11:00 am
Kersten Physics Teaching Center 5720 South Ellis Ave, room 106
Chicago IL 60637
Neutrinos are everywhere — they come from the earth, the atmosphere, the sun, and the cosmos, and are
produced at particle accelerators and nuclear reactors. These pervasive particles have surprised and
inspired physicists since their first detection in 1956, and have been the subject of four Nobel prizes to
date. Studying neutrinos has challenged us to build some of the world’s largest and most advanced particle
detectors, both to learn about neutrinos themselves and to gain insight into the intricate processes that
produce them.
This series will explore neutrinos and the incredible machines built to detect them. We will discuss what
makes neutrinos unique, neutrino experiments, and current unsolved questions to see how these tiny
particles may lead to the next big discoveries in physics.
We will be recording and live-streaming the lectures at
https://efi.uchicago.edu/compton