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Neutrino Physics: Oscillations and Mixing

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PHYS-400: Selected topics in nuclear and particle physics

This course presents the physical principles and the recent research developments on three topics of particle and nuclear physics: the physics of neutrinos, dark matter, and plasmas of quarks and gluons. An emphasis is given on experimental aspects in thes ...

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This lecture covers the physics of neutrinos, focusing on their oscillations and mixing in different media. Topics include neutrino states in vacuum and matter, the MSW effect, three-family mixing, evidence for neutrino oscillations, and experimental results from Super-Kamiokande, KamLAND, and OPERA.

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Frédéric Blanc

Expertise High Energy Physics Teaching & PhD PhD Students Rita De Sousa Ataíde Da Silva, Dimitrios Kaminaris, Maria Carolina Feliciano Faria Past EPFL PhD Students Lino Ferreira Lopes, Vladimir Macko, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Jessica Prisciandaro, Giovanni Veneziano, Sebastiana Gianì, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk Courses Selected topics in nuclear and particle physics PHYS-400 This course presents the physical principles and the recent rese

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Neutrino

A neutrino (njuːˈtriːnoʊ ; denoted by the Greek letter ν) is a fermion (an elementary particle with spin of 1 /2) that interacts only via the weak interaction and gravity. The neutrino is so named because it is electrically neutral and because its rest mass is so small (-ino) that it was long thought to be zero. The rest mass of the neutrino is much smaller than that of the other known elementary particles excluding massless particles.

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Neutrino detector

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Solar neutrino problem

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