Dr Alex Moor - Neutrinos: The Long and Short of It

Wednesday 7 Jan 2026, 12:00 → 15:00 Europe/London

610 (G.O. Jones Bulding)

https://cern.zoom.us/j/68995045975?pwd=fdpw3jZ4ZPU61gbaTtDASbS03qKbf4.1

 

About the speaker: 

Alexandra’s first degree was from the University of Southampton, which included spending a year doing a Masters by Research at CERN with the LHCb experiment. After that she moved to the University of Cambridge to complete her PhD on the neutrino experiments MicroBooNE and DUNE. She enjoyed this so much she decided to stay in the field, moving to the University of Sheffield as a postdoc. She still works on DUNE, but has now swapped MicroBooNE for SBND.

13:30 → 14:00 Biscuits/Coffee/Socialization

14:00 → 15:00 Neutrinos: The Long and Short of It

Neutrinos are tricky - no matter how massive they may be. We have been looking at them for nigh on a century and they still refuse to give up their secrets. This means we’ve been forced to get creative with ever more complex theories and equipment to pry at them.

This seminar will look at two such sets of equipment - the Short Baseline Near Detector (SBND), and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). An overview of neutrino physics will also be discussed, along with some recent results from DUNE.

Convener: Dr Alex Moor (University of Sheffield)