Name: Conference on Neutrino and Nuclear Physics (CNNP2020) Arabella Hotel and Spa, South Africa, 24-28 February 2020
Start: 2020-02-23T16:00:00+02:00
End: 2020-02-28T22:30:00+02:00
Location: No location set

Conference on Neutrino and Nuclear Physics (CNNP2020) Arabella Hotel and Spa, South Africa, 24-28 February 2020

from Sunday, 23 February 2020 (16:00) to Friday, 28 February 2020 (22:30)

Monday, 17 February 2020
Tuesday, 18 February 2020
Wednesday, 19 February 2020
Thursday, 20 February 2020
Friday, 21 February 2020
Saturday, 22 February 2020
Sunday, 23 February 2020

16:00 Registration
Registration
16:00 - 18:00

18:30 Welcome Function
Welcome Function
18:30 - 20:30

Monday, 24 February 2020

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 08:30

08:30 Opening and Welcome by Dr Faïçal Azaiez - Director of iThemba LABS
Opening and Welcome by Dr Faïçal Azaiez - Director of iThemba LABS
08:30 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Recent results and perspectives on beta decay, double beta decay and lepton flavour violation - Kai Zuber (Technical University Dresden)

09:30 Nuclear processes and effective weak couplings - Jouni Suhonen (University of Jyväskylä)

10:00 The role of neutrino-nucleus reactions in supernova nucleosynthesis - Karlheinz Langanke (GSI Darmstadt)
10:30 Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

11:00 New results from the CUORE experiment - Giovanni Benato (LNGS-INFN)

11:30 Status of the SuperNEMO Experiment - Alessandro Minotti (LAPP - IN2P3)

12:00 The nEXO double-beta decay experiment - Giorgio Gratta (Stanford University)

12:30 MAJORANA, LEGEND, and the future of the search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in Ge-76 - David Hervas (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions

14:00 Searching for neutrinoless double beta of 100Mo: the CUPID-Mo experiment - Claudia Nones

14:00 Dark Matter searches at Belle II - Marcello Campajola (INFN-Napoli)

14:20 CUPID-0: a double-readout cryogenic detector for DBD - Lorenzo Pagnanini

14:20 EDELWEISS: searching for low-mass dark matter particles with germanium low-temperature detectors - Andrea Giuliani (CNRS/CSNSM)

14:40 Theoretical description of half-lives and electron spectra for higher order forbidden non-unique $\beta$ decays - Anil Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India)

14:40 DELight – Searching for light dark matter using superfluid helium - Christian Enss (Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University)

15:00 -

15:00 Enlightening the dark with XENON1T and looking forward to XENONnT - Christian Wittweg

15:20 ReD: a SiPM based LAr TPC for directionality studies - Luciano Pandola (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud)

15:20 -
15:40 Conference Photograph
Conference Photograph
15:40 - 15:50

15:50 Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
15:50 - 16:10
16:10
16:10 - 17:10
Contributions

16:10 Neutrinos from CCSN and the contribution of nuclear experiments - Francesca Gulminelli (LPC Caen and University of Caen, France)

16:40 HALO-1kT - Status and Design - Clarence Virtue (Laurentian University / SNOLAB)
18:00 SAINTS Poster Session
SAINTS Poster Session
18:00 - 19:00
Tuesday, 25 February 2020
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Contributions

08:30 Hunting Down Solar Neutrinos; an Extraordinary South African Particle Physics Safari. - Elias Sideras-Haddad (WITS UNIVERSITY)

09:00 First results from the neutrino mass experiment KATRIN - Christian Weinheimer (Institut für Kernphysik, University of Münster, Germany)

09:30 Precision mass measurements for nuclear and neutrino physics studies - Klaus Blaum (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany )

10:00 The Electron Capture in $^{163}$Ho experiment, ECHo - Christian Enss for the ECHo Collaboration (Kirchhoff Institute for Physics)
10:30 Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

11:00 Probing Dark Energy with the SKA in Africa - Roy Maartens (University of the Western Cape)

11:30 Dark Matter Direct Detection with Noble Liquids - Elena Aprile (Columbia University)

12:00 Annual modulation with DAMA/LIBRA-phase2 - Pierluigi Belli (INFN Roma Tor Vergata)

12:30 COSINE experiment - A WIMP dark matter search experiment with NaI(Tl) detectors - Yeongduk Kim (Institute for Basic Science)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Borexino solar neutrino data as a probe of non-standard neutrino properties - Alina Vishneva (JINR)

14:00 Sensitivity to the neutrinoless double beta decay of the DARWIN observatory - Patricia Sanchez-Lucas (University of Zurich)

14:20 The CROSS experiment: rejecting surface events with PSD - Hawraa Khalife (CSNSM-cnrs (orsay, France))

14:20 BBN, Underground Nuclear Astrophysics and Neutrinos - Carlo Gustavino (INFN-Roma)

14:40 127I(nu,e)127Xe reaction for solar neutrino spectrum clarification - Almaz Fazliakhmetov (MIPT)

14:40 Prospects for pair-transfer reactions at iThemba LABS - Philip Adsley (iThemba LABS/Wits)

15:00 Q-value measurements of rare weak beta decays with JYFLTRAP - Tommi Eronen (University of Jyväskylä)

15:00 EARTH, a meeting of neutrino- and nuclear- physics. - Frederick Smit (NRF iThemba LABS, Somerset West, South Africa)

15:20 NEON - Neutrino Elastic-scattering Observation with NaI(Tl) - Hyun Su Lee (Institute for Basic Science)

15:20 GERDA Highlights: Probing the Majorana Neutrino Mass at 100 meV - Luciano Pandola (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud)

15:40 Update on the HOLMES experiment to directly measure the neutrino mass - Marco Faverzani

15:40 COHERENT’s Neutrino-Induced Neutron Detectors - Samuel Hedges (Duke University)
16:00 Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30
16:30 - 17:30
Contributions

16:30 A high precision narrow-band neutrino beam: the ENUBET project - Andrea Longhin

17:00 LiquidO detector development - Jeff Hartnell
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Contributions

08:30 Roles of Neutrinos in Explosive Nucleosynthesis of Supernovae and Neutron-Star Mergers and Cosmic Evolution - Taka Kajino (Being University/NAOJ/University of Tokyo)

09:00 First-forbidden transitions in the reactor antineutrino ux and spectral anomalies - Leendert Hayen (North Carolina State University & Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory)

09:30 The CONUS Experiment and future potential of coherent neutrino scattering - Manfred Lindner (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)

10:00 What we can learn from CEvNS? (CEvNS - Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nucleus Scattering) - Yuri Efremenko (University of Tennessee, USA)
10:30 Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

11:00 Majorana neutrino mass generation, $0\nu\beta\beta$-decay and nuclear matrix elements - Fedor Simkovic (Comenius University)

11:30 Nuclear Matrix Elements of neutrinoless double beta decay calculated by Monte Carlo Shell Model for 76Ge and 136Xe - Takaharu Otsuka (Department of Physics, University of Tokyo)

12:00 Ab initio nuclear theory for beyond standard model physics - Jason Holt (TRIUMF)

12:30 Theory of Double-Beta Decay from First Principles - Jonathan Engel
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00

14:00 Excursion
Excursion
14:00 - 18:00
Thursday, 27 February 2020
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Contributions

08:30 Neutrinos in DUNE: long-baseline oscillations and non-beam physics - Ernesto Kemp (University of Campinas - UNICAMP)

09:00 Status of the T2K experiment - Yuichi Oyama (KEK/J-PARC)

09:30 Neutrino masses, mixings and electroweak nuclear physics - Eligio Lisi (INFN, Bari, Italy)
10:00 Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 12:30
Contributions

10:30 Benchmarking aspects of weak interaction physics via precision beta decay spectroscopy and two-nucleon transfer reactions - Smarajit Triambak (University of Western Cape)

11:00 Recent results on nuclear reactions of interest for neutrinoless double beta decay at INFN-LNS within the NUMEN project - Manuela Cavallaro (INFN - LNS)

11:30 Heavy ion charge exchange reactions as probes for nuclear β-decay - Horst Lenske (U. Giessen)

12:00 Status of the Mo-100 based AMoRE neutrinoless double beta decay experiment - Hong Joo Kim (Kyungpook National University)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 14:50
Contributions

13:30 Tests of three-neutrino paradigm by MINOS and MINOS+ Experiments - Karol Lang (University of Texas at Austin)

13:30 Limits on the spectral parameters of core-collapse neutrinos extracted from the Diffuse Supernovae Neutrino Flux (DSNvF). - Ernesto Kemp (University of Campinas - UNICAMP)

13:50 Deflection of cosmic neutrino by a stellar magnetic field - Mohamed Ismaiel (Helwan University)

13:50 Sterile neutrino searches with the ICARUS detector - Vincenzo Bellini (INFN/Catania)

14:10 Hints of non-unitarity in the present T2K and NO$\nu$A data - Ushak Rahaman (University of Johannesburg)

14:10 Detection of supernova neutrino signal with NOvA detectors - Andrey Sheshukov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

14:30 -

14:30 Status and prospects of the KM3NeT/ORCA - Salvador Miranda Palacios (University of Johannesburg)
14:50 Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
14:50 - 15:10
15:10
15:10 - 16:40
Contributions

15:10 Solar Models and Neutrino: where do we stand? - Aldo Serenelli (Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC))

15:40 Status and perspectives of the Hyper-Kamiokande project - Federico Nova (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

16:10 Results and future perspectives of Borexino - Alessio Caminata (INFN Genoa)
19:00 Conference Dinner with Welcome Address by Dr Clifford Nxomani - NRF Deputy CEO: National Research Infrastructure Platforms
Conference Dinner with Welcome Address by Dr Clifford Nxomani - NRF Deputy CEO: National Research Infrastructure Platforms
19:00 - 00:00
Friday, 28 February 2020
09:00
09:00 - 10:20
Contributions

09:00 The search for eV sterile neutrinos with the STEREO experiment - Helena Almazan (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik)

09:00 Decay Characteristics of the Scissors Mode of 0νββ-Decay Partner Isotopes* - Jörn Kleemann (AG Pietralla Institut für Kernphysik Technische Universität Darmstadt)

09:20 GT Nuclear resonances for 71Ga(nu,e)71Ge reaction investigation - Grigory Koroteev (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology)

09:20 Implications of new theoretical calculations on reactor antineutrino and gallium anomalies - Joel Kostensalo (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland)

09:40 Calculation of the neutrino-nuclear reaction cross-sections for 𝑮𝒆𝟕𝟔 nuclei and estimation of the solar neutrino background in the GERDA/LEGEND experiments. - Andrei Vyborov (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology)

09:40 Neutrino-induced reactions on $^{13}$C and $^{16}$O at supernova neutrino energies - Toshio Suzuki (Nihon University)

10:00 Axial Vector Form Factors of the Nucleon using lattice QCD - Rajan Gupta (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:00 -
10:20 Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
10:20 - 10:50
10:50
10:50 - 12:50
Contributions

10:50 Quenching of the spin-isospin response in nuclei - Peter von Neumann-Cosel (Institut fuer Kernphysik, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt)

11:20 Nuclear structure observables to shed light on neutrinoless double-beta decay - Javier Menendez (University of Barcelona)

11:50 Nuclear responses for double beta decay and muon capture - Lotta Jokiniemi (University of Jyväskylä)

12:20 Study of kinematic factors in double-beta decay - Sabin Stoica (International Centre for Advanced Training and Research in Physics)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00

14:00 Move to buses
Move to buses
14:00 - 14:15

14:15 Bus drive to iThemba LABS
Bus drive to iThemba LABS
14:15 - 15:30

15:30 General announcements and iThemba LABS safety talk
General announcements and iThemba LABS safety talk
15:30 - 15:50

15:50 iThemba LABS tour
iThemba LABS tour
15:50 - 17:50

18:00 iThemba LABS braai
iThemba LABS braai
18:00 - 20:00

20:00 Bus to Arabella
Bus to Arabella
20:00 - 21:30