nuTURN2012 - Neutrino at the Turning Point

8 May 2012, 11:00 → 10 May 2012, 18:00 Europe/Rome

E. Fermi auditorium (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso)

Lucia Votano (INFN - LNGS)

Daya Bay has recently observed a large theta_13 neutrino mixing angle which confirms the early results from T2K, Double-Chooz and MINOS, as well as from global neutrino data analyses. This finding offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the leptonic mixing matrix with artificial neutrino beams, addressing the major challenges in this field, as the occurrence of CP violation in the leptonic sector, the determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy and the measurement of theta_23, already. The meeting will evaluate the experimental perspectives of such a “large theta_13” scenario. The talks and discussions will target the opportunities offered by the existing and new facilities, and in particular, by the long-baseline experiments. A principal aim is to clarify which type of neutrino beams, detectors and which laboratories are best suited to investigate the neutrino properties, in order to outline a realistic European roadmap for the next decade.

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Roberto Battiston (Perugia University & INFN)
Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)
Fernando Ferroni (INFN)
Chang Kee Jung (Stony Brook, NY)
Takaaki Kajita (ICRR & IPMU Tokyo)
Stavros Katsanevas (IN2P3/CNRS)
Antonio Masiero (INFN)
Lothar Oberauer (TUM)
Carlo Rubbia (INFN)
Bob Svoboda (UC Davis)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Lucia Votano (INFN LNGS)
Aldo Ianni (INFN LNGS)
Eligio Lisi (INFN Bari)
Mauro Mezzetto (INFN Padova)
Pasquale Migliozzi (INFN Napoli)
Francesco Terranova (INFN LNF)
Francesco Vissani (INFN LNGS)

Poster nuTURN_2012_Poster.pdf

Tuesday, 8 May

11:00 → 15:00 Registration

15:00 → 18:35 Session 1 - Chair G. Ranucci - REVIEWS OF PRESENT EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS ON THETA_13 AND NEAR FUTURE PERSPECTIVES

The following talks will report about present results and near future perspectives living emphasis to the physics case of a large theta_13

15:00 Observation of electron antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay

Speaker: Jun Cao (IHEP)

Slides Cao.pdf

15:50 Double Chooz

Speaker: Sebastian Lucht (RWTH Aachen)

Slides Lucht.pdf

16:25 RENO

Speaker: Yeonduk Kim (Sejong University)

Slides nuturn-reno-ydkim.pdf

17:00 Coffee break

17:25 T2K results

Speaker: Nick Hastings (University of Regina)

Slides Hastings.pdf

18:00 MINOS and future perspectives with NuMI

Speaker: Jenny Thomas (University College London)

Slides Thomas.pdf

Wednesday, 9 May

09:15 → 15:00 Session 2 - Chair F. Ronga - PHENOMENOLOGY OF PRESENT AND NEAR FUTURE OBSERVATIONS

09:15 Global Analysis of Neutrino Data

Speaker: Gianluigi Fogli (INFN Bari)

Slides Fogli.pptx

09:50 Theta_13 is large: what next?

Speaker: Hisakazu Minakata (Tokyo MU)

Slides Minakata.pdf

10:30 Learning from current facilities: Mass ordering and CPV

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

Slides Schwetz.pdf

11:10 Coffee break

11:30 NOvA

Speaker: Gavin S. Davies (Iowa State University)

Slides Davies.pdf

12:05 The Physics case of LBL in Europe to search for CPV in a large theta_13 scenario

Speaker: Silvia Pascoli (Durham)

Slides Pascoli.pdf

12:40 Beyond three-neutrino mixing

Speaker: Carlo Giunti (INFN Torino)

Slides Giunti.pdf

13:15 Lunch break

15:00 → 16:40 Session 3 - Chair H. Minakata - FUTURE PROJECTS IN THE WORLD

15:00 Hyper-Kamiokande

Speaker: Masato Shiozawa (ICRR Tokyo)

Slides Shiozawa.pdf

15:40 LBNE (short review talk)

Speaker: Bruce Baller (Fermilab)

Slides Baller.pdf

16:20 Coffee break

16:40 → 17:15 Session 4 - Pt. 1 - Chair R. Battiston - FUTURE PROJECTS FOR EUROPE

In this Session we aim to focus on future projects planned or to be developed in Europe.

16:40 The Phyasalmi underground laboratory

Speaker: Timo Enqvist (Oulu University)

Slides Enqvist.pdf

17:15 → 19:15 Visit to underground lab

20:15 → 22:15 Social dinner

Thursday, 10 May

09:15 → 15:00 Session 4 - Pt. 2 - Chair R. Battiston - FUTURE PROJECTS FOR EUROPE

09:15 Expression of interest for a very long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment (LBNO)

Speaker: Andre Rubbia (ETH Zurich)

Slides A_Rubbia.pdf

09:50 Talk on future perspectives for the Gran Sasso Laboratory to host new detectors for neutrino physics searches

Speaker: Lucia Votano (INFN LNGS)

Slides Votano.pdf

10:15 Talk on a new shallow laboratory near LNGS

Speaker: Carlo Rubbia (INFN)

Slides C_Rubbia.pdf

10:50 Coffee break

11:10 Future high intensity beams at CERN

Speaker: Ilias Efthymiopoulos (CERN)

Slides Efthymiopoulos.pdf

11:45 About the possibility of measuring CP at LNGS

Speaker: Andrea Longhin (INFN LNF)

Slides Longhin.pdf

12:20 Long term perspectives for novel neutrino sources: Beta Beams and Neutrino Factories

Speaker: Ken Long (Imperial College London)

Slides Long.pptx

12:55 Lunch break

14:25 Talk on the physics case for a RAL-based Neutrino Factory with a detector at Gran Sasso in a large theta_13 scenario

Speaker: Pilar Coloma (Virginia Tech)

Slides Coloma.pdf

15:00 → 17:00 Session 5 - Chair F. Ferroni - SUMMARY AND ROUND TABLE

15:00 Summary

Speaker: Mauro Mezzetto (INFN Padova)

15:30 Round Table - The European Strategy Group and the input for the neutrino physics community