Prof. Michael Shaevitz
Columbia University
Friday, November 30, 2007
4:00 pm in SPL 57
Reactor Neutrino Experiments and the Hunt for the Little Mixing Angle
Abstract: Neutrino oscillations are one of our first indications that something new is happening in particle physics. The phenomena has been established and confirmed for both neutrinos from the sun and from the atmosphere. These measurements showed that the mass differences and mixings among the neutrino types are much different than any had expected and may be giving a window into the fundamental nature of mass and the matter-antimatter asymmetry. One of the key pieces of information that is still missing is associated with the third "Little Mixing Angle" and experimentalists are now turning towards determining this parameter. This talk will describe using neutrinos from a reactor to make this determination with some emphasis on the Double Chooz reactor neutrino experiment that will begin taking data in early 2009.
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