Future Opportunities for Neutrino Science at the Spallation Neutron Source

Name: Future Opportunities for Neutrino Science at the Spallation Neutron Source
Start: 2026-10-26T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-10-27T17:00:00-04:00
Location: ORNL

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

ORNL

Description

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)

Registration

Future Opportunities for Neutrinos at the SNS Workshop Registration

Participants

Ana Zaalishvili
Bhaskar Dutta
Bryce Littlejohn
David Caratelli
Erin Visser
Francesca Dordei
Gabriel Orebi Gann
Hannah McLaurin
Isabel Colon Rivera
Jason Newby
Joshua Queen
Kate Scholberg
Komninos John Plows
Louis Strigari
Matheus Hostert
Matteo Cadeddu
Nathaniel Bowden
Nicholas Meredith
Panagiotis Englezos
Patrick Huber
Phil Barbeau
Steven Gardiner
Vishvas Pandey
Xianyi Zhang
Yun-Tse Tsai
Yuri Efremenko
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Monday, 26 October
- Mon, 26 Oct
- Tue, 27 Oct
- 09:00 → 09:10
  
  Welcome 10m
- 09:10 → 09:30
  
  Goals of Workshop 20m
  
  Speaker: Kate Scholberg (Duke University)
- 09:30 → 09:50
  
  New Particle Production at the SNS 20m
  
  Speaker: Matheus Hostert
- 09:50 → 10:10
  
  Inelastic Nuclear Scattering: Probe of SM and BSM 20m
  
  Speaker: Bhaskar Dutta
- 10:10 → 10:30
  
  Directional detection 20m
  
  Speaker: Louis Strigari (Texas A&M)
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 11:00 → 11:20
  
  Why Carbon as a Target at the SNS? 20m
  
  Speaker: Bryce Littlejohn (IIT)
- 11:20 → 11:40
  
  MARLEY v2 release 20m
  
  Speakers: John Plows Komninos, Steven Gardiner (Fermilab)
- 11:40 → 12:00
  
  Adding pre-equilibrium nuclear de-excitations to MARLEY 20m
  
  Speaker: Erin Visser
- 12:00 → 13:00
  
  Lunch 1h
- 13:00 → 13:20
  
  MARLEY development plans and outlook 20m
  
  Speaker: Steven Gardiner (Fermilab)
- 13:20 → 13:40
  
  nue-Ar cross section measurements for supernova neutrinos and the measurements in LArTPCs for DUNE 20m
  
  Speaker: Yun-Tse Tsai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
- 13:40 → 14:00
  
  COH-Ar 750 physics 20m
  
  Speaker: Joshua Queen (Duke University)
- 14:00 → 14:30
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 14:30 → 17:30
  
  Discussion 3h
Tuesday, 27 October
- Mon, 26 Oct
- Tue, 27 Oct
- 09:00 → 09:20
  
  Neutrino Alley 20m
  
  Speaker: Jason Newby (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
- 09:20 → 10:00
  
  SNS future 40m
- 10:00 → 10:30
  
  COHERENT 30m
  
  Speaker: Kate Scholberg (Duke University)
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  EOS 30m
  
  Speaker: Prof. Gabriel Orebi Gann (UC Berkeley / LBNL)
- 11:30 → 11:50
  
  Imaging Nuclear Recoils for Directional CEvNS Measurements: R&D for GAr TPCs 20m
  
  Speaker: David Caratelli
- 11:50 → 12:10
  
  Neutron Measurements at Neutrino Alley 20m
  
  Speaker: Xianyi Zhang (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- 12:10 → 13:10
  
  Lunch 1h
- 13:10 → 14:40
  
  Discussion 1h 30m
- 14:40 → 15:10
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 15:10 → 16:30
  
  Discussion 1h 20m