The Challenging Art of Creating and Catching Human-Made Neutrinos

Neutrinos have a surprising and scientifically intriguing property: the three types spontaneously switch from one to another. This discovery launched an international race to build the most powerful factories to create neutrinos, and the largest and most sophisticated detectors to capture and measure them. This presentation will survey today’s experiments using neutrinos produced by particle accelerators and nuclear reactors: how they work; what’s been learned so far; and what’s still to come.