Melissa Uchida, Professeur et chef du Groupe de neutrinos à l'Université de Cambridge, en expliquant pourquoi les neutrinos sont des particules minuscules, mais avoir un grand impact, sur le Cosmos, au New Scientist Live 2019
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Date de la prise de vue:
11 octobre 2019
Lieu:
ExCel London, One Western Gateway, Royal Victoria Dock,
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Neutrinos are the second lightest particles in the universe and the second most abundant. They are all around us yet pass completely unnoticed through matter; in fact around 500 billion just passed through your thumbnail as you read this. Find out with Melissa Uchida how this tiny particle has challenged our understanding of particle physics and how its behaviour can have cosmological implications. Discover the nature of neutrinos, some of the experiments working to understand them and some of the biggest questions in the cosmos. Are neutrinos partly responsible for the creation of our universe? Melissa Uchida has been the head of the neutrino group at the University of Cambridge since 2018. She has worked on several neutrino physics experiments: first to prove that all three types of neutrino transform into other types and more recently to understand whether neutrinos violate matter/antimatter symmetry. She and her colleagues won the Breakthrough Prize in 2016 for their role in neutrino research. Having achieved her PhD at Queen Mary University of London, she went on to work at Sussex University and then Imperial College London. She has worked across a range of high-energy particle physics and accelerator physics experiments, in areas including neutron electric dipole moments, neutrino physics and muon accelerators.
