Particle Physics, Astrophysics,

Neutrinos, Underwater Detectors

Edited Book:

High Energy Neutrino Astrophysics (1992)

Proceedings of the workshop held in Hawaii in March, 1992. V. J. Stenger, J. G. Learned, S. Pakvasa, and X. Tata, eds. Published by World Scientific.

This volume contains definitive papers on high energy astrophysics by every expert in the field. 


Super-Kamiokande

On June 5, 1998 the Super-Kamiokande collaboration announced evidence for  neutrino mass.

Details and many other links can be found on the U.Hawaii Super-Kamiokande page.

The Super-Kamiokande experiment page is here.

To see my article on the media coverage of the announcement, published in Skeptical Briefs, go here.

The "smoking gun" is the zenith angle distribution of muon neutrinos, which differs from expectations by more than six standard deviations. Although I am a co-author on the discovery paper and other Super-Kamiokande publications, my personal role on this experiment was a small one.  However, I have worked on the problem of neutrino oscillations for many years. In particular, see my paper, linked below, in the Proceedings of the Neutrino Mass Mini-Workshop, Telemark, Wisconsin, 1980, which may be the first place the (rather obvious) idea  of looking at zenith angle distributions appeared in print.

Neutrino Oscillations in DUMAND


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