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Neutrino Physics: The Status

Neutrino Physics: The Status

Mar 09 2015 | comment(s)

The XVI edition of Neutrino Telescopes is over and it is the time for some summing up – which I feel completely unsuited to do, as I was just an observer there. As you know, my field is high-energy collider physics, and neutrino physics has become a very different thing since the discovery of neutral currents 42 years ago. Anyway, I decided I would collect here a few random thoughts on the status of the field, as seen from my very skewed viewpoint...

Poster Excerpts on Neutrino Physics

Poster Excerpts on Neutrino Physics

Mar 05 2015 | comment(s)

The Poster session of Neutrino Telescopes XVI will take place tonight in Venice, at the first floor of the beautiful Palazzo Franchetti. Poster submitters have produced excerpts for the conference blog, so you can also get a summary of the presented results. 
The blog offers sixteen excerpts:
The Borexino Detector And Its Physics Results

The Borexino Detector And Its Physics Results

Mar 04 2015 | comment(s)

At the XVI Neutrino Telescopes conference going on this week in Venice there was a nice presentation on the results of the Borexino experiment. The text below is a writeup of the highlights from the talk, given by Cristiano Galbiati from Princeton University.

Recent Results From Super-Kamiokande

Recent Results From Super-Kamiokande

Mar 03 2015 | comment(s)

(The XVIth edition of "Neutrino Telescopes" is going on in Venice this week. The writeup below is from a talk by M.Nakahata at the morning session today. For more on the conference and the results shown and discussed there, see the conference blog.)

Francis Halzen On Cosmogenic Neutrinos

Francis Halzen On Cosmogenic Neutrinos

Mar 02 2015 | comment(s)

During the first afternoon session of the XVI Neutrino Telescopes conference (here is the conference blog, which contains a report of most of the lectures and posters as they are presented) Francis Halzen gave a very nice account of the discovery of cosmogenic neutrinos by the IceCube experiment, and its implications. Below I offer a writeup - apologizing to Halzen if I misinterpreted anything.

Neutrino Physics: Poster Excerpts from Neutel XVI

Neutrino Physics: Poster Excerpts from Neutel XVI

Mar 02 2015 | comment(s)

The XVI edition of "Neutrino Telescopes" is about to start in Venice today. In the meantime, I have started to publish in the conference blog a few excerpts of the posters that compete for the "best poster award" at the conference this week. You might be interested to check them out: