Applied Antineutrino Physics Workshop 2023

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

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
18 Sep 2023
19 Sep 2023
20 Sep 2023
21 Sep 2023
AM
08:45 --- Arrival and tea/coffee ---
09:15 AAP 2023 opening speech - John Learned (U. Hawaii)   ()
09:25 Welcome from STFC Boulby Underground Laboratory - Sean Paling (STFC Boulby Underground Laboratory)   ()
09:30 Boulby Underground Laboratory - Christopher Toth   ()
09:50 Antineutrino detection & technology overview - Steven Dazeley   ()
10:35 --- AM tea/coffee ---
11:00 Neutrino applications overview - Rachel Carr   ()
11:45 Reactor flux and spectrum overview - Leendert Hayen   ()
08:30 --- Arrival tea/coffee ---
09:00
Neutrino applications - Yan-Jie Schnellbach (RWTH Aachen University) (until 09:40) ()
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
Neutrino detection & technology - Yan-Jie Schnellbach (RWTH Aachen University) (until 10:40) ()
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 ---
11:05
Neutrino detection & technology - Viacheslav Li (LLNL) (until 12:25) ()
11:05 Measurement of reactor neutrinos using plastic scintillator cube - Dr 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   ()
08:30 --- Arrival tea/coffee ---
09:00
Flux and spectrum prediction - Rachel Carr (US Naval Academy) (until 10:20) ()
09:00 Modelling of the anti-neutrino emissions from an Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor - Dr 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 ---
10:45
Global projects - Cristian Roca (LLNL) (until 12:25) ()
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)   ()
06:00 --- Boulby Underground Laboratory visit (optional) ---
PM
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30 Global project overview - Patrick Huber   ()
14:15 Neutrino applications utility overview - Andrew Conant (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)   ()
15:00 --- PM tea/coffee ---
15:25
Neutrino applications - Tomi Akindele (LLNL) (until 17:05) ()
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 - Dr 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 - Mr Caiser Bravo (Georgia Institute of Technology)   ()
16:45 Scalability of Gd-doped water-Cherenkov reactor-antineutrino IBD detectors for non-proliferation - Viacheslav Li (LLNL)   ()
12:25 --- Lunch ---
13:25
Neutrino detection & technology - Nathaniel Bowden (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) (until 15:15) ()
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 ---
15:40
Flux and spectrum prediction - Thiago Bezerra (University of Sussex) (until 17:42) ()
15:40 Geoneutrinos: messengers from the inaccessible Earth - Dr 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 ---
12:25 --- Lunch ---
13:25
Global projects - Sertac Ozturk (Istinye University) (until 14:45) ()
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 ---
15:10
Global projects - Carl Metelko (until 16:50) ()
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)   ()