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 | 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 […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Javier Menéndez (University of Barcelona)

Speaker: Javier Menéndez (University of Barcelona) Title: Nuclear Theory To Reveal The Nature Of Dark Matter And Neutrinos Location: via Zoom Abstract: Unveiling the nature of dark matter is one the most exciting challenges in physics. While it constitutes about a quarter of the energy-density of the universe and 80% of its mass, the composition of dark matter remains elusive. Beyond […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | María Martínez (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Speaker: María Martínez ​(​Universidad de Zaragoza​)​ Location: via Zoom Title: Annual ​M​odulation ​R​esults ​F​rom ​Three​ ​-​Y​ear ​E​xposure of ANAIS-112 Abstract: For more than 20 years, the DAMA/LIBRA experiment at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory (Italy) has claimed a positive dark matter detection: an annual modulation in the low-energy detection rate compatible with the expected signal induced by dark […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Alessio Porcelli (Ghent University)

Speaker: Alessio Porcelli (Ghent University) Title: Method To Measure The Cosmic Rays Mass Composition With IceCube/IceTop Abstract: There is an intrinsic difficulty in measuring the mass of Cosmic rays at Ultra-High Energy. The only possible way involves measuring the Extensive Air Showers (EAS) characteristics produced by hadronic interactions of the incoming particle (primary) with the atmosphere: it behaves […]

SPECIAL VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Jingkai Xia (Shanghai Tech)

Speaker: Jingkai Xia (Shanghai Tech) Title: Detector Study For New Generation Of Neutrino And Dark Matter Experiments In China Abstract: Non-zero neutrino mass and the existence of dark matter are two important observations beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. Research on neutrino properties and dark matter detection will help to promote the discovery of new physics. New […]

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