| Date
| Discussion Leader
| Topic / Paper(s)
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| 11 Sep | Daniel Carman |
Organization and Kick-Off
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| 18 Sep | Hang Liu |
Introduction to Neutrino Physics
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Neutrino Oscillations and the Solar Neutrino Problem,
by W. Haxton.
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| 25 Sep | Glen MacLachlan |
Neutrino Physics at Super-Kamiokande
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Evidence for Oscillation of Atmospheric Neutrinos,
The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1562-1567 (1998).
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| 2 Oct | Catalin Matei |
Neutrino Physics at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
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Direct Evidence for Neutrino Flavor Tranformation from Neutral-Current
Interactions in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory,
The SNO Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 011301 (2002); and
Measurement of charged current interactions produced by 8B solar
neutrinos at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, The SNO Collaboration,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 071301 (2001).
The papers are available
here.
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| 9 Oct | Americo Salas
| Detector Physics (Experimental methods handout)
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| 16 Oct | Deepshikha Choudhury
| 2002 Nobel Prize for Physics
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- Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba:
"for pioneering contributions to astrophysics,
in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos"
- Riccardo Giacconi:
"for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led
to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources"
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Reading:
Advanced Information
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| 23 Oct | Vladimir Pascalutsa
| Intro to CP Violation / B Physics
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B Physics and CP Violation, by Helen Quinn
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| 30 Oct | George Caia
|
Observation of Direct CP Violation in K[S,L] --> pi-pi Decays,
the KTeV Collaboration
| 6 Nov | Ishaq Hleiqawi
|
Measurement of the CP-Violating Asymmetry Amplitude sin2beta,
the BABAR collaboration
| | 13 Nov | Yuri Pidopryhora
|
Do we really understand quantum mechanics? Strange correlations,
paradoxes, and theorems,
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F. Laloë, American Journal of Physics 69, 655 (2001).
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