Title: Results from Daya Bay

Speaker: Lisa Whitehead (UH)

Abstract:

Experimental observations have established that neutrinos undergo flavor oscillations as they propagate due to quantum mechanical mixing between the mass states and flavor states. The Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment has observed the disappearance of electron-type antineutrinos from nuclear reactor cores at the Daya Bay Power Plant located in China. This observation allowed Daya Bay to make a measurement of the last neutrino mixing angle, theta_13, which was previously only known to be small in comparison to the other neutrino mixing angles. In this talk, I will discuss the most recent results from Daya Bay, a measurement of the energy dependence of reactor antineutrino disappearance.