Events

Event Information:

• Tue

  05

  Mar

  2019

  Colloquium: The Wonderful World of Neutrino Oscillations

  4:00 pmLewis Hall 101

  Gavin Davies
  Department of Physics
  Indiana University

  The Wonderful World of Neutrino Oscillations

  In 1998 it was discovered that neutrinos oscillate and have mass which led to the award of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics. That discovery generated a global campaign to better understand neutrino properties using oscillations of neutrinos produced in the Sun, in the atmosphere, at reactors, and by accelerators. The community has learned much but several important questions remain such as: Which neutrino is heaviest? Do neutrinos break the symmetry between matter and antimatter? Are there more than three neutrino types?

  In my talk, I will introduce neutrinos and the questions surrounding them, their chameleon-like flavor-changing behavior, and the experiments that hunt for them including the leading-edge, international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.