Conveners
Thu 16:00-17:40
- Dirk Peter van der Werf (Swansea)
Prof.
Reyco Henning
(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory)
21/06/2012, 16:00
The MAJORANA collaboration is actively pursuing research and development aimed at a
tonne-scale 76Ge neutrinoless double-beta decay (bb(0n)-decay) experiment. The current, primary
focus is the construction of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR experiment, an R&D effort that
will field approximately 40kg of germanium detectors with mixed enrichment levels. This article
provides a status update on...
Dr
Ralf Ehrlich
(University of Virginia)
21/06/2012, 16:20
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino experiment designed to study nu_mu --> nu_e and anti-nu_mu --> anti-nu_e oscillations. It will measure the neutrino mixing angle theta_13 with a high precision, probe the neutrino mass hierarchy, and search for CP violation in neutrino oscillations. The experiment consists of two detectors. The Near Detector will be located at Fermilab close to the source of...
Prof.
W-Y. Pauchy Hwang
(Department of Physics, National Taiwan University)
21/06/2012, 16:40
We try to envision that there might be a dark-matter world and neutrinos, especially the right-handed ones, might be coupled directly with particles in the dark-matter world. This means that the minimal Standard Model [1], which describes the ordinary-matter
world to begin with, should be extended in some way. Our candidate
theory would be the extended Standard Model based on $SU_c(3)...
Dr
Daniela Kirilova
(Institute of Astronomy and NAO, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
21/06/2012, 17:00
We discuss the interplay between lepton asymmetry L and neutrino oscillations in the early Universe. Neutrino oscillations may suppress or enhance previously existing L. On the other hand L is capable to suppress or enhance neutrino oscillations. The mechanism of L enhancement in resonant neutrino oscillations in the early Universe is numerically analyzed.
Lepton asymmetry cosmological...
Dr
Maurice LALOUM
(Ex - CNRS/IN2P3/LPNHE Paris (retired))
21/06/2012, 17:20
We argue that the present classical formalism of neutrino oscillations is just approximate (cf. PDG 2006), thus still requiring various second-order corrections : internal momentum dispersion from internal mass dispersion ; apparent violation of Lorentz invariance, in transitions of the kind m1 => m2 , between different mass eigenstates, salient in phase factors through the energy shifts ...
