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W2-3 Neutrino Physics (PPD) | Physique des neutrinos (PPD)
- Ian Lawson (SNOLab)
The neutrino is an incredibly small and light particle that rarely interacts with any materials: 10 billion cosmic neutrinos pass through each square centimetre of Earth every second with no effect. This makes them extremely difficult to study. As a result, experiments designed to detect neutrinos must be very large.
Following upgrades to the Nobel Prize-winning SNO (Sudbury Neutrino...
SHiP and DUNE are future high intensity neutrino experiments, both of which generate a very large flux of neutrinos and anti-neutrinos of all 3 flavours. Combined with improved detector technology, their high luminosity means that these experiments are sensitive to subdominant neutrino physics. Neutrino trident production is one such process, which sees an incoming neutrino incident on a...
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory instruments more than a cubic kilometre of the deep glacial ice below South Pole Station, Antarctica, creating the largest water Cherenkov detector. With the addition of a low energy detection array, DeepCore, completed in 2010, the observatory is sensitive to neutrinos with energies between 10 GeV and the EeV scale. IceCube has now accumulated the world’s...
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory was designed with the primary goal of detecting very high energy neutrino events beyond the TeV scale from astrophysical sources. A low-energy infill array, DeepCore, was designed to extend the reach of IceCube to events with energies of ~10 GeV. At these low energies, there is less recorded event information that introduces challenges for the reconstruction...
