Koordinator des Seminars: Prof. Dr. J. Pochodzalla Institut für Kernphysik Johannes Gutenberg-Universität pochodza@kph.uni-mainz.de

PRISMA Colloquium and Seminar of the Graduate School

Institut für Physik

Mittwoch, den 20.06.2012 um 13:00 Uhr s.t. im Minkowski-Raum, 05-119, Staudinger Weg
Kaffe und Tee ab 14:00 Uhr

News from the Neutrino Front

Dr. Alfons Weber, University of Oxford & STFC, England

Neutrinos have long been known to exhibit strange behaviour. Experiments with solar and atmospheric neutrinos indicated that neutrinos change flavour, a process that is only possible, if they have mass. This is in contradiction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics, which only contain left-handed massless neutrinos. Many experiments have since studied this phenomenon, which can be well described by the formalism of neutrino oscillations, in which mass- and interaction- eigenstates are not identical resulting in flavour transitions similar to those of the neutral Kaon system. The parameters of these neutrino oscillations have since been measured by a variety of experiments over baselines from several hundred meters to millions of kilometres. The seminar will report on the latest result from studying neutrino oscillations with a particular focus on the accelerator based long-baseline experiments MINOS and T2K.