Opportunities for neutrino physics using spallation sources
DIPC Seminars
- Speaker
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Pilar Coloma, IFIC, Spain
- When
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2019/07/18
14:00 - Place
- Donostia International Physics Center
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In this talk I will give a broad introduction to neutrino oscillations,
including the current experimental status of the field as well as some of the
main future proposals to measure neutrino properties precisely. I will pay
particular attention to spallation neutron sources, which are known to yield a
very intense neutrino flux from the decay of pions generated in proton
interactions in the target, and the opportunities that they offer for neutrino
physics. First, I will discuss the results and prospects of COHERENT, which
has measured for the first time coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering
using the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Lab (US). Looking
ahead into the future, the design of the European Spallation Source may be
modified so it can host a neutrino beam to measure the current unknowns in the
neutrino sector.
Host: Francesc Monrabal