Recent developments in neutrino physics and astrophysics

4 Sept 2017, 08:30 → 7 Sept 2017, 19:15 Europe/Rome

LNGS and GSSI (Assergi and L'Aquila, Italy)

Gianpaolo Bellini (Milano University & INFN)

The Borexino experiment - designed for world-class research in neutrino physics (especially, their oscillatory behavior), with particular emphasis on solar neutrinos and antineutrinos coming from Earth’s interior (geo-neutrinos) - began its data-taking phase in May 2007.

2017 is therefore the 10th anniversary of Borexino’s continuous data-taking: from September 4th to the 7th, physicists and astrophysicists will gather at LNGS and GSSI to discuss new perspectives on the many neutrino topics under active research.

The meeting is organized as a workshop, in order to allow wide discussions about all the diverse aspects of neutrino physics, the various neutrino sources and the approaches employed to probe them, as well as the models and approximations describing their behavior.

Poster poster_workshop_LNGS_2016.pdf

Monday, 4 September

08:30 → 10:00 Registration

10:00 → 10:20 Welcome

Speakers: Fernando Ferroni (President of INFN), Stefano Ragazzi (LNGS Director)

10:20 → 12:45 Session I

Convener: Antonio Masiero (Padova University & INFN)

10:20 Bruno Pontecorvo - The pioneer of neutrino oscillations

Speaker: Samoil Bilenky (JINR Dubna, Russia)

Slides Bilenky.pdf

10:50 Discussion

10:55 From the Solar neutrino problem to the oscillation discovery and beyond

Speaker: Yoichiro Suzuki (Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo, Japan)

Slides Suzuki.pdf

11:35 Discussion

11:40 Coffee break

12:10 25 years of Borexino

Speaker: Gianpaolo Bellini (Milano University & INFN, Italy)

Slides Bellini.pdf

12:40 Discussion

12:45 → 14:45 Lunch

14:45 → 16:05 Session II

Convener: Jim Whitmore (NSF, USA)

14:45 Gravitational waves: observation and prospects

Speaker: Laura Cadonati (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Slides Cadonati.pdf

15:25 Discussion

15:30 Solar models and neutrinos: the standard model and beyond

Speaker: Aldo Serenelli (Institute of Space Sciences, Spain)

Slides Serenelli.pdf

16:00 Discussion

16:05 → 16:35 Coffee break

16:35 → 17:55 Session III

Convener: Gemma Testera (INFN Genova, Italy)

16:35 Solar models and neutrinos: a quantitative analysis of the solar abundance problem

Speaker: Francesco Lorenzo Villante (L'Aquila University)

Slides Villante.pdf

17:05 Discussion

17:10 Experimental measurements of the Solar neutrinos with scintillator detectors

Speaker: Barbara Caccianiga (INFN Milano)

Slides Caccianiga.pptx

17:50 Discussion

Tuesday, 5 September

09:00 → 10:45 Session IV

Convener: Franz Von Feilitsch (TUM Garching, Germany)

09:00 Recent experimental measurements of the Solar neutrinos with Cherenkov detectors

Speaker: Yusuke Koshio (Okayama University, Japan)

Slides Koshio.pdf

09:30 Discussion

09:35 Measurement of rare nuclear reactions of astrophysical interest: status and prospects

Speaker: Antonino Di Leva (Federico II University & INFN, Italy)

Slides DiLeva.pdf

10:05 Discussion

10:10 New results on 8B solar neutrinos from 1.5 kton year of Borexino exposure

Speaker: Davide Franco (APC Paris, France)

Slides Franco.pdf

10:40 Discussion

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 → 12:45 Session V

Convener: Daniel Vignaud (APC Paris, France)

11:15 Status and perspectives of θ13 experimental measurements

Speaker: Jun Cao (Institute of High Energy Physics, China)

Slides Cao.pdf

11:55 Discussion

12:00 Global analysis, neutrino mass, mixing parameters and CP violation

Speaker: Maria Concepcion Gonzalez-Garcia (ICREA-U. Barcelona, Spain & Stony Brook University, USA)

Slides Gonzalez-Garcia.pdf

12:40 Discussion

12:45 → 14:45 Lunch

14:45 → 16:50 Session VI

Convener: Mikhail Skorokhvatov (Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia)

14:45 Non-Standard Interactions in Borexino and Daya Bay

Speaker: Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla (Institute of Physics, Bhubanswer, India)

Slides Agarwalla.pdf

15:15 Discussion

15:20 Prospects on the hierarchy determination

Speaker: Mauro Mezzetto (Padova University & INFN, Italy)

Slides Mezzetto.pdf

16:00 Discussion

16:05 Impact of cosmological observables on the neutrino physics

Speaker: Richard Battye (University of Manchester, UK)

Slides Battye.pdf

16:45 Discussion

17:00 → 19:00 First visit to underground laboratory

Speaker: David Bravo Berguno (INFN Milano, Italy)

Wednesday, 6 September

08:15 → 09:30 Transfer to L'Aquila

09:30 → 09:45 Welcome from GSSI

Speaker: Eugenio Coccia (Rector of GSSI, Italy)

09:45 → 10:55 Session VII

Convener: Eugenio Coccia (Rector of GSSI, Italy)

09:45 Survey of the absolute neutrino mass measurements

Speaker: Kathrin Valerius (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Slides Valerius.pdf

10:15 Discussion

10:20 Low background methods for detection of solar neutrinos

Speaker: Frank Calaprice (Princeton University, USA)

Slides Calaprice.pdf

10:50 Discussion

10:55 → 11:25 Coffee break

11:25 → 12:45 Session VIII

Convener: Marco Pallavicini (Genova University & INFN, Italy)

11:25 New determinations of mixing parameters with atmospheric neutrinos

Speaker: Juan-Pablo Yanez Garza (Alberta University, Canada)

Slides Yanez.pdf

11:55 Discussion

12:00 A survey of the status of neutrino-less Double Beta Decay experiments

Speaker: Art McDonald (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada)

Slides McDonald.pdf

12:40 Discussion

12:45 → 14:45 Lunch

14:45 → 16:20 Session IX

Convener: Gioacchino Ranucci (INFN Milano, Italy)

14:45 Status of double-beta decay nuclear matrix elements

Speaker: Javier Menendez (Center for Nuclear Study, University of Tokyo, Japan)

Slides Menendez.pdf

15:15 Discussion

15:20 Geo-neutrinos to understand the Earth

Speaker: Brian Kurt Fujikawa (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)

Slides Fujikawa.pdf

15:50 Discussion

15:55 New limits for the neutrino magnetic moments by Borexino

Speaker: Oleg Smirnov (JINR Dubna, Russia)

Slides Smirnov_Oleg.pdf

16:15 Discussion

16:45 → 18:15 Poster session & party

18:15 → 19:15 Concert

19:15 → 20:00 Transfer to hotels

Thursday, 7 September

09:00 → 10:30 Session X

Convener: Bruce Vogelar (Virginia Polytechnic School, USA)

09:00 Status of the sterile neutrino(s)

Speaker: Carlo Giunti (INFN Torino, Italy)

Slides Giunti.pdf

09:40 Discussion

09:45 Experiments running and in preparation on sterile neutrino(s)

Speaker: Stefan Schönert (TUM Munich, Germany)

Slides Schoenert.pdf

10:25 Discussion

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:55 Session XI

Convener: Nicola Rossi (INFN - LNGS, Italy)

11:00 Sterile neutrinos as dark matter

Speaker: Dmytro Iakubovskyi (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, Denmark)

Slides Iakubovskyi.pdf

11:30 Discussion

11:35 Supernova neutrino detection with dark matter experiments

Speaker: Aldo Ianni (LNGS, Italy & Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc, Spain)

Slides Ianni.pdf

12:05 Discussion

12:10 SN1987A and its heritage

Speaker: Masayuki Nakahata (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, University of Tokyo, Japan)

Slides Nakahata.pdf

12:50 Discussion

12:55 → 14:55 Lunch

14:55 → 17:20 Session XII

Convener: Francesco Vissani (GSSI & LNGS, Italy)

14:55 Multimessengers and High energy neutrino searches

Speaker: Elisa Resconi (TUM Munich, Germany)

Slides Resconi.pdf

15:35 Discussion

15:40 Concluding remarks

Speaker: Alexei Smirnov (MPI Heidelberg, Germany)

Slides Alexei_Smirnov.pdf

16:20 General discussion

17:20 → 19:20 Second visit to underground laboratory

Speaker: Alessio Caminata (INFN Genova, Italy)