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Instructors: Dr. Lukas Koch
Event type:
Lecture/practice class
Displayed in timetable as:
08.128.806
Hours per week:
4
Credits:
6,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Contents:
The lecture will focus on the practical aspects of experimental neutrino physics. The theoretical foundations of weak interaction at the level of the bachelor lecture "Nuclear and Particle Physics" are assumed and, if necessary, briefly reviewed. Deeper theoretical foundations (especially neutrino oscillation and cross-sections) will be touched upon in detail, as needed for an understanding of respective experimental questions.
The following topics are intended to be covered:
- Historical: Solar neutrino problem and solution through neutrino oscillation
- Theory of 2 and 3-flavor oscillation
- Precision measurement of oscillation parameters with reactor and beam experiments.
- How to generate a neutrino beam
- How to measure neutrinos, modern detector technologies, event reconstruction
- Appearance & Disappearance measurements
- CP violation in the lepton sector, leptogenesis
- Mass hierarchy
- Systematic uncertainties, neutrino energy reconstruction
- Measurement of neutrino cross-sections
- Challenges in theoretical prediction
- Detector efficiency and resolution
- Unfolding & alternative approaches to statistical data analysis
- Neutrino physics as Beyond Standard Model (BSM) physics & how to detect it
- Nature of neutrino masses, Majorana vs. Dirac
- Neutrinos as Dark Matter?
- Beyond the 3-flavor model, sterile neutrinos
- Neutrino astronomy and other applications of neutrinos
The exercises are designed to practically apply and internalize the material covered in the lecture. In addition to traditional "computational tasks," there will also be programming assignments that (in a simplified form) aim to provide insight into the actual challenges of daily work in experimental neutrino physics. Where applicable, real publications will be integrated into the questions to train the reading and understanding of scientific papers.
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