NNN13: International Workshop on Next generation Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detectors

11 Nov 2013, 08:00 → 13 Nov 2013, 12:10 Asia/Tokyo

Kavli IPMU

Masashi Yokoyama (University of Tokyo), Masato SHIOZAWA (The University of Tokyo, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, ICRR)

Overview
The 14th International Workshop on Next generation Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detectors (NNN13) will be held at Kavli IPMU in Kashiwa, Japan from November 11 to 13, 2013. The primary purpose of this series of workshops is to discuss future large scale detectors for research on nucleon decays and neutrino physics. Following the successful format of the previous workshops, the workshop will consist of invited plenary talks and a small number of contributed talks addressing the following topics:
    - Proton decay
    - High intensity neutrino beam
    - Supernova neutrinos
    - Solar neutrinos
    - Atmospheric neutrinos
    - Reactor neutrinos
    - Large detectors R&D

Hosted by:
    Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), The University of Tokyo
    Gradate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
Supported by:
    Kavli Institute for Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo
    Grant‐in‐Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, "Unification and Development of the Neutrino Science Frontier"

Workshop photo

Group photo taken on Nov.11 is here

Information for participants

Final Bulletin

Final Bulletin is available here.

FInal Bulletin NNN13-FinalBulletin.pdf

Slides NNN13-ad.pdf NNN13-poster-abstract.pdf

Workshop Photo NNN13_group_photo.JPG

Monday 11 November

08:15 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 10:30 Welcome and Physics Landscape

Chair : LISI, Eligio (Bari)

09:00 Opening

Speaker: Prof. Masashi Yokoyama (University of Tokyo)

Slides LOC-announce.pdf

09:10 Particle physics and NNN (Theory)

Speaker: Kaoru Hagiwara (KEK)

Slides 1311.11nnn-kh.pdf

09:50 Astrophysics and NNN (Theory)

Speaker: Shunsaku Horiuchi (UCI)

Slides horiuchi_NNN13_v2.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:00 Running Experiments with Natural Neutrinos

Chair : LESKO, Kevin (LBNL)

11:00 Super-Kamiokande

Speaker: Jennifer Raaf (Fermilab)

Slides Raaf_NNN13_SK.pdf

11:30 KamLAND

Speaker: Koji Ishidoshiro (Tohoku)

Slides NNN2013_ishidoshiro.pdf

12:00 → 13:15 Lunch

13:15 → 15:05 Running Experiments with Accelerator Neutrinos

Chair : KUDENKO, Yury (INR)

13:15 T2K

Speaker: Daniel Cherdack (Colorado State)

Slides NNN13_T2K_Talk_2.pdf

13:45 MINOS/MINOS+

Speaker: Leigh Whitehead (UCL)

Slides minosResultsNNN13.pdf

14:15 OPERA

Speaker: Naotaka Naganawa (Nagoya)

Slides NNN13_OPERA.pptx

14:40 ICARUS

Speaker: Prof. Daniele Gibin (Padova)

Slides ICARUSNNN2013_presentation.pptx

15:05 → 15:35 Break

15:35 → 16:30 Running Experiments with Accelerator Neutrinos

Chair : NAKAHATA, Masayuki (ICRR)

15:35 NOvA

Speaker: Mathew Muether (Fermilab)

Slides NNN-nova.pdf

16:00 Neutrino interactions and future LBL experiments

Speaker: Hirohisa Tanaka (UBC)

Slides NNN_H.A.Tanaka_2013.pdf

16:30 → 17:50 Reactor Neutrinos and Double Beta Decays

Chair : NAKAHATA, Masayuki (ICRR)

16:30 Reactor θ13 review

Speaker: Junpei Maeda (Tokyo Metropolitan)

Slides Reactor-NNN13(Maeda_Junpei).pdf

17:00 Status of neutrino oscillation parameters, circa 2013

Speaker: Eligio LISI (Bari)

Slides Lisi_NNN_2013.pdf

17:20 Double beta decays

Speaker: Manfred Lindner (MPIK)

Slides lindner.pdf

17:50 → 18:55 Poster Session

Slides Reception.pdf

19:00 → 20:00 Reception

Tuesday 12 November

08:45 → 10:10 Atmospheric and UHE Neutrinos

Chair : ITOW, Yoshitaka (Nagoya)

08:45 IceCUBE and PINGU

Speaker: Andreas Gross (TU-Munich)

Slides IceCubePINGU_NNN.pdf

09:15 Underwater Cherenkov detectors

Speaker: Antoine Kouchner (APC Paris)

Slides DeepSeaCherenkov_final.pdf

09:45 Status and prospects of INO

Speaker: Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla (Bhubaneswar)

Slides Sanjib-NNN2013.pdf

10:10 → 10:40 Break

10:40 → 12:10 Liquid Scintillator and Water Cherenkov Technology

Chair : Kuze, Masahiro (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

10:40 Liquid scintillator detector technology for mass hierarchy determination with reactor neutrinos

Speaker: Jun Cao (IHEP)

Slides CJ_reactor_NNN13.pdf

11:10 Large liquid scintillator detectors for neutrino and nucleon decays

Speaker: Lothar Oberauer (TU-Munich)

Slides 131112-NNN13(Oberauer).pdf

11:40 Photosensor R&D for large NNN detectors

Speaker: Fabrice Retiere (TRIUMF)

Slides Retiere_PhotoDetRDNov2013.pdf

12:10 → 13:25 Lunch

13:25 → 15:15 Future Neutrino Beams

Chair : BISHAI, Mary (BNL)

13:25 Future neutrino beam at CERN

Speaker: Marco Calviani (CERN)

Slides mcalviani__NNN13_12Nov2013_finb.pptx

13:55 Future neutrino beam at Fermilab

Speaker: Alberto Marchionni (Fermilab)

Slides AMarchionni_Future_neutrino_beam_at_Fermilab.pptx

14:25 Future neutrino beam at J-PARC

Speaker: Dr Tetsuro Sekiguchi (KEK)

Slides Future_beam_JPARC_sekiguchi.pptx

14:55 ESS neutrino beam

Speaker: Tord Ekelöf (Uppsala)

Slides NNN2013_presentation_T.Ekelöf_2013-11-11.ppt

15:15 → 15:45 Break

15:45 → 18:20 Future Water Cherenkov Detectors

Chair : INOUE, Kunio (Tohoku)

15:45 Physics with massive water Cherenkov detectors

Speaker: Ed Kearns (Boston)

Slides kearns-WC-physics-NNN13.pdf

16:15 Gd doped water Cherenkov detectors

Speaker: Andrew Renshaw (UCI)

Slides Renshaw_NNN_2013_nobackup.pptx

16:45 Hyper-Kamiokande R&D

Speaker: Francesca Di Lodovico (QMUL)

Slides HKNN2013-2.pdf

17:15 MEMPHYS R&D

Speaker: Luca Agostino (APC Paris)

Slides NNN_MEMPHYS.pdf

17:40 A New Method for Event Reconstruction in Large Cherenkov Detectors

In large Cherenkov detector instrumented with large photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), such as Super-Kamiokande, SNO, MiniBooNE, and Ice Cube, all information about a given set of final state particles is encoded in a single charge and time measurement for each PMT. This new reconstruction algorithm, based on the method used by MiniBooNE (NIM A608, 206 (2009)), uses a likelihood function in which predicted time and charge probability density functions are calculated for each PMT for a given choice of particle track parameters. The particle light emission profiles, water and tank properties, and the response of the electronics are all treated separately, which makes it straightforward to incorporate any Cherenkov-emitting particle hypothesis, extend the algorithm to many different detector geometries, and reconstruct multi-particle final states within a common likelihood fit framework. This algorithm has been implement for the Super-KamiokaNDE detector, and improvements over the previous algorithm, including improved detection of low energy photon rings and the first ever separation of muons from charge pions, will be presented. In addition, possible applications to future CP violation and proton decay measurements will be discussed.

Speaker: Dr Michael Wilking (TRIUMF)

Slides fiTQunNNN2013.pdf

18:00 IsoDAR and the DAEdALUS program

IsoDAR is a novel experimental concept to use a high power, low energy cyclotron to produce an intense source of electron antineutrinos. Such a source, when combined with a liquid scintillator based detector such as KamLAND, can provide a direct probe of the reactor antineutrino anomaly and, in general, a definitive probe of the sterile neutrino. Further, IsoDAR can differentiate between one and two sterile neutrinos in many cases as well as collect a sample of antineutrino-electron elastic scattering events that is approximately five times greater than has been collected to date. The experiment will be introduced within the context of the overall DAE$\delta$ALUS program for discovering CP violation in the neutrino sector and recent developments will be discussed.

Speaker: Dr Joshua Spitz (MIT)

Slides NNN_spitz.pdf

18:20 → 19:00 Transportation to Workshop Dinner

19:00 → 21:00 Workshop Dinner

Wednesday 13 November

08:45 → 10:15 Future Liquid Argon TPC

Chair : KOBAYASHI, Takashi (KEK)

08:45 Liquid argon TPC physics potential

Speaker: Vyacheslav Galymov (CEA-Saclay)

Slides vg_LAr_TPC_physics_NNN2013.pdf

09:15 LAr TPC developments in US

Speaker: Mitch Soderberg (Syracuse)

Slides NNN13_Soderberg.pdf

09:45 LAr TPC developments in Europe and Japan

Speaker: Sebastien Murphy (ETHZ)

Slides LAr_NNN_smurphy.pdf

10:15 → 10:45 Break

10:45 → 11:25 Sterile Neutrinos

Chair : JUNG, Chang Kee (Stony Brook)

10:45 Sterile neutrino with accelerator

Speaker: Takasumi Maruyama (KEK)

Slides NNN13_maruyama_sterile.pdf

11:05 Sterile neutrino with non-accelerator (talk canceled)

Speaker: Karsten Heeger (Yale)

11:25 → 12:10 Summary

Chair : JUNG, Chang Kee (Stony Brook)

11:25 Summary and outlook

Speaker: David Wark (RAL)

11:55 Words from Kavli IPMU director

Speaker: Hitoshi Murayama (Kavli IPMU/Berkeley)

Slides Murayama-NNN2013.pdf

12:05 NNN14 announcement

Slides presentation2014.pptx