Advanced Workshop on Physics of Atmospheric Neutrinos - PANE 2018 | (smr 3207)
Starts 28 May 2018
Ends 1 Jun 2018
Central European Time
ICTP
Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)
Via Grignano, 9
I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)
Atmospheric neutrino experiments were the first ones to discover 20 years ago the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations, to establish existence of non-zero neutrino mass and large lepton mixing. Studies of atmospheric neutrinos are used to search for new physics beyond the 3-neutrino paradigm, including sterile neutrinos, non-standard neutrino interactions, effects of violation of fundamental symmetries of Nature.
Now the field moves to the next phase of high-precision studies, which will enable us to effectively use atmospheric neutrinos as a tool to determine the mass ordering, octant of the 2-3 mixing angle and the Dirac CP-violating phase. In this connection, knowledge of the atmospheric neutrino fluxes at percent level is needed, which requires higher precision determination of both cosmic ray fluxes and neutrino-nucleon cross sections, as well as a better control over systematics. Understanding of atmospheric neutrinos is essential to estimate background for diffuse supernova neutrinos, proton decay, future dark matter direct/indirect detection experiments, and high-energy cosmic neutrinos.
The goal of this workshop is to further explore physics potential of atmospheric neutrinos and support the physics case of new experiments on atmospheric neutrinos. We plan to bring together leading experts in both theory and experiment as well as young researchers to assess the state-of-the-art knowledge in this field and to foster further theoretical, phenomenological, and experimental studies in atmospheric neutrino physics.
The programme will be mainly composed of the invited talks. Some time will be allocated for the oral presentations selected from submitted abstracts. It will be possible to display posters during whole time of the workshop. Papers which will not be selected for oral presentations can be presented as posters. Ample time will be given for discussion.
List of Topics:
Results from atmospheric neutrino experiments
Analysis of the data and treatment of systematics
Cosmic ray fluxes at all energies
Neutrino-nucleon and neutrino-nucleus interactions
Computation of atmospheric neutrino fluxes
Prompt atmospheric neutrinos
Oscillations and absorption of neutrinos in the Earth
Neutrino tomography of the Earth
Determination of mixing angles, mass hierarchy, and CP-phase
Searches for sterile neutrinos
Searches for non-standard neutrino interactions
Tests of fundamental symmetries
Future experiments with atmospheric neutrinos
Solar atmospheric neutrinos
Atmospheric neutrinos as a background for diffuse supernova neutrinos, proton decay, dark matter searches
Atmospheric neutrinos and cosmic neutrinos
Synergy/Complementarity among atmospheric and LBL experiments
Scientific Advisory Committee:
John F. Beacom (Ohio State University)
Paschal A. Coyle (CPPM, Marseille)
Amol S. Dighe (TIFR, Mumbai)
Thomas K. Gaisser (University of Delaware)
Francis L. Halzen (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Takaaki Kajita (ICRR, University of Tokyo)
Edward T. Kearns (Boston University)
Eligio Lisi (INFN, Bari)
John G. Learned (University of Hawai'i)
Naba Kumar Mondal (SINP, Kolkata)
Michele Maltoni (IFT, Madrid)
Orlando L. G. Peres (Campinas State University)
Ina Sarcevic (University of Arizona)
Walter Winter (DESY, Zeuthen)
The Programme is Preliminary and some minor changes are possible. Invited Speakers do not need to apply online.