Physics

At Stanford, for advancing candidacy, we must pass an exam in which we have to present a paper that is outside of our research field. I chose a paper titled STEREO neutrino spectrum of 235U fission rejects sterile neutrino hypothesis, published in 2022. Luckily I passed, and I decided to share some of my notes here (we were only allowed to have two pages!). Through my preparation, I realized how amazing neutrinos are, and fundamental to cosmology. During my reading, I also realized how important a place like SLAC had been for the development of particle physics, in particular, for the first evidence discovered for quarks, discovery of psi particle, discovery of charm quark and tau lepton and more!