Programme

SCHOOL PROGRAMME - INDICO

programme table

  1. The Standard Model, and the current physics scene at the beginning of the LHC
    Standard Model basics relevant to neutrino physics
    Quark masses, mixing, and CP violation
    How neutrino physics and LHC physics may be connected
    Francesco Vissani (LNF)

  2. The framework - neutrino phenomenology, what we have learned, and what the open questions are
    Dirac and Majorana neutrino masses and leptonic mixing
    Neutrino oscillation in vacuum and in matter
    Non-Standard neutrino interactions, and non-unitary leptonic mixing
    Neutrino electromagnetic properties
    Sterile neutrinos
    What we have learned about the neutrinos and about leptonic mixing
    What the open questions are, and why they are interesting
    Boris Kayser (Fermilab)

  3. Experimental Fundamentals
    Sources of neutrinos: a comprehensive, non-detailed, overview
    Basics of detectors for natural, reactor, and accelerator neutrinos, and for neutrinoless double beta decay (include novel detection techniques)
    Alberto Marchionni (ETHZürich)

  4. The accelerator physics of neutrino beams
    Simone Gilardoni (CERN)

  5. How to probe whether anti-neutrino = neutrino and the absolute neutrino mass scale
    Neutrinoless double beta decay. What its observation would prove, and its nuclear matrix elements Experimental approaches to neutrinoless double beta decay, DM detection, and coherent neutrino scattering. Beta decay probes of the neutrino mass scale
    Juan José Gomez-Cadenas (IFIC Valencia)

  6. How to study mixing, the mass ordering, and CP violation
    1. Reactor experiments to measure the mixing angles θ13 , θ12 Dm212
      Thierry Lasserre (Saclay)
    2. SUPERBEAM Accelerator-neutrino experiments probe θ13, θ23, the neutrino mass hierarchy, and CP violation. under construction: T2K and NOvA
      Beyond T2K and NOvA: Superbeams and very large detectors, including novel approaches.
      Atsuko Ichikawa (KEK)
    3. Cross sections and other systematic errors: their importance and measurement ;
    4. Combining Accelerator, atmospheric, reactor, and solar neutrino experiments
      Morgan Wascko (ICL)

  7. Accelerator and Underground Facilities for the near and far future
    Neutrino factories and beta beams
    Large underground detectors
    Mauro Mezzetto (Padova)

  8. Models of neutrino masses and mixing
    The extended SM as a framework for model building
    The see-saw mechanism
    Other possibilities, such as masses from extra dimensions
    Possible connections of neutrino mass to other physics
    How future experimental results will test the models
    Stefan Antuch (University of Basel)

  9. Neutrinos and the universe
    Cosmological information on neutrino masses
    Leptogenesis as the origin of the cosmic baryon-antibaryon asymmetry
    Concha Gonzalez-Garcia ( Stonybrook )
    Ideas for detecting the neutrinos from the Big Bang
    Alfredo Cocco (Napoli)
    Supernova neutrinos, and solar neutrino probes of solar physics
    Neutrino probes of ultra-high-energy astrophysical phenomena
    Teresa Montaruli (Wisconsin)

  10. A visit to CERN

  11. Students lectures and poster sessions
    The students will be invited to prepare short presentations of their work; a Poster session will allow more detailed presentation of their individual work.
    Posters can be prepared in A0 format but the size of the panels will be 120 cm wide by 130 cm high. The format should be relatively free, please check with your supervisor that he is happy with it and make sure you fulfill your collaborators/collaborations constraints.
    Please write in large fonts the title of your poster, your name and institute, make sure you refer to your collaborators appropriately. Posters should have the INSS11 banner on them preferably above the title.
    The most important messages should be about mid height or higher on the poster. Reserve the bottom of the poster for less important details (references, etc...)
    If you need your poster printed: please make sure to send us the file or a link to the .pdf file by 12 July the latest.