Neutrinos, Matter, and Antimatter - The Yin Yang of the Big Bang
Offered By: World Science Festival via YouTube
Course Description
Overview
Syllabus
- Panelist Introductions
- How was antimatter discovered?
- Conditions required to detect antimatter
- What are Majorana particles?
- Who was Ettore Majorana?
- How would we know if a neutrino is a Majorana particle?
- Experiments for detecting neutrinoless double-beta decay
- When did we start looking for neutrinos?
- IceCube Neutrino Observatory
- Other types of neutrinos
- Detecting neutrinos from the sun
- How did we figure out how to detect neutrinoless double-beta decay?
- How far are we from producing results from the research?
- GERDA experiment
- How big of a deal would it be if we detect neutrinoless double-beta decay?
- What would it mean if neutrinoless double-beta decay doesn’t exist?
- Are we at the limit of the size of our detectors?
- Running experiments underground
- Predictions of when the decay will be seen
- Is there any evidence of the annihilation of matter and antimatter?
Taught by
World Science Festival
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