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.
The committee members are:
The seminar schedule for the Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics (INPA) is tentative and becomes final a few days before the Friday talk.
Please send all suggestions for future INPA talks and speakers to the INPA Committee.
To be added to the INPA News Mailing List, please contact Erica Hall.
Bjoern Lehnert (Carleton University) – Dark Matter Search with DEAP-3600 and the Importance of Rare Nuclear Decay Searches
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAThe DEAP-3600 experiment is searching for dark matter with a single phase liquid argon (LAr) target, located at SNOLAB. For a background-free exposure of 3000 kg·yr, the projected sensitivity to […]
Elizabeth Wills (Drexel) – Probing Cosmic Ray Anisotropy in the Northern Hemisphere with Atmospheric Neutrinos
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CACosmic Rays have remained an enigma for over a hundred years since their discovery. This talk focuses on a well-measured, yet similarly elusive feature; an unexplained structure in arrival direction […]
Jason Bono (Fermilab) – Muon Anomalies and Their Future Investigations
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAThe muon is 200 times heavier than the electron and still lighter than any hadron, which make it’s interactions, at once, potentially sensitive to undiscovered phenomena, and predictable to high […]
Wing Yan Ma (Imperial College London) – Recent Neutrino Oscillation Results from T2K
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAT2K is a long baseline neutrino experiment situated in Japan. A muon neutrinos and antineutrinos beam is produced and fired 295km across the country and observed using the 50 kTon […]
Special – Danielle Leonard (CMU) – Measuring the scale-dependence of intrinsic alignments using multiple shear estimates
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAThe next generation of cosmological surveys promises significant advancements in the field of weak gravitational lensing. As such, it is crucial that relevant systematic effects such as the intrinsic alignment […]
Samuele Sangiorgio (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) – Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with nEXO: Experiment Concept, R&D, and Sensitivity
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAThe next-generation Enriched Xenon Observatory (nEXO) is a proposed experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay whose observation would imply lepton number violation and confirm the existence of […]
Dan Wilkins (Stanford) – Seeing to the Event Horizons of Supermassive Black Holes
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAFrom the reflection and reverberation of X-rays off the innermost regions of AGN accretion discs, a three-dimensional picture is starting to emerge of the extreme environments around supermassive black holes […]
Andre Walker-Loud (LBNL) – Lattice QCD for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAIn recent years, lattice QCD has matured to the stage where it is now routine for calculations to be performed at or near the physical pion mass, with fully controlled […]
Giorgia Pollina – Unveiling cosmic voids in large-scale structure surveys: the impact of tracer bias
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAThe large-scale structure of the Universe can only be observed directly via luminous tracers of the underlying matter density field. However, luminous tracers, such as galaxies, do not precisely mirror […]
Ana Bonaca (Harvard-CfA) – What are the tidal streams constraining?
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CACold stellar streams, remnants of tidally disrupted globular clusters, have been employed as exquisite tracers of dark matter in the Milky Way. Because of their different positions in phase space, […]
Krista Lynne Smith (Stanford) – A New Regime of Optical Variability in AGN: Light Curves from Exoplanet Satellites
The optical light curves of AGN provide a unique window into the conditions and behavior within the accretion disk. The development of a specialized pipeline for AGN science with the […]
Dr. Leila Haegel (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain) – Testing general relativity with gravitational waves
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAGravitational waves have been directly detected by the LIGO experiment in 2015. Since then, five black holes and one neutron star binaries merging have been observed during the two observational […]
Vincent Fischer (UC Davis) – Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE)
The next generation of large scale neutrino detectors, such as DUNE or Hyper-Kamiokande, will heavily rely on a precise understanding of neutrino-nucleus interactions to reach their goal of measuring leptonic […]
Helion Mas du Bourboux ( University of Utah) – Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations in SDSS and DESI using the intergalactic medium absorption
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAWe present the measurement of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale from the correlation between absorption in the intergalactic medium and the positions of galaxies and quasars in the SDSS […]
Heidi Newberg (RPI) – Dwarf galaxies and dark matter in the Milky Way
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAIn the past fifteen years, dozens of tidal streams of stars pulled from dwarf galaxies and globular clusters have been discovered in the Milky Way's stellar halo. Recently, it has […]
Rebecca Canning (Stanford) – Understanding Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the most massive cosmic laboratories
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CASupermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) lurk in the centers of all massive galaxies, a fraction of these SMBHs are actively accreting and this can result in powerful outbursts which have important […]
Dan Dwyer (LBNL) – Demonstration of a true 3D micro-power sensor for liquid argon time projection chambers
Time projection chambers (TPCs) based on the ionization of cryogenic liquids are a prominent tool for neutrino oscillation, neutrinoless double beta decay, and dark matter experiments. Over the past two […]
Shirley Li (SLAC) – DUNE as the next-generation solar neutrino experiment
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAINPA 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.