Name: Applied Antineutrino Physics Workshop 2023
Start: 2023-09-18T08:45:00+01:00
End: 2023-09-21T17:00:00+01:00
Location: The Guildhall York

Applied Antineutrino Physics Workshop 2023

from Monday, 18 September 2023 (08:45) to Thursday, 21 September 2023 (17:00)

Monday, 18 September 2023

08:45 Arrival and tea/coffee
Arrival and tea/coffee
08:45 - 09:15
09:15 AAP 2023 opening speech - John Learned (U. Hawaii)
AAP 2023 opening speech
- John Learned (U. Hawaii)
09:15 - 09:25
09:25 Welcome from STFC Boulby Underground Laboratory - Sean Paling (STFC Boulby Underground Laboratory)
Welcome from STFC Boulby Underground Laboratory
- Sean Paling (STFC Boulby Underground Laboratory)
09:25 - 09:30
09:30 Boulby Underground Laboratory - Christopher Toth
Boulby Underground Laboratory
- Christopher Toth
09:30 - 09:50
09:50 Antineutrino detection & technology overview - Steven Dazeley
Antineutrino detection & technology overview
- Steven Dazeley
09:50 - 10:35
Since the successes of the Daya Bay, Double Chooz and RENO 𝜃_13 experiments in the early 2000s, antineutrino detection technologies have continued to evolve, providing new capabilities such as next generation scintillating materials, photon detectors and new dual phase TPC techniques. Some of these technologies are being employed in detectors coming online now. Most recently, above ground detection of reactor antineutrinos, which relies upon the identification of cosmogenic fast neutrons to reduce the most prevalent backgrounds, was accomplished using pulse shape sensitive scintillator or innovative new designs that permit improved topological reconstruction of complex event structures. Speculating on future developments, we can look forward to capabilities such as improved aboveground sensitivity, and shallower deployment requirements in general. Further advances will come from order of magnitude improvements in vertex resolution, higher photon detection efficiencies, more stable and less toxic materials, and better particle ID. Separately, coherent scattering detection remains an elusive but potentially attractive solution due to the relatively high interaction cross section. Many of the new technologies described here will have important implications for applications in the future. In this talk I will survey technologies and techniques being developed now, and project how they may improve capabilities for applications in the future.
10:35 AM tea/coffee
AM tea/coffee
10:35 - 11:00
11:00 Neutrino applications overview - Rachel Carr
Neutrino applications overview
- Rachel Carr
11:00 - 11:45
11:45 Reactor flux and spectrum overview - Leendert Hayen
Reactor flux and spectrum overview
- Leendert Hayen
11:45 - 12:30
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 Global project overview - Patrick Huber
Global project overview
- Patrick Huber
13:30 - 14:15
14:15 Neutrino applications utility overview - Andrew Conant (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Neutrino applications utility overview
- Andrew Conant (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
14:15 - 15:00
15:00 PM tea/coffee
PM tea/coffee
15:00 - 15:25
15:25 Session 1
Session 1
15:25 - 17:05
Contributions

15:25 Nu Tools: Exploring Practical Roles for Neutrinos in Nuclear Energy and Security - Michael Foxe (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

15:45 Nuclear Safeguards: Monitoring of Spent Nuclear Fuel - Yan-Jie Schnellbach (RWTH Aachen University)

16:05 Sensitivity Tool for Antineutrino Monitoring of Small Modular Reactors - Andrew Conant (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

16:25 Establishing Antineutrino-based Safeguards Using the State-level Concept - Caiser Bravo (Georgia Institute of Technology)

16:45 Scalability of Gd-doped water-Cherenkov reactor-antineutrino IBD detectors for non-proliferation - Viacheslav Li (LLNL)
Tuesday, 19 September 2023

08:30 Arrival tea/coffee
Arrival tea/coffee
08:30 - 09:00
09:00 Session 2
Session 2
09:00 - 09:40
Contributions

09:00 An antineutrino-based detection concept for non-intrusive site-wide reactor monitoring - steven dazeley (lawrence livermore national laboratory)

09:20 SNIFR - Submarine Neutrino Identification For Reconnaissance - Alex Goldsack (King's College London)
09:40 Session 1
Session 1
09:40 - 10:40
Contributions

09:40 WbLS with pulse-shape discrimination - Tomi Akindele (LLNL)

10:00 Materials development in the 30-tonne tank at BNL - Minfang Yeh (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

10:20 BUTTON technology testbeds - Jon Coleman
10:40 AM tea/coffee
AM tea/coffee
10:40 - 11:05
11:05 Session 2
Session 2
11:05 - 12:25
Contributions

11:05 Measurement of reactor neutrinos using plastic scintillator cube - Shoichi Hasegawa (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)

11:25 Nuclear reactor monitoring with gadolinium-loaded plastic scintillator modules - Sertac Ozturk (Istinye University)

11:45 A 6Li-doped pulse shape sensitive plastic scintillator for ton-scale detector applications - Cristian Roca (LLNL)

12:05 Performance of the ROADSTR PSD Plastic Prototype Detector - Caiser Bravo
12:25 Lunch
Lunch
12:25 - 13:25
13:25 Session 3
Session 3
13:25 - 15:15
Contributions

13:25 Novel opaque scintillator technology for antineutrino detection - Thiago Bezerra (University of Sussex)

13:45 Novel Methodology for Low Energy IBD-like Antineutrinos Detection and Potential - Anatael Cabrera (IJCLab / CNRS / Université Paris-Saclay)

14:00 Development of a High-Energy Two-Component Gamma Calibration Source - Igor Jovanovic (University of Michigan)

14:20 Forest of Tubes for a directional IBD detector - John Learned (U. Hawaii)

14:35 EoS – A Pathfinder Experiment for Low Energy Neutrino Physics with the Hybrid Detector THEIA - Hans Steiger

14:55 PALEOCCENE
15:15 PM tea/coffee
PM tea/coffee
15:15 - 15:40
15:40 Session 1
Session 1
15:40 - 17:42
Contributions

15:40 Geoneutrinos: messengers from the inaccessible Earth - Virginia Strati (University of Ferrara & INFN Ferrara)

16:00 Reactor flux from reactor data - Bedrich Roskovec (Charles University, Prague)

16:20 Reactor spectrum from reactor data - Cristian Roca (LLNL)

16:40 Progress towards understanding the source of the Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly - Alejandro Sonzogni (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

17:00 Fission yields of isomers in antineutrino calculations - Andrea Mattera (Brookhaven National Laboratory - NNDC)

17:20 IAEA meeting report - Paraskevi Dimitriou (International Atomic Energy Agency)

17:40 Reactor flux summation method summary
19:00 Conference dinner with drinks reception courtesy of John Caunt Scientific Ltd
Conference dinner with drinks reception courtesy of John Caunt Scientific Ltd
19:00 - 23:00
Wednesday, 20 September 2023

08:30 Arrival tea/coffee
Arrival tea/coffee
08:30 - 09:00
09:00 Session 2
Session 2
09:00 - 10:20
Contributions

09:00 Modelling of the anti-neutrino emissions from an Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor - Andrew Petts (EDF)

09:20 Anti-Neutrino Flux from the EdF Hartlepool Nuclear Power Plant - Robert Mills (UK National Nuclear Laboratory)

09:40 Estimating Neutrino Signals Using reactors.geoneutrinos.org - Steve Dye (U Hawaii)

10:00 CONFLUX - The Reactor Antientrino Flux Prediction Software - Xianyi Zhang (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
10:20 AM tea/coffee
AM tea/coffee
10:20 - 10:45
10:45 Session 1
Session 1
10:45 - 12:25
Contributions

10:45 Antineutrino measurements in SNO+ - Sofia Andringa (LIP)

11:05 Reactor neutrinos in Super-Kamiokande Gadolinium - Lucas Nascimento Machado (University of Glasgow)

11:25 DoubleChooz Experiment: Latest Results for Antineutrino Applied Detection - Thiago Bezerra (University of Sussex)

11:45 PROSPECT experiment - Bryce Littlejohn (IIT)

12:05 DANSS reactor antineutrino spectrometer: results for 2023 - Yury Shitov (IEAP CVUT, Prague, Czechia)
12:25 Lunch
Lunch
12:25 - 13:25
13:25 Session 2
Session 2
13:25 - 14:45
Contributions

13:25 Status of miniCHANDLER and CHANDLER - Keegan Walkup (Virginia Tech)

13:45 Measurement of anti-neutrinos from Nuclear Waste with VIDARR - Carl Metelko

14:05 MAD experiment - Nathaniel Bowden (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

14:25 The status of Reactor Experiment for Neutrino and Exotics - Byeongsu Yang (Seoul National University)
14:45 PM tea/coffee
PM tea/coffee
14:45 - 15:10
15:10 Session 3
Session 3
15:10 - 16:50
Contributions

15:10 The COHERENT Experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source - Jason Newby (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

15:30 Recent results from the CONUS experiment - Christian Buck (MPIK Heidelberg)

15:50 CEvNS at the Dresden-II reactor and beyond - Mark Lewis (Donostia International Physics Center)

16:10 JUNO-TAO - Hans Steiger

16:30 Prospects for geo-neutrinos and supernova neutrinos with JUNO - Pierre-Alexandre Petitjean (ULB-IIHE)
16:50 Concluding statements - Nathaniel Bowden (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Concluding statements
- Nathaniel Bowden (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
16:50 - 17:05
Thursday, 21 September 2023

06:00 Boulby Underground Laboratory visit (optional)
Boulby Underground Laboratory visit (optional)
06:00 - 17:00