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

该奖项将为“驱动中微子源的超越标准模型物理”研讨会提供支持。它将于2018年1月18日至19日在麻省理工学院校园举行。该研讨会的主要学术价值在于它有潜力找到一种超越标准模型(BSM)实验的新方法。就对社会的好处而言，该研讨会将有助于培养多样化的STEM劳动力队伍，并鼓励多学科项目。该计划包括邀请代表人数不足的个人进行高比例的谈判。此外，这笔资金将用于吸引研究生参加这次活动。关于多学科性质，讲习班将汇集核物理学、粒子物理学、天文学物理学、实验物理学、理论物理学和加速器物理学的成员。为参加讲习班的与会者的旅费提供了经费，该讲习班将使理论家和实验者能够利用驱动的同位素静态衰变源与现有的地下探测器相结合，开发对超越标准模型(BSM)签名的新搜索。驱动的同位素静态衰变源提供高强度、非常纯的中微子味道源。驱动源使用加速器来产生一种可在静止状态下进行β衰变的同位素。这使得能够使用寿命非常短的元素的助熔剂，如锂-8。短寿命同位素具有相对较高的通量能量终点，通常大于10 MeV。目前还没有这样的来源，但这样的来源的可获得性将改变这一领域。

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.