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The New World of Neutrino Physics – Part II · Four
Lectures
Stephen Parke
(Fermilab)
February 21 – March 2, 2006
Thanks to many beautiful experiments during the last decade, we now
know that neutrinos can change flavor and have nonzero masses, and that
leptons mix. These discoveries raise interesting questions about the
neutrinos and their connections to the rest of physics and astrophysics.
In these lectures we will explain the physics of neutrino mass, Dirac and
Majorana neutrinos, leptonic mixing, and neutrino flavor change in vacuo
and in matter. We will review what has been learned so far, and discuss
some of the most interesting open questions: Do neutrinos violate CP, and
if they do, is this violation connected to the matter-antimatter asymmetry
of the universe? Does the neutrino mass spectrum resemble the quark and
charged-lepton spectra, as grand unification would suggest, or is it an
upside-down version of those other spectra? Are neutrinos their own
antiparticles? We will describe the ideas for answering these and other
questions through future experiments.
Part 1 · Tuesday,
February 21 · Video
Part 2 · Thursday,
February 23 · Video
Part 3 · Tuesday,
February 28 · Video
Part 4 · Thursday,
March 2 · Video
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