Name: International Workshop for the Next Generation Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detector (NNN15) and Unification Day 2 (UD2)
Start: 2015-10-28T08:30:00-04:00
End: 2015-10-31T15:40:00-04:00
Location: Stony Brook University

International Workshop for the Next Generation Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detector (NNN15) and Unification Day 2 (UD2)

from Wednesday, 28 October 2015 (08:30) to Saturday, 31 October 2015 (15:40)

Monday, 26 October 2015
Tuesday, 27 October 2015
Wednesday, 28 October 2015

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
Room: SCGP Entry Foyer
09:00
09:00 - 12:40
Room: SCGP Lecture Hall, Rm 102
Contributions

09:00 UD2 Welcoming Remarks - John Morgan (SCGP)

09:05 Brief Introduction - Chang Kee Jung (Stony Brook)

09:10 Unification and Proton Decay - Jogesh Pati (SLAC)

09:40 Testing SUSY SO(10) at the LHC - Stuart Raby (Ohio State University)

10:10 Neutrino masses and mixings as an evidence of GUT, and the impact to nucleon decay and leptogenesis - Nobuhiro Maekawa (Nagoya Univ. KMI)

11:10 TeV scale Lepton number violation and origin of matter - Rabindra Mohapatra (University of Maryland, College Park)

11:40 Unification and light vector-like fermions - Radovan Dermisek

12:10 Aspects of a realistic SUSY SO(10) - Zurab Tavartkiladze
12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 14:00
Room: On your own
14:00 Liquid Argon TPC detectors
Liquid Argon TPC detectors
14:00 - 18:15
Room: SCGP Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 The present status of ICARUS and its next future at Fermilab - Alessandro Menegolli (U. and INFN Pavia)

14:25 Charge readout and construction of the first WA105 large Double Phase Liquid Argon TPC - Shuoxing Wu (ETH Zurich)

14:50 Status & plans of the WA105 6x6x6 m3 Double Phase Liquid Argon TPC at CERN neutrino platform - Sara Bolognesi (CEA Saclay)

15:15 DUNE Single Phase Liquid Argon TPC prototyping at CERN and Fermilab - Jonathan Insler

16:10 Captain: Status and plans for cross-sections measurements relevant for DUNE - Lisa Whitehead (U. of Houston)

16:35 ArgoNeut&Lariat: Status and plans for cross-sections measurements relevant for DUNE - Will Flanagan

17:00 Towards realisation of very high voltage for Liquid Argon TPCs: present R&D status and future challenges - Sarah Lockwitz (Fermilab)

17:25 Overview of light readout solutions applicable to large underground Liquid Argon TPCs - Andrej Szelc (Manchester)

17:50 Triggering and charge readout of Liquid Argon TPCs from MeV to multi-GeV - Yun-Tse Tsai (SLAC)
Water Cherenkov and Liquid Scintillator detectors
Water Cherenkov and Liquid Scintillator detectors
14:00 - 18:15
Room: Math Common Room, 4-125 (4 th -5 th floor)
Contributions

14:00 Liquid Scintillator technologies (including water based and achieving 3% energy resolution) - Ziyan Deng (IHEP)

14:25 Gd doping (EGADs, Watchmen, ANNIE) - Mark Vagins (IPMU/Tokyo)

14:50 Developments in photosensors (LAPPDs) - Matthew Wetstein (Iowa State University)

15:15 Developments in photosensors (broad scope) - Darren Grant (U. of Alberta) Roger Wendell (ICRR)

16:00 JUNO (R&D detector focus) - Jie Zhao (IHEP)

16:20 HyperK (R&D focus) - Yasuhiro Nishimura (ICRR)

16:40 SNO+ status and prospects - Ian Coulter (U. of Pennsylvania)

17:05 PINGU - Joshua Highnight (Michigan State University)

17:25 ORCA - Martijn Jongen (Nikhef)

17:50 Physics with a very large WBLSn experiment - Josh Klein (U.Penn)
14:00 - 17:30
Room: SCGP Lecture Hall, Rm 102
Contributions

14:00 B-L violating proton decay and baryogenesis - Babu Kaladi (Okalahoma State U.)

14:30 Realistic F-theory Compactifications - Mirjam Cvetic (University of Pennsylvania)

15:00 Predictions of F-theory GUTs - Arthur Hebecker (University of Heidelberg)

16:00 Inflation, GUTs and Phenomenology - Qaisar Shafi (University of Delaware)

16:30 Affleck-Dine Sneutrino Inflation - Jason Evans (University of Minnesota)

17:00 Yukawa structure in SUSY SO(10) - Charanjit Singh Aulakh (IISER Mohali, India)
18:30
18:30 - 20:00
Room: SCGP Café area
Contributions

18:30 Muonless Events in ICAL at INO - Ali Ajmi (HBNI)

18:31 The new experiment WAGASCI at JPARC - Michel Gonin (LLR - Ecole Polytechnique)

18:32 Measurement of Longitudinal Electron Diffusion in Liquid Argon - Yichen Li (BNL)

18:33 Wire-Cell Tomographic Event Reconstruction for large LArTPCs - Xin Qian (BNL)

18:34 "Optimization of the Detector Design of NuPRISM, a New Water Cherenkov Neutrino Near Detecto - Tomoyo Yoshida (TITech)

18:35 Muon-induced spallation backgrounds for MeV astrophysical neutrino signals in Super-Kamiokande - Shirley Li

18:36 Rayleigh scattering measurement for Super-Kamiokande Gd project - Ryosuke Akutsu (ICRR)

18:37 Solar 8B Neutrinos at Super-Kamiokande with Lower Energy Threshold - Muhammad Elnimr (UCI)

18:38 Novel techniques for monitoring and calibration of very large volume liquid Argon TPCs - Cosimo Cantini (ETH Zurich)

18:39 Measurements at the tracker of the T2K off-axis near detector - Ciro Riccio (University of Naples and INFN Naples)

18:40 Measurement of the charged-current electron neutrino interaction rate on water with the T2K pi0 detector - Jay Hyun Jo (Stony Brook)

18:41 Results of recent nucleon decay searches at the Super-Kamiokande experiment - Volodymyr Takhistov (UCI)

18:42 Electron Neutrino Identification for the NuE Appearance Measurement at NOvA - Jianming Bian (University of Minnesota)

18:43 Search for the Proton Decay Mode p -> ν K+ with KamLAND - Kyoko Tamae (Tohoku University)

18:44 Double CHOOZ nH-based Analysis Results - Guang Yang (ANL)

18:45 Detailed performance evaluation of New 50 cm Photodetectors for Hyper-Kamiokande - Daisuke Fukuda (Okayama university)

18:46 Neutron measurements in Mini-CAPTAIN - Babu Bhandari (University of Houston)

18:47 The commissioning of the primary CAPTAIN detector - Charles Edward Taylor (LANL)

18:48 Neutron-antineutron oscillation signatures in Liquid Argon TPCs - Jeremy Hewes (The University of Manchester)

18:49 A study of gamma-ray production from thermal neutron capture on Gadolinium - Takatomi Yano (Kobe University)

18:50 The CAPTAIN-MINERvA Experiment - Jieun Yoo (University of Houston)

18:51 Feasibility studies for the SUNLAB laboratory in Poland - Malgorzata Haranczyk (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences)

18:52 Simulation & Neutrino Flux Studies for NOvA Experiment - Kuldeep Kaur (Fermilab)

18:53 PROSPECT: A Precision Reactor Oscillation and SPECTrum Experiment - Danielle Norcini (Yale University)

18:54 Understand the Standard Model through Noncommutative Geometry - Chen Sun (Virginia Tech University)

18:55 Super Feynman rules for any superspin - Enrique Jimenez Ramos (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)
Thursday, 29 October 2015

08:00

08:00 - 08:30
Room: SCGP Entry Foyer
08:30 Opening Session and Theoretical Overview
Opening Session and Theoretical Overview
08:30 - 12:45
Room: SCGP Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 Welcoming Remarks - Sacha Kopp (Stony Brook)

08:35 Workshop Introduction - Chang Kee Jung (Stony Brook University)

08:50 Review of GUTs/Unification Theories and Proton Decay/CPV/MH - Bill Marciano (BNL)

09:25 Leptogenesis Models and CPV/MH measurements by NO experiments - Pasquale di Bari (U. of Southampton)

10:30 Review of Supernova Neutrinos - Christian Ott (Caltech)

11:05 Review of Solar Neutrinos - Francesco Villante (INFN)

11:35 Cosmology and Neutrinos - Yvonne Wong (The University of New South Wales)

12:10 Axions for QCD and Dark Matter - Ed Witten (IAS)
12:45 Lunch (Workshop photo on ESS steps)
Lunch (Workshop photo on ESS steps)
12:45 - 14:15
Room: On your own.
14:15 Sources and Control of Systematic Uncertainties in Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments for CPV measurements
Sources and Control of Systematic Uncertainties in Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments for CPV measurements
14:15 - 17:45
Room: SCGP Auditorium
Contributions

14:15 Theoretical Review of Sources of the Systematic Uncertainties in NNN experiments - Pilar Coloma (Fermilab)

14:45 Recent Results from MINERvA (Cross-section Related Systematic Uncertainties) - Laura Fields (Fermilab)

15:10 Recent Results from NA61 (Flux Related Systematic Uncertainties) and from T2K (Overall Systematic Uncertainties) - Alessandro Bravar (Geneva)

16:20 NuPRISM - Michael Wilking (Stony Brook)

16:45 HyperK Strategy for Controlling Systematic Uncertainties - Sam Short (Queen Mary U. of London)

17:05 NOvA Strategy for Controlling Systematic Uncertainties - Patricia Vahle (William and Mary)

17:25 DUNE Strategy for Controlling Systematic Uncertainties - Elizabeth Worcester (Brookhaven National Lab)
14:15 - 17:45
Room: SCGP Lecture Hall, Rm 102
Contributions

14:15 Relating flavor physics and nucleon decay - Stephen Barr (University of Delaware)

14:45 Proton decay in non-SUSY SO(10) - Saki Khan (Oklahoma State University)

15:15 CP violating phases and leptogenesis - Jessica Turner (Durham University)

16:15 Flavor symmetries for quarks, leptons and neutrinos - Mu-Chun Chen (University of California-Irvine)

16:45 Neutrino flavor models - Lisa Everett (U. of Wisconsin)

17:15 Global picture of neutrino oscillations - Srubabati Goswami (Physical Research Laboratory, India)
18:00 See Wednesday Session for Poster Contributions
See Wednesday Session for Poster Contributions
18:00 - 20:00
Room: SCGP Café area
Friday, 30 October 2015

08:00

08:00 - 08:30
Room: SCGP Entry Foyer
08:30 Recent Results from Running Experiments
Recent Results from Running Experiments
08:30 - 12:05
Room: SCGP Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 Recent Results from Super-Kamiokande and Upgrade Plan (SK-Gd) - Motoyasu Ikeda (ICRR)

08:55 Recent Results from Reactor Neutrino Experiments - Stefan Wagner (CBPF, Brazil)

09:30 Recent Results from MINOS/MINOS+ - Leigh Whitehead (U. C. London)

10:25 Recent Neutrino Oscillation Results from T2K - Takahiro Hiraki (Kyoto)

10:50 First Results from NOvA - Alexandre Sousa (University of Cincinnati)

11:15 First Look at MicroBooNE - Benjamin Carls (Fermilab)

11:40 Review of Sterile Neutrino Searches - Carlo Giunti (INFN-Turin)
12:05 Lunch
Lunch
12:05 - 13:30
Room: On your own
13:30 Future Experiments (Approved or Proposed)
Future Experiments (Approved or Proposed)
13:30 - 17:55
Room: SCGP Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 PINGU (including ICECUBE/DEEPCore) Km3Net/ORCA (including ANTARES) - Tyce DeYoung (Michigan State)

14:05 Status of JUNO - Zeyuan Yu (IHEP)

14:30 Status of INO - Md. Naimuddin (Delhi U.)

15:25 FNAL short baseline program - Roxanne Guennette (Oxford U.)

15:50 Status of DUNE@LBNF - Thomas Kutter (LSU)

16:15 Review of LAr TPC event reconstruction: Progress and Challenges - Dorota Stefan (CERN/NCBJ)

16:40 Hyper-Kamiokande - Hide-Kazu Tanaka (ICRR)

17:05 Review of Neutrino Beamline R&D - Megan Friend (KEK)

17:30 Neutrino Beamline Optimization Studies - Laura Fields (Fermilab)
Saturday, 31 October 2015
09:00 Synergies and Other Related Topics
Synergies and Other Related Topics
09:00 - 12:15
Room: SCGP Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Developments in the World’s Deep Underground Laboratories - Sean Paling

09:25 Large Underground Cavity Excavations - Chris Laughton (ILF Consultants, Inc.)

09:50 Liquid Xe detectors for double beta decay and connection with large LAr detectors - Andrea Pocar (U. of Mass Amherst)

10:45 Status of Fermilab and future plans - Steve Brice (Fermilab)

11:15 Status of J-PARC and future plans - Naohito Saito (J-PARC)

11:45 Poster Presentation Winners' Oral Presentations
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 13:30
Room: On your own.
13:30 Summary/Highlights of Parallel Sessions and Closing
Summary/Highlights of Parallel Sessions and Closing
13:30 - 15:30
Room: SCGP Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 LAr Detectors - Sebastien Murphy (ETH Zurich)

14:05 Water Cherenkov and Liquid Scintillator Detectors - Miao He (IHEP)

14:40 Closing Remarks - Joseph Lykken (Fermilab)

15:15 NNN 2016 Presentation - Jun Cao (IHEP)

15:20 Closing of the Workshop