Neutrino Physics: Winter 2009

• Instructor: Amol Dighe (Room A306, Ext. 2423, amol[at]tifr.res.in)
• Weekly schedule: Mon-Wed 1400-1530
• Starting date: Feb 2, 2009
• Grader: Subhendu Rakshit (Room C121, Ext 2715, rakshit[at]tifr.res.in)
• Project presentations: Saturday May 23, 2009, 10 am, A304 (DTP Seminar Room)
• Final Examination: Wednesday May 27, 2009, 2pm, AG69
• Grade distribution: Assignments 30 + Project 20 (writeup 10 + seminar 10) + Final examination 50 (includes 10 related to projects)

• Reference books: (updated 01/02/2009)
  • "Massive Neutrinos in Physics and Astrophysics" (Mohapatra and Pal)
  • "Fundamentals of Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics" (Giunti and Kim)
  • Lecture Notes of SERC School
• For Particle Physics / QFT background:
  • "Quarks and leptons: an introductory course in modern particle physics" (Halzen and Martin)
  • "Introduction to Quantum Field Theory" (Peskin and Schroeder)
  • "Diagrammatica" (Veltman)

• Course Contents
• Topics covered in the course till now (final update 20/05/2009)
• Assignments:
  • Assignment 1 (Given 16/02/2009, To be submitted 02/03/2009)
  • Assignment 2 (Given 16/03/2009, To be submitted 30/03/2009)
  • Assignment 3 (Given 28/04/2009, To be submitted 13/05/2009)
  • Assignment 4 (Given 20/05/2009, To be submitted 27/05/2009)
• Projects:
  • Adiabaticity for neutrinos passing through a MSW resonance
  • Earth matter effects on numu -> nutau oscillations with three flavours
  • KATRIN experiment for measuring the absolute neutrino mass
  • Neutrinoless double beta decay experiments: GERDA and MAJORANA
  • Bounding theta13: Double CHOOZ and Daya Bay experiments
  • Using MINOS data to determine atmospheric neutrino mixing parameters
  • Using MiniBOONE data to put bounds on sterile neutrinos
  • IceCube for detection of ultrahigh energy neutrinos
  • Spin-precession analogy for neutrino oscillations (two-flavour)
  • Day-night asymmetry in solar neutrinos

• Announcements:
  • Extra lecture on Tue 13/03/2009 at 14:00 in AG69
  • Lecture on Wed 25/02/2009 shifted to Tue 24/02/2009 [at 14:00 in AG69]
  • Extra lecture on Tue 17/02/2009 at 14:00 in AG69
  • First Lecture: Mon 02/02/2009 at 14:00 in AG69