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Neutrino masses go to Stockholm

TYPEColloquium
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.