Summer course 2018 - A Random walk in astro-physics
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Neutrino Oscillation and the Solar Neutrino Puzzle Lecture-09Lecture - 09
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The case of the Missing Neutrinos
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Radioactivity and B-decay
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The Neutrino 1930
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Fermi's theory of B - Decay
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The Neutrino family
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Mean free path of the neutrinos
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The fusion of hydrogen into helium
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The proton - proton chain reaction
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Branch 1 85 percent:
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How do we know that all this is true?
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The brave warriors!
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Raymond Davis Experiment
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Davis' Experiment: First results, 1968
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What was wrong?
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The Neutrino family
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Something happened on the way to the earth?
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Neutrino Oscillations
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The Solar Neutrino Puzzle
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The experiment was refined and refined!
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New experiments were planned
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The Gallium Experiments
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Neutrino-electron scattering experiments
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Kamiokande II Experiment
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Kamiokande II Results
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The Super-Kamiokande Detector
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Three men in a boat!
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The Super-Kamiokande Results
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Amount of electron neutrinos expected
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The missing solar neutrinos
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Could the standard model of the Sun be wrong?
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Helioseismology
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The atmospheric neutrinos
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Atmospheric Neutrinos
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Super Kamiokande experiment to detect the atmospheric neutrinos
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The atmospheric neutrinos
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Atmospheric neutrino data from Super Kamikande expt.
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Expected number without oscillation
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Atmospheric neutrino experiment had proved neutrino oscillations.
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Expected Ve from the Sun
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To find the 'smoking gun'
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The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
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Neutrino Absorption in Heavy water
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Neutrino - Electron scattering:
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Deuteron break up: v + d =n+ +v
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Actual data of a candidate neutrind event
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Background events
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The Sudbury Results
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The Sensational Sudbury Results
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Nobel Prize 1995
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Nobel Prize, 2002
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Nobel Prize for Physics - 2015
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Neutrino Oscillation
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Circularly Polarized Light
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The time evolution of an electron neutrino state may now be expressed as
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Oscillation probabilities between two neutrino flavors
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The mystery is solved!
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Epilogue
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Next Lecture: Quantum Stars
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Q&A
Description:
Delve into the fascinating world of neutrino physics in this comprehensive lecture on neutrino oscillations and the solar neutrino puzzle. Explore the history of neutrino discovery, from Fermi's theory of beta decay to the groundbreaking experiments that led to the resolution of the solar neutrino problem. Learn about the proton-proton chain reaction in the sun, various neutrino detection methods, and the key experiments like Davis' chlorine experiment, Kamiokande, and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. Understand the concept of neutrino oscillations and how it solved the long-standing mystery of missing solar neutrinos. Discover the connections between particle physics and astrophysics, and gain insights into the Nobel Prize-winning research that revolutionized our understanding of neutrinos and their behavior.
Neutrino Oscillations and the Solar Neutrino Puzzle by Professor G Srinivasan