Dinner Seminar: Detecting a Ghostly Particle
Join ANS EWS to learn about the search for dark matter, axions, and the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX).
Keynote: Dr. Todd Hossbach
When: Tuesday, March 19th, 2019 starting at 6:00 pm
Where: The REACH Museum, 1943 Columbia Park Trail, Richland WA 99352
Price: FREE for ANS-EWS members, 20$ for non members
Summary of the Professional Seminar
Neutrinos are one of the most ubiquitous fundamental particles in the universe yet some of their most basic properties (e.g. mass) remain unknown. This is largely due to their weakly interacting nature which drives detector complexity and size – tons to kilotons. In 2017, a small-scale (14 kg) detector was located near a high-intensity neutrino source and observed, for the first time, a new neutrino-interaction mechanism. This physics process, referred to as coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENNS), has now enabled a new class of compact neutrino detectors. My talk will review the history and basic properties of the neutrino, details behind the first observation of CENNS, and how neutrino detectors may be useful in nuclear safeguards.
The keynote speaker at this ANS-EWS dinner is Todd Hossbach.
Dr. Todd W. Hossbach is a Senior Research Physicist in the Radiation Detection and Nuclear Sciences group at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. For more than two decades, he has developed innovative radiation detector technologies for nuclear and particle physics, environmental monitoring, and national security applications. An expert in ultra-low-background methods, he has led or contributed to the development of many of the world’s most sensitive radiation detectors. Dr. Hossbach holds a B.S. in Physics from the University of Evansville as well as a M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of South Carolina.
Join ANS EWS to learn about the search for dark matter, axions, and the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX).
Keynote: Dr. Todd Hossbach
When: Tuesday, March 19th, 2019 starting at 6:00 pm
Where: The REACH Museum, 1943 Columbia Park Trail, Richland WA 99352
Price: FREE for ANS-EWS members, 20$ for non members
Summary of the Professional Seminar
Neutrinos are one of the most ubiquitous fundamental particles in the universe yet some of their most basic properties (e.g. mass) remain unknown. This is largely due to their weakly interacting nature which drives detector complexity and size – tons to kilotons. In 2017, a small-scale (14 kg) detector was located near a high-intensity neutrino source and observed, for the first time, a new neutrino-interaction mechanism. This physics process, referred to as coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENNS), has now enabled a new class of compact neutrino detectors. My talk will review the history and basic properties of the neutrino, details behind the first observation of CENNS, and how neutrino detectors may be useful in nuclear safeguards.
The keynote speaker at this ANS-EWS dinner is Todd Hossbach.
Dr. Todd W. Hossbach is a Senior Research Physicist in the Radiation Detection and Nuclear Sciences group at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. For more than two decades, he has developed innovative radiation detector technologies for nuclear and particle physics, environmental monitoring, and national security applications. An expert in ultra-low-background methods, he has led or contributed to the development of many of the world’s most sensitive radiation detectors. Dr. Hossbach holds a B.S. in Physics from the University of Evansville as well as a M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of South Carolina.