William Marks

Citation

Thesis Title
Some computational explorations of matters related to neutrino oscillations

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Neutrinos are extremely light, electrically neutral fundamental particles with the unique property that their Standard Model interacting states are different from the states that exist in space-time.  As neutrinos are created as one of the three Standard Model states, they propagate as a quantum superposition of their three physical states, which interfere with each other producing an effect called neutrino oscillations.  Mr Marks computationally explored these oscillations.  He replicated the data analysis method used to measure an important oscillation parameter and developed a novel analysis method that was more efficient and precise.  Mr Marks then investigated possible signals of neutrino interactions with dark matter on the basis that the presence of a medium that neutrinos can interact with will attenuate the oscillations.  He calculated the possible attenuation across a wide range of situations, including hypothetical interaction types.

Supervisors
Dr Fu-Guang Cao
Professor Tony Signal
Dr Nicholas Witte