future neutrinos: the HyperKamiokande experiment

Name: future neutrinos: the HyperKamiokande experiment
Start: 2022-05-10T16:30:00+08:00
End: 2022-05-10T18:00:00+08:00
Location: No location set

by Prof. Federico Nova (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK)

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 16:30 → 18:00 Asia/Shanghai

https://cern.zoom.us/j/67856330479?pwd=M2hPMUtDQTZqczRxc2tIWWZ2ZUo3QT09 ( ID: 678 5633 0479 Passcode: 245208)

Description

Abstract:

The most elusive of all fundamental particles, neutrinos have been at the center of physics research in the last decades. After presenting the role of neutrinos within the Standard Model, I will introduce HyperKamiokande, a huge neutrinos detector currently under construction and scheduled to start taking data in 2027. I will describe the experiment's technological challenges and discovery reach, concentrating on the areas in which I am directly involved.

Biography:

I am an experimental physicist, working in many areas of neutrino physics. I have graduated in Italy from Milan University (2003) with a thesis on solar neutrinos, and doctorated at IFAE (high-energy institute in Barcelona, Spain) with a thesis on neutrinoless double-beta decay. I have then had a postdoctoral experience at the University of Texas at Austin (USA) and am currently a researcher at the RAL laboratory (UK) and a lecturer at the Pembroke College in Oxford; I am involved in a family of Japan-based experiments including SuperKamiokande, K2K, T2K and HyperKamiokande.