Louisiana State University Physics & Astronomy

Robert Svoboda
Professor of Physics

Ph.D., 1985 - University of Hawaii

Neutrino Physics

Office: 351 Nicholson
Telephone: 2741-Office, 8493 and 8436-Labs
E-mail: phsvob@lsu.edu

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

I work in the field of neutrino physics, a very fast-moving and exciting field that has seen tremendous growth over the last decade. Most of my effort has been in the construction and operation of large detectors such as IMB, Super-Kamiokande, and KamLAND - but I also work on experiments at accelerators (such as the new T2K experiment) and at reactors. Currently, I am U.S. co-Spokesman for the Double Chooz experiment - which seeks to make the first measurement of the third and final (unknown) neutrino mixing angle. Measurement of this angle is a crucial step toward looking for possibly large CP-violating effects in neutrinos and finding an answer to the question of why the universe has so much matter and only a tiny amount of anti-matter.

CURRENT AND SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

T. Araki, et al., "Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation with KamLAND: Evidence of Spectral Distortion," accepted by Phys. Rev. Lett. (2004).
K. Eguchi, et al., "First Results from KamLAND: Evidence for Reactor Anti-Neutrino Disappearance," Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 021802 (2003).
S. Fukuda, et al., "Determination of Solar Neutrino Oscillation Parameters using 1496 Days of Super-Kamiokande-I Data," Phys. Lett. B 539, 179 (2002).
Y. Fukuda, et al., "Evidence for Oscillation of Atmospheric Neutrinos," Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1562 (1998).
D. Casper, et al., "Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Composition with the IMB-3 Detector," Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 2561 (1991).
R.M. Bionta, et al., "Observation of a Neutrino Burst in Coincidence with Supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud," Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 1494 (1987).
R.M. Bionta, et al., "Search for Proton Decay into e⁺π⁰," Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 27 (1983).

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