Neutrino oscillations are so far the only experimental observation beyond the standard model since its development four decades ago. Neutrino oscillation opened a door to answer two fundamental questions: 1. whether neutrinos and their antimatter twins, antineutrinos, follow the same law of physics? 2. what is the ordering of the neutrino mass eigenstates? NOvA and DUNE are the current and future major long-baseline neutrino experiments in the US aiming to solve these questions. Both of them are equipped with gigantic detectors (NOvA: 14 kton, DUNE 40 kton) to measure accelerator produced neutrinos at far distances (NOvA: 810 km, DUNE: 1300 km). In this talk, I will present the latest NOvA results on neutrino oscillation analyses. Beyond the current NOvA results, I will also discuss the status and physics reach of the DUNE experiment, as well as status and first results from DUNE's prototype detectors at CERN.
Biography:
Jianming Bian is currently an associate professor at University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on neutrino experiments. Bian received his B.S. from Peking University and his Ph.D. from the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Chinese Academy of Sciences. Before joining UCI, Bian was a postdoc at University of Minnesota.
Prof. Bian is currently working on neutrino oscillations at NOvA, detector instrumentation and cold electronics at DUNE, and the proposed Forward Liquid Argon Experiment for neutrino and dark matter searches at LHC. He is making contributions to the implementation of deep-learning methods in neutrino experiments.
Before joining UCI, Bian was also deeply involved in the search for exotic-hadron states and other studies of charm and charmonium physics in collider experiments, and have been the lead researcher for several important analyses with the BESIII experiment in Beijing, including being the primary author of the discovery of a new four-quark candidate Zc(3900)^0.
