Invited Seminars

T2K status and results

by Dr Yoshi Uchida (Imperial College London)

Europe/Brussels
Large seminar room (IIHE (ULB-VUB))

Large seminar room

IIHE (ULB-VUB)

VUB-building G- 1G003
Description
abstract: The past decade or two have seen many experimental discoveries in the field of neutrino physics, starting with the fact that they indeed do possess mass, rendering incorrect their description in the Standard Model. Further exciting discoveries in the past year have dramatically altered our view of the area of neutrinos, with both accelerator- and nuclear reactor-based experiments announcing results that allow us to home in on the full neutrino mixing matrix, and look forwards at how we can use the lepton sector to further explore the world beyond the Standard Model. I will give a brief overview of the state of the field of neutrino oscillations and then describe the Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) Experiment, which has been running for just over two years. I will then introduce our recent results and discuss them in the current context of the field, and present our expectations and prospects for the future.