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Neutrino physics is one of the most exciting topics in contemporary physics, leading to two Nobel prizes in the last 20 years for the detection of cosmic neutrinos and the discovery that neutrinos have mass. The massive nature of neutrinos is arguably the strongest indication of physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, opening a number of fundamental questions: What is the mechanism for neutrino mass generation? Are neutrinos responsible of the matter-antimatter imbalance in the universe?

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a long baseline neutrino experiment which aims to:
  • Discover CP Violation in the leptonic sector 
  • Determine the neutrino Mass Ordering
  • Precisely measure neutrino oscillation parameters
  • Test the 3-flavour paradigm
 
This ambitious program also includes the search for Nucleon Decay and the astrophysical observations of Galactic Supernovae. 

Le progrès impressionnant réalisé récemment par le ProtoDUNE Dual Phase a été publié conjointement par le CERN et Fermilab.

 

Le temps de lire cet article, des milliards de neutrinos vont traverser votre corps sans que vous ne vous en rendiez compte! Les explications de Jaime Dawson en vidéo...