Physics colloquium - Neutrinos from the Sky and Through the Earth

Date
Tue, Dec 13, 2016 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location
PSC Lobby

Description

Speaker Name: Kate Scholberg

Speaker Institution: Duke

Title: Neutrinos from the Sky and Through the Earth

Abstract: The progress in neutrino physics over the past fifteen years has been
tremendous: we have learned that neutrinos have mass and change
flavor. This discovery won the 2015 Nobel Prize. I will pick out one
of the threads of the story-- the measurement of flavor oscillation in
neutrinos produced by cosmic ray showers in the atmosphere, and
further measurements by long-baseline beam experiments. In this talk,
I will present the latest results from the Super-Kamiokande and T2K
(Tokai to Kamioka) long-baseline experiments, and will discuss how the
next generation of high-intensity beam experiments will address some
of the remaining puzzles.