Future Opportunities for Neutrino Science at the Spallation Neutron Source

26 Oct 2026, 08:00 → 27 Oct 2026, 17:00 America/New_York

S108 (ORNL B2040)

This will be a small, focused, informal workshop with theorists and experimentalists, with the aim of exploring future possibilities for fully leveraging investments at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Spallation Neutron Source, in both the short and long term.  Topics will include physics with neutrinos (CEvNS and inelastics) and searches for beyond-the-standard model physics.  The expected output is a science white paper.
 

Organizing committee:  Bryce Littlejohn (IIT), Jason Newby (ORNL), Kate Scholberg (Duke),  Yun-Tse Tsai (SLAC)

Monday, 26 October

09:00 → 09:10 Welcome

09:10 → 09:30 Goals of Workshop

Speaker: Kate Scholberg (Duke University)

09:30 → 09:50 New Particle Production at the SNS

Speaker: Matheus Hostert

09:50 → 10:10 Inelastic Nuclear Scattering: Probe of SM and BSM

Speaker: Bhaskar Dutta

10:10 → 10:30 Directional detection

Speaker: Louis Strigari (Texas A&M)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:20 Why Carbon as a Target at the SNS?

Speaker: Bryce Littlejohn (IIT)

11:20 → 11:40 MARLEY v2 release

Speakers: John Plows Komninos, Steven Gardiner (Fermilab)

11:40 → 12:00 Adding pre-equilibrium nuclear de-excitations to MARLEY

Speaker: Erin Visser

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 13:20 MARLEY development plans and outlook

Speaker: Steven Gardiner (Fermilab)

13:20 → 13:40 nue-Ar cross section measurements for supernova neutrinos and the measurements in LArTPCs for DUNE

Speaker: Yun-Tse Tsai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

13:40 → 14:00 TBD, inelastic

Speaker: Vishvas Pandey

14:00 → 14:20 COH-Ar 750 physics

Speaker: Joshua Queen (Duke University)

14:20 → 14:50 Coffee Break

14:50 → 17:50 Discussion

Tuesday, 27 October

09:30 → 10:00 Neutrino Alley

Speaker: Jason Newby (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

10:00 → 10:30 SNS future

Speaker: Vassiliy Morozov

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:30 COHERENT

Speaker: Kate Scholberg (Duke University)

11:30 → 12:00 EOS

Speaker: Prof. Gabriel Orebi Gann (UC Berkeley / LBNL)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 13:20 Imaging Nuclear Recoils for Directional CEvNS Measurements: R&D for GAr TPCs

Speaker: David Caratelli

13:20 → 13:40 Neutron Measurements at Neutrino Alley

Speaker: Xianyi Zhang (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

13:40 → 14:50 Discussion

14:50 → 15:20 Coffee Break

15:20 → 16:40 Discussion