Program


International School of Nuclear Physics
39th Course
Neutrinos in Cosmology, in Astro-, Particle- and Nuclear Physics
Erice-Sicily
September 16-24, 2017


Sunday  Monday  Tuesday  Wednesday  Thursday  Friday  Saturday


Sunday, September 17

Blackett Institute (San Domenico), Dirac Lecture Hall

Chair: Jochen Wambach
09:00 - 09:05 Welcome
09:05 - 09:35 Amand Faessler (Tuebingen, Germany)
A brief history of the town of Erice
09:35 - 10:15 Francis Halzen (Madison, WI, USA)
IceCube: Building a New Window on the Universe
10:20 - 11:00 Maria Archidiacono (Aachen, Germany)
Neutrinos and Structure Formation in the Universe
11:05 - 11:35 Coffee
Chair: Amand Faessler
11:35 - 12:15 Maria Concepcion Gonzalez-Garcia (Barcelona, SPAIN)
Massive Neutrinos circa 2017
12:20 - 12:55 Kathrin Valerius (Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany)
Preparing the start of neutrino mass measurements with KATRIN
13:00 Lunch

Parallel Session A

Blackett Institute (San Domenico), Dirac Lecture Hall

Chair: Stephen King
16:00 - 16:30 Ayres Freitas (Pittsburgh, USA)
Electroweak precision tests and constraints on neutrino models
16:35 - 17:00 Juraj Klaric (Garching, Germany)
Testing the low scale seesaw and leptogenesis
17:05 - 17:30 Christian Buck (Heidelberg, Germany)
Short baseline neutrino oscillation experiments at nuclear reactors
17:35 - 18:00 Takasumi Maruyama (Tsukuba, Japan)
Sterile Neutrino Searches at J-PARC MLF
18:05 - 18:35 Coffee
Chair: Osamu Yasuda
18:35 - 19:00 Anatael Cabrera (Paris, France)
Neutrino Physics @ Double Chooz Experiment
19:05 - 19:30 Daniele Fargion (Rome, Italia)
Gamma Air Shower inside the Moon Shadows by Muon and Tau neutrino induced leptons

Parallel Session B

Rabi Institute (San Rocco), Feynman Lecture Hall

Chair: Kai Zuber
16:00 - 16:30 Michael Wurm (Mainz, Germany)
Measuring the neutrino mass ordering with JUNO
16:35 - 17:00 Hendrik Seitz-Moskaliuk (Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany)
Commissioning the KATRIN Experiment with Krypton-83m
17:05 - 17:25 Sebastian Mirz (Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Deutschland)
Van-der-Waals-Dimers in the KATRIN windowless gaseous tritium source
17:30 - 17:55 Stefan Zatschler (Dresden, Germany)
Status and prospects of the COBRA double beta-decay experiment at LNGS
18:00 - 18:30 Coffee
Chair: Remco Zegers
18:30 - 18:55 Hirokazu Sasaki (Tokyo, Japan)
The effects of collective neutrino oscillations on explosive nucleosynthesis in core-collapse supernovae
19:00 - 19:25 Alfredo Galindo-Uribarri (Oak Ridge, TN, USA)
Neutrinos as a probe for Reactor Science

Monday, September 18

Blackett Institute (San Domenico), Dirac Lecture Hall

Chair: Michael Buballa
09:00 - 09:40 Matteo Agostini (L'Aquila, Italy)
Search for the neutrinoless double beta decay (with focus on GERDA)
09:45 - 10:15 Remco Zegers (East Lansing, USA)
Charge-exchange reactions as a tool for probing weak interactions of relevance for astrophysics and double beta decay
10:20 - 10:50 Andreas Piepke (Tuscaloosa, United States)
EXO-200 and nEXO: present and future of double beta decay research
10:55 - 11:25 Coffee
Chair: Ulrich Mosel
11:25 - 11:45 Monica Sisti (Milano, Italy)
First results from the CUORE experiment
11:50 - 12:30 Christopher Tully (Princeton, NJ, USA)
Search for the Cosmic Neutrino Background and its possible implications for the structure formation in the Universe
12:35 - 13:05 Mu-Chun Chen (Irvine, USA)
Origin of Leptonic CP Violation
13:10 Lunch

Blackett Institute (San Domenico), Dirac Lecture Hall

chair: Maria Concepcion Gonzalez-Garcia
16:00 - 16:30 Ulrich Mosel (Giessen, Germany)
Neutrino Interactions with Nuclei and Oscillation Analyses
16:35 - 17:05 Ornella Palamara (Batavia, USA)
The Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Program in the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam (Invited Talk)
17:10 - 17:35 Massimo Blasone (Fisciano, Italy)
The quantum field theory of neutrino mixing and oscillations
17:40 - 18:00 Tanja Geib (Munich, Germany)
Conversion of Bound Muons: Lepton Flavour and Number Violation
18:05 - 18:35 Coffee
Chair: Ayres Freitas
18:35 - 18:55 Zara Bagdasarian (Juelich, Germany)
New Solar Neutrino Results with Borexino Phase-II
19:00 - 19:30 Martin Fertl (Seattle, USA)
Project 8: A frequency based approach to measure the neutrino mass
19:35 - 19:55 Kenneth Long (London, UK)
Future Neutrino Physics at NuStorm


Tuesday, September 19

Blackett Institute (San Domenico), Dirac Lecture Hall

Chair: Daniele Fargion
09:00 - 09:40 Josef Jochum (Tuebingen, Germany)
Dark Matter and Neutrinos
09:45 - 10:15 Tsuyoshi Nakaya (Sakyo, Kyoto, Japan)
Present status of long baseline experiment in Japan
10:20 - 10:50 Peter Shanahan (Batavia, IL, USA)
Neutrino Oscillation Results from NOvA
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: Alexandra Gade
11:30 - 12:10 Loredana Gastaldo (Heidelberg, Germany)
Electron Capture in the Ho-163 experiment
12:15 - 12:40 Amand Faessler (Tuebingen, Germany)
Neutrino mass, electron capture and the shake-off contribution
12:45 - 13:00 Daniele Fargion (Rome, Italy)
Gravitational Waves, Fusion of two Neutron Stars and Gamma Ray Bursts
13:05 Lunch

Parallel Session A

Blackett Institute (San Domenico), Dirac Lecture Hall

Chair: Dieter Frekers
16:00 - 16:30 Fumihiko Suekane (Sendai, Japan)
Neutrino Oscillation and Other Quantum Oscillations
16:35 - 17:00 Tom Kieck (Mainz, Germany)
Ultra-pure Ho-163 samples for neutrino mass measurements
17:05 - 17:35 Kam-Biu Luk (Berkeley, U.S.A.)
Neutrino Physics with Daya Bay
17:35 - 18:05 Coffee
Chair: Takashi Kobayashi
18:05 - 18:35 Michael Ratz (Irvine, CA , USA)
Nonthermal neutrino background
18:40 - 19:05 Shuichi Iwata (Sagamihara-shi, Japan)
Development of Plastic Anti-neutrino Detector Array (PANDA) for reactor monitoring

Parallel Session B

Rabi Institute (San Rocco), Feynman Lecture Hall

Chair: Toshio Suzuki
16:00 - 16:30 Alexander Merle (Muenchen, Germany)
keV Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter
16:35 - 17:05 Osamu Yasuda (Hachioji, Japan)
Sensitivity of the T2HKK experiment to the non-standard interaction
17:10 - 17:35 Alan Poon (Berkeley, USA)
Experimental Searches for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decays in 76-Ge
17:35 - 18:05 Coffee
Chair: Fedor Simkovic
18:05 - 18:35 Toshio Suzuki (Tokyo, Japan)
Study of neutrino-nucleus reactions and neutrino emissions for neutrino detection, nucleosynthesis and cooling of stars
18:40 - 19:05 Birgit Schneider (Dresden, Germany)
Analysis of the light attenuation measurement in liquid argon in GERDA
19:10 - 19:35 Antonio Marrone (Bari, Italy)
Constraints on neutrino oscillation parameters from global fits

Wednesday, September 20

09:00 - 20:00 Excursion:
Greek Temples in Selinunte and Segesta
Leaving at 9:00 h from Porta Trapani.

Thursday, September 21

Blackett Institute (San Domenico), Dirac Lecture Hall

Chair: Michael Ratz
09:00 - 09:40 Guido Drexlin (Karlsruhe, Germany)
The KATRIN experiment
09:45 - 10:25 Susanne Mertens (Munich, Germany)
Sterile Neutrinos
10:30 - 10:55 Monojit Ghosh (Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan)
Complementarity Between Hyperkamiokande and DUNE
11:50 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: Horst Lenske
11:30 - 12:10 Gail McLaughlin (Raleigh, USA)
Neutrinos from supernova and compact object mergers
12:15 - 12:45 Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo (Darmstadt, Germany)
Neutrinos in supernova evolution and nucleosynthesis
12:50 Lunch

Parallel Session A

Blackett Institute (San Domenico), Dirac Lecture Hall

Chair: Alan Poon
16:00 - 16:30 Yoomin Oh (Daejeon, South Korea)
Search for light sterile neutrino at reactor short baseline
16:35 - 17:05 Thierry Lasserre (Saclay, France)
SOX: sterile neutrinos
17:10 - 17:30 Alejandro Algora (Paterna, Valencia, Spain)
Total absorption spectroscopy applications to neutrino physics
17:35 - 18:05 Coffee
Chair: Sebastian Boeser
18:05 - 18:25 Milad Alanssari, presented by Dieter Frekers (Muenster, Germany)
Precision mass measurements in the context of neutrino-nuclear physics
18:30 - 18:50 Konrad Altenmueller (Garching, Germany)
Silicon drift detector prototypes for the keV-scale sterile neutrino search with TRISTAN
18:55 - 19:15 Christine Claessens (Mainz, Germany)
Event detection and reconstruction in Project8

Parallel Session B

Rabi Institute (San Rocco), Feynman Lecture Hall

Chair: Kathrin Valerius
16:00 - 16:25 Sebastian Boeser (Mainz, Germany)
CRES - an new path towards the electron neutrino mass
16:30 - 16:55 Ruslan Magana Vsevolodovna ( Genova, Italy)
Long-range versus short-range correlations in two-neutron transfer reactions

Friday, September 22

Blackett Institute (San Domenico), Dirac Lecture Hall

Chair: Thomas Walcher
09:00 - 9:40 Petr Vogel (Pasadena, CA, USA)
The neutrino hierarchy problem and possible solutions
09:45 - 10:25 Wei Wang (Guangzhou, China)
Neutrino Physics with JUNO and the experimental solution of the Hierarchy Problem
10:30 - 11:00 Georgia Karagiorgi (New York, United States of America)
Neutrino physics with MicroBooNE
11:05 - 11:35 Coffee
Chair: Elena Santopinto
11:35 - 12:05 Steve King (Southampton, UK)
Neutrino Theory
12:10 - 12:40 Takashi Kobayashi (Tokai-mura, Japan)
Future long baseline experiments in Japan
12:45 - 13:10 Karol Lang (Austin, United States)
Results from MINOS and MINOS+
14:15 - 19:00 Excursion: San Vito lo Capo
Excursion with lunch packages and towels on the bus to the beach in San Vito lo Capo. Bus leaves at 14:15 h from Porta Trapani.

Saturday, September 23

Blackett Institute (San Domenico), Dirac Lecture Hall

Chair: Takasumi Maruyama
09:00 - 09:30 Alexandra Gade (East Lansing, Michigan, USA)
Nuclear science at NSCL and prospects for FRIB
09:35 - 10:05 Horst Lenske (Giessen, Germany)
Probing Double Beta-Decay by Nuclear Double Charge Exchange Reations
10:10 - 10:40 Fedor Simkovic (Bratislava, Slovakia)
Different modes of double beta decay
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee
Chair: Carlo Broggini
11:15 - 11:45 Kai Zuber (Dresden, Germany)
Various new measurements related to double beta decay
11:50 - 12:15 Mitchell Hughes (Northport, USA)
Cosmic ray and radioactivity induced backgrounds in EXO-200 and application to nEXO
12:20 - 12:50 Anna Franckowiak (Zeuthen, Germany)
Multi-Messenger Astronomy
12:55 Lunch

Blackett Institute (San Domenico), Dirac Lecture Hall

Chair: Andreas Piepke
16:00 - 16:20 Tommi Eronen (Jyvaskyla, Finland)
Atomic mass measurements of ultralow Q-value nuclei
16:25 - 16:55 Thomas Walcher (Mainz, Germany)
The EPR-"Paradox" revisted by an experimentalist
17:00 - 17:30 Carlo Broggini (Padova, Padova)
LUNA: the scientific program with the new 3.5MV accelerator under Gran Sasso
17:35 - 18:00 Coffee
Chair: Jochen Wambach
18:00 - 19:30 Thierry Lasserre (Saclay, France)
Summary

20:15 - 24:00 Conference Dinner