The Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series presents Joe Formaggio, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology , on “Fermi’s Revenge: Science’s Quest to Unlock the Mass of the Neutrino” on Friday, Nov. 2, at 4:10 p.m. in Clippinger Labs 194.
Joe Formaggio
Abstract: The mass of the neutrino has been an elusive quantity physicists have tried to measure since the very inception of the particle by Fermi in 1934. The most sensitive direct method to establish the absolute neutrino mass is observation of the endpoint of the tritium beta-decay spectrum. A lower bound is set by observations of neutrino oscillations, but a positive observation still remains to be made.
For my talk, I will discuss two experimental approaches to measure the neutrino mass — one using adiabaticity, the other frequency– and discuss how each endeavor hopes to finally resolve the mass scale of the neutrino.
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