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DTSTART:20110506T210000Z
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LOCATION:2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
SUMMARY:First Results from the T2K Neutrino Oscillation Experiment\, P
 hysics Department Colloquium\, Scott Oser\, University of British Colu
 mbia
DESCRIPTION:The past decade has shown us that\, contrary to expectatio
 ns\, neutrinos have both masses and mixings between flavors.  In a stu
 dy of contrasts\, their masses are ridiculously small\, but the rates 
 at which neutrinos change from one flavor to another are remarkably la
 rge.  T2K is a new experiment to study what happens to a beam of neutr
 inos as it passes through the Honshu island in Japan.  By shoot a beam
  of muon neutrinos from Japan's Pacific coast to the Super-Kamiokande 
 detector 295km away\, T2K hopes to observe muon neutrinos turning into
  electron neutrinos.  This measurement is the cornerstone of a long-te
 rm effort to determine if neutrinos and anti-neutrinos behave identica
 lly\, and may ultimately address the question of why our universe is m
 ade of matter and not anti-matter.  I will present the first oscillati
 on results from T2K and report on the current status of the experiment
 \, including recovery efforts after the March 11 earthquake.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=1880
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