Support for the 'Beyond Standard Model Physics with Driven Neutrino Sources' Workshop at MIT

该奖项将为“超越标准模型物理与驱动中微子源”研讨会提供支持。它将于2018年1月18日至19日在马萨诸塞州理工学院校园举行。本次研讨会的主要学术价值在于它有可能为超越标准模型（BSM）的实验找到一种新的方法。关于对社会的好处，本次研讨会将有助于发展多元化的STEM劳动力，并鼓励多学科项目。该计划包括邀请代表性不足的个人参加高比例的会谈。 此外，这笔资金将用于吸引研究生参加这项活动。关于多学科性质，讲习班将汇集核物理、粒子天文、实验粒子、理论粒子和加速器物理学界的成员。提供的资金用于支持与会者参加一个研讨会的旅费，该研讨会将使理论家和实验家能够使用驱动的同位素静止衰变源与现有的地下探测器配对，开发新的搜索超越标准模型（BSM）的签名。受驱动的同位素静止衰变源提供高强度、非常纯的中微子味源。 驱动源使用加速器来产生静止β衰变的同位素。 这使得能够使用来自寿命非常短的元素（例如锂-8）的助熔剂。 短寿命同位素具有相对高的通量能量端点，通常大于10 MeV。 目前还没有这样的来源，但如果有这样的来源，将改变这一领域。

This award will provide support for the "Beyond Standard Model Physics with Driven Neutrino Sources" workshop. It will be held January 18-19, 2018 on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus. The primary intellectual merit of the workshop is in its potential to find a new approach to Beyond Standard Model (BSM) experiments.With respect to benefits to society, this workshop will aid in developing a diverse STEM workforce and encouraging multidisciplinary projects. The plan involves inviting a high fraction of talks by under-represented individuals. Also, the funding will be used to attract graduate students to this event. With respect to the multidisciplinary nature, the workshop will bring together members of the nuclear-, particle-astro-, experimental-particle-, theoretical-particle- and accelerator-physics communities. Funds are provided to support travel for attendees to a workshop that will allow theorists and experimentalists to develop new searches for beyond-Standard-Model (BSM) signatures using driven isotope decay-at-rest sources paired with existing underground detectors. The driven isotope decay-at-rest sources offer high intensity, very pure neutrino flavor sources. A driven source uses an accelerator to produce an isotope which beta-decays-at-rest. This enables the use of fluxes from very short lifetime elements, such as lithium-8. The short lifetime isotopes have relatively high energy endpoints for the flux, typically greater than 10 MeV. No such source has yet been produced, but the availability of such a source would transform the field.