Date: Wednesday 7th March 2001
Title: Neutrino astrophysics programme at Boulby mine
Speaker: Dr. Vitaly Kudryavtsev (Sheffield)
Abstract
Two new projects to detect neutrinos from galactic supernovae and the
Sun have been proposed. Neutrinos from supernovae can provide
important information about fundamental neutrino properties, such as
neutrino mass and mixing, in the region of parameter space out of
reach of existing accelerator and reactor experiments. The proposed OMNIS
detector will be sensitive primarily to muon and tau neutrinos and
will complement existing detectors of electron neutrinos and
antineutrinos.
SIREN is a project to measure the spectrum of neutrinos
from the Sun with low threshold and in real time. This may help to
discriminate between different oscillation scenarios proposed to
explain the observed solar neutrino deficit.