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.

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Zack Li (Princeton Univ.)

Speaker: Zack Li (Princeton University) Title: “Enabling New Views of the Early Universe from the Atacama in the Next Five Years” Abstract: We're producing some exciting Cosmic Microwave Background data with high-resolution, ground-based observations at 27 - 280 GHz, from experiments like ACT, SPT, and (soon) SO and CMB-S4. I'll discuss present and future challenges […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Guang Yang (Stony Brook University)

Speaker: Guang Yang (Stony Brook University) Title: Securing An Accurate CP Violation Phase Measurement In DUNE Abstract: The requirements for a 5 non-zero delta CP violation phase measurement (if CP violation phase = -pi/2) are a wide-band muon neutrino beam, a 1,300 km baseline, an order of 10s kt fiducial mass detector with high particle […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Zepeng Li (Yale University)

Speaker: Zepeng Li (Yale University) Title: Search For Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay In Liquid Xenon TPC Abstract: Search for neutrinoless double beta decay is a direct tool to investigate the Majorana nature of the neutrinos and mechanism of neutrino mass generation. Discovery of neutrinoless double beta decay would be a direct indication of lepton number […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Jay Hun Jo (Yale University)

Speaker: Jay Hun Jo (Yale University) Title: Searching For Long Standing Anomalies In Particle Physics With COSINE-100 and MicroBooNE Abstract: Two of the most pressing questions in particle physics are the nature of the dark matter in the universe and understanding neutrinos - overall and as an explanation for our matter dominated universe. In each […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Gadi Afek (Yale University)

Speaker: Gadi Afek (Yale University) Title: Searches For New Physics Using Levitated Optomechanics Abstract: In an attempt to provide further insight into one of the major questions of physics beyond the standard model, highly sensitive optomechanical sensors are employed utilizing techniques synchronous with those of the atomic physics community. These sensors are table-top experimental tools offering exquisite control […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Zoya Vallari (CalTech)

Speaker: Zoya Vallari (California Institute of Technology) Title: Neutrino Oscillation Results & Future Prospects of the NOvA Experiment Abstract: Neutrino mixing parameters are rapidly being measured to a higher precision by many experiments, however key questions such as mass hierarchy of neutrinos and CP violation in the lepton sector are still unanswered. NOvA is a […]

SPECIAL VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Roger Huang (UCB)

Speaker: Roger Huang (UC Berkeley) Title: 0νββ Search Results from One Ton-Year of CUORE Data Abstract: The search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) is currently the most sensitive way to test the hypothesis that neutrinos may be Majorana particles and obtain insight as to the nature of neutrino masses. CUORE (Cryogenic Underground Observatory for […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Walter Pettus (Indiana University)

Speaker: Walter Pettus (Indiana University Bloomington) Title: Project 8: Towards the Atomic Tritium Future of Direct Neutrino Mass Measurement Abstract: Neutrino flavor oscillations provided the first break in the Standard Model by proving that neutrinos have nonzero mass, but leave us with an unanswered question: How much mass?  Project 8 is a next-generation experiment based […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Erin Hansen (UC Berkeley)

Speaker: Erin Hansen (UC Berkeley)   Title: Progress on the search for 2νββ of 130-Te to excited states of 130-Xe with CUORE   Abstract: The CUORE experiment is a ton-scale bolometric array searching for the lepton number violating neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νββ) in the isotope 130-Te. While a discovery of 0νββ would herald new physics, […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Sam Hedges (Duke University)

Location: via Zoom Speaker: Sam Hedges (Duke University) Title: Experimental Tests of Low Energy Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions at the Spallation Neutron Source Abstract: The intense flux of neutrinos produced at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) make it an ideal location to pursue studies of low energy neutrino-nucleus interactions. The COHERENT experiment has deployed a suite of detectors […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Jessica Esquivel (Fermilab) | Friday, May 14, 2021

Speaker: Jessica Esquivel (Fermilab) Title: Can Wobbling Muons Probe Physics Beyond The Standard Model? Fermilab's Muon g-2 Run 1 results. Abstract: On April 7th 2021, Fermilab’s Muon g-2 experiment announced it’s first results of the precision measurement of the anomalous muon magnetic moment based on it’s 2018 Run-1 dataset. These results align with the Brookhaven National […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | KE HAN (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Speaker: Ke Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Title: Rare Event Searches with PandaX Abstract: PandaX is a staged xenon-based dark matter and rare event searching project located at the China JinPing underground Laboratory (CJPL). In this talk we will present the latest dark matter search results using the full exposure data of PandaX-II, a 580-kg liquid […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Lu Lu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Speaker: Lu Lu (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Title: Detection Of A Particle Shower at the Glashow Resonance with IceCube Abstract: First proposed in 1959 by S. L. Glashow, the resonant creation of a W− boson from the interaction of an anti-electron neutrino with an electron has never been experimentally observed. In the electron rest-frame the required neutrino energy, Eν […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Bryan Ramson (Fermilab)

Location: via Zoom Speaker: ​Bryan Ramson (​Fermilab) Title: Towards A New Generation of Bubble Chambers Abstract: Long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments present some of the most compelling paths towards beyond the standard model physics through measurement of PMNS matrix elements and observation of leptonic CP violation. State of the art long baseline oscillation experiments, like NOvA and […]

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.

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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.

Erica Hall