Speaker
Kendall Mahn
(TRIUMF)
Description
One of the most promising investigations of
beyond-the-Standard-Model physics has been the study of neutrino
oscillation, that is, the conversion of neutrinos from one flavor to
another as they propagate. While neutrino oscillation is studied in a
wide variety of laboratories, the strongest constraints on the
neutrino oscillation mixing parameters, theta23 and Dm2(32) come from
long baseline neutrino experiments. A long baseline neutrino
experiment employs a particle accelerator to produce a neutrino beam
which travels 100-1000km in one of the grandest tests of quantum
mechanics imaginable. This talk will describe how long baseline
experiments are shaping our understanding of neutrino oscillation
physics, with the latest results from experiments around the world
such as T2K, NOvA, and OPERA.
Author
Kendall Mahn
(TRIUMF)
