Physics 576B, Neutrino Nuclear Physics

Graduate Physics Course 576B Room PAB B109. Wednesday 2:30 - 3:20 Starts Sept. 29th
Neutrino Nuclear Physics
Special Lecture on Current Topics of Neutrinos Hiro Ejiri^*, NPL Physics, UW
email:	Phone: 543-4054
(To get entry code for registration, email Prof Ejiri)
The neutrino, which is the most simple and basic particle, has played crucial roles in the development of nuclear and particle physics in the 20^th century, and will be the key particle for the new physics of the 21^st century. The course aims at illustrating how the neutrino is studied using nuclei as micro-laboratories for elementary particles and fundamental interactions.
The Neutrino and the Nuclear Micro-laboratory
Challenge to finding an infinitesimal neutrino mass
Puzzle of the missing solar neutrino
The neutrino as a messenger from the cosmos
How is the neutrino the most simple but most mysterious particle? How can one study the neutrino in nuclear micro-laboratories? How can we detect a neutrino mass in nuclear beta decays? How can we find a right-handed neutrino with a finite Majorana-mass by double beta decay? Where has the solar neutrino gone? How is the solar neutrino captured in nuclear micro-laboratories? How can we learn about stars and neutrinos from super-nova neutrinos? How can neutrinos be the missing dark-matter of the universe? Lecture Notes
One credit for the course will be earned by attendance at the lectures.
^* Visiting Professor at Nuclear Physics Lab, UW from RCNP, Osaka