Conveners
Plenary Talks
- Thomas Brunner (McGill University)
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- Christine Kraus (SNOLAB)
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- Szymon Manecki (SNOLAB)
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- Janina Hakenmueller (Marietta-Blau-Institute for particle physics)
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- Christopher Jillings (SNOLAB/Laurentian University)
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- Xiaoyue Li (TRIUMF)
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- Erica Caden (SNOLAB)
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- Ian Lawson (SNOLAB)
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- Danielle Speller (Johns Hopkins University)
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- Matthew Stukel (SNOLAB)
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- Mark Ward (Queen's University)
Neutrino oscillation offers a precise measurement of the lepton mixing (PMNS) matrix, including the CP violation phase, and sensitive search windows for new physics, such as new mass eigenstates (sterile neutrinos) and interactions beyond the standard model through matter oscillation effects. In this presentation, an overview of the neutrino oscillation experiments with a focus on the next...
T2K is a neutrino experiment that measures neutrino and antineutrino oscillations using a long baseline of 295km, from the neutrino beam source at JPARC in Japan, to the Super-Kamiokande detector in Kamioka. The ND280 near detector at JPARC measures the properties of the neutrino beam prior to oscillations, while SuperK measures the beam after oscillations.
In this talk, the most recent T2K...
The measurement of atmospheric neutrinos led to the discovery of neutrino oscillations 27 years ago. Since, they have developed into a valuable tool for precision measurements of neutrino properties and for searches of physics beyond the Standard Model. Their propagation through the Earth is strongly affected by matter effects, which makes them a perfect probe to pin down the neutrino mass...
The Hyper-Kamiokande (Hyper-K) is the third generation of underground water Cherenkov detectors in Japan. It will serve as: (1) the far detector for a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment for the upgraded, 1.3 MW power, J-PARC muon neutrino/antineutrino beam, and (2) a detector capable of observing proton decays, atmospheric neutrinos, and neutrinos from astronomical sources. The...
SNO+ is a liquid scintillator detector located 2 km below the Canadian Shield in the Vale Creighton mine. SNO+ has a rich neutrino program that includes the observation of solar neutrinos. Detection of anti-neutrinos from nearby reactors and the Earth have been also been reported upon and leveraged for a nascent supernova detection program. Preparations of the search for neutrinoless double...
Foundation Models (FMs), such as Large Language Models (LLMs), have dramatically transformed many aspects of modern workflows. FMs are machine learning (ML) models designed to learn flexible and general representations of data, which can then be adapted to solve a wide variety of tasks. Successful pre-training yields a model with a broad range of applications, and fine-tuning further optimizes...
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is an ambitious research program in neutrino physics under construction at Fermilab and the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF). Neutrino oscillations have led to the discovery that neutrinos have nonzero masses. The current model describes the oscillation phenomenon in terms of three mixing angles and one CP-violating phase. Within the...
I will give an overview on the sterile neutrino extension of the Standard Model, including motivations and terrestrial/cosmological probes.
The MicroBooNE experiment uses an 85-ton liquid argon time projection chamber to detect neutrinos from Fermilab's Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) and off-axis NuMI beam. Its physics program has three main goals. First, it explores beyond-standard-model (BSM) physics by searching for dark sector particles, investigating the MiniBooNE Low Energy Excess, and probing light eV-scale sterile neutrinos....
Core-collapse Supernovae (SN) are critical astronomical events where nearly an entire star's binding energy is emitted as neutrinos. RES-NOVA is pioneering a new approach to their detection, introducing cryogenic detectors constructed from ultra-pure archaeological Pb. The experiment exploits Coherent Elastic NeutrinoโNucleus Scattering (CEvNS), a channel with a cross-section approximately...
HALO, the Helium and Lead Observatory, has been operating at SNOLAB for thirteen years as a low-maintenance, high-livetime supernova neutrino detector. The HALO detector is principally composed 79 tonnes of lead from a decommissioned cosmic ray station, and is instrumented by 368 m of SNOโs ultra-low activity He-3 neutron counters. Supernova neutrinos interacting with the lead target may...
Non-standard interactions (NSI) are a compelling beyond-the-Standard-Model (BSM) framework for explaining the tensions between the T2K experiment and the $\operatorname{NO\nu A}$ experiment results. They can be formulated as general neutrinoโ or antineutrinoโflavour-changing scattering processes with fermions in matter. In oscillation phenomenology, NSI enter as additional matter-potential...
The XENONnT is an experiment designed to search for dark matter and other rare events. It has been conducted at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), Italy, using the time projection chamber with 8.5 tons of liquid xenon in total. Data taking started in July 2021 and stopped at the beginning of 2025, for the further upgrade of the detector.
Thanks to its ultra-low radioactive...
Reactor neutrinos have played a central role in shaping our understanding of neutrino properties, from their discovery in 1956 to todayโs precision measurements of oscillation parameters. This presentation will provide an overview of the field, beginning with landmark historical milestones and moving toward the current generation of precision experiments. I will highlight recent results on...
Planned precision neutrino oscillation experiments at accelerators have motivated a world-wide program to study interactions of GeV neutrinos on nuclei. I will review recent results and insights gained from these measurements and will discuss future prospects for this work.
Neutrino mass is a fundamental parameter of particle physics with important implications for cosmology and the Standard Model of particle physics. Despite of almost 100 years of experimental effort, its absolute scale remains unknown. Over that period, direct kinematic measurements, searches for neutrino-less double beta decay, and oscillation experiments have progressively put constraints on...
SuperNEMO is a double-beta-decay experiment, whose isotope-agnostic tracker-calorimeter architecture has the unique ability to track trajectories and energies of individual particles. If the hypothesised lepton-number-violating process, neutrinoless double-beta decay (0ฮฝฮฒฮฒ), is discovered, this full topological event reconstruction will be the only way to determine the mechanism. The detector...
The LEGEND collaboration aims to uncover the fundamental nature of neutrinos, specifically whether they are Majorana particles, by searching for neutrinoless double-beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay in $^{76}$Ge (Q$_{\beta\beta}$ = 2039 keV). In the currently operating phase, LEGEND-200, up to 200 kg of isotopically enriched high-purity germanium (HPGe) detectors are deployed bare in a liquid...
The search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0ฮฝฮฒฮฒ) is fundamental for investigating lepton-number violation, probing new physics beyond the Standard Model, and determining whether neutrinos are Majorana particles. CUORE, a cryogenic bolometric experiment at LNGS, studies 0ฮฝฮฒฮฒ in 130Te using 988 TeO2 crystals. It is a milestone of cryogenic detector arrays with a tonne-scale detector operated...
Neutrinoless double beta (0ฮฝฮฒฮฒ) decay offers a means to explore whether neutrinos are massive Majorana fermions, i.e., their own antiparticles, and thus a portal between matter and antimatter. The EXO-200 experiment operated between 2011 and 2018 at the WIPP underground site in New Mexico, USA, setting some of the strongest constraints on the existence of this decay in 136Xe. EXO-200 was a...
Double beta plus decay is a rare nuclear disintegration process. Difficulties in its measurement arise from suppressed decay probabilities, experimentally challenging decay signatures and low natural abundances of suitable candidate nuclei.
In this context, we present NuDoubt++, a new detector concept to overcome these challenges. It is based on the first-time combination of hybrid and...
The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) is one of three liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) neutrino detectors positioned along the axis of the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab, and serves as the near detector in the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) Program. The SBND detector completed commissioning and began taking neutrino data in the summer of 2024, and has finished its Run1...
The Forward Search Experiment (FASER) is a small experiment in the far-forward region 480 m upstream of the ATLAS interaction point at the LHC. It is designed to detect highly-energetic neutrinos as well as to search for feebly-interacting new particles predicted by extensions of the Standard Model. So far in Run 3 FASER has collected close to 200 fb$^{-1}$ of data and has yielded results from...
The proposed ARGO detector, under development for deployment at SNOLAB is a 300-tonne fiducial mass single-phase liquid-argon detector. The physics program is broad and includes many relevant neutrino studies including a precise measurement of Boron-8 solar neutrinos from charged-current neutrino absorption on Ar-40. ARGO will have excellent supernovae neutrino sensitivity as well. The...
Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS) offers a unique window into neutrino interactions at low energies, with implications for fundamental physics, astrophysics, nuclear nonproliferation, and other applied technologies. While the first observation by the COHERENT collaboration in 2017 and the recent detection by CONUS+ at a nuclear reactor marked significant milestones, this...
This talk will present the first event-by-event observation of Cherenkov radiation from sub-MeV electrons in a high-yield scintillator (liquid argon) detector, representing a milestone in low-energy particle detector development and one of the major goals of 2021 Snowmass Process. This work utilizes the Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills (CCM) experiment, a 10-ton liquid argon light collection detector...
Searches for astrophysical neutrino point-sources in IceCube have been preformed for over a decade. IceCube has two data streams; track-like and cascade-like events. Historically the track-like stream was utilized for these searches, producing observations of the first astrophysical neutrino sources such as NGC 1068 and TXS 0506+06. Cascade-like events were utilized to observe the Galactic...
ANTARES was an underwater neutrino telescope operating in the Mediterranean, structured as a photomultiplier array of 12 lines that instrumented a 0.01 km$^3$ volume of water. It recorded data for about 15 years until its decommissioning in 2022, transfering its legacy to KM3NeT. ANTARES was primarily designed for neutrino astronomy, reaching a sub-degree angular resolution and engaging in the...
KM3NeT is a neutrino observatory under construction in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea. Even in partial construction stage its detectors are already operational and collecting data. The observatory comprises two detectors: ARCA, located at 3500 m depth 80 km from Capo Passero, Sicily, and ORCA, located at 2500 m depth 40 km off the coast of Toulon, France. The two detectors are based on...
Theia is a proposed large-scale neutrino detector with a novel liquid scintillator target and fast, spectrally-sensitive photon detectors, leveraging both the direction resolution of the Cherenkov signal and the remarkable energy resolution and low detection threshold of a scintillator detector. The Theia physics program spans low-energy neutrino physics, such as solar, geo, supernova burst,...
