SBU HEP Seminar - Ciro Riccio - T2K and DUNE: present and future of the long-baseline neutrino oscillation program

Thursday 1 Feb 2024, 13:30 → 14:30 America/New_York

Graduate Building D-122 (Stony Brook University)

Title: T2K and DUNE: present and future of the long-baseline neutrino oscillation program
Speaker: Ciro Riccio 
Abstract: Today an extensive set of results obtained with many different experiments can be interpreted in the framework of three active neutrinos that oscillate one into another. The mass and flavor eigenstates are related by the Pontecorvo-Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata (PMNS) mixing matrix that is parameterized by three angles and a Charge-Parity (CP) phase. The open questions in this field are the octant of one angle, the value of the CP phase, and the mass ordering of the mass eigenstates. The measurement of the CP-phase could unveil the enigmatic matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe, a cornerstone in understanding its evolution. Long-baseline (LBL) neutrino oscillation experiments will play a key role in this quest. T2K (Tokai to Kamioka) is a Japan-based LBL experiment taking data since 2010. T2K has produced a wealth of significant results and holds exciting prospects for the future. In this seminar, an overview of the latest T2K results is presented, as well as its prospects, which are characterized by an intense program of upgrades. The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is the US-based next-generation LBL experiment. DUNE will use an innovative technology with Liquid Argon as a target for neutrino interactions and a tracker for the particles produced in those interactions. After an overview of DUNE and its physics potential, I will discuss the future opportunities opened by such cutting-edge experiment.

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