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Neutrino Geoscience 2015 Conference
The sixth Neutrino Geoscience international conference will be held in Paris, France, from Monday June 15 (morning) to Wednesday June 17 (afternoon) 2015, at the IPGP.
Purpose of the workshop
Workshop Site
Accommodation & workshop dinner
Important Dates and Deadlines
Committees
Previous conferences
Preliminary Conference Schedule
Participants list
First Circular
If you intend to participate in the conference, please fill the form available here
(A limited number of slots are available for talks but there will a poster hall)
Purpose of the workshop
Anti-neutrinos emitted from radioactive isotopes inside the Earth, geo-neutrinos, bring unique and direct information about the Earth’s interior and thermal dynamics. ”Neutrino Geoscience” has provided a new tool to study the Earth, and furthered connections between geophysics, geochemistry and neutrino physics communities. The purpose of this conference is to share the latest achievements and efforts and foster an understanding of the shared science interests of both communities.
To stay as lively as in the previous editions, we would like to limit the number of invited participants to 80 persons maximum. We kindly ask you to register at your earliest convenience.
Workshop Site
The Neutrino Geoscience 2015 conference will be held at Institut de physique du globe de Paris. To get some details on how to reach the institute, see here (Îlot Cuvier).
Accommodation & workshop dinner
You can find here a list of nearby hotels. Please contact directly any of the hotels, and be aware that hotel rooms may be difficult to find if not booked in advance.
The Workshop dinner will be held on the Tuesday 16 evening downtown Paris. We will let you know further details later. Participants will have to pay for their own dinner.
Important Dates and Deadlines
Deadline for registration: May 15 2015
Committees
International Advisory Committee:
- Bill McDonnough (University of Maryland)
- Hiroko Watanabe (Tohoku University)
- Mark Chen (Queens University)
- Fabio Mantovani (INFN and University of Ferrara)
- Livia Ludhova (INFN)
- Stephen Dye (Hawaii Pacific University)
- Claude Jaupart (IPGP)
- Thierry Lasserre (CEA Saclay & APC)
Local Organizing Committee:
- Claude Jaupart (IPGP)
- Thierry Lasserre (CEA Saclay & APC)
- Romain Roncin (APC)
- Alessandra Tonazzo (APC)
- Stephen Dye (Hawaii Pacific University)
Previous conferences:
- Neutrino Geoscience 2005: http://www.phys.hawaii.edu/~sdye/hnsc.html
- Neutrino Geoscience 2007: http://www.phys.hawaii.edu/~sdye/hano.html
- Neutrino Geoscience 2008: http://geonu.snolab.ca/
- Neutrino Geoscience 2010: http://geoscience.lngs.infn.it/
- Neutrino Geoscience 2013: http://www.awa.tohoku.ac.jp/geoscience2013/
- Neutrino Geoscience 2015 will be the tenth anniversary of the conference
Preliminary Conference Schedule
Monday June 15
Session on Neutrinos & Geosciences
| 10:00 | Welcome | Claude Jaupart (IPGP, France) & Th. Lasserre (CEA, France) |
| 10:15 | Introduction to Geosciences for Particle physicits: an overview | James Badro (IPGP, France) |
| 10:45 | Introduction to Neutrinos for Geoscientists: an overview | Thierry Lasserre (CEA, Irfu SPP & APC) |
| 11:15 | What can we learn by combining neutrinos physics and geosciences? | Bill Mc Donough (University of Maryland, USA) |
| 11:45 | End |
Session on Current Status of Neutrino physics and Geosciences
| 13:45 | Models for the composition of the Earth | Albrecht Hofmann (Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany) |
| 14:10 | Collisional Erosional model for the Earth | Paolo Sossi, (IPGP, France) |
| 14:35 | Borexino Geoneutrino Results | Oleg Smirnov (JINR, Russia) |
| 15:05 | Coffee break | |
| 15:35 | KamLAND Geoneutrino Results | Tadao Mitsui (Research Center for Neutrino Science, Tohoku University, Japan) |
| 16:00 | Local refined Earth model for KamLAND geo-neutrino analysis | Nozomu Takeuchi (ERI, University of Tokyo, Japan) |
| 16:20 | Hano-Hano | Steve Dye (Hawaii, USA) |
| 16:45 | K-40 geoneutrinos | Mark Chen (Qeens University, Canada) |
| 17:10 | Towards Neutrino Geology | Andrzej Drukier |
| 17:30 | End |
Tuesday June 16
Geosciences Technical session
| 09:30 | Nature and origin of what's in the deep mantle | Stéphane Labrosse (ENS Lyon, France) |
| 09:55 | Core and mantle heat flux | Henri-Claude Nataf (ISTerre, CNRS, France) |
| 10:20 | Coffee break |
Geoneutrinos Fluxes & Spectra
| 10:45 | Reactor Neutrino Flux and Spectra | Patrick Huber (Virginia Tech, USA) |
| 11:10 | World-map of reactor neutrino flux | Marica Baldoncini (University of Ferrara, Italy) |
| 11:35 | Variances and covariances of geoneutrino signals | Eligio Lisi (INFN, Italy) |
| 12:00 | End |
Geosciences Technical Session
| 13:30 | What's in the core? | Fréderic Moynier (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France) |
| 13:55 | Conductivity and energetics of the core | Dario Alfe (UCL, UK) |
| 14:20 | Accretion, Heat Production and Noble Gases | Alex Halliday (Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division, UK) |
| 14:45 | Coffee break |
Future Geoneutrino Detections session
| 15:10 | SNO+ | Joachim Rose (University of Liverpool, UK) |
| 15:35 | Local refined Earth model for SNO+ geo-neutrino analysis | Jean Claude Mareschal (GEOTOP, Univ of Quebec, Montreal) |
| 15:55 | Local refined Earth model for JUNO geo-neutrino analysis | Virginia Strati (University of Ferrara - INFN, Italy) |
| 16:15 | JUNO | Livia Ludhova (INFN, Italy) |
| 16:40 | End | |
| 18:00 | English lecture at the Planetarium of the Palais de la découverte | Participants must enter in the Palais de la découverte before 18:00 (doors closing) |
| 20:45 | Conference dinner | Downtown Paris |
Wednesday June 17
Session on Neutrino Directionality and Tomorgaphy
| 09:30 | Neutrino Directionality Latest Results | Hector Gomez (APC Laboratory, France) |
| 09:55 | Neutrino Directionality with Large Liquid Scintillator Detector | Vincent Fischer (CEA, France) |
| 10:20 | Neutrino Oscillation Tomorgaphy | Carsten Rott (SKKU, South Korea) |
| 10:45 | Coffee break |
Geosciences Technical Session
| 11:15 | Uranium and Thorium Contents of the Continental Crust: a Global Analysis | Claude Jaupart (IPGP) |
| 11:40 | Seismological reference models of the Mantle | Arwen Deuss, (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) |
| 12:05 | Magmas in the deep Mantle | Razvan Caracas (CNRS, ENS Lyon, France) |
| 12:30 | Metal-silicate partitioning of K, U, and Th and heat sources in the planetary core | Eiji Othani (Tohoku University, Japan) |
| 12:55 | End |
Concluding Session
| 14:00 | Geoneutrino detection techniques and background: the challenges | Sandra Zavatarelli (INFN, Italy) |
| 14:30 | Geo-neutrinos: combined KamLAND and Borexino analysis, and future | Stephen Dye (Hawaii Pacific University) |
| 15:00 | Concluding remarks & discussion | Bill Mc Donough, Claude Jaupart, Thierry Lasserre |
| 16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 17:30 | End of the conference |
Participants list
You can find the list of participants here.
Claude Jaupart, jaupart@ipgp.fr
Thierry Lasserre, Thierry.lasserre@cea.fr