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Neutrino physics  

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A short history of neutrino physics: beta-decay, Pauli hypothesis, Fermi theory, discovery of neutrino in 1950s, discovery of muon neutrino. Neutrinos in the Standard Model, charge current and neutral current processes. Dirac and Majorana neutrino. Neutrino interactions with electrons, hadrons and nuclei. Detection of neutrinos. Neutrino mass, neutrino oscillations, neutrino oscillation experiments. Neutrino oscillation parameters. Solar neutrinos, solar neutrino flux, pp neutrinos, CNO cycle. Deficit of solar neutrinos. MSW effect for solar neutrinos. Supernovae neutrinos, diffuse neutrino spectrum, information from SN1987. Relic neutrinos as Big Bang remnants. Leptogenesis, measurement of CP violation in neutrino oscillations. Astrophysical sources of high-energy neutrinos. Neutrino telescopes, IceCub, km3net experiments.

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Neutrino physics
English

UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE

Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation

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