School of Physics: HEPCo Weekly Seminar Series


Title of talk

Shining the Neutrino Flashlight into the Darkest Places


تاباندن پرتو نوترینو به تاریک‌ترین (ناشناخته ترین) مکان‌ها

Date and time

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025 (13 Khordad), 2:00 pm (Tehran zone)


Link

https://www.skyroom.online/ch/schoolofphysics/highenergyseminar


Abstract

The most phenomenologically important properties of neutrinos are the facts that they don't interact with regular matter very much and that they change which charged lepton they like to interact with during propagation. The presence of matter does modify the propagation of neutrinos, somewhat, and I use this fact along with known oscillation parameters to probe environments that cannot be otherwise directly probed. In particular, I will show how low energy atmospheric neutrinos provide information about the Earth's core and that this can be determined by DUNE. I will also use current data from solar neutrino experiments, constrained by reactor neutrino data, to determine the density in the core of the Sun via neutrinos for the first time, as well as future sensitivities.