Neutrinos at a crossroads: enabling discovery with short- and long-baseline neutrino experiments
Neutrino physics has over the past century led to remarkable breakthroughs in our understanding of nature, and many of today’s open puzzles tied to this elementary particle probe fundamental questions on the origin and evolution of the universe. With multiple neutrino detectors employing the Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) technology coming online, and the availability of intense neutrino beams at Fermilab, the next decade offers exciting opportunities for studying the properties of neutrinos and searching broadly for signatures of physics beyond the standard model. In this talk I will review how this experimental neutrino physics program has come to be, and where it is headed. I will focus on discussing the major physics results that have come from the MicroBooNE experiment, and how the upcoming neutrino physics program of Fermilab’s Short- and Long-Baseline neutrino experiments will enable groundbreaking discoveries in fundamental particle physics and astrophysics.
