Nobel Prize Awarded for Neutrino Oscillations!

Nobel Prize Awarded for Neutrino Oscillations!

Congratulations to Takaaki Kajita from the University of Tokyo and Art McDonald from Queens University for the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of neutrino oscillations!

Today the Nobel prize was awarded to Takaaki Kajita and Art McDonald for the discovery of neutrino oscillations. You can read more about the prize here at the Nobel committee’s website and here at Symmetry magazine.

Professor Kajita was given the award for his work on the Super-Kamiokande experiment. Profs. Kate Scholberg and Chris Walter are long time collaborators on Super-Kamiokande and were part of the research team that did the work for which the prize was awarded. You can read the original paper describing the discovery here.

In addition to the Duke faculty involved in Super-Kamiokande, UNC faculty who work at TUNL here at Duke were members of the SNO experiment for which the prize was also awarded. You can read about their contributions here.