The discovery of neutrino oscillation established a non-zero mass of neutrino. The origin of neutrino and its non-zero mass is an one of the most important experimental clues to the new physics beyond the standard model. Neutrinos are ubiquitous in the universe, accompanying most of the weak-interacting physics processes. I shall review natural and artificial sources of neutrinos with an emphasis on the research frontiers, such as the neutrino mass ordering, CP-violation of leptons, the neutrino mechanism of core-collapse supernova and the isotope abundance puzzles of the solar system related to neutrino observations.
I shall turn to the principle and technologies of neutrino detectors, focusing on the next-generation gigantic neutrino observatories in the next decade. My group is developing tracking-Cherenkov-scintillation, a novel approach for homogeneous liquid neutrino detectors aiming for computed imaging of physics interactions with scintillation and Cherenkov photons. I shall highlight our roadmap, recent progress and conclude with a prospect on the next-action plans.
BIO
Benda Xu got his PhD from Tohoku University in 2014. He worked as postdoc at Tohoku University since 2014 and IPMU since 2015. He joined Department of Engineering Physics Tsinghua University since 2018, he is visiting scientist at IPMU.
More dateils about Benda Xu please refer to his website: http://hep.tsinghua.edu.cn/~orv/
Host: Xuesong Wang
