André Rubbia
ETH Zurich, Department of Physics, Switzerland
Date
4 April 2012
Host
Thomas Gehrmann
Title
Indication of Electron Neutrino Appearance in the T2K Experiment and its Long-term Implications
Abstract
In the last decade, studies of natural and artificial sources of neutrinos have revealed the phenomenon of lepton flavor oscillation, pointing to the existence of small but non-vanishing neutrino rest masses and of physics beyond the Standard Model. The talk will specifically discuss the T2K (Tokai-to-Kamioka) long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. The data show the first ever indication of electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam. We will discuss these results and will present implications for CP violation searches in the leptonic sector. We will conclude with an outlook on future plans and challenges.