Applied Antineutrino Physics 2015

Dec 7, 2015, 8:00 AM → Dec 8, 2015, 6:00 PM US/Eastern

Slides Mumm_Mendenhall.pdf

Monday, December 7

8:00 AM → 9:00 AM Registration

9:00 AM → 9:15 AM Introduction

9:00 AM Opening Remarks (VT)

9:15 AM → 10:30 AM Neutrino Detectors

9:15 AM Development of Plastic Anti-neutrino Detector Array (PANDA) (Y. Kato, U. Toyko)

Speaker: Yo Kato

Slides 20151207_AAP2015_Arlington_ykato.pdf

9:40 AM T2K Ecal (J. Coleman, U. Liverpool)

Speaker: Jonathon Coleman

Slides AAP_Coleman_2015_v2.pdf

10:05 AM Nucifer (J. Gaffiot, U. Liverpool)

Speaker: Jonathan Gaffiot

Transparents 2015-12-07_AAP_Gaffiot.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Neutrino detector R&D

11:00 AM Cosmic backgrounds for surface neutrino experiments (H.P. Mumm, NIST)

Speaker: Hans Mumm

Slides 201512_AAP_BG_Mendenhall.pdf

11:30 AM mTC (K. Nishimura, Ultralytics LLC)

Speaker: Kurtis Nishimura

Slides 2015.12.07.AAP.mTC.pdf

11:50 AM Solid (A. Vacharet, Oxford)

Speaker: Antonin Vacheret

Slides AAP2015-SoLid-Vacheret-final.pdf

12:10 PM CHANDLER R&D

Speaker: Camillo Mariani (Virginia Tech)

Slides Chandler_Seminar_reduced.pdf Chandler_Seminar_reduced.pptx

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 5:50 PM Neutrino detector R&D

2:00 PM NuLat (D. Rountree, VT)

Speaker: Dr S. Derek Rountree (Virginia Tech)

Slides AAP_2015_v004_SDR.pdf

2:20 PM Stereo (D. Lhullier, CEA)

Speaker: David Lhuillier

Slides AAP15_Lhuillier.pptx

2:40 PM NEOS

Speaker: Yoomin Oh (Institut for Basic Science, Korea)

Slides yoomin_NEOS_AAP2015.pdf

3:00 PM Neutron Simulation of Heterogenous Detectors

Speaker: Alireza Haghighat (Virginia Tech)

Slides Chandler_Neutronics_Dec-2015-AH.pptx

3:20 PM Break

3:50 PM Sandia segmented scinitillator

Speaker: David Reyna (Sandia)

Slides AAP_2015_SegmentedScintillator.pdf

4:10 PM PROSPECT (K. Heeger, Yale)

Speaker: Karsten Heeger

Slides PROSPECT-AAP-Heeger.pdf

4:30 PM Antineutrino Detection in Gd-loaded Water (M. Vagins)

Speaker: Mark Vagins

Slides GadAAP15.ppt

4:50 PM White paper discussion

Slides AAP2015-conferencesummary.pdf

6:30 PM → 9:00 PM Conference dinner

Tuesday, December 8

9:00 AM → 10:40 AM Coherent neutrino scattering R&D

9:00 AM COHERENT (Grayson Rich, Duke)

Speaker: Grayson Rich

Slides G.C.Rich_AAP2015.pdf

9:20 AM CONNIE (Juan Estrada, Fermilab)

Speaker: Juan Estrada

Slides DC_dec2015_v3.pdf

9:40 AM Ricochet

Speaker: Alexander Leder (MIT)

Slides Leder_Appliedanu_VT.pdf

10:00 AM LXe COHERENT (Vladmir Belov, ITEP)

Speaker: Vladimir Belov

Slides LXe-coherent-2.pdf

10:20 AM Neutrino nucleus coherent scattering - Prospects of future reactor experiments with germanium detectors (M. Salathe, MPIK)

Speaker: Marco Salathe

Slides MarcoSalathe_Talk.pdf

10:40 AM → 11:10 AM Break

11:10 AM → 1:00 PM Geo-Neutrinos & Directionality

11:10 AM Geoneutrino introduction (Bill McDonough, U. Maryland)

Speaker: Bill McDonough

Slides 8_Dec_AAP-2015_VTech.pdf

11:40 AM Global Antineutrino Map (M. Baldoncini, INFN)

Speaker: Marica Baldoncini

Slides Baldoncini_AAP2015.pdf

12:00 PM Santa (B. Suerfu, Princeton)

Speaker: Burkhant Suerfu

Paper prethesis_suerfu.pdf

Slides aap_suerfu.pdf

12:20 PM Double Chooz directionality (T. Brugiere, IPHC Strasburg)

Speaker: Timothee Brugiere

Transparents brugiere_DoubleChooz_AAP2015.pdf

12:40 PM ES directionality in gd-h2o (D. Hellfeld, LLNL)

Speaker: Daniel Hellfeld

Slides AAP15_Hellfeld.pdf AAP15_Hellfeld.pptx

1:00 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch

2:30 PM → 4:10 PM Theoretical Studies

2:30 PM Nuclear data for reactor fluxes (A. Sonzogni, NNDC)

Speaker: Alejandro Sonzogni

Slides sonzogni-aap.pptx

2:50 PM Reactor spectrum

Speaker: Patrick Huber (VT)

Slides aap2015.pdf

3:10 PM Breeding blanket detection using CENNS (B. Cogswell, Princeton)

Speaker: Bernadette Cogswell

Slides BKCogswell_AAP_2015.pdf

3:30 PM The potential to resolve spectral anomalies with different reactor experiements (J. Haser, MPIK)

Speaker: Julia Haser

Slides HASER_AAP_talk.pdf

3:50 PM Antineutrinos from neutron capture (P. Jaffke, VT)

Speaker: Mr Patrick Jaffke (Virginia Tech Physics Department)

Slides Non-linear Correction Slides

4:10 PM → 4:40 PM Break

4:40 PM → 5:10 PM Non-proliferation safeguards

4:40 PM Synergy & differences between SBL and safeguards (N. Bowden, LLNL)

Speaker: Dr Nathaniel Bowden (LLNL)

Slides Bowden_aap.pdf

5:10 PM → 5:20 PM Venues of AAP 2016 and 2017

Slides BARC_Expression_of_Interest_-modified_LMP.pptx Proposal_for_AAP_@_the_University_of_Liverpool.pptx