Lederle Graduate Research Tower (LGRT) 419B, UMass Amherst
The goal of the workshop is to bring together a small group of theorists, experimentalists, and observers to address the relative implications of terrestrial, astrophysical, and cosmological probes of neutrino mass. With the prospect of order of magnitude improvements in the sensitivities of kinematic mass determinations, two-order of magnitude improvements in the lifetime sensitivity of neutrinoless double beta-decay searches, and significant advances in determinations of the sum of neutrino masses from large scale structure and the CMB, it is timely to delineate what a comparison of results from these, other laboratory and cosmological probes, and simulations might imply.
Among the questions to be addressed are:
1. What are the model assumptions and related uncertainties that enter cosmological determinations of the sum of the light neutrino masses?
2. What early universe physics beyond the Standard Model, if any, might affect this determination?
3. What are the prospective implications of cosmological mass determinations for the interpretation of kinematic mass measurements, neutrinoless double beta-decay searches, and mass hierarchy probes?
4. What are the prospective implications of a positive signal in the next generation kinematic mass and double beta-decay searches for the interpretation of cosmological measurements?
Schedule
9:00am |
9:15am |
Considerations for Future Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiments
John Wilkerson University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, TUNL, & ORNL nldbd_mass_wilkerson.pdf |
10:00am |
Neutrinos & Cosmology: Theoretical Overview
George Fuller Unniversity of California San Diego fuller-nucmb.ppt |
10:45am |
11:15am |
Kinematic Mass Measurements I
Joseph Formaggio Massachusetts Institute of Technology numass_acfi_2015.pdf |
11:45am |
Kinematic Mass Measurements II: Onward to the "final state"
Hamish Robertson University of Washington robertson_acfi_talk.pptx |
12:30pm |
2:00pm |
Neutrino Mass from Cosmology & Astrophysics I
Kev Abazajian University of California Irvine amherst_workshop_2015_-_abazajian.pdf |
3:00pm |
Neutrino Mass from Cosmology & Astrophysics II
Manoj Kaplinghat University of California Irvine kaplinghat_umass_2015.pdf |
4:00pm |
4:30pm |
5:15pm |
6:00pm |
9:30am |
Neutrinoless Double Beta-Decay - Measurements and Prospects
John Wilkerson University of North Carolina Chapel Hill nldbd_expt_wilkerson.pdf |
10:15am |
Neutrinoless Double Beta-Decay: Theory & Mechanism
Michael Ramsey-Musolf UMass Amherst mjrm_acfi_neutrino_15.pdf |
11:00am |
11:30am |
Sterile Neutrinos and Neutrino Magnetic Moments
Baha Balantekin University of Wisconsin Madison balantekin_acfi.pdf |
12:30pm |
2:00pm |
Neutrinoless Double Beta-Decay Experiment II - Xenon TPCs
Andrea Pocar UMass Amherst 20151215-xenon-pocar-neutrinomass.pdf |
2:45pm |
Investigation of Double Beta Decay with Bolometers
Karsten Heeger Yale University heeger-bolometers-umass.pdf |
3:30pm |
4:00pm |
Reactor Neutrinos: Sterile Neutrino Searches with Precision Measurements at Very Short Baselines
Jim Napolitano Temple University umassafci14dec2015.pdf |
4:30pm |
Lepton Number Violation in Astrophysical Environments
Vincenzo Cirigliano Los Alamos National Laboratory qke-acfi.pdf |
5:00pm |
6:00pm |
9:00am |
9:45am |
10:30am |
11:00am |
Entropy flow and nonlinear feedback on BBN in neutrino decoupling
George Fuller University of California San Diego |
11:45am |
12:30pm |