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| 3 | == Neutrino's phenomenology for 3rd year students == |
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| 5 | This is a workshop intended for 3rd year physics majors on neutrino's oscillations. |
| 6 | Tee prerequisites are Quantum Mechanics and Special relativity. No Relativistic Quantum Mechanics or QFT needed. |
| 7 | The aim is to understand the basics of the oscillation physics, to be able to understand the experimental plots and |
| 8 | eventually address the debate which was going a few years ago on the famous factor of two. |
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| 10 | === References === |
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| 13 | [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?eprint=hep-ph/0606054 Neutrino masses and mixings and...] by Strumia and Vissani, (Pag. 21 - 28) and references therein. |
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| 16 | === Material === |
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| 18 | * [attachment:neutrinos.nb neutrinos.nb]: A mathematica notebook on neutrino's oscillations. |
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| 20 | === Exercises === |
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| 22 | 1. Derive the expression for the probability that a neutrino created with flavor l at time t=0 evolves to a different flavor l' after a time t. |
| 23 | 1. Write it in terms of a distance from the creation point. Assume neutrino's move (almost) at the speed of light. The probability depends on the neutrino's masses: How? |
| 24 | 1. Find the explicit formulas in the case of two flavor oscillations. |
| 25 | 1. Consider unstable neutrinos |
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| 30 | -- Main.FabioMaltoni - 17 Mar 2009 |
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