Conference on Science at the Sanford Underground Research Facility

Session

Proton Decay - Parallel

May 15, 2024, 2:00 PM

CB 204 W (SD Mines)

Conveners

Proton Decay - Parallel

• David Martinez Caicedo (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)

97. First demonstration for a LArTPC-based search for intranuclear neutron-antineutron transitions and annihilation in 40Ar using the MicroBooNE detector

Dr Daisy Kalra (Columbia University)

5/15/24, 2:00 PM

Proton Decay

Oral

Massive and deep underground detectors such as the future Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will offer a great opportunity to search for rare, beyond-the-Standard-Model (BSM) physics signals including baryon number violating (BNV) processes. One such BNV process is nucleus-bound neutron-antineutron transition, followed by antineutron annihilation on a nearby neutron/proton that...

24. Baryon Number Violation Searches Using the DUNE Far Detector

Josh Barrow (UMN, Fermilab visitor)

5/15/24, 2:30 PM

Proton Decay

Oral

The DUNE experiment will have a rich set of physics topics, including neutrino oscillation and Beyond Standard Model (BSM) physics. Of great importance to the latter of these goals in baryon number violation (BNV), especially including proton decay (PDK), neutron-antineutron transformations, and dinucleon decay. All suffer from atmospheric neutrino backgrounds, which at times mimic these rare...

102. Nucleon Decay Searches in JUNO

Cailian Jiang (Nanjing University)

5/15/24, 3:00 PM

Proton Decay

Oral

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a 20 kton multipurpose underground liquid scintillator (LS) detector currently under construction in China, with a 650-meter rock overburden (1800 m.w.e.) for shielding against cosmic rays. One of the capabilities of JUNO detector is to search for the baryon number violation processes, which would be a crucial step towards testing the...