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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 1: Eingeladene Hauptvorträge

HK 1.1: Invited Talk

Monday, March 4, 2013, 09:10–10:00, HSZ-02

Reactor and Solar Neutrino Experiments: Recent Highlights and Future Opportunities — •Karsten M Heeger — University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

Neutrino mass and mixing are amongst the major discoveries of recent years and demand that we make the first revision of the Standard Model in decades. From the first observation of the antineutrino to the discovery of neutrino flavor change, reactor and solar neutrino experiments have played an important role in the history of neutrino physics. Recent solar neutrino measurements have made a precision measurement of the temperature of the Sun, detected the solar 7Be and pep neutrino fluxes, and tested the MSW effect. Reactor antineutrino experiments have observed the disappearance of electron antineutrinos over km-long baselines and made a precision measurement of the last neutrino mixing angle theta13. In the future, solar neutrinos may provide an important probe of the solar metallicity and luminosity constraint while reactor experiments may shed light on the possible existence of sterile neutrinos and probe the mass hierarchy. I will describe recent highlights and future scientific opportunities of reactor and solar neutrino experiments.