Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the Week of April 12th through April 19th, 2009
Monday, April 13th, 2009
- No events scheduled
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
- No events scheduled
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
- No events scheduled
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
- No events scheduled
Friday, April 17th, 2009
- Neutrino Physics Beyond SNO
- Time: 4:00 pm
- Place: 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Speaker: Mark Chen, Queen's University
- Abstract: A follow-up experiment to the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory is being developed, called SNO+. With a liquid scintillator replacing the heavy water, SNO+ will examine neutrino phenomena at lower energies than SNO. Physics goals include: detecting the CNO solar neutrinos and using them to resolve a new puzzle related to solar chemical composition; precision measurements of the survival probability of pep solar neutrinos at the transition energy between vacuum- and matter-dominated oscillation; and measuring the flux of geo-neutrinos in a detector site where the local geology has been extensively characterized, enabling the measurement to address fundamental questions in geoscience. We also plan to add neodymium to the SNO+ liquid scintillator in order to perform a competitive next-generation 0-nu double beta decay search. The physics capabilities and the status of the experiment will be presented.
- Host: Heeger