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

28 Oct 2015, 08:30 → 31 Oct 2015, 15:40 US/Eastern

Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (Stony Brook University)

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The NNN series of workshops have been providing the international community a forum for in- depth discussions on large-scale NNN detectors since its inaugural workshop in 1999 at Stony Brook. This year the workshop returns to Stony Brook after 16 years.

Just prior to the NNN2015 workshop is a Satellite Meeting. See here.

Handouts Material to be printed and handed out to attendees. Includes a copy of the program, attendee list and meal guide.

Poster NNN2015 Poster

Wednesday, 28 October

08:30 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 12:40 UD2 Plenary

Conveners: Bill Marciano (BNL), Robert Shrock (Stony Brook)

09:00 UD2 Welcoming Remarks

Speaker: John Morgan (SCGP)

09:05 Brief Introduction

Speaker: Chang Kee Jung (Stony Brook)

Slides UD2_Openning.pdf

09:10 Unification and Proton Decay

Speaker: Jogesh Pati (SLAC)

Slides Scanned_from_a_Xerox_Multifunction_Printer.pdf

09:40 Testing SUSY SO(10) at the LHC

Speaker: Stuart Raby (Ohio State University)

Slides RABY.SUSY_on_the_Edge.NNN15.pdf RABY.SUSY_on_the_Edge.NNN15.pptx

10:10 Neutrino masses and mixings as an evidence of GUT, and the impact to nucleon decay and leptogenesis

Speaker: Nobuhiro Maekawa (Nagoya Univ. KMI)

Slides StoneyBrook.pptm

10:40 Coffee Break

11:10 TeV scale Lepton number violation and origin of matter

Speaker: Rabindra Mohapatra (University of Maryland, College Park)

11:40 Unification and light vector-like fermions

Speaker: Radovan Dermisek

Slides NNN15_UD2_Oct_28_2015.pdf

12:10 Aspects of a realistic SUSY SO(10)

Speaker: Zurab Tavartkiladze

Slides Tavartkiladze-NNN-2015.pdf

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 18:15 NNN15 Parallel: Liquid Argon TPC detectors

Conveners: Jennifer Raaf (Fermilab), Takuya Hasegawa (KEK)

14:00 The present status of ICARUS and its next future at Fermilab

Speaker: Alessandro Menegolli (U. and INFN Pavia)

Slides NNN2015_Menegolli.pdf NNN2015_Menegolli.pptx

14:25 Charge readout and construction of the first WA105 large Double Phase Liquid Argon TPC

Speaker: Shuoxing Wu (ETH Zurich)

Slides NNN_swu.pdf

14:50 Status & plans of the WA105 6x6x6 m3 Double Phase Liquid Argon TPC at CERN neutrino platform

Speaker: Sara Bolognesi (CEA Saclay)

Slides WA105_bolognesi.pdf

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

Speaker: Jonathan Insler

Slides NNN15_DUNE_prototypes.pdf

15:40 Coffee

16:10 Captain: Status and plans for cross-sections measurements relevant for DUNE

Speaker: Lisa Whitehead (U. of Houston)

Slides CAPTAIN_Whitehead_NNN2015.pdf

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

Speaker: Will Flanagan

Slides NNN.pdf

17:00 Towards realisation of very high voltage for Liquid Argon TPCs: present R&D status and future challenges

Speaker: Sarah Lockwitz (Fermilab)

Slides nnn_LArHV.key nnn_LArHV.pptx

17:25 Overview of light readout solutions applicable to large underground Liquid Argon TPCs

Speaker: Andrej Szelc (Manchester)

Slides szelc_NNN.pdf

17:50 Triggering and charge readout of Liquid Argon TPCs from MeV to multi-GeV

Speaker: Yun-Tse Tsai (SLAC)

Slides NNN_20151028.pdf

14:00 → 18:15 NNN15 Parallel: Water Cherenkov and Liquid Scintillator detectors

Conveners: Darren Grant (U. of Alberta), Roger Wendell (ICRR)

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

Speaker: Ziyan Deng (IHEP)

Slides NNN15_dengzy.pdf

14:25 Gd doping (EGADs, Watchmen, ANNIE)

Speaker: Mark Vagins (IPMU/Tokyo)

Slides GadNNN15.pdf

14:50 Developments in photosensors (LAPPDs)

Speaker: Matthew Wetstein (Iowa State University)

Slides lappd_developments.pdf

15:15 Developments in photosensors (broad scope)

Speakers: Darren Grant (U. of Alberta), Roger Wendell (ICRR)

15:40 Coffee Break

16:00 JUNO (R&D detector focus)

Speaker: Jie Zhao (IHEP)

Slides NNN15_zj.pdf

16:20 HyperK (R&D focus)

Speaker: Yasuhiro Nishimura (ICRR)

Slides 20151028_HyperKdetector_Nishimura.pdf

16:40 SNO+ status and prospects

Speaker: Ian Coulter (U. of Pennsylvania)

Slides SNO+_NNN_Talk.pdf

17:05 PINGU

Speaker: Joshua Highnight (Michigan State University)

Slides 20151028_hignight_PINGU_NNN.pdf

17:25 ORCA

Speaker: Martijn Jongen (Nikhef)

Slides ORCA_Martijn_Jongen_NNN_20151028.pdf

17:50 Physics with a very large WBLSn experiment

Speaker: Josh Klein (U.Penn)

Slides wbls_nnn15_post.pdf

14:00 → 17:30 UD2 Plenary

Conveners: Mu-Chun Chen (UCI), Srubabati Goswami (Physical Research Laboratory, India)

14:00 B-L violating proton decay and baryogenesis

Speaker: Babu Kaladi (Okalahoma State U.)

Slides UD2_NNN15_Babu.pdf UD2_NNN15_Babu.ppt

14:30 Realistic F-theory Compactifications

Speaker: Mirjam Cvetic (University of Pennsylvania)

Slides NNN15_Simons_2015_MC.pdf NNN15_Simons_2015_MC.pptx

15:00 Predictions of F-theory GUTs

Speaker: Arthur Hebecker (University of Heidelberg)

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 Inflation, GUTs and Phenomenology

Speaker: Qaisar Shafi (University of Delaware)

Slides NNN2015.pdf

16:30 Affleck-Dine Sneutrino Inflation

Speaker: Jason Evans (University of Minnesota)

Slides NNN15-2.pdf

17:00 Yukawa structure in SUSY SO(10)

Speaker: Charanjit Singh Aulakh (IISER Mohali, India)

Slides CSAulakhNNN15-UD2updat.pdf

18:30 → 20:00 Poster

18:30 Muonless Events in ICAL at INO

Speaker: Ali Ajmi (HBNI)

Slides nnn15_poster_aliajmi.pdf

18:31 The new experiment WAGASCI at JPARC

Speaker: Michel Gonin (LLR - Ecole Polytechnique)

18:32 Measurement of Longitudinal Electron Diffusion in Liquid Argon

Speaker: Yichen Li (BNL)

Slides NNN15_poster_V1.0e.pdf

18:33 Wire-Cell Tomographic Event Reconstruction for large LArTPCs

Speaker: Xin Qian (BNL)

Slides Wire-Cell-NNN.pdf

18:34 "Optimization of the Detector Design of NuPRISM, a New Water Cherenkov Neutrino Near Detecto

Speaker: Tomoyo Yoshida (TITech)

Slides yoshida_NNN15v3.pdf

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

Speaker: Shirley Li

18:36 Rayleigh scattering measurement for Super-Kamiokande Gd project

Speaker: Ryosuke Akutsu (ICRR)

18:37 Solar 8B Neutrinos at Super-Kamiokande with Lower Energy Threshold

Speaker: Muhammad Elnimr (UCI)

18:38 Novel techniques for monitoring and calibration of very large volume liquid Argon TPCs

Speaker: Cosimo Cantini (ETH Zurich)

Poster NNN2015.pdf

18:39 Measurements at the tracker of the T2K off-axis near detector

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Jay Hyun Jo (Stony Brook)

18:41 Results of recent nucleon decay searches at the Super-Kamiokande experiment

Speaker: Volodymyr Takhistov (UCI)

18:42 Electron Neutrino Identification for the NuE Appearance Measurement at NOvA

Speaker: Jianming Bian (University of Minnesota)

Poster NovaNNN_10_22_2015_bianjm.pdf

18:43 Search for the Proton Decay Mode p -> ν K+ with KamLAND

Speaker: Kyoko Tamae (Tohoku University)

18:44 Double CHOOZ nH-based Analysis Results

Speaker: Guang Yang (ANL)

18:45 Detailed performance evaluation of New 50 cm Photodetectors for Hyper-Kamiokande

Speaker: Daisuke Fukuda (Okayama university)

Poster NNN15_fukuda_final.pdf

18:46 Neutron measurements in Mini-CAPTAIN

Speaker: Babu Bhandari (University of Houston)

18:47 The commissioning of the primary CAPTAIN detector

Speaker: Charles Edward Taylor (LANL)

18:48 Neutron-antineutron oscillation signatures in Liquid Argon TPCs

Speaker: Jeremy Hewes (The University of Manchester)

18:49 A study of gamma-ray production from thermal neutron capture on Gadolinium

Speaker: Takatomi Yano (Kobe University)

Slides NNN2015_ver5.pdf

18:50 The CAPTAIN-MINERvA Experiment

Speaker: Jieun Yoo (University of Houston)

Poster CAPTAIN-MINERvA_Poster_2015.pdf

18:51 Feasibility studies for the SUNLAB laboratory in Poland

Speaker: Malgorzata Haranczyk (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences)

Poster Poster_NNN2015.pdf

18:52 Simulation & Neutrino Flux Studies for NOvA Experiment

Speaker: Kuldeep Kaur (Fermilab)

Poster NNN15_Kuldeep.pdf

18:53 PROSPECT: A Precision Reactor Oscillation and SPECTrum Experiment

Speaker: Danielle Norcini (Yale University)

Poster NNN2015_poster_v4.pdf

18:54 Understand the Standard Model through Noncommutative Geometry

Speaker: Chen Sun (Virginia Tech University)

18:55 Super Feynman rules for any superspin

Speaker: Enrique Jimenez Ramos (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)

Thursday, 29 October

08:00 → 08:30 Registration

08:30 → 12:45 NNN15/UD2 Joint Plenary Session: Opening Session and Theoretical Overview

Conveners: Jogesh Pati (SLAC), Steve Kettell (BNL)

08:30 Welcoming Remarks

Speaker: Sacha Kopp (Stony Brook)

08:35 Workshop Introduction

Speaker: Chang Kee Jung (Stony Brook University)

Slides NNN15_Introduction.pdf

08:50 Review of GUTs/Unification Theories and Proton Decay/CPV/MH

Speaker: Bill Marciano (BNL)

Slides marciano_pdk_NNN.pdf

09:25 Leptogenesis Models and CPV/MH measurements by NO experiments

Speaker: Pasquale di Bari (U. of Southampton)

Slides STONYBROOK.pdf

10:00 Coffee Break

10:30 Review of Supernova Neutrinos

Speaker: Christian Ott (Caltech)

Slides ott_nnn15_ud2_20151029.pdf

11:05 Review of Solar Neutrinos

Speaker: Francesco Villante (INFN)

Slides Villante.pdf

11:35 Cosmology and Neutrinos

Speaker: Yvonne Wong (The University of New South Wales)

Slides talk.pdf

12:10 Axions for QCD and Dark Matter

Speaker: Ed Witten (IAS)

Slides NNN15:UD2-WittenTalk.pdf

12:45 → 14:15 Lunch (Workshop photo on ESS steps)

14:15 → 17:45 NNN15 Plenary: Sources and Control of Systematic Uncertainties in Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments for CPV measurements

Conveners: Clark McGrew (Stony Brook), Michel Gonin (Ecole Polytechnique)

14:15 Theoretical Review of Sources of the Systematic Uncertainties in NNN experiments

Speaker: Pilar Coloma (Fermilab)

Slides coloma-NNN2015.pdf

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

Speaker: Laura Fields (Fermilab)

Slides NNN2015_Fields_MINERvA.pdf

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

Speaker: Alessandro Bravar (Geneva)

Slides Bravar_NNN15.pdf

15:50 Coffee Break

16:20 NuPRISM

Speaker: Michael Wilking (Stony Brook)

Slides NuPRISM_NNN_nb.pdf

16:45 HyperK Strategy for Controlling Systematic Uncertainties

Speaker: Sam Short (Queen Mary U. of London)

Slides hyperksyst_samshort_20151029.pdf

17:05 NOvA Strategy for Controlling Systematic Uncertainties

Speaker: Patricia Vahle (William and Mary)

Slides vahle-nnn-2.pdf

17:25 DUNE Strategy for Controlling Systematic Uncertainties

Speaker: Elizabeth Worcester (Brookhaven National Lab)

Slides etw_dune_systs.pdf

14:15 → 17:45 UD2 Plenary

Conveners: Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State), Nobuhiro Maekawa (Nagoya U.)

14:15 Relating flavor physics and nucleon decay

Speaker: Stephen Barr (University of Delaware)

Slides Barr(NNN15).pptx

14:45 Proton decay in non-SUSY SO(10)

Speaker: Saki Khan (Oklahoma State University)

Slides Saki_Khan_UD2_2015_.pdf

15:15 CP violating phases and leptogenesis

Speaker: Jessica Turner (Durham University)

Slides CPV_leptogenesis.pdf

15:45 Coffee Break

16:15 Flavor symmetries for quarks, leptons and neutrinos

Speaker: Mu-Chun Chen (University of California-Irvine)

Slides UD2_NNN2015_MCChen.pdf

16:45 Neutrino flavor models

Speaker: Lisa Everett (U. of Wisconsin)

Slides UD2_NNN15_Everett.pdf

17:15 Global picture of neutrino oscillations

Speaker: Srubabati Goswami (Physical Research Laboratory, India)

Slides NNNfinal_sruba.pdf NNNfinal_sruba.pptx

18:00 → 20:00 Poster: See Wednesday Session for Poster Contributions

Friday, 30 October

08:00 → 08:30 Registration

08:30 → 12:05 NNN15 Plenary: Recent Results from Running Experiments

Conveners: Jun Cao (IHEP), Patricia Vahle (William and Mary)

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

Speaker: Motoyasu Ikeda (ICRR)

Slides 20151030_nnn_sk.pdf

08:55 Recent Results from Reactor Neutrino Experiments

Speaker: Stefan Wagner (CBPF, Brazil)

Slides ReactorNeutrinoResults_SWagner_NNN15.pdf

09:30 Recent Results from MINOS/MINOS+

Speaker: Leigh Whitehead (U. C. London)

Slides minosNNN2015.pdf

09:55 Coffee Break

10:25 Recent Neutrino Oscillation Results from T2K

Speaker: Takahiro Hiraki (Kyoto)

Slides hiraki

10:50 First Results from NOvA

Speaker: Alexandre Sousa (University of Cincinnati)

Slides Sousa_NOvA_NNN15.pdf

11:15 First Look at MicroBooNE

Speaker: Benjamin Carls (Fermilab)

Slides nnn_15_bcarls.pdf

11:40 Review of Sterile Neutrino Searches

Speaker: Carlo Giunti (INFN-Turin)

Slides giunti-151030-nnn.pdf

12:05 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 17:55 NNN15 Plenary: Future Experiments (Approved or Proposed)

Conveners: Hiro Tanaka (U. of Toronto, IPP, TRIUMF), Regina Rameika (Fermilab)

13:30 PINGU (including ICECUBE/DEEPCore) Km3Net/ORCA (including ANTARES)

Speaker: Tyce DeYoung (Michigan State)

Slides NNN_2015.pdf

14:05 Status of JUNO

Speaker: Dr Zeyuan Yu (IHEP)

Slides JUNO_NNN15_Zeyuan.pdf

14:30 Status of INO

Speaker: Md. Naimuddin (Delhi U.)

Slides NNN15.pdf

14:55 Coffee Break

15:25 FNAL short baseline program

Speaker: Roxanne Guennette (Oxford U.)

Slides NNN_Guenette.pdf

15:50 Status of DUNE@LBNF

Speaker: Thomas Kutter (LSU)

Slides 151030_NNN15_DUNE-LBNF.pdf

16:15 Review of LAr TPC event reconstruction: Progress and Challenges

Speaker: Dorota Stefan (CERN/NCBJ)

Slides nnn2015dorota.pdf

16:40 Hyper-Kamiokande

Speaker: Hide-Kazu Tanaka (ICRR)

Slides tanaka_20151030_nnn15_v1.pdf

17:05 Review of Neutrino Beamline R&D

Speaker: Megan Friend (KEK)

Slides NUbeamline_RandD_NNN2015_mfriend.pdf

17:30 Neutrino Beamline Optimization Studies

Speaker: Laura Fields (Fermilab)

Slides NNN2015_Fields_NeutrinoBeamOptimization.pdf

Saturday, 31 October

09:00 → 12:15 NNN15 Plenary: Synergies and Other Related Topics

Conveners: Andre Rubbia (ETH Zurich), Tsuyoshi Nakaya (Kyoto U.)

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

Speaker: Sean Paling

Slides UGLabs_Review_NNN2015_short.pdf

09:25 Large Underground Cavity Excavations

Speaker: Chris Laughton (ILF Consultants, Inc.)

Slides Large_Underground_Cavity_Excavations_2015.pptx

09:50 Liquid Xe detectors for double beta decay and connection with large LAr detectors

Speaker: Andrea Pocar (U. of Mass Amherst)

Slides 20151031_NNN-XeAr.pdf

10:15 Coffee Break

10:45 Status of Fermilab and future plans

Speaker: Steve Brice (Fermilab)

Slides Brice_NNN15.pdf

11:15 Status of J-PARC and future plans

Speaker: Naohito Saito (J-PARC)

Slides 0.pdf

11:45 Poster Presentation Winners' Oral Presentations

12:15 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:30 NNN15 Plenary: Summary/Highlights of Parallel Sessions and Closing

Convener: Chang Kee Jung (Stony Brook)

13:30 LAr Detectors

Speaker: Sebastien Murphy (ETH Zurich)

Slides LAr-summary.pdf

14:05 Water Cherenkov and Liquid Scintillator Detectors

Speaker: Miao He (IHEP)

Slides WaterLS_summary.pdf

14:40 Closing Remarks

Speaker: Joseph Lykken (Fermilab)

Slides lykken_NNN15.pdf

15:15 NNN 2016 Presentation

Speaker: Jun Cao (IHEP)

Slides CJ_NNN16.pdf

15:20 Closing of the Workshop