Speaker
Mary Bishai
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Description
Man-made sources of neutrinos from nuclear reactors and particle
accelerators provide a well understood source of neutrinos. Reactors
are a powerful source of anti-electron neutrinos with energies in the
0.1 - 10 MeV range and a flux of order 10^20 neutrinos/GWth. High
intensity proton accelerators produce high purity muon neutrino and
anti-muon neutrino beams with energies in the range 100s of MeV to
100s of GeV and fluxes of order 10^21 neutrinos/MW. The different
neutrino flavors, large fluxes and wide range of energies available
from these terrestrial sources have enabled precision measurements of
neutrino oscillation parameters. Both reactor and accelerator based
experiments provide the best sensitivity to the value of the last
unknown neutrino mixing angle, theta_13. In addition, the next
generation of accelerator based experiment will enable the search for
CP violation in the leptonic sector. I will review the status of
current reactor and accelerator based neutrino oscillation experiments
and briefly discuss future directions.
Author
Mary Bishai
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
