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Ehteshamul Karim (University of Pittsburgh)11/05/2026, 16:30
Project 8 seeks to directly measure the electron-weighted neutrino mass using cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy (CRES). Using this technique, the kinetic energy of magnetically-trapped $\beta$-electrons from tritium sources can be inferred by observing their cyclotron frequency, measuring the endpoint spectrum with high precision. Following the successful demonstration of CRES with...
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Chi-Ho Lam (University of Pittsburgh)11/05/2026, 16:45
Project 8 measures the electron-weighted neutrino mass by resolving the characteristic distortion caused by the nonzero neutrino mass on the tritium beta decay spectrum near its endpoint through Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy (CRES). The Phase IV configuration, utilizing an atomic tritium source, is designed to achieve a sensitivity of 40 meV/c² (90% C.L.). Beyond this primary...
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Dibya Sankar Chattopadhyay (Oklahoma State University)11/05/2026, 17:00
Binary neutron star (BNS) mergers produce intense bursts of $\mathcal{O}(10)$ MeV neutrinos, but their low rate and typically large distances make detection extremely challenging. We revisit the prospects for observing the first neutrino from a BNS merger using updated merger rates and emission models, and find that detection is unlikely in current experiments, instead requiring...
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Vivek Sharma (University of Pittsburgh)11/05/2026, 17:15
Neutrinoless double beta decay (0$\nu \beta \beta$) is a hypothesized lepton number violating process, the discovery of which would lead to a greater insight into the nature of neutrino mass. CUORE (Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events) is a bolometric search for 0$\nu \beta \beta$ in $^{130}$Te. The experiment employs TeO$_2$ crystals as both the possible sources and detectors of...
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Yulun Li11/05/2026, 17:30
The neutron lifetime is a crucial parameter for many processes in nuclear and particle physics. However, existing experimental approaches, the beam and bottle methods, yield discrepant results. In this work, we propose a third, independent approach to determine the neutron lifetime. Our method is based on a novel experimental setup in which a modular reactor is placed near the XENONnT detector...
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Misa Toman11/05/2026, 17:45
The precise understanding of neutrino-nucleus interactions is essential for advancing the neutrino experimental program, particularly in the low-GeV energy regime relevant to current and future accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments such as DUNE, T2K, and Hyper-Kamiokande. In this energy regime, the nuclear response involves not only quasielastic scattering from individual nucleons...
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Diego Lopez Gutierrez (Washington University in St Louis)11/05/2026, 18:00
We present the first detailed analysis of nuclear form factor uncertainties relevant for neutrino trident processes. We focus on argon charged form factors given their relevance in current and next-generation neutrino experiments. Accurately quantifying this uncertainty is important to perform precision Standard Model physics analyses and Beyond the Standard Model searches using neutrino...
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Zihao Lin (University of Rochester)11/05/2026, 18:15
We perform a global extraction of the ${\rm ^{12}C}$ longitudinal (${\cal R}_L$) and transverse (${\cal R}_T$) nuclear electromagnetic response functions from an analysis of all available electron scattering data on carbon. The response functions are extracted for energy transfer $\nu$, spanning the nuclear excitation, quasielastic (QE), resonance and inelastic continuum over a large...
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Kevin Kelly (Texas A&M University)12/05/2026, 14:00
Novel search strategies are constantly being proposed for new-physics discovery at neutrino facilities -- this is driven in part by the enormous amount of data soon to be at hand. Many of these searches have great complementarity to other approaches, for instance the long-standing beam-dump strategy to search for new particles in rare events. In this talk, I will show some new techniques and...
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Bei Zhou (Fermilab)12/05/2026, 14:15
Neutrino self-interactions beyond the Standard Model are well motivated by nonzero neutrino masses. We explore a scenario in which the lightest neutrino species remains relativistic today, leading to a broadened “widened” resonance in neutrino scattering that enhances sensitivity to new physics. This effect enables probes of neutrino self-interactions across a wide mediator mass range: (1)...
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Writasree Maitra (Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis)12/05/2026, 14:30
Lepton flavor violation in neutrinos aka neutrino-oscillation is a telltale signature of Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics. If a similar phenomenon is found in the charged leptons as well, that will further consolidate the existence of BSM physics. In this work, we look for signature of charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV), muon to tau conversion, in the IceCube. We focus on two main...
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Mr Samiur R. Mir (Oklahoma State University)12/05/2026, 14:45
Neutrino oscillation parameters are subject to renormalization group (RG) evolution, just like all couplings and masses of Standard Model (SM) particles. Within the SM extended with three massive neutrinos, it is well known that RG running effects in the neutrino sector are small. However, the RG running of the elements of the leptonic mixing (PMNS) matrix below the electroweak symmetry...
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Dr Toni Makela (University of California, Irvine)12/05/2026, 15:00
The novel forward neutrino program at the Large Hadron Collider offers a new handle for understanding forward hadron production in pp collisions, inferred from neutrino interactions in a forward detector. Most existing and proposed high energy neutrino experiments have excellent muon charge identification capabilities, enabling the distinction of $\nu_\mu$ and $\bar \nu_\mu$ charged current...
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Francis Burk12/05/2026, 15:15
We demonstrate the sensitivity of Drell-Yan production processes from deep inelastic scattering in searches for beyond-the-Standard Model (BSM) physics at fixed-target or beam-dump experiments. We take heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) as a case study, produced from the decay of a light vector boson mediator with mass in the range of 2 - 20 GeV, which itself is generated via the Drell-Yan process....
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Xiaolin Qi (Virginia Tech)12/05/2026, 15:30
As an extension of our previous work on the Diffuse Boosted Cosmic Neutrino Background, we further incorporate charged current processes and deep inelastic scattering. We found that deep inelastic scattering significantly enhances the boosted flux at high energies, and that IceCube already places an upper limit on the $C\nu B$ overdensity of $\sim O(10^2) - O(10^3)$. Furthermore, the...
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Julian Rovner (University of Cincinnati)12/05/2026, 15:45
The neutrino fog represents a fundamental irreducible sensitivity limit for dark matter direct detection arising from coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS). We present a precision calculation of the neutrino fog for spin-independent (SI), spin-dependent proton-coupled (SDp), and spin-dependent neutron-coupled (SDn) WIMP interactions on a natural xenon target, derived by matching...
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