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 ¶

Session I - Chairpersons: F. Gatti / M. Wurm¶

1 Registration¶

2 Reactor anomaly¶

Speaker: David Lhuillier (CEA / Saclay)

Slides Beyond3nu_Lhuillier.pptx

3 How precisely do we know the reactor antineutrino spectra?¶

Speaker: Klaus Schreckenbach (TU Muenchen)

Slides Beyond3Nu_Schreckenbach.ppt

10:50 Coffee break

4 MiniBooNE/LSND - Neutrino Oscillation Results¶

Speaker: Michel Sorel (Fermilab)

Slides Beyond3nu_Sorel.pdf

5 On the search for sterile neutrinos and Minos results¶

Speaker: Ryan Nichol (UCL HEP)

Slides Beyond3Nu_Nichol.pdf

6 The exposure of GALLEX to the neutrino chromium sources¶

Speaker: Enrico Bellotti (INFN Milano Bicocca)

Slides Beyond3Nu_Bellotti.ppt

Lunch¶

Session II - Chairpersons: M. Laveder / A. Studenikin¶

7 Present phenomenological analysis related to possible schemes with sterile neutrinos¶

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

Slides Beyond3Nu_Schwetz.pdf

8 Review of present hints and possible combined analysis¶

Speaker: Carlo Giunti (INFN Torino)

Slides Beyond3Nu_Giunti.pdf

15:50 Coffee break

9 Towards a consistent summary of all searches on sterile neutrinos¶

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

Slides Beyond3Nu_PenaGaray.ppt

10 Sterile neutrinos from BBN¶

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

Slides Beyond3Nu_Villante.pdf

Social dinner¶

Wednesday, 4 May ¶

Session III - Chairpersons: Y. Koshio / D. Montanino¶

11 Sterile neutrino constraint from cosmology¶

Speaker: Alessandro Melchiorri (INFN Roma)

Slides Beyond3Nu_Melchiorri.pdf

12 Addressing MiniBooNE anomaly @ FermiLab¶

Speaker: Bonnie Fleming (Fermilab)

Slides Beyond3Nu_Fleming.pptx

10:35 Coffee break

13 A proposed search for Sterile Neutrino with the ICARUS detector at the CERN-PS¶

Speaker: Alberto Guglielmi (INFN Padova)

Slides Beyond3Nu_Guglielmi.pdf

14 Spectrometers Prospects for a PS Experiment¶

Speaker: Luca Stanco (INFN Padova)

Slides Beyond3Nu_Stanco.pdf

15 Revival of the CERN PS neutrino beam¶

Speaker: Rende Steerenberg (CERN)

Slides Beyond3Nu_Steerenberg.pptx

16 Physics potential of neutrino source experiments in Borexino¶

Speaker: Marco Pallavicini (INFN Genova)

Slides Beyond3Nu_Pallavicini.pdf

Lunch¶

Round Table - Chairperson: L. Camilleri¶

17 Workshop summary¶

Speaker: Mauro Mezzetto (PD)

Slides Beyond3Nu_Mezzetto.pdf

18 Discussion (A. Blondel, B. D'Ettorre Piazzoli, B. Fleming, M. Mezzetto, F. Vissani, L. Votano)¶

Visit to Underground Lab¶