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Since its proposal in 1930, the ‘neutrino’ has kept scientists on their toes for almost a century. This neutrally charged, almost massless particle is practically undetectable, but it could hold the answer to some of the most fundamental questions we still have about the nature of our Universe. Observing and understanding all there is to know about the neutrino requires a combination of state-of-the-art detection techniques and high-powered computing facilities. This talk will introduce one of the newest neutrino experiments: The Short Baseline Near Detector (SBND), and discuss its exciting physics goals and expected impact on the future of the field.
Biography:
Rhiannon is a lecturer at the University of Sheffield and has been widely involved in liquid-argon neutrino experiments since 2015. She is currently the co-convener of the Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program’s oscillation group and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment’s (DUNE) physics-calibration group.