Special Colloquium (and Astronomy Seminar)
| Date/Time: | Friday, 23 Jan 2015 at 4:10 pm |
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| Location: | 3 Physics (note location change for today) |
| Contact: | Steven Kawaler, Physics and Astronomy |
| Phone: | 515-294-5440 |
| Channel: | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
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Why we see a universe dominated by matter--as opposed to one with equal matter and anti-matter--is an open problem in physics. I will discuss the motivation for searching for and current experimental constraints on the CP-violating parameter in the neutrino sector, which is one of the necessary (though not sufficient!) conditions for leptons to generate this asymmetry of the universe. I will focus on the T2K experiment, a long-baseline, accelerator-based neutrino experiment, which gives it sensitivity to the CP-violating parameter, especially in combination with other neutrino oscillation experiments. I will concentrate on the recent results from T2K which have placed some interesting constraints on the value of the CP-violating parameter. Finally, I will also discuss other current, future, and proposed experiments and what the neutrino field must do to search for this effect.