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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]