Workshop on Beyond Three Family Neutrino Oscillations

3 May 2011, 08:30 → 4 May 2011, 18:30 Europe/Rome

E. Majorana lecture hall (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso)

What is the status of sterile neutrinos? We discuss possible hints, theoretical explanations and new experimental tests. Organizing Committee: A. Ianni, M. Mannarelli, M. Mezzetto, L. Oberauer, O. Palamara, G. Senjanovic, F. Terranova, F. Vissani, L. Votano. Secretarial staff email:beyond3nu@lngs.infn.it

Tuesday, 3 May

08:30 → 13:30 Session I - Chairpersons: F. Gatti / M. Wurm

08:30 Registration

09:30 Reactor anomaly

Speaker: David Lhuillier (CEA / Saclay)

Slides Beyond3nu_Lhuillier.pptx

10:15 How precisely do we know the reactor antineutrino spectra?

Speaker: Klaus Schreckenbach (TU Muenchen)

Slides Beyond3Nu_Schreckenbach.ppt

10:50 Coffee break

11:15 MiniBooNE/LSND - Neutrino Oscillation Results

Speaker: Michel Sorel (Fermilab)

Slides Beyond3nu_Sorel.pdf

11:55 On the search for sterile neutrinos and Minos results

Speaker: Ryan Nichol (UCL HEP)

Slides Beyond3Nu_Nichol.pdf

12:35 The exposure of GALLEX to the neutrino chromium sources

Speaker: Enrico Bellotti (INFN Milano Bicocca)

Slides Beyond3Nu_Bellotti.ppt

13:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 19:30 Session II - Chairpersons: M. Laveder / A. Studenikin

14:30 Present phenomenological analysis related to possible schemes with sterile neutrinos

Speaker: Thomas Schwetz (Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics)

Slides Beyond3Nu_Schwetz.pdf

15:10 Review of present hints and possible combined analysis

Speaker: Carlo Giunti (INFN Torino)

Slides Beyond3Nu_Giunti.pdf

15:50 Coffee break

16:10 Towards a consistent summary of all searches on sterile neutrinos

Speaker: Carlos Peña Garay (IFIC (CSIC-UVEG))

Slides Beyond3Nu_PenaGaray.ppt

16:50 Sterile neutrinos from BBN

Speaker: Francesco Lorenzo Villante (L'Aquila University & INFN)

Slides Beyond3Nu_Villante.pdf

20:00 → 23:10 Social dinner

Wednesday, 4 May

09:15 → 13:30 Session III - Chairpersons: Y. Koshio / D. Montanino

09:15 Sterile neutrino constraint from cosmology

Speaker: Alessandro Melchiorri (INFN Roma)

Slides Beyond3Nu_Melchiorri.pdf

09:55 Addressing MiniBooNE anomaly @ FermiLab

Speaker: Bonnie Fleming (Fermilab)

Slides Beyond3Nu_Fleming.pptx

10:35 Coffee break

10:55 A proposed search for Sterile Neutrino with the ICARUS detector at the CERN-PS

Speaker: Alberto Guglielmi (INFN Padova)

Slides Beyond3Nu_Guglielmi.pdf

11:35 Spectrometers Prospects for a PS Experiment

Speaker: Luca Stanco (INFN Padova)

Slides Beyond3Nu_Stanco.pdf

11:55 Revival of the CERN PS neutrino beam

Speaker: Rende Steerenberg (CERN)

Slides Beyond3Nu_Steerenberg.pptx

12:35 Physics potential of neutrino source experiments in Borexino

Speaker: Marco Pallavicini (INFN Genova)

Slides Beyond3Nu_Pallavicini.pdf

13:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:30 Round Table - Chairperson: L. Camilleri

14:30 Workshop summary

Speaker: Mauro Mezzetto (PD)

Slides Beyond3Nu_Mezzetto.pdf

15:00 Discussion (A. Blondel, B. D'Ettorre Piazzoli, B. Fleming, M. Mezzetto, F. Vissani, L. Votano)

16:30 → 18:30 Visit to Underground Lab