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Experimental Overview of Neutrino Oscillation. Kam-Biu Luk University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory. Theoretical Predictions. Evidence of Neutrino Oscillation. Solar neutrinos ( e x ): Homestake (USA). e + 37 Cl 37 Ar + e -.
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Experimental Overview of Neutrino Oscillation Kam-Biu Luk University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory Neutrino at Daya Bay
Theoretical Predictions Evidence of Neutrino Oscillation • Solar neutrinos ( e x ): Homestake (USA) e + 37Cl 37Ar + e- 1 SNU = 10-36 interaction/atom/s Neutrino at Daya Bay
Evidence of Neutrino Oscillation (cont.) • Solar neutrinos ( e x ): SNO (Canada) Neutrino at Daya Bay
Evidence of Neutrino Oscillation (cont.) • Atmospheric neutrinos ( ): Super-Kamiokande (Japan) Neutrino at Daya Bay
Accelerator anti-neutrinos ( e ): LSND Evidence of Neutrino Oscillation (cont.) Neutrino at Daya Bay
Reactor anti-neutrinos ( e x ) at ~180 km: KamLAND (Japan) e Evidence of Neutrino Oscillation (cont.) Neutrino at Daya Bay
Neutrino Mixing • For massive neutrinos, the weak eigenstates are not the same • as the mass eigenstates: • Parametrize the mixing matrix as: • At large L/En, the probability ofne neis: Neutrino at Daya Bay
Reach in ∆m2 Neutrino at Daya Bay
On-going Verification of Neutrino Oscillation • K2K(Japan): reproducing atmospheric neutrino oscillation ( ) 250km 1999 data observed 29 events expect 44 events (no osc.) Neutrino at Daya Bay
On-Going Verification of Neutrino Oscillation (cont.) • MiniBooNe (USA): Repeating LSND Neutrino at Daya Bay
Upcoming Verification of Neutrino Oscillation • MINOS (USA): reproducing atmospheric neutrino oscillation • using accelerator produced beam Fermilab Soudan Mine 730 km away Neutrino at Daya Bay
ICARUS Upcoming Verification of Neutrino Oscillation • CNGS-ICARUS-OPERA (Europe): reproducing atmospheric neutrino • oscillation using CERN produced beam Neutrino at Daya Bay
∆m132 (eV2) sin2(213) Search For Subdominant Neutrino Oscillation • Reactor anti-neutrinos ( e x ) at 1 km: CHOOZ (France), • Palo Verde (USA) Neutrino at Daya Bay