013.pdf

10:30 → 12:30 WG2: Chair: Jorge Morfin

Conveners: Kendall Mahn, Luis Alvarez Ruso, Prof. Masashi Yokoyama (University of Tokyo)

10:30 Quasi-Elastic Neutrino and Anti-Neutrino Scattering in MINERvA

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 high intensity neutrino beam at Fermilab. MINERvA provides a bridge between the two regimes. We will present our first results for charged current quasi-elastic scattering for both neutrino and anti-neutrinos on scintillator.

Speaker: Mr Chris Marshall (Univ. Rochester)

Slides chris_nufact2013_ccqe.pdf

10:55 CC cross section measurements at T2K

Speaker: Dr David Hadley (University of Warwick)

Slides nufact.pdf

11:20 CCQE measurement from MINOS

Speaker: Dr Nicholas Graf (Illinois Institute of Technology)

Slides minosQENuFact2013.pdf

11:45 Probing Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions: New Results from ArgoNeuT

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 the latest results from ArgoNeuT, including inclusive CC cross sections and studies of final-state interactions and short-range correlations.

Speaker: Tingjun Yang (Fermilab)

Slides argonufact13yang.pdf

10:30 → 12:30 WG3: Proton Beams

Convener: Dr Alex Bogacz (Jefferson Lab)

10:30 Neutrinos from ESS: Source, Linac upgrade and Accumulator

Speaker: Dr Marcos Dracos (IPHC-IN2P3/CNRS)

Slides Dracos_WG3.pdf Dracos_WG3.pptx

11:00 The ESS neutrino super beam optimization design studies

Speaker: Dr Nikolaos Vassilopoulos (IPHC, CNRS)

Slides ess-vfact13.pdf ess-vfact13.pptx

11:30 Conceptual Design of the CN2PY secondary beam line

Speaker: Mr Philippe Velten (CERN EN-STI)

Slides LLBNO_WP4_NuFact13.pdf

12:00 Discussion

10:30 → 12:30 WG4: Chair: G. Signorelli

Parallel #1

Conveners: Dr Andrew J. Norman (FNAL) , Dr Giovanni Signorelli (INFN Pisa) , Dr Naohito Sahito

slides wg4_summary_nufact2013_norman.pdf wg4_summary_nufact2013_norman.pptx

10:30 The MEG experiment status and upgrade

Speaker: Luca Galli (PSI)

Slides GalliMEG.pdf

11:20 Muegamma search with converted photon

Speaker: Dr Chih-hsiang Cheng (California Institute of Technology)

Slides muegamma_conversion

11:50 The mu3e experiment

Speaker: Prof. Alessandro Bravar (Univ. Geneva)

Slides 03Bravar_mu3e_NUFACT2013.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:40 WG1-WG2 Joint Session: Systematics on oscillation measuements

13:30 T2K

Speaker: Dr Asher Kaboth (Imperial College London)

Slides T2KSystematicsWG1+2_2013-08-20_Kaboth.pdf

13:55 MINERvA

Speaker: Steven Manly (University of Rochester)

Slides NUFACT_2013_Manly_xsec.pdf NUFACT_2013_Manly_xsec.pptx

14:20 NOvA

Speaker: Dr Jonathan Paley (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides 3-nufact-msanchez-2012.pdf

14:35 Discussion

Speaker: Prof. Patrick Huber (Virginia Tech)

Slides talk.pdf

13:30 → 15:30 WG3: Proton Beams and Targetry

Convener: Dr milorad popovic (Fermilab)

13:30 Upgrade of the T2K magnetic horns for a high power beam beyond 1MW

Speaker: Dr Tetsuro Sekiguchi (KEK)

Slides T2K_horn_nufact_sekiguchi.pptx

14:00 Studies Progress of the High Intensity H2+ Cyclotrons for DAEδALUS and IsoDAR Projects

Speaker: Dr Jianjun Yang (CIAE)

Slides Nufact13-JJYang-talk.pdf

14:30 The High-Power Target System for a Neutrino Factory/Muon Collider

Speaker: Prof. Kirk T McDonald (Princeton University)

Slides targettrans97.pdf targettrans97.pptx

15:00 Optimized capture section for staged Neutrino Factory target designs

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 be upgraded to the full power of 4 MW. In this work we present an optimized capture mechanism for both the baseline 8 GeV proton beam target and the 3GeV proton beam target. The capture section and the following bunching channel design are optimized to adapt for both cases.

Speaker: Dr Hisham Sayed (Brookhaven National Lab)

Slides NUFACT13.pdf

13:30 → 15:30 WG4: Chair: A. J. Norman

Parallel #1

Conveners: Dr Andrew J. Norman (FNAL) , Dr Giovanni Signorelli (INFN Pisa) , Dr Naohito Sahito

slides wg4_summary_nufact2013_norman.pdf wg4_summary_nufact2013_norman.pptx

13:30 g-2 at FNAL

Speaker: TBD

Slides 01_nufact2013_mibe_upload.pptx

14:15 Muon g-2/EDM at JPARC

Speaker: Prof. Tsutomu Mibe (KEK)

Slides nufact2013_mibe_upload.pptx

15:00 Present status of J-PARC MUSE

Speaker: Koichiro Shimomura (KEK)

Slides 03_NuCFCact13.pptx

15:30 → 16:00 Break

16:00 → 17:30 WG1: Proposals for next generation oscillation facilities I

Nu Oscillation Physics

Conveners: Prof. Alexandre Sousa (University of Cincinnati) , Dr Enrique Fernandez-Martinez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) , Dr Takeshi Nakadaira (KEK)

16:00 ENuMI

Speaker: Prof. Karol Lang (University of Texas at Austin)

Slides Lang-WG1-eNuMIatNuFact-v0.pdf

16:20 LBNE

Speaker: James Strait (Fermilab)

Slides 20130820_LBNE_NuFact_Strait.pdf 20130820_LBNE_NuFact_Strait.pptx

16:40 The Laguna-LBNO neutrino oscillation project: status and plan

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 beams from CERN towards two possible far sites, Fréjus (130 km) and Pyhäsalmi (2300 km) with three detector technologies, Water Cherenkov, Liquid Scintillator and Liquid Argon. The design study work findings and physics case led the consortium to select as a first priority option a very long baseline of 2300 km with a muti-GeV neutrino beam produced at CERN towards the Pyhäsalmi underground site and a large Liquid Argon TPC with double phase readout and a mass of 20 kton as a first phase. This LBNO setup allows for effectively measuring the oscillation patterns as a function of the energy over the first and the second maxima, assessing the neutrino oscillation phenomenology with an optimal sensitivity to the mass hierarchy determination and a competitive CP search reach. A unique possibility of having a second neutrino beam from Protvino accelerator complex to Pyhäsalmi (1160 km) is also considered. The physics reach and performances of the neutrino detectors with the various neutrino beam options will be reviewed together with the LAGUNA-LBNO perspectives and status.

Speaker: Alain Blondel (DPNC UNiversity og Geneva)

Slides AlainBlondel-LBNO-NUFACT13.ppt

17:00 ESS

Speaker: Dr Marcos Dracos (IPHC-IN2P3/CNRS)

Slides Dracos_WG1.pdf Dracos_WG1.pptx

16:00 → 17:30 WG2: Chair: M. Yokoyama

Conveners: Kendall Mahn, Luis Alvarez Ruso, Prof. Masashi Yokoyama (University of Tokyo)

16:00 MiniBooNE cross section results

Speaker: Dr Pavlovic Zarko (LANL)

Slides MiniBooNE_XSec_NuFact2013.pdf

16:25 QE scattering, 2p2h and nu energy reconstruction

Speaker: Dr Juan Nieves (IFIC (CSIC-UV))

Slides nufact13.pdf

16:50 Radiative corrections in CCQE neutrino-nucelon interactions

Speaker: Dr Krzysztof Graczyk (IFT, University of Wrocław)

Slides graczyk.pdf

16:00 → 17:30 WG3: Neutrino Factory

Convener: Prof. Vittorio Palladino (Univ & INFN Napoli, Italy)

16:00 Report on Accelerator Studies of IDS-NF

Speaker: Dr Alex Bogacz (Jefferson Lab)

Slides Accelerator_IDS_13.pdf Accelerator_IDS_13.ppt

17:00 A 325 MHz Front End System for a Muon Accelerator

Speaker: David Neuffer (Fermilab)

Slides FE2013R.pptx

16:00 → 17:30 WG4: Chair: T. Mibe

Parallel #1

Conveners: Dr Andrew J. Norman (FNAL) , Dr Giovanni Signorelli (INFN Pisa) , Dr Naohito Sahito

slides wg4_summary_nufact2013_norman.pdf wg4_summary_nufact2013_norman.pptx

16:00 Measurement of muonium HFS

Speaker: Mr Kazuo Tanaka (University of Tokyo)

Slides 04_nufact2013-tanaka.txt

16:35 The MUSE experiment: simultaneous mu-p and e-p elastic scattering

Speaker: Dr William Briscoe (The George Washington University)

Slides EJD_WJB_rev.pdf

17:30 → 19:00 SPC meeting

Wednesday, 21 August

08:30 → 10:00 J34: MICE and Future Muon Facilities

Joint session WG3+WG4

Convener: Dr Marcos Dracos (IPHC-IN2P3/CNRS)

08:30 Results from Step I of MICE and the Physics Plan for Step IV

Speaker: Dr David Adey (Fermilab)

Slides AdeyNuFactMICEResults.ppt

09:00 Progress towards completion of the MICE demonstration of ionisation cooling of muons

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Kaplan (Illinois Institute of Technology)

Slides Kaplan-MICE-Status-NuFact13-8-13-R1.pdf

09:30 Studies of New, High Performance, 6D Ionization Cooling Lattices for the Muon Accelerators

Speaker: Dr Diktys Stratakis (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides Stratakis_6DCool_Nufact.pdf

08:30 → 10:00 WG1: Proposals for next generation oscillation facilities II

Nu Oscillation Physics

Conveners: Prof. Alexandre Sousa (University of Cincinnati) , Dr Enrique Fernandez-Martinez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) , Dr Takeshi Nakadaira (KEK)

08:30 T2HK

Speaker: Dr Taku Ishida (J-PARC Center/KEK)

Slides 130821-T2HK-v2.pdf

08:50 Physics Performance of a Low-Luminosity Low Energy Neutrino Factory

Speaker: Pilar Coloma (Center for Neutrino Physics at Virginia Tech)

Slides coloma-nufact13-numax.pdf

09:10 MIND: A Detector for Probing CP Violation at a Neutrino Factory.

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 achieve the required charge discrimination. The most reliable method for the generation of a magnetic field over a volume required for a neutrino factory experiment is using a Magnetized Iron Neutrino Detector (MIND). A detailed simulation of a MIND has been developed for the neutrino factory with advanced reconstruction and analysis software for the identification of muons resulting from the appearance of muon neutrinos from electron neutrino oscillations. The sensitivity of MIND at a neutrino factory to CP violating effects in this appearance oscillation is discussed, with consideration of systematic uncertainties. The combination of this detector concept at a neutrino factory provides the best sensitivity to CP violation of all possible future experiments and the best accuracy in the measurement of the CP violating phase delta.

Speaker: Dr Ryan Bayes (University of Glasgow)

Slides BayesMIND.pdf

09:30 Gain fractions of future neutrino oscillation facilities over T2K and NOvA

Speaker: Dr Mattias Blennow (KTH Royal Institute of Techology)

Slides presentation.pdf

08:30 → 10:00 WG2: Chair: David Schmitz

Conveners: Kendall Mahn, Luis Alvarez Ruso, Prof. Masashi Yokoyama (University of Tokyo)

08:30 NC measurements at T2K

Speaker: Mr Daniel Ruterbories (Colorado State University)

Slides NuFact2013-Ruterbories-final.pdf

08:55 Neutrino Scattering Measurements in the NOvA Experiment

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 angle of 106 mrad, where neutrinos above 1.5 GeV are predominantly born from kaons produced in the neutrino target. A 300 ton underground near detector, which will provide an opportunity for precise measurements of neutrino scattering off carbon nuclei, is currently under construction at Fermilab at a 14 mrad off-axis from the NuMI beam. This talk will provide an overview of the detectors and neutrino scattering analyses performed and expected in the future.

Speaker: Dr Jonathan Paley (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides Paley_WG2_-_Nu_Scattering.pdf

09:20 The nuSTORM Neutrino Scattering Program

Speaker: Dr Jorge Morfin (Fermilab)

Slides nuSTORM-Scatt-NuFact.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 break

10:30 → 12:30 Plenary session #5, Chair: Akira Sato

10:30 Future Muon Accelerators

Speaker: Dr Mark Palmer (Fermilab)

Slides Palmer_FutureMuonAccelerators_R4.pdf Palmer_FutureMuonAccelerators_R4.pptx

11:00 MASS: Muon Accelerator Staging Scenario

Speaker: Jean-Pierre Delahaye (CERN)

Slides MASS@NuFACT13.pptx

11:30 Theory overview on muon physics

Speaker: Lorenzo Calibbi (University of Brussels (ULB))

Slides calibbi_nufact13.pdf

12:00 Lepton flavor physics with muon beam

Speaker: Prof. Satoshi Mihara (KEK, IPNS)

Slides NuFACT2013-mihara.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:30 WG1: Mass hierarchy determination I

Nu Oscillation Physics

Conveners: Prof. Alexandre Sousa (University of Cincinnati) , Dr Enrique Fernandez-Martinez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) , Dr Takeshi Nakadaira (KEK)

13:30 Challenges in resolving neutrino mass hierarchy in medium-baseline reactor experiments

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 scintillator (LS) detectors like JUNO and RENO-50. Such medium-baseline reactor experiments have both the solar and the atmospheric oscillation signals presented in their data. Due to the nature of the MH signal in such experiments and the small ratio between the solar and the atmospheric mass-squared differences, we find the energy scale uncertainty places a challenge besides the well-known factors like energy resolution. Under a certain class of energy non-linearity biases allowed by its uncertainty, normal hierarchy (NH) and inverted hierarchy (IH) can exhibit similar oscillation patterns in a LS detector. To make such experiments successful in resolving neutrino MH with high confidences, energy scale uncertainty needs to be constrained well. In addition to the energy scale challenge, we also find that the MH determination confidence level and the so-called delta-chi-square obtained in model comparison follow a different relation from the conventional squared-root one. To reach the same confidence levels, compared with physics quantities whose measurements can be approximated by normal distributions, larger chi-square differences are needed.

Speaker: Dr Wei Wang (William and Mary)

Slides WW_ReactorMHChallenge.pdf

13:55 Confidence in the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy

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 simple formula for s as a function of the expected value of Delta chi^2.

Speaker: Prof. Jarah Evslin (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Slides Nufact2013.pdf

14:20 Studying Low Energy Neutrinos at the South Pole with the PINGU Detector

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, which will continue to lower the threshold for neutrino detection. This new lower threshold opens up opportunities to explore a great deal of new physics, including the determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy. This talk will discuss the PINGU detector and the new physics it makes available with a focus on the hierarchy measurement.

Speaker: Dr Kenneth Clark (University of Toronto)

Slides clark_nufact_aug2013.pdf

14:45 Determination of the neutrino mass ordering by combining PINGU and Daya Bay II

To be supplied

Speaker: Dr Mattias Blennow (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

Slides presentation.pdf

15:10 Oscillations and decoherence

Speaker: Prof. Kirk T McDonald (Princeton University)

Slides neutrino_trans1.pdf

13:30 → 15:30 WG2: Chair: Jan Sobczyk

Conveners: Kendall Mahn, Luis Alvarez Ruso, Prof. Masashi Yokoyama (University of Tokyo)

13:30 Neutrino induced pion production in MINERvA

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 well as carbon, iron and lead targets, MINERvA is well-suited to study inclusive and exclusive pion production channels. This presentation will focus on pion production from plastic scintillator.

Speaker: Mr Aaron Higuera (Guanajuato University)

Slides 1-higueratalk-4.pdf

13:55 Weak pion production

Speaker: Dr Eliecer Hernandez-Gajate (Departamento de Fisica Fundamental, Universidad de Salamanca)

Slides hernandez.pdf

14:20 Pion and photon emission in effective filed theory for nuclei

Speaker: Dr Xilin Zhang (Institute of Nulcear and Particle Physics, Ohio University)

Slides NUFACT2013.pdf

14:45 Photon emission in (anti)neutrino neutron current interactions with nucleons and nuclei

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 fully determined by the effective chiral Lagrangian of strong interactions. In addition, we also consider the heavier resonances contributions in high energy region. With our model, we predict the events number of photon emission of the NC interactions in the MiniBooNE experiments and T2K experiment.

Speaker: Mr En Wang (IFIC, University of Valencia, Spain)

Slides 4-Enwang_NuFact2013-7.pdf

13:30 → 15:30 WG3: nuSTORM

Convener: Prof. Shinian Fu (IHEP)

13:30 The NuSTORM Facility-Muon Storage Ring and Injection

Speaker: David Neuffer (Fermilab)

Slides Nustorm13f.pptx

14:00 Racetrack FFAG decay ring for the nuSTORM

Speaker: Dr Jean-Baptiste lagrange (Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute)

Slides nufact2013-lagrange.pdf

14:30 nuSTORM siting at Fermilab

Speakers: Prof. Alan Bross (Fermilab) , Dr David Adey (Fermilab)

Slides NuStormFermilab.ppt

15:00 Discussion

13:30 → 15:30 WG4: Chair: Y. Kuno

Parallel #1

Conveners: Dr Andrew J. Norman (FNAL) , Dr Giovanni Signorelli (INFN Pisa) , Dr Naohito Sahito

slides wg4_summary_nufact2013_norman.pdf wg4_summary_nufact2013_norman.pptx

13:30 The Mu2e experiment

Speaker: Dr Zhengyun You (University of California Irvine)

Slides 20130821_ZhengyunYou_mu2e_v4.pdf 20130821_ZhengyunYou_mu2e_v4.pptx

14:15 The Mu2e extinction system

Speaker: peter kasper (fermilab)

Slides 02_Mu2e_Extinction_System.pptx

14:45 COMET

Speaker: Ye Yuan (IHEP, Beijing)

Slides COMET-NuFact2013-08-21.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 break

16:00 → 17:30 WG1: Mass hierarchy determination II

Nu Oscillation Physics

Conveners: Prof. Alexandre Sousa (University of Cincinnati) , Dr Enrique Fernandez-Martinez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) , Dr Takeshi Nakadaira (KEK)

16:00 Determining the mass hierarchy from Supernovae

Speaker: Dr Sovan Chakraborty (Max-Planck Institute for Physics)

Slides Chakraborty-Nufact.pdf

16:20 The neutrino mass hierarchy in KM3NeT - ORCA, a feasibility study.

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.

Speaker: Dr Thomas Eberl (Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics)

Slides Eberl_NUFACT13_ORCA.pdf

16:40 INO physics potential

Speaker: Dr Sandhya Choubey (Harish-Chandra Research Institute)

Slides nufact13.pdf

17:00 Determining neutrino masses from Cosmology

Speaker: Yvonne Wong (UNSW)

Slides 9-II_4_yyyw.pdf

16:00 → 17:30 WG2: Chair: Juan Nieves

Conveners: Kendall Mahn, Luis Alvarez Ruso, Prof. Masashi Yokoyama (University of Tokyo)

16:00 Neutrino induced meson production in the forward limit

Speaker: Dr Satoshi Nakamura (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University)

Slides s.nakamura_nufact.pptx

16:25 Weak strangeness and eta production

Speaker: Mr MOHAMMAD RAFI ALAM (ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY)

Slides NuFact_Rafi_v6.pdf

16:50 Charged-current inclusive scattering in MINERvA

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 plastic scintillator with additional targets of helium, carbon, iron, lead and water placed upstream of the active region. We present preliminary results for inclusive charged current cross sections on iron, lead and plastic targets.

Speaker: Prof. Alessandro Bravar (Univ. Geneva)

Slides 7-Bravar_nu_NUFACT2013-10.pdf

16:00 → 17:30 WG3: Proton Beams II

Convener: Dr Michael Zisman (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:00 Post-Acceleration Study for Neutrino Super-beam at CNSN

Speaker: Ms Yang Wu (Institute of High Energy Physics)

Slides CSNS_Post-acceleration_studies-V3.pptx

16:30 CW Superconducting Linac as the Proton Driver for a Medium Baseline Superbeam

Speaker: Dr Zhihui Li (Inistitute of High Energy Physics, CAS, China)

Slides driver_linac_for_super_beam_in_china.pptx

17:00 Discussion

16:00 → 17:30 WG4: Chair: L. Galli

Parallel #1

Conveners: Dr Andrew J. Norman (FNAL) , Dr Giovanni Signorelli (INFN Pisa) , Dr Naohito Sahito

slides wg4_summary_nufact2013_norman.pdf wg4_summary_nufact2013_norman.pptx

16:00 Experimental Search for $\mu$-e Conversion in Nuclear Field at J-PARC MLF H-Line

Speaker: Yohei Nakatsugawa

Slides Nufact2013_nakatsu_v01.pdf

16:40 AlCap

Speaker: Prof. Yoshitaka Kuno (Osaka University)

Slides 05_NuFACT2013-KUNO.pdf

18:00 → 20:00 Banquet

Thursday, 22 August

08:30 → 10:00 J34

Joint session WG3+WG4

Conveners: Andrew Norman (FNAL) , Dr Giovanni Signorelli (INFN Pisa) , Dr Jaroslaw Pasternak (Imperial College London/RAL-STFC) , Makoto Yoshida, Naohito Sahito (KEK) , Pavel Snopok

08:30 Development of Six-Dimensional Helical Muon Beam Ionization Cooling Channel for Muon Colliders

Speakers: Katsuya Yonehara (Fermilab) , Dr milorad popovic (Fermilab)

Slides nufact081013Katsuya.pptx

09:00 A Staged Approach for Muon-based Facilities

Speaker: David Neuffer (Fermilab)

Slides coolexploreR.pptx coolexploreR.pptx

09:30 Vacuum rf 6D cooling lattices

Speaker: Dr Robert Palmer (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides 1308-nufact-v2.pdf

08:30 → 10:00 WG1: Neutrinoless double beta decay

Nu Oscillation Physics

Conveners: Prof. Alexandre Sousa (University of Cincinnati) , Dr Enrique Fernandez-Martinez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) , Dr Takeshi Nakadaira (KEK)

08:30 Status of neutrinoless double beta decay searches

Speaker: Prof. Liang Yang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Slides NuFact-2013-Yang.pdf

08:50 Sterile neutrino contribution to neutrinoless double beta decay

Speaker: Dr Lopez Pavon Jacobo (SISSA)

Slides neutrinolessJLP.pdf

09:10 Systematic decomposition of the neutrinoless double beta decay operator

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 of new physics at high energy scales In this talk, we focus on dim=9 operators which contribute to the neutrinoless double beta decay (0n2b) process. An interesting observation is that the next generation 0n2b experiments, which are aimed at discovering the effective neutrino mass of O(0.1) eV, are also sensitive to the dim=9 operators with $Lambda_{NP}$=O(1) TeV. With a list of the possible high-energy --- TeV scale --- completions of the effective dim=9 operators, we discuss the complementarity between the 0n2b signal and the LHC observables, and seek the relation between the dim=9 operators and the existent models, such as radiative neutrino mass models.

Speaker: Dr Toshihiko Ota (Saitama University)

Slides 2013Aug-Nufact-Beijing-ota.pdf

09:30 Anarchy, neutrinoless double beta decay and leptogenesis

Speaker: Mr Xiaochuan Lu (UC Berkeley)

Abstract Abstract.pdf

Slides NuFact_2013_Xiaochuan_Lu.pdf NuFact_2013_Xiaochuan_Lu.pptx

08:30 → 10:00 WG2: Neutrino Scattering Physics

Conveners: Kendall Mahn, Luis Alvarez Ruso, Prof. Masashi Yokoyama (University of Tokyo)

08:30 Coherent Rho0 Measurement in Neutral Current Interaction

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.

Speaker: Mr Hongyue Duyang (University of South Carolina)

Slides CohRho0Nufact13.pdf

08:55 Measurement of Neutrino-Induced Coherent Rho in High Resolution Neutrino Detectors

Status and preliminary result of the Coherent-Rho production in NOMAD is presented. Prospect of future measurements and its implication is briefly described.

Speaker: Dr Xinchun Tian (U. of South Carolina)

Slides cohrhop-v6.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 break

10:30 → 12:30 Plenary session #6, Chair: Alexandre Sousa

10:30 Future Atmospheric Neutrino Experiments

Speaker: Prof. Naba Kumar Mondal (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

Slides nkm-nufact2013.pptx

11:00 Recent reactor experimental results

Speaker: Steve kettell (BNL)

Slides NuFact_Reactor_kettell.pptx

11:30 Future reactor experiments

Speaker: Dr Miao He (IHEP)

Slides hem_NuFact2013_FutureReactorExp.pdf

12:00 Sterile neutrino status

Speaker: Dr Carlo Giunti (INFN)

Slides giunti-130822-nufact.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

Friday, 23 August

08:30 → 10:00 Plenary session #7, Chair: Juan Nieves

08:30 Experimental overview on neutrino-nucleon scattering

Speaker: Prof. David Schmitz (University of Chicago)

Slides Schmitz_nufact_2013_08.pdf

09:00 Theory overview on neutrino-nucleon scattering

Speaker: Prof. Jan Sobczyk (Wroclaw University)

Slides sobczyk_nufact13_a23.pdf sobczyk_nufact13_a23.pdf

09:30 Effects of cross sections and nuclear effects on oscillation analyses

Speaker: Pilar Coloma (Center for Neutrino Physics at Virginia Tech)

Slides coloma-nufact13-xsec.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 break

10:30 → 12:30 J34: Muon Beams

Joint session WG3+WG4

Convener: Prof. Yoshitaka Kuno (Osaka University)

10:30 A New DC Muon Beam Line at MuSIC

Speaker: Akira Sato (Osaka University)

Slides 130819_MuSIC_sato.pdf

11:00 PRISM system - status and challenges

Speaker: Dr Jaroslaw Pasternak (Imperial College London/RAL-STFC)

Slides PRISM_JPasternak_nufact13.pdf

11:30 Low Energy Muon Beams from the AP0 Target

Speaker: Dr milorad popovic (Fermilab)

Slides A0LowEnerMuonPresentationV1.ppt

12:00 Discussion

10:30 → 12:30 WG1: Sterile neutrinos and reactor oscillation results

Nu Oscillation Physics

Conveners: Prof. Alexandre Sousa (University of Cincinnati) , Dr Enrique Fernandez-Martinez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) , Dr Takeshi Nakadaira (KEK)

10:30 Sterile neutrino searches in the US

Speaker: Dr Pavlovic Zarko (LANL)

Slides pavlovic_sterile_nufact13.pdf

10:50 Sterile neutrino searches at J-PARC

Speaker: Prof. Takasumi Maruyama (KEK)

Slides Nufact2013_MLF_v2.pdf

11:10 ICARUS status and results

Speaker: paola sala (INFN Milano)

Slides nufact2013_icarus.pdf

11:30 Cosmological bounds on sterile neutrinos

Speaker: Ms Maria Archidiacono (Aarhus University)

Slides nufact_archidiacono_2.pdf

11:50 Double Chooz recent results

Speaker: Ms Ralitsa Sharankova (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Slides DC_NuFact2013.pdf

12:10 Daya Bay recent results

Speaker: Dr Soeren Jetter (IHEP)

Slides dayabay_jetter_NuFact2013.pdf

10:30 → 12:30 WG2: Neutrino Scattering Physics

Conveners: Kendall Mahn, Luis Alvarez Ruso, Prof. Masashi Yokoyama (University of Tokyo)

10:30 MicroBooNE: prospects for making the first neutrino interaction measurements on argon at low energy

Speaker: Dr Jason St. John (University of Cincinnati)

Slides MicroBooNE_NuFact2013_JasonStJohn.pdf

10:55 CAPTAIN: Cryogenic Apparatus for Precision Tests of Argo Interactions with Neutrinos

Speaker: Dr Charles Taylor (Los Alamos National Lab)

Slides NuFact_2013_CAPTAIN.pdf

11:20 CLAS 1pi analysis

Speaker: Steven Manly (University of Rochester)

Slides NUFACT_2013_Manly_eA.pdf NUFACT_2013_Manly_eA.pptx

11:45 DUET: pi+ carbon absorption+charge exchange cross section

Speaker: Mr Pinzon Guerra Elder (York University)

Slides duet_elder_nufact13.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:30 J14: Neutrino and charged lepton physics connection

Joint session WG1 + WG4

Conveners: Alex Sousa, Andrew Norman, Enrique Fernandez-Martinez, Dr Giovanni Signorelli (INFN Pisa) , Naohito Sahito, Takeshi Nakadaira

13:30 Neutrino and Muon physics connections

Speaker: Filipe Joaquim (CFTP-IST)

Slides joaquim_final.pptx

14:15 Last results on tau cLFV and perspectives

Speaker: Dr Chengping Shen (Beihang University)

Slides shencp_report.pdf

14:45 Muon Analysis in the peripheral region of INO-Cal

Speaker: Ms K K Meghna (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai 600 113, India)

Slides Nufact-ICALmuon-talk.pdf

13:30 → 15:30 WG2: Neutrino Scattering Physics

Conveners: Kendall Mahn, Luis Alvarez Ruso, Prof. Masashi Yokoyama (University of Tokyo)

13:30 Hadron production measurement from NA61/SHINE

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 a graphite target. To determine the inclusive production cross-section for charged pions, kaons and protons the thin (0.04 λI ) target was exploited. Results of this measurement are used in the T2K beam simulation program to reweight hadron yields in the interaction vertex. At the same time, NA61/SHINE results obtained with the T2K replica target (1.9 λI ) allow to constrain hadron yields at the surface of the target. It would correspond to the constraint up to 90% of the neutrino flux, thus reducing significantly a model dependence of the neutrino beam prediction. All measured spectra are compared to predictions of hadron production models. In addition a status of the analysis of data collected by NA61/SHINE for the NuMI target (Fermilab) is reviewed. These data will be used further in neutrino beam calculations for the MINERvA, MINOS(+) and LBNE experiments.

Speaker: Dr Alexander Korzenev (University of Geneva)

Slides korzenev_NUFACT2013.pdf

13:55 Measurement of Hadron Production Off the NuMI Target in the MIPP Experiment

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 radiation measurements. MIPP collected $\sim1.6x10^6$ events of 120 GeV Main Injector protons striking a spare NuMI target. This talk will review the experimental setup, performance of the detectors, and preliminary results of the measurement of pion and Kaon yields from the NuMI target data.

Speaker: Dr Jonathan Paley (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides Status_of_the_MIPP_NuMI_Target_Data_Analysis.pdf

14:20 Nuclear dependence in weak structure functions and the determination of the weak angle

Speaker: Prof. MOHAMMAD SAJJAD ATHAR (ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY)

Slides Athar_nufact2013.pdf

14:45 Update on the CTEQ nPDF Analysis

Speaker: Dr Jorge Morfin (Fermilab)

Slides Morfin-NuFact13-NucEfct.pdf

13:30 → 15:30 WG3: Summary I

Convener: Dr Jaroslaw Pasternak (Imperial College London/RAL-STFC)

13:30 WG3 final discussion and summary preparation

15:30 → 16:00 break

16:00 → 17:30 WG1: Summary preparation

Nu Oscillation Physics

Conveners: Prof. Alexandre Sousa (University of Cincinnati) , Dr Enrique Fernandez-Martinez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) , Dr Takeshi Nakadaira (KEK)

16:00 Summary preparation

16:00 → 17:30 WG2: Overflow discussion and summary preparation

Conveners: Kendall Mahn, Luis Alvarez Ruso, Prof. Masashi Yokoyama (University of Tokyo)

16:00 → 17:30 WG3: Summary II

Convener: Dr Jaroslaw Pasternak (Imperial College London/RAL-STFC)

16:00 WG3 final discussion and summary preparation II

16:00 → 17:30 WG4

Parallel #1

Conveners: Dr Andrew J. Norman (FNAL) , Dr Giovanni Signorelli (INFN Pisa) , Dr Naohito Sahito

slides wg4_summary_nufact2013_norman.pdf wg4_summary_nufact2013_norman.pptx

16:00 Preparation for summary

Saturday, 24 August

08:30 → 10:00 Plenary session #8, Chair: Yoshitaka Kuno

08:30 nuSTORM

Speaker: Prof. Alan Bross (Fermilab)

Slides nuSTORM_v2.pdf nuSTORM_v2.pptx

09:00 A final report of IDS-NF

Speaker: Dr Paul Soler (University of Glasgow)

Slides

• NUFACT13_IDS-NF_Soler.pdf
• NUFACT13_IDS-NF_Soler.ppt
• NUFACT14_Glasgow_plenary.ppt

09:30 WG1 - Summary Report

Speaker: WG1

Slides 3._wg1_summary.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 break

10:30 → 12:30 Plenary session #9, Chair: TBA

10:30 WG2 - Summary Report

Speaker: WG2

Slides WG2-summary.pdf

11:00 WG3 - Summary Report

Speaker: WG3

Slides WG3_–_Accelerator_Physics-Summary.pdf

11:30 WG4 - Summary Report

Speaker: WG4

Slides 6._wg4_summary_nufact2013_norman.pdf

12:00 Workshop Summary Talk

Speaker: Prof. Karol Lang (University of Texas at Austin)

Slides Lang-NuFact-2013-Summary.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch