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Jenni Adams
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Kiran Munawar
(University of Canterbury)
24/06/2014, 16:00
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the geographic South Pole, utilizes 1 km^3 of the glacial ice and is the world's largest detector for high-energy neutrinos. IceCube searches for high-energy astrophysical neutrinos whose observation will provide a complementary view of some of the highest energy phenomena occurring in the known universe. High energy neutrinos have been predicted...
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Hadis Bagherpour
(University of Canterbury)
24/06/2014, 16:20
The IceCube neutrino telescope instruments a cubic kilometre of the Antarctic ice at the South Pole with a three-dimensional array of light sensors. It is the largest neutrino telescope and is accumulating an unprecendented number of atmospheric neutrino events. Atmospheric neutrinos are produced in air showers, when cosmic rays hit the Earth's atmosphere and interact hadronically. The...
Mr
Rickard Stroem
(Uppsala Universitet)
24/06/2014, 16:40
Tuesday
One of the most intriguing topics in physics today is to find the answers to where cosmic-rays are produced and how they are accelerated. Hadronic acceleration models suggests that cosmic-ray protons and nuclei are accelerated and they subsequently interact with ambient radiation or matter producing high-energy neutrinos through the decay of light mesons. Unlike charged particles that are bent...
Mr
Morten Medici
(Niels Bohr Institute)
24/06/2014, 17:00
A short presentation of the methods used and the results achieved using IceCube for indirect detection of neutrinos from dark matter annihilation.
Mr
Simon Stark Mortensen
(University of Copenhagen)
25/06/2014, 16:00
Diffractive processes at LHC energies constitutes about 25 % of the total cross section but are currently not well understood since diffraction belongs to the soft non-perturbative region of QCD. This talk will introduce the different kinds of diffractive processes and explain how we can gain knowledge about diffraction by tagging the proton(s) at very small scattering angles. Also, the...
Mr
Mads Sogaard
(NBIA)
25/06/2014, 16:20
I'll explain the concepts of analyticity and unitarity in the context of multiloop scattering amplitudes.
Marta Torti
(University of Pavia, INFN Pavia)
25/06/2014, 17:00
The ICARUS (Imaging Cosmic And Rare Underground Signals) experiment employs the liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) technique to study Long Baseline (LBL) neutrino oscillations and rare event physics. The ICARUS T600 detector, filled with 760 tons of LAr, is placed in the underground laboratory of Gran Sasso (LNGS). It took data from 2010 to 2012 with the CNGS (Cern Neutrino to Gran...
Franziska Scholz
(RWTH Aachen)
25/06/2014, 17:20
The Enceladus Explorer project is a DLR funded feasibility study for a future space mission to the Saturn moon Enceladus. The aim of this mission is to search for life by probing liquid water pockets below the icy surface. As a terrestrial test scenario it is planned to probe brine from a liquid crevasse in Antarctica. Therefore the IceMole, a maneuverable melting probe with an ice screw for...
Mr
Alexander Burgman
(Lund University, Division of Particle Physics)
26/06/2014, 16:00
As is generally known today, neutrinos oscillate between possible eigenstates, but several parameters of this oscillation remain unknown. Recent results (from e.g. the T2K and MINOS experiments) favour larger values of theta_13 (the mixing angle between two mass eigenstates) than previously thought. This shifts the most favourable L/E range for oscillation detection from the first oscillation...
Mr
Kyle Allison
(University of Oxford)
26/06/2014, 16:20
I will review the Neutrino Minimal Standard Model (nuMSM) as an explanation for neutrino oscillations, dark matter, and the baryon asymmetry of the universe. If time allows, I will also discuss some of the theoretical issues that face the model.
Mr
Jim Talbert
(University of Oxford)
26/06/2014, 16:40
A new, model-independent method for finding phenomenologically viable flavour groups (long used to quantise leptonic mixing angles) will be discussed.
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Soumita Pramanick
(Department of Physics, University of Calcutta)
26/06/2014, 17:00
Popular lepton mixing models are in clear disagreement with the recent oscillation observation of nonzero $\theta_{13}$. We show that by supplementing these models by a single perturbation the conflict can be addressed. Starting from a point where $\theta_{13}$ is zero and the first two neutrino mass eigenstates are degenerate leading to no solar splitting initially, we device a...
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Katharina von Sturm
(Universita degli Studi di Padova)
26/06/2014, 17:20
The Gerda experiment aims to find the Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay (0nbb) in Ge76. Having concluded Phase I with a lower limit on the respective half-life which strongly disfavours the KK claim of 2004 [1][2][3], the experimental setup is currently changed to be suitable for Phase II. The modified setup will implement a new veto using the scintillation light of liquid Argon to reject...
Mr
Mathieu Durero
(CEA-Saclay, DSM/IRFU/Particle physics division)
27/06/2014, 16:00
The CeSOX project aims at testing the reactor antineutrino and Gallium anomalies, which can be interpreted as oscillations of active neutrinos toward a fourth (sterile) neutrino species in the very short baseline regime. CeSOX will use an intense radioactive antineutrino source deployed at the Borexino detector to search for a 2-dimensional oscillation pattern both in energy and position in...
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Weronika Warzycha
(University of Warsaw)
27/06/2014, 16:20
The T2K is one of world's leading experiments in neutrino physics. In the past years it has provided some fundamental experimental results and new are expected to be delivered in the upcoming time. The T2K measures neutrino interactions in two detectors, far - Super Kamiokande and near - ND280. This talk will provide some vital information for the T2K experiment. Additionally, some aspects of...
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Katarzyna Frankiewicz
(National Centre for Nuclear Research)
27/06/2014, 16:40
My talk will be devoted to detection and attempts to elucidating the nature of Dark Matter. In particular I will focus on searches for neutrinos, which may be produced in Dark Matter annihilation. As an example, I will discuss analysis performed at Supe-Kamiokande experiment.
Mr
Jeppe Trøst Nielsen
(NBI / NBIA)
27/06/2014, 17:00
A short description of how we try to circumvent the inherent problems of fitting data without a model, specifically using artificial neural networks is presented. Inspired by methods form PDF-estimation, I present a method for deriving honest error estimates from MC methods. Our motivation in the present study is from cosmology, mainly the Hubble diagram and accoustic oscillations.
