Unlocking the mysteries of the neutrino and its mass through the nucleus: my new research program in the PPE group
Unlocking the mysteries of the neutrino and its mass through the nucleus: my new research program in the PPE group
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 11th February 2022
- Speaker: Dr Cheryl Patrick (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
I'm a new fellow here at Edinburgh, and the overblown title of this talk is straight from my fellowship proposal. I'll give a quick introduction to the exciting physics possibilities neutrino experiments can explore - and explain how nuclear effects can affect our ability to realise them. I'll tell you about my multi-faceted approach to understanding how neutrinos behave with nuclei, by studying neutrino interactions at Fermilab's liquid-argon detectors and electron scattering with the e4nu collaboration; and I'll introduce a new area of research that I've brought to Edinburgh - neutrinoless double-beta decay, and the SuperNEMO experiment. I'll explain how the same nuclear effects can affect all of these, and how these different experiments might help each other reduce their uncertainties.
About Experimental Particle Physics seminars
The experimental particle physics seminar series invites speakers from all over Europe to discuss the latest developments at the LHC, accelerator and non-accelerator based neutrino physics, hardware R&D and astroparticle physics. .