On October 29, 2025, at 14:30 in Aula A Fratelli Pontecorvo (L.go Bruno Pontecorvo, 3, Pisa), Gianluca Lamanna, a professor in the Department of Physics, will deliver the seminar “Neutrinos: New Paths Toward the Invisible.”
Neutrinos are among the most elusive particles in the universe, capable of traversing entire planets almost undisturbed, yet at the same time essential for understanding some of the deepest mysteries in modern physics. And yet, precisely this elusiveness hides precious clues about some of the most profound open problems in fundamental physics.
In recent decades, neutrino experiments have produced revolutionary results, such as the discovery of neutrino oscillations and nonzero mass, thereby challenging predictions of the Standard Model.
The next generation of experiments is designed to tackle even more ambitious questions: What is the ordering of the neutrino masses? Does CP symmetry violation occur in the leptonic sector? Could neutrinos hold the key to understanding the origin of the matter–antimatter asymmetry in the universe? Are neutrinos their own antiparticles? In this lecture we will explore upcoming major experiments — from Hyper-Kamiokande in Japan to DUNE in the United States — and discuss the innovative technologies and scientific ambitions that accompany them.
We will try to understand in what ways these mysterious elementary particles might, in the future, rewrite our comprehension of the infinitely small and the infinitely large.
At the end of the meeting, a refreshment will be offered.
The event is organized by the Department of Physics and the INFN (National Institute for Nuclear Physics) — Pisa section.