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SUMMARY:Physics Colloquium: Dr Sowjanya Gollapinni – Deciphering the Neut
 rino Sector with the DUNE Experiment
DESCRIPTION:A Department of Physics colloquium entitled “Deciphering the 
 Neutrino Sector with the DUNE Experiment” with Dr Sowjanya Gollapinni\, 
 Senior Scientist\, Physics Division\, Los Alamos National Laboratory.\nPle
 ase note – The lecture will run from 16:00-17:00\, followed by refreshm
 ents from 17:00-18:00 in the Level 2 Foyer of the Blackett Building.\nAbst
 ract\nNeutrinos provide a promising window to probe a wide range of fundam
 ental physics phenomena. Neutrino related discoveries in the last two deca
 des indicate that the answer to the most sought-after question of why we l
 ive in a matter-dominated universe may be within reach. Although more than
  a trillion of neutrinos pass unnoticed through our bodies every second\, 
 they still remain largely mysterious. These ghostly little particles are n
 otoriously difficult to detect given how reluctant they are to interact wi
 th matter and require building immense and exquisitely sensitive detectors
 . The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next generation neu
 trino experiment at Fermilab and South Dakota in United States with primar
 y goals of resolving the neutrino mass ordering and measuring the charge-p
 arity violating phase\, the indicator of a possible explanation for our ma
 tter dominated universe. DUNE will use the promising liquid argon time pro
 jection chamber (LArTPC) technology as it presents neutrino interactions w
 ith unprecedented detail. After briefly reviewing the current state of neu
 trino physics and open questions\, this talk will describe the DUNE experi
 ment along with the rich physics that it offers and its current status. \
 nBiography\,\nDr. Sowjanya Gollapinni is a senior scientist and Neutrino G
 roup Leader in the Physics Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LAN
 L). She earned her Ph.D. from Wayne State University followed by a postdoc
 toral position at Kansas State University. Before moving to LANL\, she was
  a faculty member in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Univer
 sity of Tennessee\, Knoxville. Gollapinni is an experimental particle phys
 icist\, and her current research focuses on studying particles called “n
 eutrinos” and using them as probes to answer fundamental questions in ph
 ysics.\nShe is a member of several international collaborations such as Mi
 croBooNE\, Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) and the Deep Underground Ne
 utrino Experiment (DUNE). She held several leadership roles across these c
 ollaborations including as the Technical Leader of the DUNE Calibration an
 d Cryogenic Instrumentation Consortium\, Deputy Coordinator for the DUNE P
 hase-II program and as the Collaboration Board Chair of MicroBooNE. She is
  currently the Co-Spokesperson of DUNE. She is an Executive Board member o
 f the American Physics Society’s Department of Particles and Fields (DPF
 ) Coordinating Panel for Advanced Detectors (CPAD). She has been recognize
 d with numerous awards including the prestigious DOE Early Career award in
  the U.S.\, several distinguished performance awards and a Laboratory Fell
 ows’ Prize at LANL.
URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/208124/physics-colloquium-dr-sowjanya
 -gollapinni-deciphering-the-neutrino-sector-with-the-dune-experiment/
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LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 3\, Blackett Building\, South Kensington Campus\, 
 Imperial College London\, London\, SW7 2AZ\, United Kingdom
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