High Energy Physics Seminars

Neutrinos are among the most mysterious particles in nature. Over the past few decades, experiments have revealed that neutrinos change their identity as they travel—a phenomenon called oscillation—which proved that they have mass and opened a window to new physics beyond the Standard Model. Today, the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab and the future Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) are pushing this frontier, searching for new neutrino states and seeking clues to why the universe is made of matter instead of antimatter. In this talk, I will discuss the challenges of precision neutrino oscillation measurements, the status of the SBN (SBND and ICARUS) program in the search of neutrino steriles as well as the performance of the detectors, and highlight the role that these experiments play to fully realize DUNE's discovery potential in the coming years.