Joint PITT-CMU Colloquium: Jenny Thomas (UCL)
October 4, 2016 - 8:30pm to 10:00pm
Title: Neutrino Oscillations and what they have to offer in the near future
Abstract:
The field of neutrino oscillations continues to advance at a fast pace.
The recent results presented at Neutrino 2016 show us that goals that used
to be vague hopes are now almost a reality: CP violation and the Mass Hierarchy
seem to be within reach of present experiments. I will present a summary of the
state of the field and a vision of what is to come next from existing and new
experiments. I will also talk about CHIPS, a novel, and very recently funded experiment which
aims to demonstrate a disruptive reduction in the cost of building a water Cherenkov
detector. If successful it could lead the way to Mega Ton neutrino detectors in the near
future, to enable precision measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters within
a much shorter timescale than presently planned.
Location and Address
104 Thaw Hall