Physical Society Colloquium

Neutrinos from the Sky and Through the Earth

Kate Scholberg

Department of Physics
Duke University

The progress in neutrino physics over the past fifteen years has been tremendous: we have learned that neutrinos have mass and change flavor. I will pick out one of the threads of the story — the measurement of flavor oscillation in neutrinos produced by cosmic ray showers in the atmosphere, and further refinement of the measurements in long distance beam experiments. In this talk, I will present the history, the current state of knowledge, and how the next generation of high intensity beam experiments will address some of the remaining puzzles.