[Seminars] EFI Colloquium Monday October 4, 2021

[Ramona Echols]

EFI Colloquium
Monday October 4, 2021
Time: 3:30 PM
Location: MCP 201
Due to COVID restrictions seating is limited. Zoom Link will be sent out Monday morning with seminar reminder announcement. If you are not on the seminars mailing list please email me Ramona Echols at rechols06 at uchicago.edu<mailto:rechols06 at uchicago.edu> to be added to the list.


Bryan Ramson, Fermilab
Towards a New Generation of Bubble Chambers with Light Nuclear Targets

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 the degree of leptonic CP violation. State-of-the-art long-baseline oscillation experiments, like NOvA and T2K, are currently statistically limited, however uncertainty in neutrino-nucleus scattering represent important sources of systematic uncertainty and will fundamentally limit the precision of future experiments like DUNE and T2HK, if not addressed. Neutrino cross section uncertainties can be reduced through high statistics measurement of neutrino interactions on light nuclei, but creating a detector with an appropriate light target has proved elusive since the hydrogen bubble chambers designed in the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s. Modern chamber-based dark matter detectors like PICO/PICASSO/COUPP and the Scintillating Bubble Chamber have demonstrated that advances in sensor technology, computing, and automation would allow a modern bubble chamber to fully utilize the megawatt scale intensity LBNF beam through the use of high resolution and high speed cameras, novel triggering, and machine-learning based event reconstruction. This talk will review the broad physics program for the construction of a bubble chamber for use with neutrinos supplied by LBNF/DUNE beam.







Warmly,

Ramona Echols,  EFI/HEP Secretary IV
University of Chicago | Enrico Fermi Institute
933 E 56th Street, MCP 263
Chicago, IL 60637
T: 773-702-8113 | E: Rechols06 at uchicago.edu<mailto:Rechols06 at uchicago.edu>
Hours: 7:30AM – 4:00PM



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