This working group will provide input to the 2012 NSAC subcommittee regarding the implementation of the 2007 Long-Range Plan.
Here is the final whitepaper of recommendations for the Tribble committee.
The Fundamental Symmetries and Neutrinos Mini town meeting was held at the DNP 2012 meeting, Thursday, October 25. Here is the meeting program. The presentations about Fundamental Symmetries and Neutrinos are included below.
| 19:30 | Welcome | Takeyasu Ito, LANL |
| 19:40 | Neutrino Physics Highlights | Hamish Robertson, Washington |
| 20:10 | Fundamental Symmetries Highlights | David Hertzog, Washington |
| 20:40 | The Chicago Meeting: Recommendations and White Paper Status | Vince Cianciolo, ORNL |
| 21:00 | Community Discussion of Fundamental Symmetries and Neutrino Priorities | moderated by Doug Beck, UIUC |
| 21:30 | Discussion of Possible Formal Community Advocacy Group | Susan Seestrom, LANL |
| Friday Afternoon Town Meeting | Summary Talk at Town Meeting | Alan Poon, LBNL |
The NSAC subcommittee met September 6 to September 8. Here is the program . The presentations about Fundamental Symmetries and Neutrinos are below.
| 13:30 - 14:20 | Fundamental Symmetries overview | M. Ramsey-Musolf |
| 14:20 - 15:00 | Neutrinos overview (Revised 15 Sept 2012) | H. Robertson |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | JLab Parity experiments | K. Paschke |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | EDM overview | B. Filippone |
| 15:40 - 16:10 | Other FS experiments | D. Hertzog |
| 16:10 - 16:40 | ββ-decay overview | S. Freedman |
| 16:40 - 17:15 | Neutrino experiments | K. Heeger |
Please see the executive summary of the whitepaper.
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 AM | D. Dean (ORNL) | Welcome and Charge |
| 8:15 AM | B. Filippone (Cal Tech) | What the NSAC subcommittee needs from YOU! |
| 8:45 AM | V. Cirigliano (LANL) | In Search of the New Standard Model |
| 9:15 AM | Refreshments | |
| 9:45 AM | H. Robertson (U. Washington) | Neutrino mass, lepton number and the origin of matter |
| 10:30 AM | Z-T. Lu (ANL) | EDM Searches |
| 11:15 AM | K. Heeger (Wisconsin) | Neutrino Oscillations and Interactions |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:15 PM | W. Marciano (BNL) | Leptons and quarks theory |
| 2:00 PM | D. Hertzog (U. Washington) | Leptons and quarks experiment |
| 2:45 PM | Refreshments | |
| 3:15 PM | Solicited Talks (15+5 minutes) | |
| K. Lesko | DUSEL (30+10 minutes) | |
| A. Piepke | EXO | |
| A. Young | UCN program at LANL | |
| C. Y. Liu | Towards a 0.1 second measurement of the Neutron Lifetime in a Magneto-Gravitational Trap (10+5) | |
| W. Louis | Neutrino Oscillations and sterile neutrinos | |
| Y. Kolomensky | CUORE | |
| A. Poon | Majorana Demonstrator | |
| V. Gudkov | Symmetry Violations in Nuclei | |
| 7:00 PM | Adjourn for the day |
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 AM | K. Scholberg | Non-oscillation Neutrino Physics at the SNS |
| 8:15 AM | B. Plaster (Kentucky) | Facilities |
| 8:45 AM | S. Elliott (LANL) | Zero-neutrino double beta decay status (toward 1-tonne experiments) |
| 9:25 AM | G. Orebi Gann | SNO+ |
| 9:45 AM | Refreshments | |
| 10:00 AM | B. Filippone (Cal Tech) | nEDM status |
| 10:30 AM | K. Paschke (Virginia) | JLAB Parity Violation Experiment Status |
| 11:00 AM | J. Nico | Neutron experiments at NIST and ORNL(15+5 minutes) |
| 11:20 PM | D. Dean | |
| 11:45 AM | Lunch | |
| 1:00 PM | D. Dean / B. Balantekin | Priority Statements for NSAC subommittee |
| 3:00 PM | Adjourn |
Send PDF versions of the papers to varnerrl@ornl.gov
A. Bolozdynya, F. Cavanna, G. Greene, Y. Efremenko,
A. Hatzikoutelis, R. Hix, J. M. Link, W. C. Louis, D. Markoff,
P. Mueller, K. Patton, K. Scholberg, C. Virtue, J. Yoo
Opportunities for Neutrino Physics at the Spallation Neutron Source
W. C. Louis
OscSNS: A Precision Neutrino Oscillation Experiment at the SNS
R. S. Tschirhart
Opportunities to Advance Fundamental Symmetries Research
with Project X
B. Filippone
Search for a Neutron Electric Dipole Moment at the SNS
Z.-T. Lu
Searches for Electric Dipole Moments
T. Allen, A. B. Balantekin, H. R. Band, A. Bernstein,
N. Bowden, C. Bryan, S. Hans, K. M. Heeger, R. Johnson,
B. R. Littlejohn, H. P. Mumm, J. S. Nico,
R. E. Williams, and M. Yeh
Opportunities for the Precision Study of Reactor Antineutrinos
at Very Short Baselines at US Research Reactors
J. S. Nico, G. L. Greene, F. E. Wietfeldt, and W. S. Wilburn
Fundamental Physics with Cold Neutrons
P. Kyberd, D.R. Smith, L. Coney, S. Pascoli, C. Ankenbrandt,
S.J. Brice, A.D. Brossa, H. Cease, J. Kopp, N. Mokhov, J. Morfin,
D. Neuffer, M. Popovic, P. Rubinov, S. Striganov, A. Blondel,
A. Bravar, E. Noah, R. Bayes, F.J.P. Soler, A. Dobbs, K. Long,
J. Pasternak, E. Santos, M.O. Wascko, S.K. Agarwalla, S.A. Bogacz,
Y. Mori, J.B. Lagrange, A. de Gouvea, Y. Kuno, A. Sato,
V. Blackmore, J. Cobb, C. D. Tunnell, J.M. Link, P. Huber,
and W. Winter
Neutrinos from STORed Muons: νSTORM
J. Miller, R. Bernstein, on behalf of the Mu2e Collaboration
The Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab: a Search for Charged Lepton
Flavor Violation
K.T. Lesko
The Sanford Underground Research Facility at Homestake
H. Gao, S. S. Jawalker, M. R. Schindler, W. M. Snow,
R. P. Springer, and Ying Wu
Parity Violation in Photonuclear Reactions at HIGS
Vladimir Gudkov
Symmetry Violation in Nuclei
G. D. Orebi Gann
Neutrino Physics with SNO+
Y. Kolomensky, CUORE collaboration
Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay with CUORE
J. F. Wilkerson and S. R. Elliott
A Search for Neutrinoless Double β-Decay of Germanium-76
A. Piepke, R.G. H. Robertson
Next Generation Neutrinoless Double β-Decay Experiments(19 Sept 2012)
Y. K. Semertzidis
Storage Ring Proton EDM(19 Sept 2012)
| Vince Cianciolo | cianciolotv@ornl.gov |
| Vincenzo Cirigliano | cirigliano@lanl.gov |
| David Dean | deandj@ornl.gov |
| Steve Elliott | elliotts@lanl.gov |
| Brad Filippone | bradf@caltech.edu |
| Geoff Greene | greenegl@ornl.gov |
| David Hertzog | hertzog@uw.edu |
| Barry Holstein | holstein@physics.umass.edu |
| Takeyasu Ito | ito@lanl.gov |
| Zheng-Tian Lu | lu@anl.gov |
| Jeffrey Nico | jeffrey.nico@nist.gov |
| Alan Poon | awpoon@lbl.gov |
| David Radford | radforddc@ornl.gov |
| Michael Ramsey-Musolf | mjrm@physics.wisc.edu |
| John Wilkerson | jfw@unc.edu |
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