[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Special Seminar today at 12:00

[TRIUMF Seminars]

Date/Time: Tue 2017-01-10 at 12:00

Location:  Auditorium          

Speaker:   Kirsty Duffy (Oxford)

Title:     Neutrino oscillation at T2K: Search for CP violation

Abstract: Neutrinos are some of the most abundant - but elusive - constituents of matter in the universe. It has been firmly established that neutrinos can change flavour (or 'oscillate'), as recognised by the 2015 Nobel Prize, and in recent years the field has moved beyond the 'discovery' phase to
focus on precise measurements of the parameters that determine neutrino oscillation. As our understanding improves, it opens doors to new discoveries about the nature of this little-understood particle. This is a very exciting time in neutrino physics - there exists a wealth of fascinating questions to investigate, and we are rapidly developing the tools to answer them.

T2K is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, in which a muon neutrino beam is directed over a 295km baseline from the J-PARC facility to the Super-Kamiokande detector. This allows neutrino oscillation to be studied in two channels: disappearance of muon neutrinos and appearance of electron neutrinos. T2K has collected data using both a neutrino-enhanced and an antineutrino-enhanced beam. In this seminar I will present the first T2K result that uses both neutrino and antineutrino appearance and disappearance oscillation data. Combining all four data sets gives the
first ever sensitivity to differences between matter and antimatter in the neutrino sector from T2K data alone.

Otto Hausser Fellowship Candidate

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