Neutrino masses go to Stockholm |
TYPE | Colloquium |
Speaker: | Prof. Yosef Nir |
Affiliation: | The Weizmann Institute |
Organizer: | Amit Keren |
Date: | 30.11.2015 |
Time: | 14:30 - 15:30 |
Location: | Lidow Rosen Auditorium (323) |
Abstract: | The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 was given to the leaders of two experiments that discovered neutrino flavor transitions. This discovery shows that neutrinos have mass. I will describe the experiments and their results, and explain the implications for theory and their significance. |