Speaker
Prof.
Tord Ekelöf
(Uppsala universitet)
Description
Searching for a difference between neutrino and anti-neutrino oscillations may open
the way towards new fundamental physics and an explanation of why the world is made
of only matter and no anti-matter. To discover such a difference, the development of
a very large neutrino detector and a uniquely high-intensity neutrino beam is needed.
The same detector will make possible investigations of cross-disciplinary phenomena
like the energy generating processes in the Sun, the mechanism of Supernovae
explosions and the radiogenic heating in the Earth's interior. The planned location
of the neutrino detector, called GRIPnu, is in the Garpenberg mine in Dalarna.
Physicists from Sweden, France, Turkey, Spain, Greece, Italy, Croatia, Bulgaria,
Poland, Switzerland and United Kingdom participate in the EU H2020-supported Design
Study of this neutrino research infrastructure. The presentation will give an
overview of the physics case of the GRIPnu neutrino detector.
Primary author
Prof.
Tord Ekelöf
(Uppsala universitet)
