SHOWER RECONSTRUCTION AND STERILE NEUTRINO ANALYSIS WITH KM3NeT/ORCA AND ANTARES ...
Neutrino physics is quite a new field of particle physics, since the idea of a neutrino was firstly introduced by W. Pauli in 1930 to try to explain how beta decays could conserve energy, momentum and spin. Since then, a big effort has been done by theoretical and experimental physicists to better u...
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Universit� degli studi di Genova
2019
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.15167/domi-alba_phd2019-12-16 https://iris.unige.it//handle/11567/985989 |
| Summary: | Neutrino physics is quite a new field of particle physics, since the idea of a neutrino was firstly introduced by W. Pauli in 1930 to try to explain how beta decays could conserve energy, momentum and spin. Since then, a big effort has been done by theoretical and experimental physicists to better understand the neutrino nature and its implications, not only in the more fundamental physics of the Standard Model (SM), but also in astrophysics and cosmology. This led, in the recent past, to two Nobel Prizes which were given to Neutrino Physics. In 2002 Ray Davis and Matoshi Koshiba got the Nobel Prize in Physics ?for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in par- ticular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos? while in 2015 Arthur McDonald and Takaaki Kajita got the Nobel Prize ?for the discovery of neutrino oscil- lations, which shows that neutrinos have mass?. While the standard three-flavor framework of neutrino oscillations is by now well established, there are a number of oscillation experiments whose ... |
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