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LOCATION:4274 Chamberlin Hall
SUMMARY:Unlocking neutrino mysteries with the NOvA experiment\, NPAC (
 Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum\, Chris Backhouse\, Caltech
DESCRIPTION:The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discov
 ery of the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations\, which implies that ne
 utrinos are not massless as we had previously believed. This raises a 
 wealth of new and intriguing questions. What is the ordering of the ne
 utrino mass states? Might they violate matter/antimatter symmetry? Wha
 t structure\, if any\, does the neutrino mixing matrix have? The NOvA 
 experiment directly addresses these questions by measuring changes und
 ergone by a powerful neutrino beam over an 810km baseline\, from its s
 ource at Fermilab\, Illinois to a huge 14kton detector in Ash River\, 
 Minnesota. I will give a brief overview of neutrino oscillations\, the
 n present our latest results\, their implications\, and prospects for 
 the future.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=4396
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