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HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS SEMINAR TODAY<br class="">
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Monday October 5, 2015<br class="">
ACC 211<br class="">
4:15pm<br class="">
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Speaker: Dave Schmitz (UChicago)<br class="">
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Title: Neutrino physics with liquid argon detectors at Fermilab
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<div class="">Abstract: <font class=""><span class="">The discovery of neutrino masses and mixing has emerged as one of the great success stories of experimental particle physics in recent decades. Now a firm component of the Standard Model, </span><span class="">neutrino
oscillations</span><span class=""> present us with exciting opportunities for continued discovery, </span></font><span class="">from</span><span class=""> identifying a new source of </span><span class="">CP violation (</span><span class="">matter-antimatter </span><span class="">asymmetry)</span><span class=""> to
searching for exotic new particles t</span><font class=""><span class="">hat don</span><span class="">’</span><span class="">t interact through any of the fundamental interactions (except gravity). In this seminar, I will describe the world-leading experimental
program</span><span class=""> at Fermilab that is aimed at pursuing these potential discoveries, focusing on the developing Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program and its connection to the future long-baseline underground experiment, DUNE. At the center of
both is an exciting detector technology for this physics, the liquid argon time projection chamber, and I will describe our ongoing efforts developing this technology for the challenges ahead. </span></font></div>
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