Presented By: Department Colloquia
Department Colloquium | MeV-scale antineutrinos and you
Adam Bernstein (VCDNP Vienna)
Since their discovery in the late 1950s, antineutrinos from reactors have been exploited as a discovery tool for fundamental particle physics, and explored as an alternative method for monitoring the presence, operational status and fissile content of nuclear reactors. In this presentation, I trace their historical arc in fundamental and applied physics, from discovery, to precision measurements of neutrino oscillations, to experiments focused on reactor monitoring and nonproliferation.