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Abstract: The lecture will introduce the technology and the science of the mega-scale neutrino experiments Hyper-Kamiokande and DUNE that are currently being built in Japan and the US. While the neutrino was discovered experimentally over 60 years ago, it has not given up all its secrets just yet. Oscillations between its flavour states are now well established and have been studied in detail in many experiments. An interesting hint from current experiments implies that neutrinos and antineutrinos may not oscillate in the same way, leading to possibly a strong CP violation effect in the neutrino sector. Such an observation would be extremely relevant for models attempting to explain the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe. The next-generation neutrino experiments will address these and many other questions about the nature of the neutrino.
Lecturer: Professor and Head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
Stefan Söldner-Rembold is a particle physicist whose research currently focuses on neutrino physics. He is member of the DUNE, MicroBooNE, SBND, IceCube-Gen2, and SuperNEMO Collaborations. He previously worked on high-energy collider and fixed target experiments at CERN, DESY, and Fermilab.
He graduated from the University of Bonn in 1987 and received his doctorate from the Technical University of Munich in 1992, with a research fellowship of the Max Planck Institute. He worked at the University of Freiburg from 1992 to 1999, where he received his Habilitation in 1996. He held a Heisenberg Fellowship of the German Research Foundation from 1999 to 2003 and was Scientific Associate at CERN from 2000 to 2001. Professor Söldner-Rembold joined the faculty of the University of Manchester in 2003.
Söldner-Rembold was Spokesperson of the DUNE Collaboration from 2018 to 2022 and of the Dzero Collaboration at the Tevatron Collider from 2009 to 2011. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the Institute of Physics; he received a Royal Society Wolfson Research Award, the James Chadwick Medal and Prize, and the Max Born Medal and Prize (text informed by the Lecturer)
