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Why do we choose Experimental Neutrino Physics?

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Why is neutrinos physics?

Since the first on-paper appearance as a desperate remedy proposed by W. Pauli for resolving the beta decay issue in 1930, neutrino is still surprising physicists and is a main stream to explore the physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). The Nobel prize in 2015 and the Breakthrough prize in 2016 are the valuable words for the vital role of neutrino in the modern physics. Following are some reasons why we choose to start with neutrino physics: 


 
Why is experimental neutrinos physics?

Neutrino experiments are getting exciting, global and much bigger than before in manner of both detector size and physic potential. The NEUTRINO 2016 conference held at London, UK is the largest international neutrino conference so far with about 700 physicists. The new released results from T2K and NOvA immediately get attracted from the media although the statistic significance to CP violation, mass hierarchy is still marginal. Following are some reasons why we should consider to start with experimental group instead of theory group:   

Nobel Prizes for neutrino research 
      1. In 1988, “for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino”, Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and  Jack Stecinberger shared the first Nobel Prize relating to neutrino research
      2. In 1995, Frederick Reines was received the Nobel Prize for detecting the first neutrino in 1956
      3. In 2002, Raymond Davis Jr. and Masotoshi Koshiba shared the Nobel Prize for detecting cosmic neutrinos
      4. In 2015, Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. Mc Donald have received the Nobel Prize for discovery of neutrino oscillation, showing that neutrinos have mass. 



Snapshot from S. Cao’s slide at PASCOS 2016 



Read more about Neutrino Detections




Read more about Neutrino oscillations



Read more about CP violation search



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Read more about Applications of Key Technologies in Neutrino Exp. 


Opening questions in Neutrino Physics:
      • CP violation in neutrino sector? How does it relate to the leptongenesis?
        • Can be measured by comparing neutrino and anti-neutrino oscillations
      • How do neutrinos get mass?
        • Higgs mechanism? Seesaw mechanism 
        • Is neutrino Majorana particles?
      • Neutrino mass hierarchy?
        • If inverted, so why neutrino is different from other elementary particles?
      • Is the mixing angle theta_23 maximum?
        • If so, what’s the underlying symmetry?
      • Is sterile neutrinos existed? 




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