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How to Know a Neutrino - With Art McDonald

The Royal Institution via YouTube

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Nobel Prize winner Art McDonald explains neutrinos through the history and experiments of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, including solar neutrinos, detector methods, neutrino mass, and quantum effects. The talk also introduces related research into dark matter and rare radioactive processes.

Syllabus

Intro
How to know a Neutrino
Snow Lab
Sun neutrinos
What are neutrinos
Why do we care
The Sun
Bruno Pontecorvo
Stephen Hawking
Low radioactivity detectors
Results
Quantum Mechanical Effect
Finite Mass
Neutrino 2016
What are we trying to do
Why dark matter is there
Dark matter experiments
Nobel Prize experience
Fun in Science

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The Royal Institution

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