Date of Award

2017-01-01

Degree Name

Master of Science

Department

Physics

Advisor(s)

Jorge A. Lopez Gallardo

Second Advisor

Jesus Escamilla Roa

Abstract

Neutrinos are the second most common particles in the universe, after the photons. Neutrinos (and antineutrinos) exist in three different "flavors", namely, electron, tau and muon neutrinos. A physical neutrino, however, can oscillate among these three flavors and, thus, it is said to be a mix of the three flavor states. In quantum mechanics representation, it is said that the three flavor states are the mixture of the three mass states. This mixture of neutrinos can generally be parameterized by the three so-called mixing angles (&thetas;12, &thetas;23, &thetas;13), three squared mass differences Δmij 2, i, j = 1, 2, 3 and a CP phase ΔCP. A non-zero value for &thetas;13 has set a scenario in which it will be possible to eventually measure the CP phase, which would provide information about the existing matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe.

RENO (Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillation) is a South-Korean experiment which studies electron antineutrinos from nuclear power plants to directly determine the value of &thetas;13. In this thesis a simulation of the experiment was performed to obtain the oscillation parameters &thetas; 13 and Δ m213 .

Language

en

Provenance

Received from ProQuest

File Size

100 pages

File Format

application/pdf

Rights Holder

Karla Rosita Tellez Giron Flores

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