Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics (INPA) at LBNL
The INPA Seminar weekly talks are on Fridays, starting at 12:00 pm, unless informed otherwise. The seminar talk starts with a brief presentation of the weekly scientific news. Typically, the talks conclude by 1:00 pm. The seminars are held in the Sessler Conference Room, located in Bldg. 50A- 5132.
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The seminar schedule for the Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics (INPA) is tentative and becomes final a few days before the Friday talk.
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VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Stephane Zsoldos (UCB)
September 25, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Speaker: Stephane Zsoldos (UC Berkeley)
Title: An overview of the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment
Abstract:
Hyper-Kamiokande, which started construction in April 2020, is a next generation underground water Cherenkov detector, based on the highly successful Super-Kamiokande experiment. It will serve as a far detector, 295 km away, of a long baseline neutrino experiment for the upgraded J-PARC beam in Japan. It will also be a detector capable of observing — far beyond the sensitivity of the Super-Kamiokande detector — proton decay, atmospheric neutrinos, and neutrinos from astronomical sources.
Although a wide and rich research program for neutrinos at both low and high-E, I will, after introducing and reviewing the general status of the experiment, focus on the oscillation physics, especially on the two main unanswered questions, the hierarchy of the neutrino mass eigenstates and the value of the leptonic delta CP phase. Especially, I will discuss Hyper-Kamiokande’s sensitivity using a joint atmospheric and accelerator fit to unravel part of these interrogations.
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INPA guests from campus can now come to the lab early on Fridays. The INPA Common Room (50-5026) is reserved for our guests from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Note that the seminars are now held in 50A-5132 to accommodate a more significant number of attendees.
CPTea Series (also known as INPA Tea Series)
The Physics Division CPTea Series invites you to an In-Person Tea Series 1st Friday of every month at 3:30 pm INPA Conference Room 50-5026.
Everyone is welcome to attend the open forum. Tea and light refreshments will be served.
INPA Common Room (50-5026)
Fridays
3:30 pm
Access to the Lab
For a shuttle pass, please email Erica Hall. The pass is only valid for the day of the seminar.