New long-baseline neutrino oscillation results from NOvA

by Kirk Bays, Kirk Bays

Tuesday 3 Apr 2018, 12:30 → 14:30 US/Pacific

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Neutrinos are elusive fundamental particles only directly detectable through weak interactions, and they may the key to understanding supernovae, matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe, and more.  Neutrino oscillation, where neutrinos can change flavor as they travel due to being in a quantum superposition of states with different masses, has already forced us to amend the standard model.  The details of neutrino oscillations are still being unraveled, and the US program of long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments are at the forefront of measuring such fundamental neutrino properties.  In this talk I'll focus on the latest results from the NOvA experiment, where muon neutrinos are shot 810 km to a 14 kton liquid scintillator detector deep in the Minnesota forest.

SLAC_seminar_2018April2.pdf