F.Terranova (INFN LNF),"From tau to electron neutrinos: the study of leptonic mixing in the precision era of neutrino physics"

Thursday 18 Nov 2010, 15:00 → 17:00 Europe/Rome

131 (INFN Edificio C)

From late 90's, the phenomenon of neutrino oscillation has gained an ever-growing experimental support, culminating in the direct test of tau appearance that the CNGS is carrying on. Still, the strategy for a systematic measurement of the leptonic CKM matrix remains vague, mainly due to the lack of knowledge of the mixing angle between the first and third neutrino mass eigenstates (theta_13). In this seminar, we will review the status of the direct tests, with emphasis on the latest results from OPERA, and the perspectives for the full determination of the neutrino mixing matrix on the eve of the first measurements from T2K, RENO and Double Chooz.