Speaker
Afroditi Papadopoulou
(Graduate Student at MIT)
Description
Neutrino physics is entering the age of precision measurements. A
number of experiments have firmly established the occurrence of
neutrino oscillations and determined the corresponding squared mass
differences and mixing angles. These measurements have provided
unambiguous evidence that neutrinos do have non-vanishing masses.
The large θ 13 mixing angle will enable future experiments to search
for leptonic CP violation in appearance mode, thus addressing one of
the outstanding fundamental problems of particle physics. These
searches will involve high precision determinations of the oscillation
parameters, which in turn require a deep understanding of neutrino
interactions with the atomic nuclei comprising the detectors. In view
of the achieved and planned experimental accuracies, the treatment
of nuclear effects is indeed regarded as one of the main sources of
systematic uncertainty. In this context, a key role is played by the
availability of a wealth of electron scattering data and that will be
the topic of my poster.
Primary author
Afroditi Papadopoulou
(Graduate Student at MIT)
