Neutrinos

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Neutrinos

• Jason Cook

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Topics of Interest

• Neutrinos
• History
• Sources
• Detection
• Solar Neutrino Problem
• Neutrino Oscillation
• Practicality of Neutrinos

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Neutrinos

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• Leptons
• Tau
• Muon
• Electron
• Corresponding neutrinos
• Baryons
• Fermions

Properties of Leptons
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History

• Neutrino Timeline
• Important Figures
• Wolfgang Pauli
• Enrico Fermi

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Sources of Neutrinos

• Natural Neutrino Sources
• Beta Decay
• Stellar
• Solar

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Beta Decay

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• Energy p gt no e ?e

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Stellar Sources

• Natural Fusion Reactions
• Type II Supernovae
• Cosmic Background

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Detection

• Cerenkov radiation
• Heavy Water
• Location location location

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Super-Kamiokande Detector
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The Solar Problem

• Early predictions of solar neutrinos
• Attempts at detection
• Results
• Rationalization of findings
• Rectification of the problem

http//spaceflightnow.com/news/n0106/20sno/
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Neutrino Oscillation

• Neutrinos can oscillate
• Random probability of measuring a neutrino as one
  of the three flavors

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Practicality of Neutrinos

• Unlike EM waves, neutrinos are virtually
  unaffected by stellar medium
• Stellar studies
• Galactic Studies
• Quantum Studies

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Sources

• http//kamland.stanford.edu/Timeline/
• http//hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/
• http//www.phys.hawaii.edu/jgl/nu_timeline.html
• http//spaceflightnow.com/news/n0106/20sno/
• http//www.aip.org/png/html/super-k.htm
• http//www.particlephysics.ac.uk/news/picture-of-t
  he-week/picture-archive/pauli-and-the-neutrino.htm
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• http//www.atomicarchive.com/Bios/FermiPhoto.shtml
  
• http//en.wikipedia.org/