2013/03/06 by Masahiro Kuze, Kuze, Masahiro
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #hep-ex #hep-ph #physics.ins-det
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1303.1289
6 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the Proceedings (JPSJ Proc. Suppl.) of the International Symposium "Nanoscience and Quantum Physics 2012" (nanoPHYS'12), 17-19 Dec., Tokyo, Japan. The talk was aimed at non-HEP physicists
arxiv created 2013/03/06 · arxiv updated 2013/03/07
Neutrinos exhibit an interesting phenomenon called 'neutrino oscillation', in which a neutrino changes its flavor after traveling some flight length. Many experiments measured the mixing angles and mass differences, but the angle θ13 had been unmeasured due to its smallness compared to others. During 2011 and 2012, series of new-generation neutrino experiments reported positive results in θ13 search, and its value has been determined to be just below the previous upper limit. The non-zero result of θ13 is a very good news for future of neutrino physics, since it opens a possibility of measuring the CP violation phase in the lepton sector. An introduction to neutrino oscillation and latest experimental results are presented. A detail is put on Double Chooz reactor experiment, in which the author is involved.