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Physical Society Colloquium[an error occurred while processing this directive]
Dr. Kate Scholberg Boston University For many decades, the wily, weakly-interacting neutrino has refused to reveal to physicists whether its mass is zero or merely very tiny. Recently, the Super-Kamiokande experiment, an enormous underground water Cherenkov detector located in Japan, has caught some neutrinos in the act of changing their flavour as they travel through the Earth, which implies that at least some of them have mass. This talk will give a general introduction to the subject of neutrino mass and oscillations, describing some of the history and the current status of the field. It will describe the Super-K detector, its recent measurements, and how they fit into the overall experimental picture.
Friday, September 25th 1998, 15:30 |