Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiments: Present and Future
Alex Sousa
(Harvard University)
Salón de Actos (Parc Científic) Jueves, 15 de Diciembre de 2011 a las 12:30 PM
Resumen
Neutrinos remain the least understood of the fundamental building blocks of matter. During
the past decade, accelerator-based neutrino experiments played a fundamental role in
confirming neutrino flavor change and in measuring neutrino oscillation parameters with
high precision. The next generation of experiments will begin probing the existence of CP
violation in the leptonic sector and open a unique window on physics at the grand unified
scale. After reviewing the phenonomenolgy of neutrino oscillations, I will describe the
latest results from long-baseline neutrino experiments, including the surprising
possibility that neutrinos are superluminal particles. We will then conclude with a broad
look into future neutrino projects and how they will address the very challenging open
questions in neutrino physics.
