Luis A. Labarga
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Departament of Theoretical Physics,
Center for Advanced Research in Fundamental Physics, CIAFF
University Autonoma Madrid,
28049 Madrid (Spain)
luis.labarga@uam.es
Second gadolinium loading to Super-Kamiokande; arXiv:2403.07796; The Super-Kamiokande Coll., March 2024
UAM-neutrino Group at "Science for Industry 2024", S4I2024; Madrid, January 2024
Gadolinium concentration measurement with an atomic absorption spectrophotometer; Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. 2024 033H01; Ll. Marti-Magro, L. Labarga, February 2024
The Hyper-Kamiokande Project, The Hyper-Kamiokande Far Detector; talks given at the "Hyper-Kamiokande Physics Workshop at DIPC", San Sebastian (Spain), June 2023
Search for astrophysical electron antineutrinos in Super-Kamiokande with 0.01wt% gadolinium loaded water; The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 951:L27 (8pp), 2023 July 10; The Super-Kamiokande Coll., June 2023
Cooperation Agreement between the Faculty of Sciences of the UAM and the Institute for the Cosmic Ray Research of the University of Tokyo, Jamuary 2023
Development of ultra-pure gadolinium sulfate for the Super-Kamiokande gadolinium project; Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. 2023 013H01; K. Hosokawa, M. Ikeda, T. Okada, H. Sekiya, P. Fernández, L. Labarga, I. Bandac, J. Perez, S. Ito, M. Harada, Y. Koshio, M. D. Thiesse, L. F. Thompson, P. R. Scovell, E. Meehan, K. Ichimura, Y. Kishimoto, Y. Nakajima, M. R. Vagins, H. Ito, Y. Takaku, Y. Tanaka, and Y. Yamaguchi; December 2022
PhD course 2022/2022 “Experimental Neutrino Physics with Large Devices”
Memorandum of Understunding on the Spanish Participation in the Hyper-Kamiokande Experiment between The University of Tokyo, The High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and The Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Kingdom of Spain, August 2022
HP-Ge detectors for controlling the very low levels of Radioactive Contaminations in the Gadolinium salt needed at the Super-Kamiokande Gd experiment; online talk given at "Unraveling the History of the Universe and Matter Evolution with Underground Physics", UGAP2022;, Tokyo University of Science + Online, June 2022
Hyper-Kamiokande Photosensor cover development by Spanish collaborators www.hyperk.org August 2021
SK-Gd looks forwards; Lluis Marti, talk given at "37th International Cosmic Ray Conference", ICRC2021; Berlin (Germany), July 2021
Spanish Government General Budget 2021 (see pages 479, 480): 3.5 million euros for Hyper-Kamiokande; November 2020.
Spanish Government General Budget 2022: 3.8 million euros for Hyper-Kamiokande
General Secretary of Science of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Prof. R. Rodrigo, announces at the relavant Comission of the Spanish Congress the inclusion of the Hyper-Kamiokande project in the Spanish Government General Budget 2021; Madrid, November 5, 2020
Constraint on the matter–antimatter symmetry-violating phase in neutrino oscillations; The T2K Collaboration, Nature 580, 339–344 (2020). See also press release: ES, EN
Spanish Minister of Science, Dr. P. Duque, informs Spanish Congress of the interest of his Ministry in the Hyper-Kamiokande project; Madrid, February 20, 2020
Evaluation of gadolinium’s action on water Cherenkov detector systems with EGADS, Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A 959 (2020) 163549; EGADS group at SK, January 2020
The Hyper-Kamiokande project is officialy approved by Japan, January 2020; ICRR, KEK, J-PARC,
SK2HK; From Super-Kamiokande to Hyper-Kamiokande. An H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019 EU project (GA 872549) coordinated by UAM; November 2019 - April 2025.
``The First Meeting of the Hyper-Kamiokande Experiment Financial Forum'', University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus, Tokyo, Japan, January 11-12, 2019; Interest of the Spanish Groups in Hyper-Kamiokande; Presentation by the Spanish member of the International Board of Representatives
The Japanese Neutrino Program and Spain; Presentation at the meeting between the Spanish Minister of Science, Dr. P. Duque, and Prof. T. Kajita, Director of ICRR, U. Tokyo, and Nobel Price in Physics 2015; La Palma (Spain), October 10, 2018
Nobel Price in Physics 2015; Takaki Kajita from Super-Kamiokande Collaboration and Arthur B. McDonnald, from Sudbury Neutrino Onservatory Collaboration
Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, Physics Letters B 716 (2012) 1
Optimizacion de la medida de contaminación radioactiva contenida en la sal de Gadolinio utilizada en el experimento Super-KGd.; Diego de Hoz Le Gleau, Trabajo Fin Grado; UAM, July 2021. See also the Defense' Presentation.
Super-Kamiokande starts observation with Gd loaded. See press release: ES, EN, JP
Neutrino Physics in SuperK-Gd; Diego Gonzalez Vizoso, Master Thesis; UAM, June 2020. See also the Defense' Presentation.
Super-Kamiokande: Atmospheric Neutrinos Oscillation Analysis; Pablo Fernandez Menendez, talk given at ``H2020 Oscillation Physics Workshop'', Valencia, November 2018
Radioactive Contaminations in precision Water-Cherenkov Physics ; the SuperK-Gd case; talk given at TMEX-2018-WCP'', Warsaw, Poland, September 2018
Very low background measurements of Radioactive Contaminatons for SuperK-Gd; Javier Perez Perez; poster at TMEX-2018-WCP'', Warsaw, Poland, September 2018
The works to prepare Super-Kamiokande for the Gd phase have started; June 2018 
Radioactive Contamination in Neutrino Experimental Physics: the Cases of NEXT and Super-Kamiokande Experiments; Javier Perez Perez, PhD. Thesis; UAM, September 2017
SuperK-Gd; talk given at ``The EPS Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEoP 2017) '', Venice (Italy), July 2017
Neutrino Physics In Present And Future Kamioka Water-Cherenkov Detectors With Neutron Tagging; Pablo Fernandez Menendez, PhD. Thesis; UAM, March 2017
Gd doping and the impact on Super-Kamiokande and T2K; Pablo Fernandez Menendez, talk given at ``International Workshop on Next Generation Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detectors (NNN 2016)'', Beijin (China), November 2016
Benefits of Gd for High Energy Neutrinos in SUperK-Gd; Pablo Fernandez Menendez, poster presented at ``XXVII International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino 2016)'', London, July 2016
The SuperK-gadolinium Project; talk given at ``The XIIIth International Conference on Heavy Quarks and Leptons (HQL 2016)'', Blacksburg (VA, USA), May 2016
GADZOOKS! (SuperK-Gd): status and physics potential; Pablo Fernandez Menendez, poster presented at ``XXXIV International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015)'', The Hague (The Netherlands), August 2015
Search for Proton Decay via p -> nu K+ using 260 kiloton-year data of Super-Lamiokande, Phys. Rev. D 90 (2014) 072005; The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration, K. Abe et al., October 2014
Status of GADZOOKS!: Neutron Tagging in Super-Kamiokande; Pablo Fernandez Menendez, talk given at ``The XXXVII International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2014) '', Valencia (Spain), July 2014
Neutrino Physics and Proton Decay with Super-Kamiokande and the Next Generation of Experiments; L. Labarga, at the funding panel of the Spanish Ministry of Science, April 2014
First Indication of Terrestrial Matter Effects on Solar Neutrino Oscillation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 (2014) 091805; The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration, A. Renshaw et al., March 2014
Calibration of the Super-Kamiokande Detector, Nucl. Instr. Methd. A737 (2014) 253; The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration, December 2013
Status of the Japanese Super-Kamiokande Neutrino Experiment; the participation of the U.A.M.; invited seminar at
University Alcala de Henares, December 2013
Identifying Antineutrinos with Super-Kamiokande. GADZOOKS! status and some of its current challengues; Pablo Fernandez Menendez, talk given at ``XXXXI International Meeting on Fundamental Physics'', Santander (Spain), May 2013.
Poster; Pablo Fernandez Menendez, presented at ``The Invisibles School'', and ``The Invisibles13 Workshop'' Durham (UK), July 2013
Fisica Experimental de Neutrinos y Desintegracion del Proton ; presentado en ``Jornada Informativa para Estudiantes de Fisica 2011'', UAM, abril 2011
Status of the Gadolinium Project for Super-Kamiokade; Lluis Marti Magro, talk given at ``Neutrino Oscillations Workshop, NOW2010'', Conca Specchiulla (Italy), September 2010
About a Gd-doped Next Generation Water-Cherenkov Detector ; talk given at ``Carpathian Summer School on Physics 2010 - Exotic Nuclei, Nuclear and Particle Physics "From nuclei to stars'', Sinaia (Romania), July 2010
Super-Kamiokamde; Lluis Marti Magro, talk given at ``V International Workshop on Low Energy Neutrino Physics, LowNu2009'', Reims (France), October 2009
SuperKamiokande - neutron tagging in Water Cherenkov detectors - Laguna \ The start of Experimental ν physics in the University Autónoma Madrid; talk given at the ``Reunión 2009 de la Red Nacional de Astropartículas'', Alcalá de Henares, Spain, June 22-24, 2009
``European Workshop on Water Cherenkov Precision Detectors for Neutrino and Nucleon Decay Physics (TMEX-2018-WCP)'', Warsaw, Poland, September 19-21, 2018
``Low Radioactivity Techniques 2019 (LRT 2019)'', Jaca, Spain, 19-23 May 2019
Japan Ministry to Seek 1.8 B. Yen for Hyper-Kamiokande; August 30, 2019
Photodetection & shockwave arresting PMT cover systems for the Hyper-Kamiokande neutrino Detector; David Bravo Bergunio; talk given at ``The 15th Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics'', Moscow State University, August 2019
Astrophysical Neutrinos at Hyper-Kamiokande; David Bravo Bergunio; talk given at ``The EPS Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEoP 2019) '', Ghent (Belgium), July 2019
Design and testing of PhotoDetector covers for chain implosion prevention in Hyper-Kamiokande; David Bravo Bergunio; poster & poster-talk given at ``The XIVth International Conference on Heavy Quarks and Leptons (HQL 2018)'', Yamagata, Japan, May 2018
VI General Meeting of the Hyper-Kamiokande proto-Collaboration; UAM, March 13-18, 2018
Neutrino Oscillation Physics and Nucleon Decay with Hyper-Kamiokande; talk given at ``The EPS Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEoP 2017) '', Venice (Italy), July 2017
Potential of Hyper-Kamiokande at some non Accelerator Physics and Nucleon Decay Search Programs; talk given at ``The XXXVIII International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2016) '', Chicago (IL, USA), August 2016
Astrophysics Potential of Hyper-Kamiokande; poster presented at ``The XXXVIII International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2016) '', Chicago (IL, USA), August 2016
Physics potential of a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment using a J-PARC neutrino beam and Hyper-Kamiokande, PTEP 2015 053C02; The Hyper-Kamiokande proto-Collaboration, May 2015
Un cientifico espaniol a la caza del neutrino en Japon; diario El Confidencial, 23 de febrero de 2015
Japon estudia el origen del universo debajo de una montania; diario El Pais, 21 de febrero de 2015
About Measuring Leptonic CP Violation before Retiring; invited seminar at I.F.I.C. - University of Valencia, October 2014
A Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiment Using J-PARC Neutrino Beam and Hyper-Kamiokande, arXiv:1412.4673; The Hyper-Kamiokande Working Group
Hyper-Kamiokande Physics Opportunities, arXiv:1309.0184; Submitted by the Hyper-Kamiokande Working Group to the ``2013 Snowmass Process'', August 2013
Neutrino Town Meeting, CERN, October 2018 to provide input to the 2020 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESSP20): presentation Panel 3: neutrinos and the Universe, report Panel 3: neutrinos and the Universe, Future Opportunities in Accelerator-based Neutrino Physics
A Perspective on Neutrino Physics,
Perspectiva en Fisica de Neutrinos 20121123;
an analysis of its present state and its future at both worldwide and Spanish levels, by a group
of theoretical, phenomeological and experimental physicists from several Spanish Institutes; November 23, 2012
Physics reach of CERN-based SuperBeam neutrino oscillation experiments, JHEP11-2012-069;
P. Coloma, E. Fernandez-Martinez and L. Labarga, October 2012
Feasibility Study For the LSC to host a ~1 Mt Water Cerenkov detector;
talk given at the ``Open Meeting for the Hyper-Kamiokande Project'', Kashiwa, August 2012
A realistic next-generation nucleon decay and neutrino experiment capable to probe leptonic CP violation
; E. Fernandez-Martinez and L. Labarga, contribution submmitted to the ``European Strategy Preparatory Group'', July 2012
LAGUNA and the LSC;
talk given at the ``XXXIX International Meeting on Fundamental Physics'',
Canfranc, febrero 2011
LAGUNA and the LSC;
talk given at the ``Cracow Epiphany Conference on Physics in Underground
Laboratories and Its Connection with LHC'', Cracow, Poland, January 5 - 8, 2010
LAGUNA and the LSC;
presentation given at the VI Meeting of the LSC Scientific Committee, Canfranc, April 15, 2010
FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR LARGE UNDERGROUND CAVERNS AND AUXILIARY INFRASTRUCTURE FACILITIES OF THE LAGUNA PROJECT AT THE LSC (CANFRANC, HUESCA, SPAIN) delivered June 21, 2010
Radioactive Contamination in Neutrino Experimental Physics: the Cases of NEXT and Super-Kamiokande Experiments; Javier Perez Perez, PhD. Thesis; UAM, September 2017
Radiopurity assessment of the tracking readout for the NEXT double beta decay experiment, 2015 JINST 10 P05006; NEXT Collaboration, May 2015
The NEXT-100 Radio-Purity Campaign: Measurements and Results; Javier Perez Perez, poster presented at ``The XXVI International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino 2014) '', Boston (U.S.A.), June 2014
The NEXT-100 Experiment for Neutrino-less Double Beta Decay: Main Features, Results From Prototypes and Radio-Purity Issues; Javier Perez Perez, talk given at the ``The 2013 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPSHEP 2013) '', Stockholm (Sewdeen), July 2013
Radiopurity control in the NEXT-100 double beta decay experiment: procedures and initial measurements, 2013 JINST 8 T01002; NEXT Collaboration, November 2012
Activites of UAM; Radio-purity Measurements at the LSC; Request to Participate in Next ; talk given at ``Next Collaboration Meeting'', IFIC, November 2011
Measurements of Higgs boson production and couplings in diboson final states with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, Physics Letters B 726 (2013) 88;
ATLAS Collaboration
Evidence for the spin-0 nature of the Higgs boson using ATLAS data, Physics Letters B 726 (2013) 120;
ATLAS Collaboration
The ATLAS experiment; seminar at the
``Geting Ready for the LHC'' training workshop, Madrid, October 2006
Construction and Test Results of the ATLAS EM Calorimeter;
talk at
Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors, Siena, October 2002
Sobre algunos aspectos del disenio y construccion del calorimetro
electromagnetico de argon liquido del experimento ATLAS; Pablo A. Romero Gonzalez, PhD. Thesis; UAM, June 2000
Two different cases of calorimetry in High Energy Physics: the ATLAS
liquid argon electromagnetic end cap and the ZEUS Forward Plug Calorimeter; Gaston Garcia Lopez, PhD. Thesis; UAM, April 2000
Construction, Assembly and Tests of the ATLAS Electromagnetic End-Cap Calorimeters, 2008 JINST 3 P06002; ATLAS EM LArg EC Calorimeter Group, June 2008
Dark Matter Searches in the Gamma-ray Sky with the Fermi-LAT Space Telescope; German A. Gomez Vargas, PhD. Thesis; UAM, October 2013
Analisis del Gravitino como Materia Oscura a partir de los Datos del Telescopio Espacial Fermi-LAT; German A. Gomez Vargas, Tesis de Master. UAM, September 2010
Measurement of CP violation in Bs decays with CDF seminar at IFT/UAM, May 2008 (given by J.P. Fernandez Ramos)
Short Description of Activities Request of ``visitorship'' to CDF, Feb. 2. 2006
A Taste of Heavy Flavor Physics at HERA; talk given at
``II Workshop on Theory, Phenomenology and Experiments in Heavy Flavour Physics'', Capri, Juni 2008
Measurement of D mesons Production in Deep Inelastic Scattering at HERA;
Manuel Zambrana Ramirez, PhD. Thesis; UAM, September 2007
Diffraction, the Pomeron and Q.C.D.; seminar at
T.A.E. 2013, Granada, May 2003
Charm Electroproduction at HERA;
Ignacio Redondo Fernandez, PhD. Thesis; UAM, May 2001
Two different cases of calorimetry in High Energy Physics: the ATLAS
liquid argon electromagnetic end cap and the ZEUS Forward Plug Calorimeter; Gaston Garcia Lopez, PhD. Thesis; UAM, April 2000
D* cross sections in DIS and extracction of F2c; talk at EPS99, Tampere, July 1999
Final States, Jets and Charm Production In Difraction at HERA; talk at XXIX ICHEP, Vancouver, July 1998
Procesos difractivos duros en la dispersion ep inelastica en HERA;
Jose Maria Hernandez Calama, PhD. Thesis; UAM, February 1998
Estudio de la Produccion de Mesones con Estranieza y Encanto en Colisiones e+p en HERA
con el detector ZEUS; Juan Pablo Fernandez Ramos, PhD. Thesis; UAM, January 1998
Design Construction and Test Beam Results of the ZEUS Forward Tracking Detector, Nucl. Instr. Methd. A344 (1994) 335; B. Bock et al., December 1993
number of SM neutrino species
the MARKII Silicon Strip Vertex Detector SSVD
The Mark II Silicon Strip Vertex Detector, Nucl. Instr. Methd. A313 (1992) 65; C. Adolphsen et al., September 1991
CV partially updated to July 2020
Defense of CV ``Prueba Catedra'', July 23, 2020
Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations (the Massive Character of the Neutrinos); the experimental program; L. Labarga, Seminar at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Salamanca; February 2016
Sobre el Premio Nobel de Fisica 2015; Luis A. Labarga en El Espanol, 7/10/2015, RN1 24 horas, 14/10/2015, Noticias Cuatro 20:00, 9/10/2015
Cooperation Agreement between the Faculty of Sciences of the UAM and the Institute for the Cosmic Ray Research of the University of Tokyo, November 2012
Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations; the experimental program; L. Labarga, Seminar at the Faculty of Sciences, U.A.M.; December 2015
Super-Kamiokande Plus [SKPLUS] a H2020 MSC RISE 2014
; Ponencia-Seminario, Sesion informativa Convocatoria RISE 2015 Acciones Marie Sklodowska - Curie (MSCA), MINECO, 27 de febrero de 2015
Contaminacion Radioactiva de Materiales:
Ideas Generales, una Situacion Real, su Medida con Detectores de Germanio; Seminario, ``Tecnicas Experimentales para la Fisica III'', January 30, 2013 (spanish)
Pruebas de QCD Perturbativa via Electroproduccion
de Charm en Hera; seminar, ``Prueba Habilitacion Catedra'', Dec. 14, 2006 (spanish)
El Aspecto Experimental de la Libertad Asintotica;
seminar at Facultad de Ciencias U.A.M., November 2004 (spanish)
Experimentacion en Fisica de Particulas; seminar at
``Semana de la Ciencia U.A.M.'', November 2004 (spanish)
Consolider 2007: Proposal + Approval of CPAN
The Experimental HEP Group of the University Autonoma Madrid; report at
RECFA meeting, Barcelona, March 2003
Master of Experimental Particle Physics
