Research Interests for Kate Scholberg

Research Interests:

Prof. Scholberg's broad research interests include experimental elementary particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. Her main specific interests are in neutrino physics: she studies neutrino oscillations with the Super-Kamiokande experiment, a giant underground water Cherenkov detector located in a mine in the Japanese Alps. Super-K was constructed to search for proton decay and to study neutrinos from the sun, from cosmic ray collisions in the atmosphere, and from supernovae. Prof. Scholberg's primary involvement is with the atmospheric neutrino data analysis, which in 1998 yielded the first convincing evidence for neutrino oscillation (implying the existence of non-zero neutrino mass).

One of the most important questions that we may be able to answer with neutrino oscillation experiments over the next couple of decades is the question of CP (charge conjugation-parity) violation in neutrinos. It's now well known that processes involving quarks violate CP symmetry; it's suspected that the same is true for leptons (such as neutrinos), but leptonic CP violation is as yet unobserved. We hope that understanding of CP violation, along with knowledge of the other neutrino parameters, may lead to insight into the question of the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe. The long-term program of Super-K and the associated long baseline neutrino beam experiment aims to answer these questions.

The next steps in neutrino oscillation research involve artifical beams of neutrinos sent hundreds of kilometers from accelerator laboratories to underground detectors. The T2K ("Tokai to Kamioka") high-intensity beam experiment sends neutrinos 300 km from an accelerator at the J-PARC facility in Japan to Super-K, and is currently exploring unknown oscillation parameters. LBNE (the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment) is a planned next-generation experiment designed to beam neutrinos from Fermilab to a large detector at a new underground facility in the United States.

Prof. Scholberg also coordinates SNEWS, the SuperNova Early Warning System, an inter-experiment collaboration of detectors with Galactic supernova sensitivity. Neutrinos from a core collapse will precede the photon signal by hours; therefore coincident observation of a burst in several neutrino detectors will be a robust early warning of a visible supernova. The goals of SNEWS are to provide the astronomical community with a prompt alert of a Galactic core collapse, as well as to optimize global sensitivity to supernova neutrino physics.

Recent Papers, Books and Preprints
  1. Abe, K; Abe, S; Bronner, C; Hayato, Y; Hiraide, K; Hosokawa, K; Ieki, K; Ikeda, M; Kameda, J; Kanemura, Y; Kaneshima, R; Kashiwagi, Y; Kataoka, Y; Miki, S; Mine, S; Miura, M; Moriyama, S; Nakahata, M; Nakano, Y; Nakayama, S; Noguchi, Y; Sato, K; Sekiya, H; Shiba, H; Shimizu, K; Shiozawa, M; Sonoda, Y; Suzuki, Y; Takeda, A; Takemoto, Y; Tanaka, H; Yano, T; Han, S; Kajita, T; Okumura, K; Tashiro, T; Tomiya, T; Wang, X; Yoshida, S; Fernandez, P; Labarga, L; Ospina, N; Zaldivar, B; Pointon, BW; Kearns, E; Mirabito, J; Raaf, JL; Wan, L; Wester, T; Bian, J; Griskevich, NJ; Smy, MB; Sobel, HW; Takhistov, V; Yankelevich, A; Hill, J; Jang, MC; Lee, SH; Moon, DH; Park, RG; Bodur, B; Scholberg, K; Walter, CW; Beauchêne, A; Drapier, O; Giampaolo, A; Mueller, TA; Santos, AD; Paganini, P; Quilain, B; Rogly, R; Nakamura, T; Jang, JS; Machado, LN; Learned, JG; Choi, K; Iovine, N; Cao, S; Anthony, LHV; Martin, D; Prouse, NW; Scott, M; Uchida, Y; Berardi, V; Calabria, NF; Catanesi, MG; Radicioni, E; Langella, A; De Rosa, G; Collazuol, G; Feltre, M; Iacob, F; Mattiazzi, M; Ludovici, L; Gonin, M; Périssé, L; Pronost, G; Fujisawa, C; Horiuchi, S; Kobayashi, M; Liu, YM; Maekawa, Y; Nishimura, Y; Okazaki, R; Akutsu, R; Friend, M; Hasegawa, T; Ishida, T; Kobayashi, T; Jakkapu, M; Matsubara, T; Nakadaira, T; Nakamura, K; Oyama, Y; Portocarrero Yrey, A; Sakashita, K; Sekiguchi, T; Tsukamoto, T; Bhuiyan, N; Burton, GT; Di Lodovico, F; Gao, J; Goldsack, A; Katori, T; Migenda, J; Ramsden, RM; Xie, Z; Zsoldos, S; Suzuki, AT; Takagi, Y; Takeuchi, Y; Zhong, H; Feng, J; Feng, L; Hu, JR; Hu, Z; Kawaue, M; Kikawa, T; Mori, M; Nakaya, T; Wendell, RA; Yasutome, K; Jenkins, SJ; McCauley, N; Mehta, P; Tarrant, A; Wilking, MJ; Fukuda, Y; Itow, Y; Menjo, H; Ninomiya, K; Yoshioka, Y; Lagoda, J; Mandal, M; Mijakowski, P; Prabhu, YS; Zalipska, J; Jia, M; Jiang, J; Shi, W; Yanagisawa, C; Harada, M; Hino, Y; Ishino, H; Koshio, Y; Nakanishi, F; Sakai, S; Tada, T; Tano, T; Ishizuka, T; Barr, G; Barrow, D; Cook, L; Samani, S; Wark, D; Holin, A; Nova, F; Jung, S; Yang, BS; Yang, JY; Yoo, J; Fannon, JEP; Kneale, L; Malek, M; McElwee, JM; Thiesse, MD; Thompson, LF; Wilson, ST; Okazawa, H; Lakshmi, SM; Kim, SB; Kwon, E; Seo, JW; Yu, I; Ichikawa, AK; Nakamura, KD; Tairafune, S; Nishijima, K; Eguchi, A; Nakagiri, K; Nakajima, Y; Shima, S; Taniuchi, N; Watanabe, E; Yokoyama, M; de Perio, P; Fujita, S; Jesús-Valls, C; Martens, K; Tsui, KM; Vagins, MR; Xia, J; Izumiyama, S; Kuze, M; Matsumoto, R; Terada, K; Asaka, R; Ishitsuka, M; Ito, H; Ommura, Y; Shigeta, N; Shinoki, M; Yamauchi, K; Yoshida, T; Gaur, R; Gousy-Leblanc, V; Hartz, M; Konaka, A; Li, X; Chen, S; Xu, BD; Wu, Y; Zhang, AQ; Zhang, B; Posiadala-Zezula, M; Boyd, SB; Edwards, R; Hadley, D; Nicholson, M; O'Flaherty, M; Richards, B; Ali, A; Jamieson, B; Amanai, S; Marti, L; Minamino, A; Shibayama, R; Shimamura, R; Suzuki, S; Akhlaq, N; Alarakia-Charles, H; Alj Hakim, YI; Alonso Monsalve, S; Andreopoulos, C; Anthony, L; Antonova, M; Aoki, S; Apte, KA; Arai, T; Arihara, T; Arimoto, S; Asada, Y; Ashida, Y; Atkin, ET; Babu, N; Barbi, M; Barker, GJ; Bates, P; Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, M; Berns, L; Bhadra, S; Blanchet, A; Blondel, A; Bolognesi, S; Bordoni, S; Bravar, A; Bubak, A; Buizza Avanzini, M; Caballero, JA; Carabadjac, D; Carter, AJ; Cartwright, SL; Casado, MP; Cervera, A; Chakrani, J; Chalumeau, A; Cherdack, D; Chong, PS; Chvirova, A; Cicerchia, M; Coleman, J; Cormier, F; Cudd, A; D'ago, D; Dalmazzone, C; Daret, T; Dasgupta, P; Davis, C; Davydov, YI; De Roeck, A; Dealtry, T; Delogu, CC; Densham, C; Dergacheva, A; Dharmapal, R; Diaz Lopez, G; Dolan, S; Douqa, D; Doyle, TA; Duffy, KE; Dumarchez, J; Dunne, P; Dygnarowicz, K; Elias, J; Emery-Schrenk, S; Erofeev, G; Ershova, A; Eurin, G; Fedorova, D; Fedotov, S; Ferlewicz, D; Finch, AJ; Fiorentini Aguirre, GA; Fiorillo, G; Fitton, MD; Franco Patiño, JM; Fujii, Y; Furui, Y; Giannessi, L; Giganti, C; Glagolev, V; González Rosa, J; Goodman, EAG; Gorin, A; Gorshanov, K; Grassi, M; Guigue, M; Hadley, DR; Haigh, JT; Harris, DA; Hassani, S; Hastings, NC; Heitkamp, I; Henaff, D; Hogan, M; Holeczek, J; Holvey, T; Hong Van, NT; Honjo, T; Hu, J; Izmaylov, A; Jiang, JJ; Ji, JY; Jonsson, P; Joshi, S; Jung, CK; Kabirnezhad, M; Kaboth, AC; Kakuno, H; Karpova, S; Kasetti, SP; Kasturi, VS; Kawamura, Y; Khabibullin, M; Khotjantsev, A; King, S; Kiseeva, V; Kisiel, J; Kobayashi, H; Koch, L; Kodama, S; Kolupanova, M; Kormos, LL; Koto, T; Kowalik, K; Kudenko, Y; Kudo, Y; Kuribayashi, S; Kurjata, R; Kurochka, V; Kutter, T; La Commara, M; Lachat, M; Lachner, K; Lamers James, M; Laporte, J-F; Last, D; Latham, N; Laveder, M; Lavitola, L; Lawe, M; Lee, Y; Leon Silverio, D; Levorato, S; Lewis, S; Lin, C; Litchfield, RP; Liu, SL; Li, W; Longhin, A; Long, KR; Lopez Moreno, A; Lu, X; Lux, T; Magaletti, L; Mahn, K; Mahtani, KK; Manly, S; Marino, AD; Marti-Magro, L; Martin, DGR; Martini, M; Martin, JF; Maruyama, T; Matveev, V; Mauger, C; Mavrokoridis, K; Mazzucato, E; McFarland, KS; McGrew, C; McKean, J; Mefodiev, A; Megias, GD; Mellet, L; Metelko, C; Mezzetto, M; Miller, E; Mineev, O; Molina Bueno, L; Morrison, P; Munford, D; Muñoz, A; Munteanu, L; Nagai, K; Nagai, Y; Nakamura, A; Nakayoshi, K; Naseby, CER; Ngoc, TV; Nguyen, DT; Nguyen, VQ; Niewczas, K; Nishimori, S; Nosek, T; Novella, P; Nugent, JC; O'Keeffe, HM; O'Sullivan, L; Odagawa, T; Okinaga, W; Okusawa, T; Onda, N; Osu, L; Palladino, V; Paolone, V; Pari, M; Parlone, J; Pasternak, J; Payne, D; Penn, GC; Pershey, D; Pfaff, M; Pickering, L; Pintaudi, G; Pistillo, C; Popov, B; Portocarrero Yrey, AJ; Porwit, K; Prasad, H; Pupilli, F; Quyen, PT; Radermacher, T; Radics, B; Ramirez, MA; Ratoff, PN; Reh, M; Riccio, C; Rondio, E; Roth, S; Roy, N; Rubbia, A; Russo, L; Rychter, A; Saenz, W; Sánchez, F; Sato, Y; Schefke, T; Schloesser, CM; Seiya, Y; Sgalaberna, D; Shaikhiev, A; Shiraishi, Y; Shvartsman, A; Skrobova, N; Skwarczynski, K; Smyczek, D; Smy, M; Sobczyk, JT; Sobel, H; Soler, FJP, First Joint Oscillation Analysis of Super-Kamiokande Atmospheric and T2K Accelerator Neutrino Data., Physical review letters, vol. 134 no. 1 (January, 2025), pp. 011801 [doi][abs] .
  2. Wang, MHLS; Khan, M; Mitrevski, J; Hawks, B; Junk, T; Yang, T; Ngadiuba, J; Ding, P; Scholberg, K; Hakenmueller, J; Lian, VTB; Karagiorgi, G; Claire, J; Ge, G; Malige, A; Cai, T; Weinstein, A; Ghosh, A, Machine Learning-Based Extreme Data Reduction for Prompt Supernova Pointing at DUNE, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 72 no. 3 (January, 2025), pp. 678-683 [doi][abs] .
  3. Acero, MA; Argüelles, CA; Hostert, M; Kalra, D; Karagiorgi, G; Kelly, KJ; Littlejohn, BR; Machado, P; Pettus, W; Toups, M; Ross-Lonergan, M; Sousa, A; Surukuchi, PT; Wong, YYY; Abdallah, W; Abdullahi, AM; Akutsu, R; Alvarez-Ruso, L; Alves, DSM; Aurisano, A; Balantekin, AB; Berryman, JM; Bertólez-Martínez, T; Brunner, J; Blennow, M; Bolognesi, S; Borusinski, M; Chen, TY; Cianci, D; Collin, G; Conrad, JM; Crow, B; Denton, PB; Duvall, M; Fernández-Martinez, E; Fong, CS; Foppiani, N; Forero, DV; Friend, M; García-Soto, A; Giganti, C; Giunti, C; Gandhi, R; Ghosh, M; Hardin, J; Heeger, KM; Ishitsuka, M; Izmaylov, A; Jones, BJP; Jordan, JR; Kamp, NW; Katori, T; Kim, SB; Koerner, LW; Lamoureux, M; Lasserre, T; Leach, KG; Learned, J; Li, YF; Link, JM; Louis, WC; Mahn, K; Meyers, PD; Maricic, J; Markoff, D; Maruyama, T; Mertens, S; Minakata, H; Mocioiu, I; Mooney, M; Moulai, MH; Nunokawa, H; Ochoa-Ricoux, JP; Oh, YM; Ohlsson, T; Päs, H; Pershey, D; Robertson, RGH; Rosauro-Alcaraz, S; Rott, C; Roy, S; Salvado, J; Scott, M; Seo, SH; Shaevitz, MH; Smiley, M; Spitz, J; Stachurska, J; Tammaro, M; Thakore, T; Ternes, CA; Thompson, A; Tseng, S; Vogelaar, B; Weiss, T; Wendell, RA; Wilson, RJ; Wright, T; Xin, Z; Yang, BS, White paper on light sterile neutrino searches and related phenomenology, Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, vol. 51 no. 12 (December, 2024) [doi].
  4. Abed Abud, A; Abi, B; Acciarri, R; Acero, MA; Adames, MR; Adamov, G; Adamowski, M; Adams, D; Adinolfi, M; Adriano, C; Aduszkiewicz, A; Aguilar, J; Akbar, F; Allison, K; Alonso Monsalve, S; Alrashed, M; Alton, A; Alvarez, R; Alves, T; Amar, H; Amedo, P; Anderson, J; Andreopoulos, C; Andreotti, M; Andrews, MP; Andrianala, F; Andringa, S; Anfimov, N; Ankowski, A; Antic, D; Antoniassi, M; Antonova, M; Antoshkin, A; Aranda-Fernandez, A; Arellano, L; Arrieta Diaz, E; Arroyave, MA; Asaadi, J; Ashkenazi, A; Asner, DM; Asquith, L; Atkin, E; Auguste, D; Aurisano, A; Aushev, V; Autiero, D; Azam, MB; Azfar, F; Back, A; Back, H; Back, JJ; Bagaturia, I; Bagby, L; Balashov, N; Balasubramanian, S; Baldi, P; Baldini, W; Baldonedo, J; Baller, B; Bambah, B; Banerjee, R; Barao, F; Barbu, D; Barenboim, G; Barham Alzás, P; Barker, GJ; Barkhouse, W; Barr, G; Barranco Monarca, J; Barros, A; Barros, N; Barrow, D; Barrow, JL; Basharina-Freshville, A; Bashyal, A; Basque, V; Batchelor, C; Bathe-Peters, L; Battat, JBR; Battisti, F; Bay, F; Bazetto, MCQ; Bazo Alba, JLL; Beacom, JF; Bechetoille, E; Behera, B; Belchior, E; Bell, G; Bellantoni, L; Bellettini, G; Bellini, V; Beltramello, O; Benekos, N; Benitez Montiel, C; Benjamin, D; Bento Neves, F; Berger, J; Berkman, S; Bernal, J; Bernardini, P, DUNE Phase II: scientific opportunities, detector concepts, technological solutions, Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 19 no. 12 (December, 2024), pp. P12005-P12005, IOP Publishing [doi][abs] .
  5. Taniuchi, N; Abe, K; Abe, S; Asaoka, Y; Bronner, C; Harada, M; Hayato, Y; Hiraide, K; Hosokawa, K; Ieki, K; Ikeda, M; Kameda, J; Kanemura, Y; Kaneshima, R; Kashiwagi, Y; Kataoka, Y; Miki, S; Mine, S; Miura, M; Moriyama, S; Nakahata, M; Nakayama, S; Noguchi, Y; Pronost, G; Okamoto, K; Sato, K; Sekiya, H; Shiba, H; Shimizu, K; Shiozawa, M; Sonoda, Y; Suzuki, Y; Takeda, A; Takemoto, Y; Takenaka, A; Tanaka, H; Watanabe, S; Yano, T; Kajita, T; Okumura, K; Tashiro, T; Tomiya, T; Wang, X; Yoshida, S; Megias, GD; Fernandez, P; Labarga, L; Ospina, N; Zaldivar, B; Pointon, BW; Kearns, E; Mirabito, J; Raaf, JL; Wan, L; Wester, T; Bian, J; Griskevich, NJ; Kropp, WR; Locke, S; Smy, MB; Sobel, HW; Takhistov, V; Yankelevich, A; Hill, J; Jang, MC; Kim, JY; Lee, SH; Lim, IT; Moon, DH; Park, RG; Yang, BS; Bodur, B; Scholberg, K; Walter, CW; Beauchêne, A; Bernard, L; Coffani, A; Drapier, O; El Hedri, S; Giampaolo, A; Mueller, TA; Santos, AD; Paganini, P; Rogly, R; Nakamura, T; Jang, JS; Machado, LN; Learned, JG; Choi, K; Iovine, N; Cao, S; Anthony, LHV; Martin, D; Prouse, NW; Scott, M; Sztuc, AA; Uchida, Y; Berardi, V; Calabria, NF; Catanesi, MG, Search for proton decay via p →e+η and p →μ+η with a 0.37 Mton-year exposure of Super-Kamiokande, Physical Review D, vol. 110 no. 11 (December, 2024), American Physical Society (APS) [doi][abs] .

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